Ondes Martenot

more than U2 :o

DISBELIEF greeted the revelation that Jonathan Ross gets £720,000 a year - for just three hours work a week. But Wossy's whopping wage seems like chickenfeed compared with the earnings of others in our Showbiz Rich List. We can reveal that the top earner on TV is 46-year-old Simon Cowell. He might be TV's Mr Nasty, but he is on to a nice little earner with X Factor, American Idol and as the guiding force behind bands like Il Divo. Last year alone the wearer of high-waisted pants trousered £15million, taking his overall worth to £80million. No wonder he can afford to splash out £6million buying J-Lo's Beverly Hills mansion - and then fork out half as much again tarting it up. He is joint ninth overall and the highest-placed non-musician in the Daily Mirror's Rich List of stars whose finances are based in Britain and Ireland. Based on detailed research of the stars' earnings from the last 12 months, our findings make remarkable reading... Who would have thought that those down-to-earth Geordie boys Ant and Dec are multimillionaires? Last year they pocketed £4million each from their hit TV shows, their own productions including All Star Golf and debut movie Alien Autopsy. Unsurprisingly, pop queen Madonna tops our chart as the highest earning entertainer. Last year she made £35million, thanks to her best-selling album Confessions On A Dancefloor and sponsorship deals from Motorola. Well, you need to keep the pennies rolling in when you spend £20,000 a time on diamond-encrusted false eyelashes. By comparison, Sir Elton John lags behind with earnings of a paltry £30million. Elton - who is worth a total of £185million - kept his coffers overflowing with a sell-out world tour, writing the hit musical Billy Elliot, and earnings from his back catalogue. And he certainly knows how to spend it. He owns a mansion in Berkshire, a villa on the French Riviera, a townhouse in London's Holland Park, a penthouse in Atlanta and a medieval home in Venice overlooking the entrance to the Grand Canal. He spent £1.5million on a lavish reception following his wedding to David Furnish, and has also given £20million to charity. Yet again, England captain David Beckham tops the list of rich soccer stars. He banked a striking £13.2million in 2005 with his contract at Real Madrid and sponsorship deals with Pepsi, Adidas, Police and Gillette. His wealth means that Goldenballs can afford to indulge his pricey pants habit - he spends £1,000 a month on Calvin Klein undies and never wears the same pair twice. Becks is followed by Michael Owen, Rio Ferdinand and 20-year-old Wayne Rooney, whose fiancee Coleen spends his fortune almost as fast as it comes in. The new generation of British actresses are also in the money. Cashing in on winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for The Constant Gardener, Rachel Weisz can now command £3million a movie. But that is small beans compared with Keira Knightley. She earned £10million from movies like Pride And Prejudice, is the face of Asprey, owns a £1.2million apartment in Mayfair. And she's still only 21. Here's our full list of who earns what... full list here: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/showbiz/tm_objectid=16978418%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=exclusive%2d%2dshowbiz%2drich%2dlist-name_page.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Rock/pop Bands Annual income from records, tours etc Coldplay £37m U2 £35m The Rolling Stones £28m Queen £18m Pink Floyd £15m Oasis £9m Depeche Mode £7m Jamiroquai £4.5m Westlife £4m Bee Gees £2.5m ----------------------------------------------------------------- source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/

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what what what? :wideeyed: only for private area :shifty: it's not a porn msgboard :thinking: brain is for lovers, don't forget :smartass: http://www.surgerydoor.co.uk/images/testicle_ballgame.jpg

sell body and be bestseller :smartass2: but don't sell the organs :laugh1: my testicles=priceless :smartass:

kinda sick mind you do have these days :wideeyed: commercial for porn costs money everywhere white pants are dirty mind is dirty as well :biker:

that link to the picture in your signature is disturbing, close your eyes kids :dead: don't click click click :wideeyed:

sounds worse than Albie invasion 2x:uneasy:

i'm off now to eat something, so arrividerci :nice:

154 isn't that bad. i had a girlfriend who was 158 :anxious: ^ does it make sense? :mellow:

184-185 i think :wideeyed:

haha i never had complexes with height. i always was the tallest :/ that was kinda annoying sometimes. now i don't care if i hear some jokes about my height ;)

yeah, true. but some people always complain and don't even try to do against it. that's quite depressing. i don't know this kind of people, but i know they exist.

i hate when stupid people judge somebody just because of look... :/ but i think if you judge a person who doesn't even try to lose some weight for example, it's like you give an advice. i think :/

running makes me tired i run when i play soccer only :smartass: thees sheet eesn't mine, meess :chinese:

tena only when i'll go crazy, blame tena is my talent :laugh1: :lipsrsealed2: don't touch coldplaying with your dirty lips, miss :thinking: tena doesn't have power anymore :devil: :lips:

actually it's an interesting thought. i would say a lot of people don't accept themselves. i don't have any problems and accepted myself years ago. i think the problem starts here: some people idolize some celebrities and just wannabe like them. ridiculous. i don't understand people who start to make plastic surgeries because of that. i know some people, who made plastic surgeries :disappointed:

Coldplay are for tiny girls like yourself :shifty: i take the songs :smartass:

tena ist nicht für männer :thinking: tena board exists? :worried: doctor phil isn't me, tak bak mak babatikidido :wideeyed: coldplaying's fun :smartass: join coldplaying and ignore Dr Phil :biker:

even if you miss the live braodcast, you'll be able to listen to the show after ;)

forgotten but not forgiven me says :( Phil's finger was cut some days ago :thinking: read more coldplay e-zines :laugh1:

aurevoir :wink:

inspiration made in china :chinese: white or black? :thinking: kick the racism out of coldplaying :wideeyed: call bill and kill dr phil :wideeyed:

hormones have been blinded by me :shocked3: :dead: photoshop is evil! :evil: all the white teeth made by Photoshop :D