Jason Donovan’s UK company had £4K in its latest filed figures before he appeared on Dancing On Ice

Jason Donovan’s UK company had just over £4,000 in reserves before he appeared on Dancing On Ice 2021.   

In the latest filed figures for the Australian actor’s, 52, firm Chipvelvet Ltd, which was publicly submitted on Companies House in December, it says the company had £4,105 in capital and reserves at the end of 2019.

According to The Sun, Jason is reportedly set to pocket a ‘guaranteed £20,000 appearance fee’ for appearing on Dancing On Ice. 

The publication also claims that the Neighbours star set up Chipvelvet Ltd 31 years ago for ‘artistic creation’, with the firm reportedly once making a profit of £600,000 a year.

Jason is likely to have money elsewhere with the star set to embark in a three-month UK 2021 tour, Even More Good Reasons, starting in September.

In the last few years, the actor has also worked on several theatre projects such as returning to Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium in 2019, playing the Pharaoh. He played Joseph in the early 90s. 

As well as his tour and Dancing On Ice, Jason has also been showing off his impressive art work on his Instagram Art By Jason Donovan, with paintings costing £60. 

MailOnline has contacted Jason’s representatives and Dancing On Ice for comment. 

Only recently, Jason admitted that he fears injuring himself during his stint on Dancing On Ice.

The Australian star is worried an injury would stop him being able to compete in the entire series, and affect future earning potential, after a difficult 2020.

As a result, he insisted he won’t be putting himself – or his pro partner Alexandra Schauman – into danger by attempting any tricky moves on the rink.

‘My wife is worried about me getting injured, and so am I!’ Jason told OK! ‘If you’ve had a year like 2020 and you haven’t really been earning and everything shifts to 2021 and you suddenly find yourself in A&E with a broken arm or leg, it doesn’t bode well for cash flow.

‘It’s not worth anyone’s year for me to be injured, so I have to be careful. With a show like this the producers will push you because they want good TV.

‘But you have to say if you’re not sure about something, and say you’re not going to risk yourself or your partner’s safety for the sake of a good TV moment. I won’t be doing lifts if they put me in a silly place!’ 

Earlier this month, Jason admitted that he wouldn’t ‘still be standing’ today without his long-term wife Angela Malloch.

The Neighbours star gushed over his wife of 13 years as he admitted that she ‘saved’ him from cocaine addiction.

He told The Mirror: ‘Had it not been for her [Angela], I doubt I’d still be standing.

‘She was my saving grace and set to become the real love of my life.’ 

Jason went on to explain that he believes Angela was sent to him ‘for a reason’, after the pair met in 1998 while Jason was starring in the Rocky Horror Show UK tour. 

He continued: ‘Ange gave me my life back, made me see what love really was and to the day I die I will be grateful to her for that.’

The smitten couple tied the knot in 2008 and share three children together – Jemma, 20, Zac, 19, and Molly, nine.

After battling cocaine addition, Jason decided to clean up his act when Angela became pregnant with their first child Jemma.

In September 2019, the actor revealed that his past drug use was driven by a mistaken desire to be cool.

Jason explained that he had tried to rebel against what he perceived as his clean-cut image by indulging in cocaine in the 80s and 90s.

The singer said the sight of himself in a loin-cloth for the family-friendly Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1991 made him concerned about his own identity being eroded by the uncool.

He said: ‘No life is perfect, you know, and I’m far from it. I got very lucky very young, I got a little sidetracked by my own desire to think that by going out there and ‘crashing the car’, as I see it, that I was going to be cool.

‘I always thought coming out of Joseph when I looked at myself in a loin-cloth and a pair of white fluffy socks that I was turning into something I wasn’t.’

He said that his motivation to be cool was an error, and he has appreciated his work with maturity and experience. 

Jason, who rose to fame after first appearing on Neighbours in 1986, and then launching a music career, was at one point getting through several grams of cocaine a day.

The father-of-three said he would never want his children to follow his drug-taking path but does not totally regret his experiences. 

The singer said of his roles: ‘The irony in life is that’s as cool as it was going to get, it just takes time to mature, and seem a little more palatable.

‘I now know what I don’t want to do in my life, I’m very honest about that period. Do I regret it? Not really.

‘It was wasted time. There were a lot of relationships that suffered. But I got out at the right time and I’ve learned from it.

‘There are a lot of life experiences that I’m aware of that maybe other people wouldn’t be, having not experienced that.

‘Having said that, would I like my children to go down the path that I went? Absolutely not. There’s nothing cool about taking drugs, full stop.’  

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