The staggering amount that Snoop Dogg is being paid at the Olympic Games is 'REVEALED' - as NBC rewards rapper lavishly amid huge viewership surge and viral moments

The astonishing magnitude that Snoop Dogg is being paid to broadcast pinch NBC astatine nan Olympics has been leaked successful reports. 

Snoop has been popping up everyplace astatine nan Olympics - we've seen him successful full equestrian kit astatine nan dressage, receiving a swimming instruction from Michael Phelps, and acting arsenic a rugby analyst among different pursuits. 

The 'Gin & Juice' hitmaker has been supporting Team USA and has a woody pinch NBC to supply contented and commentary passim nan Games. 

NBC claims it had 35.4 cardinal viewers connected nan mediate Sunday - much than double that of nan balanced time during nan Tokyo Olympics - pinch Snoop proving a deed pinch fans. 

Now, 2 reports person fixed penetration into his staggering earnings, which would beryllium nan envy of immoderate sports star. 

Henry McNamara, 1 of nan world's astir influential young entrepreneurs according to Forbes, claimed he heard from an NBC executive that Snoop is getting paid £393,000 ($500,000) each time - positive expenses, successful lawsuit that was not enough.

Meanwhile, German outlet Bild reportedly heard from an NBC worker that he could gain up to £11.78million ($15m) crossed nan Games, pinch a TV ratings prize successful his contract. 

It is simply a immense leap of religion from NBC, who successful 2014 secured a £4.5billion broadcasting deal done to 2032 pinch nan International Olympic Committee. 

That said, Snoop is not wholly caller to nan game. Three years agone successful Tokyo, he and comedian Kevin Hart provided streaming-only commentary connected Peacock.

His Olympic sum generated 'tens of millions of views' for NBC successful 2021, nan network's executive shaper and president for its Olympics Production, Molly Solomon, claimed.

'That capacity unsocial has earned Snoop a occupation arsenic our Special Correspondent successful Paris. We don't cognize what nan heck is going to hap each day, but we cognize he will adhd his unsocial position to our re-imagined Olympic primetime show,' Solomon said. 

He has already been astatine nan centre of plentifulness of viral moments.

The euphony icon had an eye-popping guidance to Simone Biles' women's gymnastics qualification performance.

Underneath his American emblem jacket, Snoop Dogg donned a T-shirt pinch gymnastics fable Simone Biles' look printed connected it.

Snoop Dogg was successful awe astatine Biles' capacity and a hilarious image captured him lifting up his sunglasses to uncover a wide-eyed look.

He besides featured arsenic 1 of nan Olympic torch-bearers successful a short tally astir nan Stade de France.

But viewers watching Snoop - existent sanction Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr - instantly thought of thing other associated pinch nan rapper arsenic it burned astatine 1 end: a rippling cannabis joint.

It prompted a tidal activity of memes connected societal media arsenic pranksters manipulated images to switch nan torch for an oversized spliff, while a cartoonist moreover sketched Snoop taking a tie from nan torch.

On Monday, he performed on-stage - including tracks for illustration 'Drop it Like It's Hot' - successful beforehand of nan USA's hoops teams and type celebrities successful 'A Celebration of Olympic Basketball'.

Marking 50 years of Team USA basketball, nan likes of LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, and Carmelo Anthony were there.