Hazel Phillips was paid just $350 a week while Don Lane and Graham Kennedy earned $5,000

Showbiz veteran Hazel Phillips has revealed how she was paid just a fraction of what her male contemporaries were earning in the 1960s.

The TV personality, 90, claims she was paid just $350 a week, while the likes of Don Lane and Graham Kennedy were earning $5,000 each.

‘They got $5,000 a week and I was the highest paid woman: $350 for seven live shows a week. But I thought it was great,’ said on Studio 10 on Tuesday.

‘My husband had swanned off at some stage and I was left with an eight and ten-year -old so I had to earn my keep,’ she added.

The entertainer went on to say: ‘Talking back to the ’50s, I was in my twenties and it was a quieter time. It was an easier time without all the technology.’

Hazel was the second woman to ever win a Gold Logie in 1967 for Girl Talk, the first midday talk show on Channel 10.

She became the host of Girl Talk following a public vote shortly after the launch of the network.

‘When Channel 10 first started, the public were put to the vote on who they’d like to see on the new channel and I came out top of the bill,’ Hazel said.

‘So they put me on daily at 12 and I was the first talk show host in this country.’

During her time in the entertainment industry, Hazel has appeared in theatre and cabaret show, as well as films including The Set.

Hazel has also starred in several plays, including The Circle, Pride and Prejudice and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

In 2008, she wrote her autobiography, Black River Bright Star. Three years later. in 2011, she performed on Australia’s Got Talent.