Why I Refused $500K To Sell Out Barnaby!

- Philip Koch

She is the mum to his four daughters and the loyal wife credited with helping Barnaby Joyce win one of the highest political offices in the land. Yet Natalie Joyce remains somewhat of a mystery in the centre of the increasingly unpredictable storm that is Barnaby’s life since he left her for a staffer, Vikki Campion.

“I doubt Barnaby and Vikki know Natalie was actually offered more money than the $150,000 they were paid for their television interview,” says one TV source. “But that’s how much we wanted her to appear on Sunday Night. She’s the prize – not Vikki.”

One Seven executive confirmed Natalie had been offered an “open chequebook” to come onto the show and confront Barnaby, 51, and Vikki, 33, revealing she could’ve been paid up to $250,000 if she’d agreed.

“She never even considered doing it,” confirms one of Natalie’s close friends, who estimated she’s been offered a total of more than $500,000 to break her dignified silence and attack the woman she sees as a “homewrecker”.

DIGNIFIED SILENCE