{"id":338736,"date":"2015-04-01T02:43:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T07:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=338736"},"modified":"2015-04-02T02:42:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T07:42:54","slug":"texas-university-breaks-silence-on-mcconaughey-speech-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=338736","title":{"rendered":"Texas University Breaks Silence on McConaughey Speech Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/Matthew-McConaughey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/Matthew-McConaughey-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew-McConaughey\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-337272\" \/><\/a>HOUSTON (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A Texas university that booked Matthew McConaughey as its May commencement speaker has broken the silence on the former Longview resident\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speaking fee. The University of Houston said in a statement Tuesday that it was paying the actor speaking fees totaling $135,000 plus travel expenses, as well as a $20,250 commission to the Celebrity Talent International booking agency engaged by the university. Meanwhile, the statement says McConaughey is donating his fees to a foundation he started to provide tools to help high school students lead active lives and make healthy choices for the future. The university initially balked at revealing McConaughey&#8217;s fee, citing a confidentiality agreement with the booking agency. However, the university says its business with the agency is finished and the confidentiality agreement is no longer binding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A Texas university that booked Matthew McConaughey as its May commencement speaker has broken the silence on the former Longview resident\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speaking fee. The University of Houston said in a statement Tuesday that it was paying the actor speaking fees totaling $135,000 plus travel expenses, as well as a $20,250 commission to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=338736\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas University Breaks Silence on McConaughey Speech Fee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 18:44:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338737,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338736\/revisions\/338737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}