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 earning less than a quarter of her male contemporaries in the 1960s.

Speaking on Studio 10 on Tuesday, the tv personality, 90, revealed she was paid just $350 a week, while Don Lane and Graham Kennedy were earning $5000.

‘[They got] $5000 a week and I was the highest paid woman. $350 bucks for seven live shows a week. But I thought it was great,’ she said.

‘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 entertainment veteran went on to say: ‘Talking back to the 50s, I was in my 20s 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 Ten.

She revealed she was voted to host the show by the public shortly after Network Ten first launched.

‘When Channel Ten 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,’ she said.

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

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

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 and three years later in 2011, she performed on Australia’s Got Talent.