Either Emily in Paris is getting a fifth season, or someone in Europe just got scammed hard at a charity auction
When is an announcement not an announcement? When the streaming service responsible for the show is forced to walk back the news after someone has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to appear in the show at a charity auction. It’s almost like a plot from Netflix’s hit series Emily in Paris… which is ironic, considering that’s the show causing all the problems.
Just weeks after the official announcement of the fourth season's release date of Emily in Paris, a walk-on appearance in the fifth season was offered as part of a charity auction at the amfAR Gala at the Cannes Film Festival, with the winner paying €250,000 — that’s around $271,236 at the current exchange rate as of writing — for the privilege. The problem is… Netflix hasn’t actually renewed the series for a fifth season yet, according to insiders.
According to a photo of the item’s description from the event shared by Variety, “the winning bidder will have the opportunity to spend a day on set in Paris during filming sometime after April 2025.” That description has since been updated on the auction’s website to read, “the winning bidder will have the opportunity to spend a day on set in Paris during filming, contingent upon season 5 pickup.” (You’d think that might have changed the bidding, given that no season 5 pickup would mean no walk-on appearance…)
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