Loren LoRosa Says She Wasn’t Paid for ‘Breakfast Club’ Hosting Duties for ‘A Long Time’
Loren LoRosa says she wasn’t paid at first for her guest hosting duties on The Breakfast Club.
LoRosa opened up on the Bag Fuel podcast about her journey in radio and revealed that, for her time guest hosting at The Breakfast Club, she wasn’t getting paid. Around the three-minute, 30-second mark in the video linked above, LoRosa explained that when she first started filling in, she did it for free.
“I wasn’t paid to be at The Breakfast Club for a long time,” she said of the iHeartRadio-owned morning radio program. “I wasn’t actually making money from working with Breakfast Club until I came back, when Jess [Hilarious] went on maternity leave.”
LoRosa, who previously held a position as a news producer and reporter for TMZ, said the unpaid work was about seizing an opportunity and sharpening her skills.
“None of us are being paid to guest host. We were doing it because you understand the opportunity. Some people were doing it because they had things to promote, whatever the case may be,” she said. “For me it was: number one, I need to get my reps in … Here is the space, here is the field, run it up. So any time y’all need me, I’m gonna come. This is practice for me.”
Even when conversations began about officially making her part of the show, LoRosa said she doubted whether she was worth a budget adjustment. (Despite cost-cutting measures and restructuring, iHeartRadio recorded a net loss of $1 billion in 2024, per RadioWorld.)
“If I’m being honest with y’all, maybe that was a conversation that I wasn’t having with myself because maybe I didn’t think that I was worth them having to reevaluate their budget,” she said. “I thought if anything they might find a couple of dollars for me to be up there a couple days to help with the show production, but even if not … I was willing and they knew this, like, if y’all need me, call me.”
Jess Hilarious officially joined The Breakfast Club in February 2024, more than a year after Angela Yee’s departure. LoRosa filled in for Hilarious after going on maternity leave that August.
In March, Hilarious explained she felt “weird” coming back to the program and admitted she wasn’t fond of LoRosa still being on the show as an on-air personality during a heated Instagram Live. She said she had personally chosen LoRosa to fill in during her absence but was caught off guard when “nobody told me anything” about her still being there.
Jess also suggested LoRosa’s segment, “Loren with the Latest,” felt like it was biting on her own recurring bit, “Jess with the Mess.”
Hilarious seemingly worked out her grievances with her co-hosts following an on-air confrontation. She and LoRosa later made fun of the situation with “The Job is Mine,” a parody of Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy is Mine.”
