Oprah has held on to the top spot of Forbes‘ annual 100 most powerful and wealthiest celebrities in the world nearly every year for the past seven years but today it’s been announced that Lady GaGa has knocked her off the top spot. In total the full 100 celebrities earned a combined total of $4.5 billion over the past year but the list doesn’t just go based on money, it also goes on social media and other stuff which is how GaGa bumped Oprah because let’s face it when it comes to the media GaGa is the most used name in the world at the moment. Here is the top 10:
01. Lady GaGa
02. Oprah
03. Justin Bieber
04. U2
05. Elton John
06. Tiger Woods
07. Taylor Swift
08. Bon Jovi
09. Simon Cowell
10. LeBron James
You can check out the full 100 list over at Forbes.
Richie Sambora is on the way to rehab while in the middle of a tour with Bon Jovi for help with his exhaustion and after falling off the bandwagon with his sobriety and since Denise Richards was spotted posing in a bikini, I figured why not throw them in the same post?
This isn’t the first time he has been in rehab, he spent a month at the Cirque Lodge in Utah back in 2007 – around the time that he broke up Denise’s friendship with Heather Locklear because he was banging both of them. A source talks to Radar Online about his latest rehab adventures:
”Richie recently has been drinking too much, and wants to get his life together. Richie has had a busy year. I think this was a culmination of all the things that overloaded his life and finally he realized he needed to take care of himself.”
This is while Bon Jovi is set to play more tour dates in the U.S. before moving onto to Europe in June. It’s not known how this will affect the tour yet. While I’m sure your so concerned about Richie, why not enjoy these photos of Denise in her bikini. She’s still got it in my opinion.
Given the fact that 3 celebrity couples have broken up in the past week that we all thought would have made it last it has made NY Mag come up with a list of couples that we are all expecting to make it. Here are the couples:
Bon Jovi and Dorothea Hurley
Okay, so she’s not famous in her own right, but being Bon Jovi’s High-School Sweetheart Who He Married is enough to make this pair an A-List duo. New Jersey would be devastated if they broke up. Though, if he wrote “Shot Through the Heart” after dating Diane Lane only a short while, imagine the opus he could come up with if these two split! Actually, we’d rather not.
Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly
Intel Chris saw them on the street the other day outside the magazine offices! They looked like they are in love. Also, he’s practically albino and she was in Labyrinth, so what could possibly go wrong?
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi
Who doesn’t want this couple to make it? Oh, yeah. Every single gay-marriage foe in the country who is threatened by the fact that a normal lesbian couple is in living rooms in middle America each afternoon. But other than that?
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard
If they split up, it would be a real blow for Brooklyn.
Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt
You may think this pair is not going to make it, as Jennifer is suffering from the disadvantage of Having Dated Somebody Incredibly Attractive Since Before He Was Famous. But last year Intel Jessica spotted them at an SNL taping full-on making out, and they’d already been dating for years. Normal couples aren’t even like that. Also, it’s Jon Hamm. Nobody is letting go of that for as long as they still have hands.
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson
As Vulture Kyle observed, “That would be sadder than your own mom and dad divorcing.”
Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich
Everything about Julianne Moore gives us warm feelings, even her terrible Boston accent on 30 Rock. Which is why we’re rooting for her and her director husband, despite the fact that we’ve never watched a movie he’s written or directed. If Julianne likes him, he has to be worth keeping.
Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson
Normally we wouldn’t put ScarJo — who dated Josh Hartnett, for God’s sake — on a list like this. But then she surprised us by managing to conduct a relationship with another celebrity for a long time, all in secret, such that we didn’t know she was even dating the Van Wilder star until they were practically married. You still never see them together, really, which makes us think there’s something to this relationship. Like, they might even have conversations.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver
You may not like his or her politics, but you’ve got to admit, at this point they’re like America’s almost-gorgeous-but-actually-kind-of-weird-looking aunt and uncle. Apparently, back when aspiring New York governor Andrew Cuomo was married to a Kennedy, none of the rest of the clan liked him in Hyannis because he wouldn’t play football and horse around. You KNOW Arnold horses around. Better than anybody.
Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber
Did you read the story in which our reporter took a cab home from the airport with Liev and before he even got in the door he took their kids to the park to play? We rest our case.
I agree with this list, but after all this is Hollywood and they all tend to bite the dust sooner or later.
source: Celebrity Couples We Still Believe In [NY Mag]
I think Forbes are trying to send me into a severe depression or something, just last week they released their annual Hollywood’s Top-Earning Actresses but now they are releasing their Top-Earning Musicians of the year and yet again it makes me want to cry myself to sleep from jealousy:
1. Madonna
$110 million
Thanks to her “Sticky & Sweet Tour,” the top-grossing international and domestic tour of 2008 according to Pollstar, Madonna out earned the rest of her peers. She also released her 11th studio album, Hard Candy, which debuted at No.1 in over 30 countries. In the U.S., the album sold 100,000 copies on the first day of release. The Material Girl also endorses Louis Vuitton.
2. Celine Dion
$100 million
Returning to the touring stage after three years on the Las Vegas circuit was a boon to Dion’s bottom line. The Canadian singer was promoting the 2007 release of Taking Chances, her first studio album in English since 2003. The tour sold out in the U.S. and Canada, becoming the second top-grossing tour of 2008 with gross earnings of $237 million. Dion also released an English greatest-hits collection, My Love: Essential Collection, and a sixth perfume to her fragrance collection.
Along with the E Street Band, Springsteen’s tour grossed $166 million in 2008 to rank fourth among the top-grossing international tours of the year. The New Jersey crooner enjoyed a year in the spotlight, as his support of President Barack Obama, his Golden Globe win for his song on The Wrestler soundtrack and his NFL Super Bowl halftime performance kept him in the news.
5. Kenny Chesney
$65 million
Chesney, the continued top-grossing country act on tour, was the genre’s only star to make the top-10 international concert roster in 2008, grossing $72 million and selling over 1 million tickets. He also released Lucky Old Sun last October. Chesney was featured along with Jon Bon Jovi and Eric Clapton in Mastercard’s Roots of Rock sweepstakes and has endorsement deals with Cruzan Rum and Corona
6. Rascal Flatts
$60 million
The boys from Ohio have found a cozy niche for themselves with crossover pop/country hits and a young fan base. The group grossed $56 million on the road last year, but buoyed their earnings with lucrative endorsement deals with JCPenney and Hershey’s. Their latest album, Unstoppable, released in April, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
7. Coldplay
$60 million
The British band Coldplay grossed $72 million from international touring in 2008. Their June 2008 release Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends became the most-downloaded album of all time, selling 354,000 digital copies in the first two weeks of its release. The group won three Grammys in February, including Best Rock Album.
8. AC/DC
$60 million
The Aussie rock band fronted by aging schoolboy Angus Young tied for No. 5 on this year’s list of top earners thanks to their seemingly relentless popularity. Their fall 2008 effort, Black Ice, was the band’s first album in eight years. Sales of Ice combined with international catalog sales made AC/DC the No. 1 catalog artist of 2008. As well, their domestic tour grossed $38 million in 2008
9. Eagles
$55 million
It was a bittersweet year for fans of the Eagles. The group released their first studio album since 1979, though according to Don Henley it will likely be their last collective effort. Long Road Out of Eden was sold exclusively through the band’s Web site, Sam’s Club and Wal-mart for the first year of its release, though it still managed to sell 700,000 copies in the first week. Their accompanying tour began last March at London’s O2 Arena, eventually grossing $87 million in 2008.
10. Toby Keith
$52 million
A consistent name among musical top earners, Toby Keith has continued to expand his brand. He grossed $31 million on tour in 2008, and That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy, which has since sold over 500,000 copies. He also sees income from an endorsement deal with Ford, an eponymous chain of restaurants and as a prolific songwriter.
11. Bon Jovi
$50 million
The international tour to support Bon Jovi’s 2007 album Lost Highway grossed $176 million in 2008, ranking at No. 3 in Pollstar’s list of top worldwide tours and second only to Madonna based on the number of tickets sold. A documentary of the tour, When We Were Beautiful, was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in April. A book of the same title is slated to hit bookstores this fall.
12. Dave Matthews Band
$45 million
One of the most prolific touring acts of the last decade–earning $47 million on the road last year–Dave Matthews Band is now drumming up buzz for Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, its first album in four years. The band’s saxophonist, LeRoi Moore, died last August from complications related to an ATV accident. The die-hard DMB fan base continues to bolster their bottom line, thanks to annual dues of the popular fan club, Warehouse, and merchandise sales.
Before Carla Gugino played the Silk Spectre in “Watchmen“, she had a smaller role. In Bon Jovi’s video for “Always”, you’ll see a much younger Carla playing the girlfriend role.
You’ll also notice Keri Russell in the 1994 video, playing the other woman.
At 37, Carla still has some good things on the horizon. She’s in the upcoming movies “Our Lady Of Victory”, “The Race To Witch Mountain” “Elecktra Luxx”, and “Women In Trouble”.
