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Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard have finally settled their defamation claims against each other — putting an end to the most bitter Hollywood divorce in modern times.

The pair’s lawyers have thrashed out a deal which will see Heard’s insurance company pay Depp $1million.

But, in an important victory for the actress, there are no restrictions about what she can talk about in regard to the case and she has accepted no guilt, MailOnline can reveal.

The pair have been locked in a bitter legal battle on both sides of the Atlantic over the last six years after Heard alleged she was a victim of domestic violence during their 15-month marriage.

A courtroom in London found in her favour, but a second case in Fairfax, Virginia, this year came out on Depp’s side.

The actress, 36, was ordered to pay $10million in compensatory damages and $5million (later reduced to $365,000) in punitive damages following the six-week case, while Depp, 59, was told to give her $2million by the same courtroom after Heard countersued for defamation.

The pair’s legal teams have been locked in discussions to avoid the pain of a bruising third trial after Heard filed an appeal. A deal was finally made over the weekend with both sides agreeing to put out a statement today at 2pm GMT (9am ET).

‘Amber is now looking forward to moving on with her life as she planned to do six years ago,’ a source close to the actress told MailOnline.

‘She wants to put this unfortunate episode behind her and turn to what she loves in life: her career, her family and her causes.’

In the bombshell statement posted on Instagram by Heard, she said ‘my life as I knew it was destroyed’ by the court cases.

She added she had lost all faith of getting justice in the American legal system, comparing it to her treatment in the UK courts, and claimed that her former husband had won in the Virginia courtroom because of a vote ‘for popularity and power over reason and due process’.

Having already sold her LA home to help fund the legal action, she didn’t want to risk losing even more. This settlement means her home insurance company will take on the payment to Depp.

‘I make this decision having lost faith in the American legal system, where my unprotected testimony served as entertainment and social media fodder.’

The full statement reads: ‘After a great deal of deliberation I have made a very difficult decision to settle the defamation case brought against me by my ex-husband in Virginia.

'It’s important for me to say that I never chose this. I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed. The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of the ways in which women are re-victimised when they come forward. Now I finally have an opportunity to emancipate myself from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms I can agree to. I have made no admission. This is not an act of concession. There are no restrictions or gags with respect to my voice moving forward.

'I make this decision having lost faith in the American legal system, where my unprotected testimony served as entertainment and social media fodder.

'When I stood before a judge in the UK, I was vindicated by a robust, impartial and fair system, where I was protected from having to give the worst moments of my testimony in front of the world’s media, and where the court found that I was subjected to domestic and sexual violence. In the US, however, I exhausted almost all my resources in advance of and during a trial in which I was subjected to a courtroom that in which abundant, direct evidence that corroborated my testimony was excluded and in which popularity and power mattered more than reason and due process. In the interim I was exposed to a type of humiliation that I simply cannot re-live. Even if my US appeal is successful, the best outcome would be a re-trial where a new jury would have to consider the evidence again. I simply cannot go through that for a third time.

'Time is precious and I want to spend my time productively and purposefully. For too many years I have been caged in an arduous and expensive legal process, which has shown itself unable to protect me and my right to free speech. I cannot afford to risk an impossible bill – one that is not just financial, but also psychological, physical and emotional. Women shouldn’t have to face abuse or bankruptcy for speaking her truth, but unfortunately it not uncommon.

'In settling this case I am also choosing the freedom to dedicate my time to the work that helped me heal after my divorce; work that exists in realms in which I feel seen, heard and believed, and in which I know I can effect change.

'I will not be threatened, disheartened or dissuaded by what happened from speaking the truth. No one can and no one will take that from me. My voice forever remains the most valuable asset I have.

'I’d like to thank my outstanding appellate and original trial teams for their relentless hard work. I want to thank everyone who has supported me and turn my attention to the growing support that I’ve felt and seen publicly in the months since trial, and the efforts that have been made to show solidarity with my story. Any survivor knows that the ability to tell their story often feels like the only relief, and I cannot find enough words to tell you the hope your belief in me inspires, not just for me, but for all of you.

'Thank you. See you soon.’

Depp is expected to put out his own statement imminently.

While former Pirates of the Caribbean star Depp has attempted to restart his career, it is clear that the ongoing litigation has had a huge effect on it, including the actor being fired from the Fantastic Beasts franchise after the London court case.

Earlier this month, when his name was on a longlist of music which could be Brit Awards winners, there were reports that female musicians would boycott the event if he was on the shortlist.

Heard, meanwhile, has become so worried about her safety that she felt forced to leave America with her daughter Oonagh and is now living in an unknown country.

Her career has also taken a huge knock thanks in part to a vicious social media assault on her, although earlier this year she filmed independent movie The Fire and remains a part of the Aquaman 2 film which is out next year.

Last month an influential Open Letter campaign involving more than 200 domestic abuse campaigners and organisations hit out at the ongoing attacks on Heard saying: ‘Much of this harassment was fueled by disinformation, misogyny, biphobia and a monetized social media environment where a woman’s allegations of domestic violence and sexual assault were mocked for entertainment.’

The actress has pledged to continue to be a voice speaking up for women’s rights.

The vicious court battle between Heard and Depp stunned the world, drawing back the curtains on the shocking drug taking, alcoholism and violence in one of the most famous and seemingly glamorous Hollywood unions.

Depp, once one of the world’s highest paid actors, admitted to problems with both drugs and alcohol during the proceedings while Heard revealed how their love story had turned so sour.

In one of the most talked about allegations of the court case, she was accused of defecating on his side of the bed which led to her being nicknamed ‘Amber Turd’.

The pair met in 2009 when Heard auditioned for a role in Depp’s film The Rum Diary but they only got together in 2012, when they were promoting the film.

By then, Depp’s 14-year-relationship with Vanessa Paradis, the mother of his two children Lily-Rose and John Christopher was over while Heard had also split with partner Tasya van Ree.

They married on February 1 2015 but the actress filed for divorce on May 23 2016, obtaining a temporary restraining order after claiming that Depp had physically abused her during their relationship.

In August 2016 the pair reached a $7million financial settlement and Heard withdrew her request for a domestic violence restraining order.

Their joint statement said: ‘Our relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile but always bound by love. Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm.’

In April 2018 MailOnline columnist Dan Wootton, writing then for The Sun, asked, ‘How can JK Rowling be ‘genuinely happy’ casting wife-beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?’

Later that year Heard wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post saying she had been abused, but never naming Depp as her abuser.

The actor decided to sue in both cases. The London libel action was against The Sun’s publisher News Group Newspapers and Wootton but Heard joined the team when the case was heard over three weeks in July 2020 at the High Court.

The judge, who sat without a jury, ruled that Heard’s evidence was ‘substantially true’, that the actor had assaulted his wife in 12 of the 14 alleged incidents and had put her in fear of her life.

Depp’s attempt to appeal the case was turned down and so all was riding on the American case.

Filmed and watched by a huge global audience who commented on every sigh and every facial expression. The case was viciously debated on social media for six weeks and, by the end, both of their reputations had been shattered among the counter allegations of lies, abhorrent behaviour and violence.

Top media lawyer Mark Lewis said: ‘While the two main actors paid amounts that would make an English lawyer blush, a golden ticket was given to billions of people to watch dirty sheets being washed in public.

‘The case ground on to the point where both parties must have realised that the only winners were the lawyers, the entertainment was for the onlookers and the losers were Ms Heard and Mr Depp, both of whom leave the case financially much worse off.

'Now they have the support of those who have always supported them, the hatred of those who already hated them while the baffled are scratching their heads at a legal settlement that can mean anything you want it to.’

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Jack Ryder is a former Gotham City resident and is the host of a political talk show. He is fired after criticizing his own sponsors on-air and refusing to change his behavior or apologize. Knowing Ryder is a decent detective, Chief of Network Security Bill Brane hires the former talk show host as one of his investigators. Brane reveals that CIA contacts have asked him to help find Dr. Yatz, a scientist recently captured by local gangster Angel Devlin who is working with communist powers. Ryder decides to infiltrate a masquerade party at Devlin's mansion and visits a local costume shop. The clerk explains he mainly sells costumes for children but offers Ryder "leftovers" from adult orders. Ryder cobbles together the costume involving yellow tights, green trunks, and red gloves and boots. He completes the disguise with yellow make-up, a green wig, and a red sheepskin rug he decides to use as a cape. At the costume party, Ryder fights some of Devlin's henchmen, suffering injuries in the process, and then discovers the kidnapped Dr. Yatz. The scientist injects Ryder with a chemical serum designed to accelerate healing while also granting great strength and stamina. He also hides a tiny device of his own creation in Ryder's wound, saying it is the safest way to keep the technology hidden from Devlin. The device, he explains, can "rearrange the molecular structure of matter," making clothing or items weightless and invisible until needed. By activating the device now hidden beneath his skin, Ryder is able to instantly cause his yellow and red costume to vanish or reappear instantly.

As Yatz then destroys the evidence of his work, Devlin's men arrive and shoot him dead. In costume, Ryder escapes Devlin's party but is blamed for the chaos. Police arrive and one of the cops refers to the yellow-costumed intruder as a "creeper." Deciding he likes the name, Ryder later attacks and defeats Devlin's gang. He then reverts to his civilian guise and informs Brane and the police of Devlin's involvement in Yatz's death. Ryder then decides to continue secretly operating as the Creeper whenever he needs to fight crime. In his private life, he continues acting as a WHAM-TV network security investigator for Brane. A month after first becoming the Creeper, Ryder is assigned to help WHAM-TV weather correspondent Vera Sweet, who has been threatened. The two initially dislike each other, but over time they develop a flirtatious relationship.

Although the Creeper fights crime, he is frequently considered a villain himself by news media and authorities. During his first adventure involving a costumed villain, a man called the Terror, Ryder realizes that Yatz's implanted device has two side-effects: when he is the Creeper, it prevents his costume and make-up from being removed from his body, and when he is Ryder his superhuman powers become dormant, leaving him vulnerable.

During his early adventures, the Creeper regularly fights a shape-shifting terrorist name Proteus. At one point, Proteus reveals that he is motivated by being overwhelmed by how corrupt he finds society. He had hoped to find a friend in the Creeper and had spared his life before, but then concluded the yellow vigilante is actually an enemy after learning he is secretly Jack Ryder. While attempting another attack on society, Proteus seemingly kills himself and the Creeper muses whether he has lost both an enemy and a friend. Following this, the Creeper continues operating in Gotham City and Jack Ryder becomes a television reporter for WHAM-TV. He winds up teaming up with other superheroes often, most frequently aiding Batman. During an encounter with the Joker, the Creeper is rendered temporarily amnesiac and is tricked into helping the Joker plant a bomb, only realizing the truth at the last moment. He then brings the Joker to justice, not as the Creeper but as Jack Ryder.

Post-Crisis RevisionEdit

Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, much of DC Comics history is revised. The Creeper is given a new origin and interpretation as well. In the new continuity, Ryder is not a talk show host or TV reporter initially. Instead, he is a newspaper journalist working for the Herald Examiner and known for exposing corrupt criminal operations. Investigating the home of criminals during a masquerade party, he is ambushed and knocked out. The criminals knew he intended to investigate them and have decided to humiliate him before taking revenge. They drug him with a hallucinogen, one said to cause psychosis if used in too strong a dose, dress him up in a yellow and red costume with a green wig, and present him to the masquerade party as a jester called "the dancing creep." Drugged and confused, Ryder attempts to escape but is severely beaten. He is then taken some distance away, shot, and left for dead.

Ryder awakens in the home of Dr. Emil Yatz, a German immigrant and scientist who discovered the journalist dead near his estate. Yatz explains he used his experimental "inorganic matter transference" technology to heal and revive Ryder. Yatz explains he was rejected by the scientific community and became a science fiction writer before finding a sponsor. He created a device that can map the atomic structure of inorganic objects and then "swap" them with others, rending one temporarily invisible and intangible. Yatz realized his criminal sponsors intended to kill him soon, and when he found Ryder he decided to hide his powerful device inside the man's body. Attaching the power source activated the device now in Ryder's forearm under his skin, healing the man. After destroying his scientific notes, Yatz explained that the device's "sub-atomic matrix" has been imprinted with Ryder's costume since he was wearing it when the scientist attached the power source. Now realizing Ryder also had a drug in his system, Yatz warns the drug may have been imprinted as well, meaning Ryder will once again be in a drug-induced state if he activates the device. The criminals arrive and murder Yatz before the scientist can say more. Touching his forearm, Ryder activates the Yatz device and becomes the costumed, chaotic Creeper, bringing the criminals to justice with physically enhanced abilities and healing. He later wakes up at his typewriter, having no real memory of his activities as the Creeper but knowing his alter ego will be an effective weapon against crime.

Death and RebirthEdit

The Creeper appeared in the Eclipso: The Darkness Within crossover that happened in various DC Comics annuals in 1992. Tricked into being mentally controlled by the dark diamonds of the demonicEclipso, the Creeper is later freed by Bruce Gordon, the villain's longtime adversary. In the self-titled Eclipso comic book series, the Creeper, Gordon, and Gordon's wife Mona make a foray into a South American territory Eclipso has conquered. Later, the Creper joins government operative Amanda Waller and several heroes to fight against Eclipso. Called the Shadow Fighters, the group included Major Victory, the original Steel, and Wildcat II. In Eclipso issue #13, some of the Shadow Fighters venture into Eclipso's territory and engage the villain in battle. Eclipso uses his power to possess several hyenas, using them to track down the Creeper and literally tear him apart limb from limb, apparently killing him. The remains, along with those of other fallen heroes, are stolen from Eclipso's control by surviving Shadow Fighters.

Years later, the new series The Creeper Volume 1 reveals that the Creeper's healing ability increased in order to compensate for the damage inflicted by Eclipso, allowing him to heal and resurrect. He also now exhibits a weaponized laugh that can cause pain and even stun opponents. The experience of death and resurrection is traumatic for Jack Ryder, who becomes a patient to the psychiatrist Dr. Solos. While undergoing therapy, Jack Ryder considers the possibility that he has inherited his mother's mental illness and may have only mistakenly believed the Creeper's personality is a result of drugs and a scientific device. He later realizes that he has conflicting memories of the Creeper's origin. In one version, he remembers buying costume leftovers before infiltrating a masquerade party. In another version, he remembers being drugged and shot before Dr. Yatz resurrected him. He realizes the different versions of this origin include elements that don't make much sense to him and concludes that none of these memories are accurate, that he has repressed the memory of his origin and his mind created other scenarios he found more acceptable. Ryder discovers Dr. Solos is actually his old enemy Proteus in disguise and learns the villain is somehow connected to his origin. Further information is not revealed, as The Creeper Vol.1 is canceled.

Post-Infinite Crisis RebootEdit

Following the crossover Infinite Crisis, several areas of DC Comics continuity are revised again. Jack Ryder is a former journalist who now works as the host of a controversial political and news commentary TV show You Are Wrong!, where he regularly challenges criminals and politicians and often praises costumed vigilantes. Later on, Bruce Wayne: The Road Home: Outsiders reveals that in the new history, Ryder briefly dated Gotham photojournalist Vicki Vale when he was younger. His ex-girlfriend Vera Sweet is now a producer and on-air reporter for the same network. When he realizes others are becoming suspicious of his connection to the notorious Creeper, Ryder pretends to be disillusioned by that particular vigilante, promising $1million to the person who catches the Creeper and brings him to face the law.

The Creeper's new origin story is soon revealed in a flashback in the mini-series The Creeper Volume 2. Years earlier, Ryder is interested in the work of scientist Dr. Vincent Yatz, who is combining stem cell therapy and microscopic nanotechnology to create a revolutionary "nanocell" treatment called "smart-skin." This technology enhances a human body's regeneration, not only healing wounds but even preventing scarring and restoring burns. Local mobsters come to Yatz's lab to steal this new technology and Ryder accidentally interrupts when he arrives. Unable to escape but determined to keep the mobsters from taking his discovery, Yatz quickly injects the last sample of smart-skin, still somewhat unstable, into an unwilling Ryder. Believing that Yatz will create more nanocells if forced to, the criminals shoot Ryder in the head and throw him into the ocean. The smart-skin activates and revives Ryder, transforming him into a yellow-skinned superhuman with green hair and a mane of thick, red hair growing on his back and shoulders. The Creeper has Ryder's knowledge but acts as a separate personality. After the Creeper transforms back into Ryder, the TV host discovers he can still hear the Creeper's voice in his head, allowing them to communicate.

Batman encounters the Creeper while on patrol and then investigates the Dr. Yatz case, discovering in the process that this new yellow-skinned vigilante is really Jack Ryder. Ryder and the Creeper learn that Yatz secretly intended the smart-skin to be a weapon and that tests on human subjects repeatedly resulted in mutated monsters. To achieve better results, Yatz took on a silent partner who introduced his own chemical "nerve agent" to the smart-skin, which resulted in Ryder's unique transformation into the Creeper. The silent partner is revealed to the Joker, and the "nerve" agent used was a version of his Joker venom, known to normally alter skin and hair color in victims while inducing temporary madness and uncontrollable laughter before killing them. In exchange for helping Yatz improve his results, the Joker wants to use the man's technology to create an army of maniacal, super-strong, near-invincible soldiers. Seeing the successful results with Ryder, the Joker refers to the Creeper as "family." A similar batch of smart-skin is then used to turn dozens of others into maddened, yellow-skin soldiers with green and red hair.

Batman and the Creeper defeat the Joker and his operation with Yatz. Batman creates a chemical agent that can cure Ryder of the Creeper and offers it to the TV host. Ryder decides to throw away the cure and instead forms a truce with his alter ego, agreeing to let the Creeper out from time to time to fight criminals. This ends the flashback mini-series, and the Creeper shows up sporadically in other DC Comics stories, encountering Eclipso again and helping to fight the Sinestro Corps. During the crossover Final Crisis, Batman is believed killed. It is then revealed that Batman prepared for this eventuality by leaving instructions to recruit a team of heroes he trusts, tasking them to act as a new version of the Outsiders. The Creeper is recruited into this new team, though this version of the team lasts only a year. Later, Batman is revealed to be alive.

Reign in HellEdit

During the Reign in Hell miniseries, the Creeper was presented as a demon that co-inhabited the body of Jack Ryder rather than an identity he assumed due to scientific experimentation. The story shows the Creeper demon separating from Jack Ryder, having been recalled to Hell by Lilith, the mother of all Earthborn atrocities. It is later revealed that the Creeper demon is just one of a similar-looking species of demon. The Reign in Hell miniseries had many internal continuity errors that made its place in DC Comics canon questionable and the idea that the Creeper was a demonic entity was not repeated afterward.

The New 52Edit

In 2011, DC Comics created a new version of its universe called the New 52. In this timeline, the Creeper is first seen in a brief cameo when he is considered as a candidate for a new United Nations-sanctioned Justice League International team.[11] In Phantom Stranger #7 (2013), Jack Ryder is introduced as a talk show host at Morgan Edge's network who recently quit his job. After encountering the Phantom Stranger, Ryder is killed by a monster attacking Metropolis.[12] The Presence, in the form of a dog, notes that Ryder's story is not over, that he was not led to his death but rather to his destiny.

In Katana #3 and #4 (June 2013), it is revealed that the New 52 version of the Creeper is a malicious and fearsome-looking oni who regularly "rides" human hosts in order to cause chaos and violence. Unlike previous incarnations, this Creeper is a villain (though why he would be considered for membership in Justice League International earlier is never explained). This oni is revealed to be locked inside Soultaker, the mystical sword of the hero Katana, along with many other souls of enemies the blade has defeated over the centuries. When the villain Killer Croc breaks the sword, all the souls are released, including the Creeper who reveals that he sometimes whispered to Katana through the sword, pretending to be her dead husband. Seeking out a new body to "ride," the Creeper discovers the recently deceased Jack Ryder and decides to possess it.[13]

The relationship between this oni Creeper and Jack Ryder is further explored in Justice League Dark #23.1 (subtitled Creeper #1), part of the Forever Evil crossover.[9] The story reveals the Creeper's past in feudal Japan and describes him as a wild being who "justifies cruel temper tantrums under the guise of spreading chaos." Although his appearance in the series Katana indicated the Creeper was defeated by Katana herself and that he has possessed Jack Ryder's body before, the origin revealed in Justice League Dark contradicts this by revealing the oni demon has been trapped inside of Soultaker since the days of feudal Japan, passing the time by tormenting the other imprisoned souls, and that he never and could never have met Jack Ryder before meeting him after being freed. Possessing Ryder's body results in Jack Ryder being resurrected, unaware that he now shares his body with an oni demon who occasionally takes over his form and uses him to cause chaos and death. Ryder is confused by his occasional blackouts but continues working as a TV reporter for the show Life After Death.

DC RebirthEdit

The 2017 initiative DC Rebirth altered DC Comics continuity yet again, removing much of the New 52 changes and restoring several stories and ideas from comics published before 2011. Post DC Rebirth, the Creeper is reintroduced with his more classic appearance, once again the product of experimental science rather than a demon inhabiting a human host. While investigating a series of murdered criminals down in Chicago, Jack Ryder becomes the Creeper to battle a Deathstroke copycat, then is recruited by Bizarro to join the Red Hood's team of Outlaws. In the Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock, Creeper is shown to have been captured by Kobra's cult until he is retrieved by Black Adam.[14] He and Black Adam later attack Israel

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Kaepernick Donates $25,000 To Organization Named after Cop Killer!

Kaepernick and other celebrity influencers are donating money to a group who gets their beliefs and Ideologies from a person who committed numerous felonies and shot a cop in the face point blank execution style. We are all for programs that help the youth but this one seem like it will just get them into trouble further down the road. You can really relate this to a cult or terrorists organization where it provides its members with a sense of belonging and various other benefits while it indoctrinates/ or PROGRAMS its members into believing radical Ideologies. They could have picked any other name but instead they chose to name it after a piece of shit murderer and that’s only a fraction of the problems that can be associated with this organization.

The Daily Mail writes

Colin Kaepernick’s $25,000 donation to a charitable group honoring a convicted cop killer has been revealed.

Kaepernick’s foundation made the donation to Chicago-based Assata’s Daughters, named after former Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur, in April as part of a $1million charitable pledge.

Shakur was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1973 shooting death of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster and sentenced to life in prison, but staged a daring jailbreak and now lives as a fugitive in Cuba.

Kaepernick, who is well known for his protests against police during the national anthem as a former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, made the donation as part of his pledge to donate $100,000 a month for 10 months to ‘organizations working in oppressed communities’.

Assata’s Daughters was founded in 2015 to ‘develop and train young people, ages 4-19, in the Black queer feminist tradition and in the spirit of Assata,’ according to the group’s website.

   Assata Shakur (left) was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1973 shooting death of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster (right). Kaepernick has donated to a charity named for her

Kaepernick retweeted this birthday greeting to Shakur in July. She is wanted by the FBI

‘We prioritize this work to help the current momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement to carry on into the future,’ the statement continues.

Kaepernick’s foundation specified that $2,500 of the donation would go to Cop Watch, a program that trains volunteers to follow and video police officers.

Another $15,000 is earmarked for ‘teen workshops’.

Shakur, whose legal name is JoAnne Deborah Chesimard, has become a revered figure in some activist circles, despite currently lodging on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.

A former Black Panther who joined a more militant offshoot of the group, Shakur was already wanted on several charges when Trooper Foerster pulled over a car she was in for a broken taillight.

In a shootout, Foerster was killed and Shakur was wounded. Accounts differ as to whether she or another occupant of the car pulled the trigger, but she was successfully convicted of murder under aiding and abetting laws.

 Kaepernick is well known for his protests against police during the national anthem as a former San Francisco 49ers quarterback. The kneeling protest last weekend spread across the NFL

Shakur, whose legal name is JoAnne Chesimard, is currently on the FBI’s Most Wanted list

Shakur was sentenced to life in prison, but escaped in 1979 when members of the Black Liberation Army visited her behind bars with concealed handguns, took prison officials hostage and commandeered a van.

Through the two are not related, Shakur was godmother to rapper Tupac Shakur, whose stepfather was convicted of aiding her escape from prison.

Word of Kaepernick’s donation, which was first reported by the Washington Times, comes as the protest against police that he launched last year creates a national furor.

President Donald Trump last week…

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The reality of influencer marketing in the age of digital content

 Influencers know their audience better and by having them in the planning phase will undoubtedly increase brand awareness

For the longest time, we were used to seeing only celebrities fronting brands and businesses. With the emergence of influencers, the presence of these “regular people”, yet, with significant influential power became refreshing to the audience and business owners alike.

To say influencers were a calling to brands and businesses for marketing campaigns would be an understatement. They are about as holy grail as rain in a drought. Audiences can relate better to the ambassadors, and business owners were able to explore new opportunities, with the potential of reaching a more targeted audience.

Or at least when the influencer trend first got picked up.

Back in 2009, blogger Bryan Boy (third from left) pictured front row at a fashion show alongside the iconic editor-in-chief of Vogue, Anna Wintour (fifth from left). In the period where bloggers were trying to get themselves taken seriously, Bryan Boy’s appearance at the front row gave confidence to the blogging industry.

We saw influencers taking up front row seats at fashion week, jet setting off to tropical destinations on private planes and getting all glammed up walking the red carpet for movie premieres.

This is on top of possibly getting paid to feature a product on their social media and receiving freebies from brands. With the dream lifestyle portrayed to the entire world, do we dare wonder how the influencer industry eventually became a billion-dollar industry?

With everyone trying to get a piece of the dream lifestyle, recent exposés have begun painting influencers in a different light. While it is not a sweeping statement of all influencers, the few rotten ones are the reasons why some marketers and brands are becoming sceptical about engaging influencers for their marketing campaigns. How do you find the right influencer for your brand amidst the uncertainty?

Go micro?

Experts have claimed that micro-influencers or nano-influencers are the next best bet when it comes to considering one for your marketing campaign. What are , you wonder? They are influential individuals with a following of about 500 to 10,000, or if in Singapore, it’s 5,000 to 20,000 followers.

Compared to macro-influencers (10,000 to 1,000,000 followers), surely the latter would be able to reach to a broader audience. However, experts have it that marketing right now is more than just mere exposure.

To get actual returns, it is about time that brands and businesses look into how to create an impact on the audience and convert them into sales.

A study has also shown that micro-influencers, though with lesser followers, can achieve 7 times more engagement with its audience compared to influencers with a higher following.

This study simply means that the small community that the micro-influencer cultivated is genuinely interested in his/her content and basically, ‘quality over quantity’.

How high would you go?

Source: IG/Selena Gomez

When engaging celebrities, who are also social media influencers like Selena Gomez, it is expected for companies to have to fork out a hefty amount, knowing their status. Think it is cheap?

How about USD$800,000 per Instagram post! If you think that is a massive amount to be spending on an influencer alone, try Kylie Jenner where an Instagram post would set you back USD$1million. More established brands often opt for celebrities because of the budget they have and also to maintain a reputation for its wider (like international) audience.

Image: Singapore influencer, Deekosh with a paid partnership Instagram post with LEGO Singapore for their then latest LEGO movie. For an influencer with a following of about 200k like Deekosh’s, per Instagram post could go up to SGD$3,000

Not everyone has such deep pockets. This is probably the reason why brands do not mind considering bloggers/influencers, or influencers-turned-celebrities if they need one that has the same influence power to Gomez’s and Jenner’s tier.

Top 10 influencers and what they charge per post 

Take comedian, Lele Pons, for example. She initially found fame on the now-defunct app, Vine, before moving on to YouTube. Just last year, the 23-year-old was signed to Universal Music. With a following of 36.7million on Instagram, Pons charges a whopping USD$144,000 per sponsored Instagram post.

While that might seem like a lot for someone who does not really have a “full” presence, (like out of 10 people in a room, probably only one knows of her existence), it is still a lot more affordable than engaging a celebrity. And just like micro-influencers, her followers are more niche compared to one of a celebrity’s. If you are considering deep engagement and your product has the same brand proposition as your candidate influencer, you can consider engaging them.

Spot a fraud

Of late, both local and international mainstream media have highlighted on influencers and the constructed growth of their pages.

Apparently, a survey that was conducted by HypeAuditor revealed that almost half of our local influencers have mangled with their social media accounts using artificial methods– such as buying followers, likes and comments to create engagements on their page as yet another content.

One of the biggest influencer sagas that went viral in Singapore was when someone did an exposé on the influencer, claiming that he never took any of his pictures. He had instead been photoshopping himself in stock images – even those in collaboration with brands.  Image source: MothershipWhat is frowned upon is when the influencer is paid such a hefty amount to deliver, only to find out that their page is not as engaging as they have presented it to be. A bigger nightmare for companies is to find out that the influencer is merely an imposter; or someone with just the intention of getting freebies.

But fret not, there are a few easy ways to spot whether an influencer has an engaging community in their account. For starters, we can:

1. Check out the number of followers and compare it against the average likes on its posts

2. Look out for the verified tick beside their name

3. Look through the comments section to feel for vibes on engagement with followers

At the end of the day, with regular posting and creative content, anyone can be an influencer – literally. Like knowledge, content is power. Influencer marketing is also more than just slapping the influencer’s face on your products or poster.

Having the right influencer to match your brand will help you to amplify your message further. The only question is, do you know if you have chosen the “right” one?

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Jamie Carragher could face a fine or up to six months in jail

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Jamie Carragher could face a fine or up to six months in jail

Jamie Carragher has been suspended from his £1million-a-year Sky Sports job until the end of the season after admitting to spitting at a family from his car.

The football analyst will not appear on any programming with Sky until at least May as it was also revealed today that police would not press charges over the incident. 

After the star was spoken to by officers from Greater Manchester Police this afternoon, the force said it ‘agreed’ a prosecution was not in the public interest.

But a crime of assault has been recorded over the incident, as per police policy.

Sky said it would review Carragher’s role before the start of the next football season, which begins in August.  

Earlier today, Carragher called for the father who filmed him spitting out of his car to be left alone after he claiming to have received ‘death threats’. 

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Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher was filmed spitting at a teenage schoolgirl after Liverpool lost 2-1 to Manchester United

Carragher has called for the father who filmed him spitting out of his car to be left alone after he claiming to have received ‘death threats’

Mr Hughes (pictured with wife Sarah) from Colwyn Bay, north Wales, shouted ‘2-1, 2-1, unlucky Jamie lad, 2-1 lad’ at the ex-Liverpool star. On his Instagram page he admits to hating Scousers

The TV pundit tweeted his support for Andy Hughes, adding that he was the ‘only person to blame’ for the incident.

A statement from Sky said: ‘Following an internal review, Sky has suspended Jamie Carragher for the remainder of the football season. 

‘Jamie has taken full responsibility for what has happened and we will ensure he gets the help he needs to guarantee something like this never happens again.

‘Before the start of the next season we will sit down with Jamie to discuss whether he is ready to return to his role.’ 

Mr Hughes, a Manchester United fan, used his phone to record the shameful incident that has left Carragher clinging on to his £1million-a-year Sky Sports job. 

This morning, Carragher tweeted: ‘I’ve made a big mistake and accept full responsibility.

‘I am the only person to blame for this sorry situation, so please leave the family alone.’

Mr Hughes, from Colwyn Bay, north Wales, shouted: ‘2-1, 2-1, unlucky Jamie lad, 2-1 lad’ from his open car window after spotting the TV presenter in traffic following Liverpool’s loss to Manchester United on Saturday.

He then watched as former Liverpool star Carragher launch a mouthful of spit, which hit his 14-year-old daughter sat in the car.

Mr Hughes – who says that he ‘hates Scousers’ on his Instagram account – filmed the encounter with the TV presenter on his mobile phone.

In the footage his daughter can be heard saying: ‘He spat on me.’ Mr Hughes asks her: ‘Where did it hit you?’ The schoolgirl replies: ‘On my face.’

His daughter then burst into tears, Mr Hughes claims. The girl’s 38-year-old mother Sarah was also in the car.

It is now thought that Mr Hughes could himself face a £200 fine and six penalty points for using his mobile phone to record Carragher while at the wheel of his car.

Mr Hughes refused to comment at his home in North Wales when approached by MailOnline

The former England defender said that it was a ‘moment of madness’ and admitted his actions were disgusting 

He has pleaded with Sky Sports not to axe the Liverpool legend from his lucrative pundit role as he revealed that the saga had led to death threats on social media. 

He told The Mirror: ‘We have been feeling under siege. It has been really worrying.

‘I have received threats, death threats and all kinds of abuse, and I don’t know how to deal with it. I worry for my ­daughter’s safety, I really do.’

Carragher, who was born Bootle, Merseyside, and is worth £15 million, has since phoned Hughes to apologise for spitting at his daughter in a ‘moment of madness’. 

He and his wife have urged Sky Sports not to sack the former Liverpool defender over the altercation. 

He said: ‘We don’t want him to lose his job. It is not about that. We wanted an apology and ­explanation. He seems contrite. Everyone makes mistakes, we are all human.’

Mr Hughes has pleaded with Sky Sports not to axe the Liverpool legend from his lucrative pundit role as he revealed that the saga had led to death threats on social media

Mrs Hughes added: ‘He did seem extremely sorry.’

BBC presenter Jeremy Vine said in a tweet that the person filming Carragher should be jailed for using a mobile at the wheel.

The Radio 2 host hit out at Carragher, branding his actions ‘disgusting’ and ‘certainly sackable’ but implied that using a phone on the motorway was worse as the man should go ‘straight to jail’.

He wrote: ‘Spitting: disgusting, possibly criminal, certainly sackable.

‘Filming on a mobile while driving a car with a child in the back, on a motorway, paying no attention whatsoever to the road: straight to jail.’

Carragher, who claimed Mr Hughes goaded him, has been suspended by Sky Sports and he has been axed by Danish channel TV3 Sport.

However he said he had apologised to the family and would apologise again.

He told Sky News: ‘I called the family obviously they were upset and disappointed last night.

‘I spoke to the 14-year-old girl. That was my biggest regret.

‘There’s lots of regrets for what has happened but certainly the biggest one is for the 14-year-old girl to be caught in the middle of my altercation with her father.

He added: ‘It’s a poor message of not just about being in the game, it’s a poor message for everyone out there – man, woman or children. It’s the lowest of the low.

‘All I can do now is obviously speak to you and speak to the family again and apologise as much as I can.

‘I am being vilified and rightly so because if someone in that game had done that – I was commentating on the Manchester United vs Liverpool game – I would have to vilify them for the next few days.

‘It’s difficult to explain, the moment of madness, it was four of five seconds. I lost it and I made a huge mistake – I wish I could go back.

‘I have never done it before and I will never do it again, I can just try and go back to the person that I am.’

Speaking about his future, he added: ‘I have not offered that (my resignation), I am working out the best way to go forward.’

Carragher sat down in the Sky News studio and watched the shocking video 

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Singer P!nk has opened up about her battle with Coronavirus after she and son Jameson fully recovered following their diagnosis with the deadly virus. The three-time Grammy winner said she and her 3-year-old son had a "terrifying" experience which dragged on for weeks. Pink opened up about her and Jamson's "physically and emotionally challenging" battle with the disease in a recent essay published by NBC News. The 40-year-old wrote: "Battling COVID-19 along with my three-year-old son was the most physically and emotionally challenging experience I have gone through as a mother. "Weeks after receiving our test results, my son was still ill and feverish. It was a terrifying time, not knowing what might come next." Pink revealed in early April that she and her son tested positive for the coronavirus after showing symptoms and had since recovered. She announced in her Instagram statement that she was donating $1million to COVID-19 relief. She continued: "But our story is not unique; there are mothers all over America, and the world, that are facing this same uncertainty every single day.  "Not every family, especially those living on reservations, or in refugee camps, slums, or favelas, are able to practice social distancing. In many parts of the world it can take hours just to access water, and even then, soap may be an impossible luxury." Pink concluded in her essay: "This Mother’s Day, as you hold your babies tight, I encourage you to think about all the mamas around the world who still need our help."

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CELTIC legend Davie Hay revealed all yesterday in the snag that almost prevented Henrik Larsson joining the Parkhead side.

Now the former player and manager looks at his role as chief scout in bringing a celebrated threesome to the Hoops.

CQN today presents another EXCLUSIVE extract from Davie Hay’s autobiography, ‘The Quiet Assassin’, co-authored by Alex Gordon, to go behind the scenes of a trio of sensational signings that lit up the east end of Glasgow.

I OFTEN wonder how Henrik Larsson would have fitted in with the Three Amigos – Pierre van Hooijdonk, Paolo di Canio and Jorge Cadette.

They had all departed the scene by the time Henrik arrived, but it would have been highly interesting to see how they could have fitted in together. It was Fergus, of course, who gave that trio their nickname and there always seemed to be something going on in the background with the club’s owner and these three colourful, charismatic and controversial characters.

Thanks to Tommy Burns, I was involved in bringing that talented trio to Parkhead, starting with big Pierre. I had travelled to Holland a few times around that period because Dutch football was at a very good standard and there were players who could be bought for reasonable fees. I took in a NAC Breda game one afternoon and Pierre was outstanding. You couldn’t possibly miss him because he was about 6ft 5in, but he was very skilful on the ground with the ball at his feet. Normally, extremely tall guys are like a giraffe on ice when they are asked to do anything on the deck, but Van Hooijdonk ticked all the boxes.

I was looking at another Dutch striker at Twente Enschede at the time. His name? Michael Mols who, of course, did eventually come to Glasgow – to sign for Rangers. At that time, though, Celtic had the choice between these players. I made another trip to see Pierre in action against Heerenveen and that helped me make up my mind. I had noted in previous games that he never wasted a direct free-kick. He may not always have scored, but he always hit the target. It was an extra in his weaponry and I was impressed.

I advised Tommy Burns to sign him and we duly did. It’s ironic to think our giant Dutchman scored the goal that gave Tommy his only silverware as manager of Celtic. Who could forget Pierre’s soaring header against Airdrie on a sunkissed afternoon at Hampden in 27 May 1995 that delivered the Scottish Cup?

The setting was far removed from the Arctic temperatures the fans had to endure on the same ground when they got their first glimpse of Pierre. Celtic, of course, were playing all their fixtures at the national stadium that season with multi-million pound reconstruction work being carried out at Parkhead. It was 11 January when our latest signing took his bow in front of the Celtic support against Hearts. It didn’t take him long to win them over. He elegantly pulled down a high ball, killed it in an instant and turned to thunder an unstoppable drive high into the net. The Edinburgh side eventually got a point in the 1-1 draw, but I think everyone went home more than happy at the first appearance of Van Hooijdonk in the Hoops.

Next to join us was Portuguese international striker Jorge Cadete and if Pierre thought he had made an instant hit with the support he had nothing on Jorge. He came on as a seconnd-half substitute against Aberdeen in a league game on 1 April 1996 and scored after only FIFTEEN seconds. He took a pass in his stride before knocking it past the outrushing goalkeeper. Welcome to Glasgow, Jorge!

ROUND OF APPLAUSE…Pierre van Hooijdonk and Jorge Cadete thank the supporters.

Celtic won 5-0 that evening with Pierre and Simon Donnelly  chipping in with two apiece. The football that was played that night was what was associated with Celtic. It was entertainment all the way and Tommy Burns and Billy Stark deserve massive credit for that. It is just a pity that they could not convert style into silverware.

Agent Raymond Sparkes delivered a video of Cadete in action. He had been in dispute with Sporting Lisbon and could be had at a reasonable fee. I had seen him before, of course, and I recall him scoring two goals against Scotland in a European Championship game in Lisbon in 1993. I knew he was electric in the box and would score goals in any company. He was the sort of class finisher defenders hated facing. He played right on their shoulder and it was dodgy to try to play offside against this guy. One slip in concentration and he had the lethal ability to punish you.

I telephoned Sir Bobby Robson, the former England international boss who had been Cadete’s gaffer for a spell at Sporting Lisbon, to get my card marked. Bobby didn’t hesitate in recommending the player. ‘He’s a top quality striker,’ said Bobby and that was fair enough testimony for me.

Paolo di Canio arrived in the summer of 1996 for a cut-price £1million from AC Milan and I had taken the trip to watch him in the flesh in a European tie against Bordeaux in France. Milan, with players such as Franco Baresi, George Weah and Paolo Maldini in the team, were 2-0 up after the first leg at the San Siro. Di Canio came into the team for the return and the French, with Zinidine Zidane orchestrating everything, fought back to win 3-2 on aggregate! You would be forgiven for thinking that might have put me off the Italian, but, in fact, it had the opposite effect. His team-mates thought they were coasting, but his attitude was absolutely right. He displayed a lot of determination and ability.

WELCOME TO PARADISE…Paolo di Canio fools around on the day of his arrival.

He was cajoling his colleagues throughout, but, alas for Paolo, they were not responding. His attitude won me over. I would be recommending we sign him. I sat in the stand that night alongside Bruce Rioch, who was Arsenal manager at the time. We were chatting and he asked me when I was going home. I told him I would be staying overnight and making my way back to Scotland the following day. He casually informed me he was jetting back to Heathrow in a private plane. How the other half lived!

Paolo duly arrived and, as I anticipated, the Celtic support took to him immediately. He was a Celtic-type player, no doubt about it. It was never dull with Paolo around and he made up the complete set of the Three Amigos. Van Hooijdonk was the first to go after more behind-the-scenes aggro. He didn’t seem interested any more and made it plain he wanted to try English football. He got his wish when the club sold him to Nottingham Forest for £4.5million in March 1997. A month later Di Canio was voted Player of the Year by his fellow professionals, but, unfortunately, a Scottish Cup semi-final replay defeat from Falkirk signalled the end for Tommy Burns as manager.

The temperamental Italian wasn’t going to be far behind. He claimed Fergus McCann had reneged on a contractual promise and walked out in July. A month later he moved to Sheffield Wednesday for £4million with Celtic receiving Dutch winger Regi Blinker as part of the deal. Celtic fans, understandably, were not happy. They had taken Paolo di Canio to their hearts and they believed more should have been done to keep him at the club.

Jock Brown had reassured the support Di Canio would not be transferred just weeks beforehand. When the deal was done, Jock informed the followers that he had not been sold, but ‘traded’. That cut no ice with the fans who felt as though they had been let down. It was also only a matter of time before the third amigo, Jorge Cadete, left the building.

He had refused to return from Portugal for pre-season training and, reluctantly, he was sold to Spanish outfit Celta Vigo for £3.5million. I know the club did go out of their way to try to entice this exciting talent back to the east end of Glasgow, but he wasn’t interested. It was around this time he revealed he had a parrot at home called Fergus. I wonder who that was named after! Cadete did return to Glasgow a few years later for a short spell with Partick Thistle. He was a mere shadow of the striker who had terrorised defences in a brief but memorable stint with Celtic.

By the way, there was another Dutch player who had caught my eye while I was tracking big Pierre. He was a no-nonsense and uncompromising centre-half who was with a team called Willem 11. He was tall, athletic, virtually unbeatable in the air and extremely fast on the deck. He could use the ball, too. I put his name forward because I knew the Dutch side would accept £800,000 for him. We did not have enough money for both Van Hooijdonk and this player, so we had to drop our interest in the defender.

He later signed for PSV Eindhoven for the fee I had been quoted, but he cost considerably more when he joined Manchester United. It was Jaap Stam and Sir Alex Ferguson didn’t hesitate in splashing £15million for him after impressive displays for Holland during the 1998 World Cup Finals.

Celtic could have got him for £14.2million less!

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Moment Roger Federer gives starstruck Coco Gauff a pep talk

American schoolgirl Coco Gauff has become an overnight sensation at Wimbledon this year after winning her way through to the third round aged just 15.

And eight-time champion Roger Federer looked as excited to see her before the second round match as any supporter would, saying "Hey, there she is!", Before clasping hands with the youngster.

Coco, who is signed up to Federer's management company Team8, could not hide the smile as the Swiss player gift a quick pep talk and told the 'play well'.

After the straight sets win over 30-year-old Slovak Magdalena Rybarikova – a former Wimbledon semi-finalist – Coco tweeted about the meeting and said she was 'so nervous' to see him before posting the clip on Instagram with the caption 'The kid meets the goat [Greatest of All Time]'.

It comes as thousands of people around the globe have got be hind her quest to win the tournament following the first-round win over Venus Williams while the supportive parents have been on the stands.

The teenager, who was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but moved to Florida aged seven to train at better tennis facilities, is in line for at least £ 111,000 in prize money even if she loses in the third round, and will likely make more than $ 1million (£ 790,000) this year including sponsorship deals.

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Coco Gauff is in the third round of Wimbledon and is winning more fans by the day, including tennis legend Roger Federer

After meeting Federer, Gauff puts the clip on Instagram, pictured, with the caption 'The kid meets the goat [Greatest of All Time]

Cori Gauff, 15, won 6-3 6-3 against 30-year-old Slovak Magdalena Rybarikova, who reached the Wimbledon semifinals in 2017

Gauff's mother, Candi, her daughter's second spectacular Wimbledon victory

Gauff now faces Slovenian Polona Hercog and becomes the youngest player to reach the last 32 at Wimbledon since fellow American Jennifer Capriati, who reached the semi- finals in 1991, also aged 15.

Speaking after the win, she said: "I think I played well, especially on the high-pressure points. Over the last few days there's been so much going on, I'm still shocked I'm still here. "

"I think I can beat anyone on the other side of the court, if I didn't think I would just bother stepping out," she said.

Fans seem to share the view, with many using the hashtag #GoGoCoCo to support her on social media.

Others were touched by her meeting with Federer, remarking how it may have been two generations

One fan wrote on Twitter: "Current legend meets future legend."

Another added: "So cute. Keep going Coco and always have that fearless attitude. '

The last night match was the first time a championship game that has been played under the stage's new roof.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2004, Cori 'Coco' Gauff comes from a rich sporting heritage, with father Corey, a former basketball player for Georgia State University, while her mother Candi excelled at both gymnastics and athletics while at Florida State University.

Fans on social media predicted big things for Gauff after the meeting with Roger Federer

Others were touched by how the eight-time champion was towards the toe

Coco's fans are growing around the globe with the hashtag #GoGoCoCo launched to back her

She played in front of a Court One crowd expecting another upset after Gauff stunned the world by beating the seven-times grand slam winner 6-4 6-4 on Monday. She is shaking Rybarikova's hand after the victory

Candi Gauff celebrates next to her husband – Corey – (left) who is also Coco's coach

She took up tennis aged seven and the family moved from their home at Atlanta to Delray Beach in Florida for its elite tennis facilities previously used by both Venus and Serena Williams whom Coco grew up idolizing.

The father has had a huge impact on her life, traveling the world with her as her coach and inspiring her to use the developing 'voice' for change, while her mother gave up teaching to home school her daughter to al

And all the hard work Coco and her parents have put in training is beginning to pay off, with the teenager expected to rake in around £ 800,000 ($ 1million) in 2019 through prize money and lucrative sponsorship deals with New Balance and Head.

The family still live in Florida with Coco and the younger brothers Codey, 11, and Cameron, five.

Gauff, 15, stunned the world by beating Venus Williams on Monday, who she described as her idol

Coco has also spoken of how she tries to stay humble and keep herself to herself, revealing some of her former teachers didn't even know she was playing at Wimbledon until days before the tournament.

Speaking after her win on Monday, the schoolgirl said her friends and family were ecstatic – including her coach and father Corey.

She said: "I know [my parents] are super happy, my dad was just jumping up every time I won a point. I'm just so happy and blessed that they really just spent all their time on me and my brothers and making sure that we're successful. "

She went on to joke that she would be staying up all night responding to calls from her brother and grandma and texts from friends.

Gauff (pictured today) said her parents were "super happy" after her dramatic win on Monday. Rybarikova is pictured on the left

Gauff coming out onto Court One today in the first Championship match played under Court One's new robbery

Gauff was not even born when Williams claimed the first Wimbledon title in 2000. She had a world ranking of 301 at the start of this year's championships, and was given a wild card entry for the first Grand Slam tournament.

Speaking or post-match conversation with her hero, Gauff revealed: 'Venus told me congratulations and keep going, she said good luck and I told her thanks for everything she did.

"I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her – I told her she was so inspiring and I've always wanted to tell her that but I've never had the guts to before."

Ahead of the match, she revealed she listened to music by Jaden, Kendrick Lamar and Miss Mulatto when stepping on court to help keep her calm.

After winning, Gauff broke down into tears – the first time she had cried since Ironman died in Avengers End Game.

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National Portrait Gallery drops donation from pharmaceutical firm

The National Portrait Gallery in London has become the first major art institution to give up funds from the controversial Sackler family.

Members of the Sackler family are facing lawsuits over their alleged role in the US opioid crisis and campaigners say the move from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) to give up the grant is a landmark victory in the battle over the ethics of art funding.

The decision has been hailed as a ‘powerful acknowledgement’ that certain sources of income should not be justified.

The family, whose company Purdue Pharma LP produces opioid prescription painkiller OxyContin, had been set to provide a £1million donation to the gallery.

The Sackler family from left to right: Dr. Theodore Shapiro, Dr. Jack Barchas, DR. Susan Shack Sackler, Dr. Kathe Sackler, Dr. Carla Shatz, Dr. BJ Casey, Dr. Jay Gingrich and Dr. Robert Michels 

The National Portrait Gallery in London (pictured above) is the first major art institution to give up funds from the Sackler family

Purdue Pharma is the maker of the prescription opioid painkiller OxyContin (pictured above)

Speaking to the Guardian, a spokesperson for the gallery said that it had agreed with the Sackler family that both parties would not proceed with the donation ‘at this time’.

The family denies allegations against them which suggest they participated in ‘conspiracy and fraud to portray OxyContin as non-addictive, even though they knew it was dangerously addictive’.

The family claimed that the donation to the gallery’s ‘Inspiring People’ project had been dropped in order to avoid creating a ‘distraction’ from the hard work the institution had put in to the initiative.

Despite the decision being revealed as mutual, it could be seen as a major blow to the family’s status following a campaign led against them by American artist Nancy Goldin.

This file photo shows the outside of Purdue Pharma at the company’s offices in Stamford, US

Goldin has previously spoken out about being addicted to OxyContin after being prescribed the drug and last week said she was ‘happy’ with the decision taken by the NPG.

She highlighted the need for other museums and galleries to do the same and reconsider gifts from the Sackler family.

Reflecting on the decision she said: ‘They did the right thing. I hope there is a domino effect now; there needs to be.’

She had previously refused a retrospective of her work to be held at the NPG if it accepted the donation and had held protests outside the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York over their links to the Sackler’s.

Protests had previously been held outside the Guggenheim museum (above) by artist Nancy Goldin

Protesters targeted the Guggenheim (pictured above) over its ties to the Sackler family

Nancy Goldin (pictured centre pointing) took charge of a protest against the family outside the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York

The NPG had been one of many British cultural institutions set to receive donations from members of the family, but had come under fire from artists and campaigners who said that accepting money from them would make the NPG complicit in the damage done by the drugs the family’s company produce.

The co –director of campaigning organisation Culture Unstained, Jess Worth told the Guardian that the gallery’s decision to reject a donation ‘from those that profited from the opioid crisis’ was a ‘powerful acknowledgment that some sources of funding cross a red line’.

She added: ‘This raises the question of whether the gallery will now apply the same standards to its BP sponsorship deal or continue to promote a fossil fuel company in the midst of a climate crisis.

‘Waved through with minimal scrutiny in the past, BP sponsorship now – like the Sackler donation – looks ethically untenable.’

Shakespeare’s Globe in London (pictured above) has also previously received money from the Sackler family

According to a 2016 estimation by Forbes magazine, the Sackler family has an estimated worth of $13billion, making them the richest family in America and each year the family continues to make philanthropic donations.

However in November 2018 court filings suggested that some members of the family had ‘actively participated in conspiracy and fraud to portray [OxyContin] as non-addictive, even though they knew it was dangerously addictive’.

Following the revelation some public institutions – including New York’s Columbia University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art – have reviewed whether they would continue to accept their donations.

Goldin added: ‘I spoke to the National Portrait Gallery. I’m so happy, I’m very glad about it. We have to hold museums to a higher standard, they are supposed to be a repository of the best of humanity, a repository of learning and culture.’

The Sackler trust awarded the NPG £35.5million in 2016 for a project for building development, redisplaying collections and a new education centre.

The Royal Opera House (pictured above) has also previously received financial support from the Sackler family

The money was a pledge and was not paid, partly due to the fact that work had not yet started and the gallery’s ethics committee was considering the implications of receiving funding from the family.

The Sackler Trust said: ‘[We have] has supported institutions playing crucial roles in health, education, science and the arts for almost half a century and we were pleased to have the opportunity to offer a new gift to support the National Portrait Gallery. The giving philosophy of the family has always been to actively support institutions while never getting in the way of their mission’.

‘Recent reporting of allegations made against Sackler family members may cause this new donation to deflect the National Portrait Gallery from its important work. The allegations against family members are vigorously denied, but to avoid being a distraction for the NPG, we have decided not to proceed at this time with the donation. We continue to believe strongly in the gallery and the wonderful work it does.’

NPG chair David Ross said he acknowledged the generosity of the Sackler family and their support over the years.

‘We understand and support their decision not to proceed at this time with the donation to the gallery.’

Over time the Sackler name has provided financial support for various institutions in the UK such as the Royal Opera House, Shakespeare’s Globe and the Royal Ballet School.

In 2017 the V&A opened a Sackler courtyard which was estimated to have cost £2million. This is while the V&A in Dundee, Scotland is said to be under pressure to return a donation from the Sackler family.

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The Sackler family’s drug company, Purdue Pharma, has made tens of billions on opioid sales, and the Sacklers have spent some of that money supporting the arts. 

 ARTHUR SACKLER

Arthur, a doctor and psychiatrist, founded a research laboratory in 1938, but Arthur’s real genius was in marketing, and he leveraged it to sell a number of medications, including the anti-anxiety drug, Valium.

He owned one-third of Purdue Pharma, which he and his younger brothers Mortimer and Raymond co-founded out of a series of smaller companies they had bought.

Arthur remained a relatively silent partner in the old Purdue, and died in 1987 before it became the company we know it as today.

He never saw any of Purdue’s OxyContin profits.

He donated the funds to open a number of medical education programs, libraries and museums.

After his death in 1987, his brothers bought Arthur’s portion of Purdue and one of his four children, daughter Elizabeth, has largely taken over his philanthropy work.

MORTIMER SACKLER

Mortimer was an American physician and psychiatrist.

He and his brothers, the older Arthur and the younger Raymond published prolific medical research before buying a number of pharmaceutical companies, including, in 1952, Purdue Pharma.

After Arthur’s death Mortimer and Raymond bought out his descendants’ share of Purdue Pharma, and in 1991 they created the company that would become a pain management giant we now know.

Mortimer became a lavish arts patron, known for equally extravagant donations and parties, beginning in the 1970s.

He died in 2010.

 RAYMOND SACKLER 

Raymond was a doctor like his older brothers, and the three were partners in all things until each of their deaths.   

Together with Mortimer, Raymond found success with their opioid painkiller, OxyContin, which became the Purdue Pharma’s signature drug. 

Raymond was milder and more private than his brother, Mortimer.

Raymond had two children, Richard and Jonathan, before his death last year. 

 RICHARD SACKLER 

Richard Sackler followed in his father’s footsteps, getting his medical degree at New York University School of Medicine. 

He came to Purdue after medical school, leading the research and development that ultimately produced the extended release form of OxyContin that would elevate the family’s fortune to previously unfathomable. 

He became president of Purdue in 1991, pioneering marketing campaigns (in the vein of his uncle, Arthur) that enticed droves of medical professionals to buy Purdue’s opioid.

Richard became co-chairman in 2003, by which point $1.6 billion in OxyContin had been sold.  

His marketing schemes sparked suspicion, and in 2015, Richard was deposed before his company paid out a $24 million settlement. 

The company appealed in 2017, but the case has not moved forward. 

In addition to his arts philanthropy, Richard’s foundations have donated to controversial causes, including anti-Muslim groups. 

ELIZABETH SACKLER

Arthur’s daughter has publicly and persistently attempted to distance herself from branch of her family that has profited from OxyContin. 

Elizabeth is a licensed psychiatrist and well-known philanthropist. 

She is the founder of an eponymous Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. 

On Tuesday, she backed Goldin’s petition, expressing disgrace for her uncles’ business.  

Elizabeth Sackler is a patron of the arts and has publicly distinguished herself, and her father, from her uncles and their company, Purdue Pharma. 

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From Georgia Toffolo to Mark Wright, meet the savviest and biggest reality TV earners of 2018

FROM The X Factor to TOWIE, our love of reality TV is going nowhere. Nowadays, it seems like 15 minutes of fame has turned into years of stardom for our most well-loved reality celebs – and with time comes earning power and pounds in the bank.

As unbelievable as it seems, 10 years ago none of us had heard of One Direction or Vicky Pattison, but now they’re some of the biggest earners in the country. And while the MIC and Geordie Shore gangs make money from appearing on even more reality shows, there are loads of other ways to rake in cash.

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Financial advisor Lisa Conway-Hughes of Westminster Wealth Management says: “Stars have always earned great money from book deals, brand endorsements and voiceover/TV advertising.

“However, I’m seeing the power of lucrative Instagram partnerships in younger clients. Add in meet-and-greets and PAs at clubs, and it’s no wonder that four times as many applied for Love Island than Oxbridge this year.”

Moira O’Neill, head of personal finance at Interactive Investor adds: “Reality show stars can earn thousands of pounds from brands looking to jump on their fame. However, fame and fortune can fade just as quickly, so it’s important they invest their money well.”

So who’s the biggest and savviest reality TV earner of them all? Keep reading to see our top 30 rich list and find out!

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Vicky Pattison has amassed her fortune through endorsements, PAs and media deals

THE RULES

The Reality TV Rich List only includes British celebrities who found fame as a result of participating in a reality TV show that was originally broadcast in the UK over the last 10 years. We have not included reality show judges and people already of note who gained more fame as a result of appearing on a reality format.

To qualify, our celebs have to have made money off the back of their reality show fame during the last decade.

We have analysed the identifiable wealth the celebrities have – for example, book deals, TV contracts, Instagram collaborations and salaries paid to them from their own companies. We have not included wealth held in private bank accounts, as we have no access to this information.

We have excluded privately held stocks, hedge funds or share portfolios, unless they are a direct result of reality TV earnings.

Land and property is valued on comparable prices for the area, and may not always reflect the exact amount paid.

Our valuations are based on our analysis. The actual size of people’s fortunes may be different from our figures, as assets can increase or decrease in value.

We have not included family wealth, inheritances or trust funds, but have tried to identify who benefits from these.

We have consulted agents, managers and publicists, some of whom have guided us on the fees celebrities earn from deals and endorsements.

In some cases, PR agents have supplied details of their clients’ wealth, but we have aimed to independently verify the information given to us and checked its reliability.

No.30: Scarlett Moffatt, 28 – £1million

BEFORE finding fame on Channel 4’s Gogglebox in 2014, Scarlett worked on the checkouts in Asda.

And her bank balance has followed the same extraordinary journey. The Geordie joker won the 2016 series of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! and earned a tidy £70k for taking part, which she used to pay off her parents’ mortgage.

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Scarlett Moffatt earned a tidy £70k for taking part in I’m A Celebrity which she used to pay off her parents’ mortgage

Since she was voted Queen of the Jungle, opportunities have flooded in, including co-hosting Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, presenting Streetmate (formerly hosted by Davina McCall) on Channel 4, co-hosting the National Television Awards 2017 alongside Dermot O’Leary and covering Harry and Meghan’s wedding for BBC Radio 1.

She has also written two books, Sofa, So Good: Me Life Story and Scarlett Says.

Her bestselling fitness DVD Scarlett’s SuperSlim Me, which recently attracted controversy after it emerged she had attended a weight-loss boot camp in Switzerland, earned her another £100k.

And Scarlett wasted no time in spending her earnings. She’s just bought a new-build four-bed £300k property in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, complete with cinema and games room. How’s that for a reality cheque?

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No.29: Binky Felstead, 28 – £1.6million

ALEXANDRA Elizabeth Felstead was one of the original members of Made In Chelsea when it first hit the small screen in 2011 – and it’s paid off, and then some! A string of ventures have built up her wealth over the past seven years.

In 2013, she launched her Binky London nail collection, then the following year her autobiography Being Binky became a bestseller. It’s been three years since her eponymous fashion range first dropped on In The Style and it continues to sell out weekly.

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Binky has amassed her own £1.6million fortune through a string of business ventures over the past seven years

However, it’s in the last 12 months or so that Binky’s riches have really grown.

After giving birth to her daughter India in June 2017 and quitting MIC, she landed her own E4 spin-off show, Born In Chelsea, which showed her and boyfriend, former MIC star and fitness model Josh ‘JP’ Patterson, adapting to parenthood.

After dropping from a size 10-12 to an 8 over the years by exercising more and drinking less, Binky’s efforts were rewarded in 2017 with a six-figure deal to become the UK’s new ambassador for Reebok women, which she kicked off by starring in the spring/summer campaign last year.

Binks has also tapped into the lucrative new mum market by launching her own health and fitness business for new mums called Mummy Tribe, which runs retreats at up to £1,350 a pop.

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She regularly collaborates with brands including Rimmel London, St Ives Skincare, Aspinal, Cybex, Elizabeth Arden and Danone, using Instagram to earn up to £6k per sponsored post.

She has spent some of her money on a property in west London’s affluent Fulham. Binky’s one business-savvy new mummy!

No.28: Georgia Toffolo, 23 – £1.8million

TOFF by name, Toff by nature: Georgia worked for The Lady magazine before joining the cast of Made In Chelsea in 2014 as one of Sam Thompson’s friends. And the E4 series made her a decent amount of cash. Prior to winning last year’s I’m A Celebrity!, Georgia’s estimated net worth was £800k.

Her income came from MIC, appearing on Celebs Go Dating, Instagram sponsorships, plus a role as head of events for a think tank called Parliament Street, which she has held since 2015.

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Georgia Toffolo, despite being 23, has amassed an incredible fortune of £1.8million after being named Queen Of The Jungle

Although she was only paid a fee of £13k to go into the jungle, Georgia has acquired notable earnings off the back of her bush capers.

She quickly secured a presenting job with This Morning, a column with The Sunday Times Style magazine and launched a lingerie line for With Love Lilly. She’s since been announced as the new face of Very’s #everydaylifegoals range and Dermalogica’s Clear Start campaign, plus she’s an ambassador for Great British Racing.

Her debut book Always Smiling: The World According To Toff was published last week – in good time for profitable pre-Christmas sales.

Money-mindful Georgia, who has now quit MIC to concentrate on TV work, recently invested in two plush holiday apartments in her home town of Torquay. Named after her, Tofino and Terrazza Giorgia are set to bring in up to £1,385 rent per week, which could earn her a cool £72k a year. She’s one hot property.

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No.28: Millie Mackintosh, 29 – £1.8million

CAMILLA Margaret Mackintosh might be the great, great granddaughter of the guy who invented Quality Street chocolates, but she’s long been self-sufficient and insists there’ll be no bumper inheritance because her family sold the business years ago.

With that cleared up, let’s look at Millie’s money-spinners. She has her own beauty line, which she flogs through Boots, plus a jewellery collaboration with Dorothy Perkins.

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Millie Mackintosh is still worth £1.8million despite her clothing business going bust

Sadly, earlier this year Millie’s clothing business Cammac – which she sold through her own website as well as ASOS, Very Exclusive and 30 other retailers globally – went bust. This has reportedly left a dent of £178k in her £2m personal fortune.

Instagram is now Millie’s main money-making source. She was the one of the pioneers of paid-for Insta partnerships, and in 2014 plugged 13 brands.

Fast-forward to 2018 and her most recent endorsements include Bicester Village, Land Rover UK, Lancôme and Spotlight Whitening, which reportedly earn her around £5-6k per post.

In the past four months Millie has posted Insta pics from Marbella, Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire, Portugal, Greece, Austria, the Cotswolds and the Maldives, with every destination described in glowing terms because, well, they’re probably freebies. Life’s a real beach, huh?

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After leaving MIC in 2012, Millie, who is an ambassador for Kérastase and the Investec Derby at Epsom, has made tentative moves back to TV with a guest role on Britain’s Next Top Model last year.

She lives in a multimillion-pound apartment in west London with Hugo Taylor, who she married this summer following a high-profile divorce in May 2016 from her husband of two years Stephen Manderson, AKA Professor Green. Quality, indeed.

No.26: Nadiya Hussain, 33 – £2million

Undoubtedly the biggest success story of The Great British Bake Off, Nadiya now has five lucrative cookbooks and multiple TV deals to her name after winning the nation’s hearts with her can-do attitude and cheerful disposition in series six in 2015.

Formerly a stay-at-home mum-of-three, in 2017 Nadiya was named by Debrett’s as one of the 500 most influential people in the UK.

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Nadiya Hussain is Great British Bake Off’s biggest success story

On the back of her GBBO win, she signed a “huge deal” with the BBC for an undisclosed figure. As well as her cookbooks and novel The Secret Lives Of The Amir Sisters, she won magazine columns and fronted TV shows including The Chronicles of Nadiya, Junior Bake Off, Nadiya’s British Food Adventure, The Big Family Cooking Showdown and Nadiya’s Family Favourites.

However, last month the Beeb cancelled the two-part The Hajj about her pilgrimage to the Islamic holy city Mecca.

Last year, Nadiya was also a guest panellist on Loose Women and in 2016 she baked a 90th birthday cake for none other than the Queen. At the time of her GBBO win, Nadiya was predicted to rake in £1m within 12 months, but almost three years later, she has far exceeded that sum thanks to her TV and book deals.

She lives with husband Abdal, 35, and children Musa, 10, Dawad, nine, and Maryam, four, in Milton Keynes after selling their Victorian property in Leeds to be closer to their families.

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No.25: Vicky Pattison, 25 – £2.2million

VICKY was one of the Geordie Shore originals, but she quit the show in 2014 after earning a reported £500k through endorsements, PAs and media deals.

She went on to star in a string of other programmes including Ex On The Beach, which earned her a reported £390k, and I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! – twice.

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Vicky Pattison has amassed her fortune through endorsements, PAs and media deals

She finished as Queen of the Jungle in the 15th series in 2015, then earned a reported £250k for taking part in the Aussie version in South Africa earlier this year.

Vicky, who co-hosted I’m A Celebrity: Extra Camp before Scarlett Moffatt got the gig last year, has also presented a showbiz gossip segment on This Morning and became a regular panellist on Loose Women in 2016. The same year she joined Channel 5’s It’s Not Me, It’s You panel show for a six-figure sum.

Vicky has secured her own TV shows too. MTV’s Judge Geordie saw her attempting to resolve family and friendship feuds, then on MTV’s Ex On The Beach: Body SOS, Vicky got people fit following her own weight loss.

Her fitness DVD 7 Day Slim earned her a reported £160k. She has written three novels, an autobiography called Nothing But The Truth: My Story as well as lifestyle book The Real Me.

Vicky Pattison has her own blood injected into her scalp to make her hair grow

Plus she’s partnered with a string of fashion and beauty brands including Ann Summers.

One of Vicky’s biggest money-spinners has been her Mini V Nutrition supplement range, which brought in revenue in excess of £1m in its first year. It’s no wonder Vic has had enough dough to plough into property – she owns a home in Essex and two in Newcastle.

No.24: Amy Childs, 28 – £2.5million

FORMER beautician Amy is best known for starring in the first two series of The Only Way Is Essex from 2010, then Celebrity Big Brother in 2011 and The Jump in 2014 (and, er, introducing us to the vajazzle), but the Essex girl is also responsible for launching a string of businesses.

Previously worth a stonking £5m, Amy’s five companies – Welljell Limited, Amy Childs Enterprises Ltd, Dolly Diamonds Ltd, Amy Property Company Ltd and Key Fashion Ltd – now show a collective loss of £268.5k.

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Amy Childs still has a substantial amount of wealth despite it being reduced by half

Another company, Celebrity Fashion Clothing Ltd, is also £27k under, while Amy Childs Beauty Salon, a business she co-owns with manager Claire Powell, is just in the black by £61.

Since the 2017 closure of Amy Childs Boutique, the store Amy set up after departing TOWIE, she sells her clothing through online fashion shop Sistaglam, which shows assets of just £730.

So where does this leave Amy, who became a mum for the first time in April 2017 and is due to give birth to her second any day? The good news is that she has proved a canny investor over the years and ploughed plenty of money into bricks and mortar.

So despite her £5m fortune having reduced almost by half, with multiple properties to her name, Amy’s wealth is still substantial.

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No.24: Charlotte Crosby, 28 – £2.5million

GEORDIE Shore’s most famous bed-wetter won Celebrity Big Brother in 2013 for a fee “approaching six figures”. Since departing the MTV show in 2016, she has also starred in Celebs Go Dating, Just Tattoo Of Us, Single AF and her own fly-on-the-wall series The Charlotte Show.

Charlotte has also undergone one of the most dramatic transformations in reality TV history. As well as a raft of cosmetic surgery, she has profited from shrinking her body from a size 16 to a 10.

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Charlotte Crosby’s fortune has been amassed through sponsorships, TV shows and her own companies

Her Charlotte’s 3 Minute Belly Blitz DVD – a collaboration with celebrity fitness guru Jayne Irvine – became platinum-selling and knocked Disney’s Frozen off the top of the DVD chart, earning her a rumoured £250k as part of a three-part deal. Charlotte’s 3 Minute Bum Blitz followed, then in April 2016 she published health and fitness book Live Fast, Lose Weight: Fat To Fit, which follows her bestselling autobiographies Me Me Me and Brand New Me. Her latest book, 30-Day Blitz, has been out since the start of the year.

Charlotte’s fashion and beauty sense has paid dividends, too. Her Nostalgia fashion line launched through UK retailer In The Style in 2014 continues to be a big seller. In 2017 she released a make-up line, Flique, which now includes a range of hair extensions in association with Easilocks, plus she has earned six figures as the face of Mark Hill hair products.

With an army of 6.4m Instagram followers and 13m fans across all her social channels, Charlotte can command £75k per sponsorship deal as one of a new breed of super-influencers. Such is her power to persuade, Jamie Oliver invited her to join him on a live Facebook stream to launch his Food Revolution.

Accounts for Charlotte’s CLC Enterprise company show current assets of £1.48m and although His And Hers Enterprise Limited – the merchandise company she owned with ex Stephen Bear – has fizzled out, she has another £1m tied into the custom-built mansion she moved into in 2016. It’s official: Charlotte’s star is still on the rise.

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No.22: Megan McKenna – £2.6million

Before joining TOWIE, feisty former Ex On The Beach star Megan was thought to be worth £285k – small change compared to her wealth since rising up the reality TV ranks.

Megs got paid a reported £30k for her appearance on Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, then became a household name on TOWIE, and has since braved it in a charity special of ITV celebrity strip show The Real Full Monty. But her business ventures are earning her the prettiest penny.

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Megan McKenna’s £2.6million wealth has been accumulated through her make-up line, music and television

When her Mouthy cosmetics line – the same moniker as her June 2018 bestselling autobiography – launched in 2016, her lip kits, priced at £29.95, sold out within days. Her Megan McKenna Bouncy Blow hair line retails through Easilocks at £59.99 and she’s also collaborated with clothing brand MissPap on a fashion collection.

With 2.1m Instagram followers, Megan can earn up to £8k a pop for recommending brands such as Hairburst through sponsored posts. Yet here’s the craziest thing – she’s also en route to country music stardom. She unsuccessfully auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 then The X Factor in 2013 and 2014.

But in a surprising twist, she knocked her idol Taylor Swift and Dua Lipa off the top of the iTunes chart last September when her debut song High Heeled Shoes was released.

Megan’s bid to break the lucrative country music market in Nashville by performing for record label bosses has been documented in ITVBe’s There’s Something About Megan, and this summer she performed at Cornbury Music Festival and opened for Michael Bublé on the main stage at Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time in Hyde Park Excitingly, Megan has been working on new material with Amy Wadge, the woman who co-wrote Ed Sheeran’s epic hit Thinking Out Loud.

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However, the year hasn’t been without disappointment. Megan split from boyfriend “Muggy” Mike Thalassitis and her restaurant McK Grill went into voluntary liquidation in July.

But, encouragingly, her company accounts show profits of £163.5k. Megan lives in an Essex mansion, which she bought in 2016.

No.21: Gemma Collins, 37 – £2.7million

THOSE nude selfies, the deadpan one liners, plunging through the BBC Radio 1 Teen Choice Awards stage, that orange prison jumpsuit… The GC has sure made us LOL over the years, but now Essex’s most famous diva is having the last laugh – all the way to the hole in the wall.

Still a regular in TOWIE, which she joined in 2011, Gem earns around £300 a day filming for ITVBe. She even landed her own one-off show that premiered on the channel last month.

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Gemma Collins earns around £300 a day for filming Towie but has recently landed her own spin-off show

Gemma has commanded bumper fees for appearing on TV shows over the years, including Splash!, This Morning, Celebs Go Dating and Celebrity Big Brother, which earned her £100k. After lasting just 72 hours in the I’m A Celebrity! jungle in 2014, she donated her £4,800 fee to starving children, and has appeared on this year’s Celebrity MasterChef.

But it’s Gemma new job with Netflix, working on Orange Is The New Black’s social media campaigns for an undisclosed sum, that is really inflating her star status.

When it comes to her businesses, Gemma Collins Boutique in Brentwood went into voluntary liquidation in July with a reported £80k debt, but all is definitely not lost.

Accounts for Gemma Collins Limited show profits of £56,337, and over the summer Gemma unveiled her new cash cow – a store in Marbella plus plans for another.

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Gemma’s plus-size fashion line is also for sale on her website as well as Evans, Simply Be and Boohoo, with whom she launched her second beach and swimwear collection in May.

She has released two books – her 2013 autobiography Basically: My Real Life As an Essex Girl sold just over 9,000 copies, while her most recent, The GC: How To Be A Diva went on sale in June. Four months before they split (again) in July, former car saleswoman Gemma announced on TOWIE that she and James Argent had splashed out on a Spanish holiday home (oops).

She also owns an apartment in Essex worth a quarter of a million. Gemma has confessed to making a sex tape that she’d happily sell for £1million.

Though with plenty of bucks in the bank, we don’t reckon she needs to do a Kim K just yet…

No.20: Chloe Khan, 27 – £3million

FEW could have imagined a life of riches for Chloe Khan after her disastrous appearance on The X Factor in 2010. Then known as Chloe Victoria, the mum-of-one’s audition was a shambles and she was later hit with drug-taking and escorting claims, which she denied.

Today, Chloe doesn’t just look totally different after thousands of pounds of cosmetic surgery, but her life is a world away the tough council estate upbringing she had in Wakefield, Yorkshire.

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Chloe Khan earns £40,000 a month by stripping off for explicit pictures on subscription-based website OnlyFans

Chloe earns around £40k a month stripping off for OnlyFans, an explicit app that allows fans to pay her £15.55 per month for exclusive content.

With 1.4m Instagram followers, she can earn up to £25k from social media collaborations with brands, and although Chloe has never revealed her exact five-figure fee for appearing on Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, insiders say it was “definitely generous for a model”.  Her income is bolstered by beauty and fashion brand endorsements, modelling assignments, personal appearances, photo syndication sales and the commission she earns from managing webcam models.

Chloe has stopped her own webcam work to concentrate on other commitments, but when she was running her webcam company Everyone’s Secret, she reportedly turned over £1million in 2016.

Chloe, who now lives in Dubai where there is no income tax, owns two properties in Leeds: a £600,000 four-bed house that she bought for her mum, plus a six-bedroom home nearby.

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No.19: Gaz Beadle, 30 – £3.1million

A GAZ Beadle business empire? Who would have thought Geordie Shore’s most notorious party animal (and his famous parsnip) had it in him? Former tiler Gary, who in 2014 admitted he “easily” makes £40-45k per month from doing £2,000-a-night PAs, has wisely invested every penny from his success.

He rose to fame with his role on the MTV show, which led to stints on TV programmes including Ex On The Beach, Drunk History, Big Brother’s Bit On The Side, Celebrity Wedding Planner, Britain’s Got More Talent and Hell’s Kitchen Australia.

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Gaz Beadle admitted back in 2014 that he ‘easily’ makes £45,000-a-month through PAs

Gary, who left Geordie Shore last August after six years, drives a £75k Range Rover SVR and says he now employs more than 60 staff to keep his various ventures spinning.

There’s the 11 Degrees clothing range he co-owns worth an impressive £1.2m, his x-rated emoji app brand Gazmoji, as well as Pure Beach Club, a nightspot on Greek party island Zante. Gary, from Hexham, Northumberland, has a further £682.5k in his company Gary Beadle Promotions Limited, and property investments including a three-storey home in the north of England with Emma McVey, his girlfriend and the mum of his eight-month-old son Chester, plus a house he bought for his father.

He’s also talked in the past of plans to snap up student accommodation in Liverpool to create Gaz-style party digs.

His face (and body) clearly sells. As well as his autobiography Gaz (And My Parsnip), he’s fronted a bestselling calendar and toured with The Dreamboys male stripper act.

Gaz Beadle shows off Emma McVey’s dressing room and stunning house

No.18: Lucy Mecklenburgh, 27 – £3.5million

BACK when Lucy earned just £50 a day on TOWIE in 2010, baring her soul and her frequently broken heart in the name of public entertainment, few could have imagined she would become a multimillionaire.

But at the tender age of 27, after reinventing herself as a fitness guru, Lucy is exactly that. In 2013, she launched Results With Lucy, an online nutrition and fitness programme, and it’s now the UK’s largest online fitness provider with 250,000 subscribers plus a new pre- and post-natal focus, Results With Bump. Lucy’s health bible Be Body Beautiful was released in 2015, the same year she was the face and body of Ellesse sportswear.

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Lucy Mecklenburgh has swapped making earnings through reality TV to becoming a fitness guru

Other brand collaborations include Barry M, Boots Botanics skincare, Pretty Little Thing, Boux Avenue, By Caprice lingerie and WMN protein supplement.

Happily, her first business venture Lucy’s Boutique is also still going strong. She runs two Essex-based stores in Brentwood and Southend-on-Sea plus an online shop and although company accounts show losses of over £90k, her website states that she’s soon set to launch a fashion collection that has been years in the making.

She competed in ITV’s Tumble in 2014, as well as Channel 5 cycling show Tour De Celeb in 2016. A year later she took part in Celebrity Island With Bear Grylls, where she met her actor boyfriend Ryan Thomas.

Lucy has over £1.5m tied up in three Essex properties – two rental flats and a three-bedroom house in Brentwood that she spent £100k on renovating, though she has revealed she saves 50% of her income. A proper Brentwood businesswoman.

Lucy Mecklenburgh shares her shopping and saving secrets with Fabulous Magazine

No.17: James Arthur, 30 – £4million

SINCE winning The X Factor in 2012 and achieving the biggest-selling single by an X Factor winner with his debut, a cover of Shontelle’s Impossible, James has enjoyed immense highs. But there have also been big lows. The star has battled anxiety and insecurities that he once described as “a bit of a prison sentence”.

In 2014, the singer was dropped by Syco Music after a string of controversies including using homophobic language in his rap lyrics. Fast-forward two years and after quitting the drugs he was using to self-medicate his anxiety, Sony Columbia Germany signed James and his return was so triumphant Syco speedily re-signed him.

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James Arthur’s career has seen many highs and lows after being dropped by Syco back in 2024

Single Say You Won’t Let Go rocketed to the top of the UK music charts in September 2016 and hit No.27 in the American Billboard Hot 100, while album Back From The Edge was also a UK chart-topper. He’s currently working on his third album with none other than Craig David.

It’s an extraordinary second chance in an industry that rarely gives them, and this time Middlesbrough-born James is doing things properly.

He’s invested in a London apartment, is contemplating buying a pad in LA and earlier this year thanked fans for lining his pockets sufficiently to buy homes for his mum and sisters.

Last year, after touring America, Japan, Europe and the UK, James admitted: “My bank statement’s looking pretty healthy at the moment.” He’d better get used to it!

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No.16: Rylan Clark-Neal, 29 – £4.5million

FROM X Factor flop to prime-time favourite, Rylan sure has pulled in the pennies since his memorable performances on the 2012 series, a year after he competed in Katie Price’s modelling show Signed By Katie Price.

His June 2016 memoir was a Sunday Times bestseller, but it’s Rylan’s TV presenting jobs that have made his finances sparkle as brightly as those infamous veneers.

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Rylan Clark-Neal span his fifteen minutes of fame on The X Factor into a wealthy career in TV presenting

Rylan netted a reported £250k for competing in the 2013’s Celebrity Big Brother (he won it, natch) and now hosts BB’s spin-off show Bit On The Side. He’s been a piece of the This Morning presenting furniture since 2014 when he was recruited as a showbiz reporter, and landed his own Channel 5 chat show Up Late With Rylan in 2015 – the year he reached the final of Celebrity MasterChef.

Then in 2016 Rylan came full circle, co-hosting The Xtra Factor alongside Matt Edmondson. More recently, he’s presented ITV shows The Wave and Babushka and was part of the BBC’s commentary team at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

Rylan’s company Rylan Ltd currently displays a net worth of just over £535k, but his money has sensibly also been ploughed into a £1m five-bed bungalow in Essex with its own BB-style “diary room” plus other savvy cash investments.

Despite admitting he’s prone to daft buys such as a £14k hedge that died after he forgot to water it, Rylan says he’s fastidious about putting aside money for his VAT and tax bills the moment he gets paid. Well done that man!

Rylan Clark-Neal reveals his husband’s unlikely pet name for him in a round of Quickfire

No.15: Collabro – £5million

MUSICAL theatre boy band Collabro – Jamie Lambert, 29, Michael Auger, 28, Matt Pagan, 28, Thomas Redgrave, 28 and Richard Hadfield, 24 – stormed to victory on Britain’s Got Talent in 2014 and promptly signed a record deal with Simon Cowell’s Syco.

Their debut album Stars, released in August 2014, shot to No.1 in the UK charts and their second offering, Act Two, debuted at No.2 in June 2015 following the announcement of a US record deal with Sony Masterworks worth £1m.

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Collabro stormed to victory on Britain’s Got Talent in 2014

Then came trouble. In 2016, Richard quit the group, later citing “conflicts” with his fellow band members, and Syco dropped them. But the remaining boys weren’t left high and dry for long.

They’ve since launched their own record label, Peak Productions, and are now managing themselves.

Live performances are where Collabro, who have all invested in property, have drummed up the majority of their income. They’ve spent four years touring the globe, particularly in America, Canada and Japan, where much of their fanbase is located.

Following the release of their third album Home, the boys are preparing for their sixth tour, taking in 51 UK dates in 2019 and finishing at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Britain’s Got Talent winners Collabro perform a cover of Little Mix’s Touch

No.14: Mark Wright, 31 – £5.2million

WHEN former-semi-pro footballer Mark quit TOWIE in 2011, he leapt straight into the I’m A Celeb! jungle and finished in second place with two ambitions – to “reach for the stars” and “be the next James Bond”. He’s certainly well on his way to achieving the former, if not the latter!

Mark’s been grafting to build his profile – modelling Littlewoods menswear in a £200k deal, reporting on Surprise Surprise and presenting Take Me Out: The Gossip and CBBC’s BAFTA-nominated show The Dengineers.

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Mark Wright has accumulated a £5.2million fortune through hard graft on television, presenting and property development

He enjoyed a five-year stint hosting Heart FM’s Club Classics and in 2014 competed in Strictly Come Dancing (though let’s not mention the flop ITV2 show Party Wright Around The World). And it looks as if his hard work is paying off. Now Mark is in Tinseltown co-hosting Extra, one of America’s longest-running entertainment news shows, alongside former X Factor USA host Mario Lopez.

When he’s not interviewing Hollywood’s biggest stars, Brentwood boy Mark manages his home-grown money-spinners – successful modelling agency The Wright Look Models, currently worth just over £1m, and his property business Chigwell Properties Ltd.

Although this is showing losses of £15k, Mark is set to earn a £3m profit from a huge property renovation in Chigwell after turning a seven-bedroomed property he bought three years ago for almost £2m into four three-storey terraced houses.

However, he borrowed cash from his actress wife Michelle Keegan (over £700k) and sister Jessica (£58k) to help fund the building work. Mark and Michelle also own a mansion worth £2m in Chigwell and there’s talk of an imminent property investment in LA.

Mark Wright shares videos of him sailing with wife Michelle Keegan on their holiday in Spain

No.13: Spencer Matthews, 30 – £5.9million

He might have made a stack of cash since finding fame on Made In Chelsea, but Spencer was already earning a reported £100k a year as a foreign exchange trader when he started filming the show, which he starred in until series 10.

The money has rolled in ever since – Spenny’s deal with Pan Macmillan in 2013 to publish his memoir Confessions Of A Chelsea Boy was rumoured to be worth £80k and over the years he has appeared on a variety of prime-time TV shows.

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Spencer Matthews earned a good living as a foreign exchange trader before joining Made In Chelsea

In 2012, he starred in The Bachelor UK and three years on he won a coveted spot on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!, but left after three days amid speculations of steroid use, apparently forfeiting his £50k fee. In 2017, Spencer redeemed himself by winning Channel 4’s The Jump and later that year was the standout star on E4’s Five Star Hotel. He’s most recently been whipping up a frenzy on Celebrity MasterChef.

Of course Eton-educated Spenny had something of a headstart in life – his father is landowner and entrepreneur David Matthews, who owns luxe hotel resort Eden Rock in St Barths, which was voted the No.1 hotel in the world by Conde Nast Traveller.

But Spencer doesn’t have access to the family fortune and insists he doesn’t rely on handouts. He commands in excess of £4k for a public appearance and runs high-end jewellery business Eden Rocks, which he set up with pal Neil Duttson. Producing jewellery for some of the world’s best hotels and bespoke engagement rings, the business is looking to turn over around £500k in its first year.

Spencer owns two properties – one in Chelsea and another in Battersea – totalling approximately £5m and on top of a designer watch collection, has money tied up in investments.

Spencer Matthews reveals he and Vogue Williams’ unborn son’s middle names on This Morning

He married TV presenter, DJ and model Vogue Williams, 32, in June at his family’s 30,000-acre Glen Affric Estate in Cannich, Scotland, four months after he proposed with a diamond engagement ring worth an estimated £150k.

The couple are expecting their first baby any day now.

No.12: Joey Essex, 28 – £6million

By his own admission, he can’t tell the time and thinks that a square has six sides, but Joey Essex is all brains when it comes to turning pennies into pounds.

After joining TOWIE in 2011, he built an empire through his fragrances, his range of D’Reem hair products that banked him a cool £500k, Being Reem, his Sunday Times bestselling autobiography, plus £10k-a-pop PAs.

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Joey Essex has made a great living for himself despite, by his own admission, not being able to tell the time or knowing his shapes

Since he departed the ITVBe show in 2013 – the year he and then-girlfriend Sam Faiers starred in a Volvic TV ad – Joey has raked it in with lucrative deals.

He earned £60k to brave the I’m A Celebrity! jungle in 2013, the same year he competed in ITV’s Splash!, then a year later landed his own two-series ITV2 show Educating Joey Essex. In 2015, he took home a cool £250k for The Jump, making him the highest-paid celeb on the show (he beat Mike Tindall in the final).

Joey, who’s recently appeared on Celebs Go Dating and Five Star Hotel, also tried his luck with his Fusey clothing range, but it was dissolved in 2016, paying him a profit of just £26k.

Accounts for Joey Essex Management Ltd show assets of £404.6k and he’s ploughed a further £1.6m into his gaff in Essex’s Chigwell, complete with pool and tennis court. Reem!

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No.12: Ollie Locke, 31 – £6million

OLLIE was the first person to come out as bisexual on British reality TV when he discussed his sexuality in front of the cameras on Made In Chelsea in 2011.

Then he published Laid In Chelsea: My Life Uncovered, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Ollie left the show in 2013, but made a return this year for series 15 as well this summer’s Croatia special.

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Ollie Locke’s recent business venture with gay dating app Chappy has been extremely successful

Since finding fame, Southampton-born Ollie has appeared on Britain’s Got More Talent, 2014’s Celebrity Big Brother (where he finished third), 8 Out Of 10 Cats, The Island With Bear Grylls and Celebs Go Dating. He also had a cameo in ITV2 comedy Plebs, playing Roman hipster Aloysius.

But his most shrewd career move was launching gay dating app Chappy with co-founders Jack Rogers and Maxim Cheremkhin. The free app, which launched last year and is backed by Whitney Wolfe, who famously left Tinder to set up Bumble, hit 1 million swipes after three weeks of its launch last year.

Although Ollie’s family are undoubtedly well-off – his grandfather’s family invented long-haul flight technology and his mother is a successful radio journalist – Ollie has accumulated impressive wealth of his own.

He sold his bachelor apartment in west London for just under £650k, and now lives in a property in the same area worth £1.5m.

Ollie Locke admits he once picked a poo out of a urinal on Celebrity Island

No.10: Marvin Humes, 33 – £7million

MARVIN’S path to fame began at the age of 14 in kids’ TV show K-Club, before he starred in BBC’s Holby City for three years. But it was his music career that set Marvin on the path to fortune. When his band JLS finished as runners-up in the 2008 series of The X Factor, they were promptly signed by Epic Records.

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Marvin Humes’ career has ranged from a boy band member, actor, radio host and TV presenter

Their first album sold over a million copies in the UK and the band, which comprised Oritsé Williams, 31, JB Gill, 31, and Aston Merrygold, 30, produced five albums, selling more than 10 million copies worldwide.

After the end of the Goodbye – The Greatest Hits Tour, the band split in 2013. Each member was worth around £6m and Marvin embarked on a second career in television.

He and wife Rochelle, 29, became regular holiday stand-ins for Holly and Phil on ITV’s This Morning and in January 2014, he began co-presenting The Voice UK with Emma Willis on BBC1.

Marvin has worked for Capital FM for five years and hosts a weeknight show plus Sunday’s Big Top 40.

He also plays DJ sets to crowds around the world. His dance music trio LuvBug, which he helped set up, were signed to Polydor Records in 2014 and the group shows assets of £110k. Marvelle Media, a company he owns with Rochelle, has a net worth of £386k.

Marvin Humes learns his black ancestor was a slave owner in Jamaica on Who Do You Think You Are?

As well as receiving royalties from JLS’s remaining business SloJo Entertainments Ltd, Marvin has a substantial pension.

He and Rochelle sold their home to Niall Horan for £2.2m and bought a £1.7m six-bedroom Grade II listed mansion in 2015. The couple spent a year renovating it before moving in with daughters Alaia-Mai, five, and Valentina, 18 months.

No.9: Sam Faiers, 27 – £7.5million

Sam has been hard at it since leaving TOWIE in 2014 and is now ITV’s highest-paid reality TV star after negotiating a whopping £350k deal for another three series of her hit show The Mummy Diaries, which launched in 2016.

Documenting her journey as a new parent to Paul, two, and Rosie, 10 months, the show follows her first programme The Baby Diaries and is the highest-rated show in ITVBe’s history, meaning it beats TOWIE.

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Sam Faiers’ hit show The Mummy Diaries has earned her a whopping £350,000 for a third series

Now Sam’s fame is spreading Stateside. The rights to series one of The Mummy Diaries has been snapped up by Netflix for a reported £150k and Sam’s Dreamiie pushchair and baby range is also selling like hot cakes in US superstore Walmart, as well as Mothercare in the UK.

She has three books to her name including her tell-all memoir Secrets And Lies, which earned her an impressive £750k.

Her two fragrances have been even more successful than her TV ventures, netting her in excess of seven figures. La Bella outsold perfumes by 1D and Britney Spears, and a third is due for release next year.

On top of an eyelash range, self-tan collection and a haircare tool brand sold at Argos and Very, where her eponymous clothing line is also stocked, Sam run Minnie’s Boutique – three stores and an online shop – with her sister Billie, 28. All Bits London, Sam’s new fashion line with husband Paul Knightley, is expected to turn over £1.8million this year.

Sam Faiers talks Paul proposing, wedding dreams and workout plans

Ever the entrepreneur, Sam has more projects in the pipeline. Home furnishings and accessories is her next venture and ahead of the launch of her new range in 2019, she’s received a reported £500k advance.

Sam’s £150k fee for starring in Celebrity Big Brother in 2014 already seems like small change when you take into account her multiple buy-to-let properties in Essex and London plus her new £2.9m family home in Hertfordshire. Where Sam’s concerned, the only way is… richer!

No.8: Olly Murs, 34 – £9million

PRIOR to auditioning for The X Factor, Olly worked in a jam factory and had racked up debts of £4k. But finishing second in the sixth series of the talent show in 2009 behind Joe McElderry changed his life – and credit rating – for good.

Singer-songwriter Olly entered the charts at No.1 in August 2010 and his self-titled debut album reached No.2 three months later. He’s since released four further hit records and is currently working on a sixth.

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Olly Murs revealed he plays himself a salary as a plumber to keep himself grounded

With his cheeky-chappy personality and standout talent, television was an obvious route for Olly. In 2011 and 2012, he co-presented The Xtra Factor with Caroline Flack for a reported £250k per year.

He climbed the ladder in 2015, filling Dermot O’Leary’s shoes as the main show’s host on a £500k pay packet, then jumped ship in 2017 to join The Voice UK as a mentor alongside will.i.am, Tom Jones and Jennifer Hudson. He is expected to return for a second series in January.

Inspired by his granddad, who told him to “get some money behind you, get on the property ladder”, Olly is doing just that. In 2011, he bought a four-bedroom house near his family home in Chelmsford, Essex, while he also owns an investment flat in Chelsea. Together his properties are thought to be worth in excess of £1.5m.

In 2016 Olly revealed he pays himself the same salary as a plumber in order to keep himself grounded and in anticipation of any future career catastrophes. His prudence has paid off. Olly’s company Icydk Ltd boasts assets worth an eye-popping £7.3m.

Olly Murs cries after meeting inspirational youngster during Soccer Aid

No.7: Susan Boyle, 57 – £26million

SUSAN didn’t win Britain’s Got Talent when she competed in 2009 – but that hasn’t stopped her becoming one of the show’s most famous and wealthiest contestants. She has since released seven albums, selling more than 22 million globally.

Her first, I Dreamed A Dream, was the fastest-selling UK album of all time and shifted more than 700,000 copies in the US in its first week. A musical about Susan’s life, also called I Dreamed A Dream, toured the UK and Ireland in 2012 and she performed on sell-out tours in both the UK and America in 2014.

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Susan Boyle’s debut album was the fasting selling album of all time

She made a cameo appearance in 2016’s Zoolander 2, though had her first acting cameo in 2013, playing the wife of a churchwarden in The Christmas Candle. Earlier this year, Susan returned to the stage for a charity concert in Liverpool in aid of Alder Hey Hospital, and her eighth studio album will be released soon.

Susan still lives in her ex-council house in her Scottish hometown of Blackburn, West Lothian – her first purchase after finding fame – and has since bought two other properties in the area. She continues to live relatively frugally, previously admitting that the most expensive items she owns are a £300 faux-fur coat and a bottle of Chanel No.5.

Very generous with her fortune, she donates to several charities and has helped family members by paying off mortgages, household bills and debts.

In 2012 Susan’s wealth was reported to be £22million and as she’s barely spent anything since, her bank balance will have accumulated a staggering £700k interest per year on a basic interest rate, pushing her worth up to just over £26million.

Susan Boyle auditions for Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 with ‘I Dreamed a Dream’

No.6: Zayn Malik, 25 – £36million

AFTER Zayn Malik (or Zayn as he’s now known) shocked the world by quitting One Direction in 2015 – a decision estimated to have cost him £5m in lost tour earnings (ouch!) – he quickly proved he knew what he was doing.

Since signing a big-money deal with RCA Records in 2015, Zayn has flown out of the solo starting blocks. His 2016 debut single Pillowtalk topped the UK charts and entered the US Billboard Hot 100 at No.1, hitting 80 million streams globally.

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Zayn Malik’s solo career was a huge success with debut single Pillowtalk

When his first album Mind Of Mine dropped in 2016, Zayn made history by becoming the first male UK solo artist to debut at No.1 on both the US Billboard 200 and the Official UK Albums Chart. His second solo album Dusk Till Dawn is expected imminently.

But here’s the genius small print: in electing to launch his own publishing company Drop-Zed in 2014, Zayn retains ownership of copyright to all his songs and it’s paying him handsomely. Current assets exceed £6.4m and a further £230k are in his two other companies.

Away from the mic, Zayn landed a cameo in this summer’s Ocean’s 8 film and now boasts haute fashion elite status after not only collaborating with shoe designer Giuseppe Zanotti, but also joining forces with Donatella Versace to design a capsule collection for the Italian fashion house’s younger, more accessible Versace Versus range – a deal said to be worth millions. The Zayn X Versus fashion line dropped in May 2017 with Zayn modelling in campaign shots produced by girlfriend Gigi Hadid.

In the wake of their temporary break-up in March 2018, Zayn reportedly spent £7.2m on a bachelor pad in Manhattan to sit alongside his £4m north London mansion and £280k four-bedroom house in his hometown of Bradford where his mum Trisha lives. He famously splashed out on a £32k on Bentley Continental, despite not knowing how to drive.

Zayn Malik makes a shady deal in brand new music video

No.5: Little Mix – £40million

CREATED in 2011 after auditioning as solo artists on series eight of The X Factor, Little Mix, AKA Jesy Nelson, 27, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, 26, Jade Thirlwall, 25, and Perrie Edwards, 25, went on to win the show. The first group in the show’s history to bag the top spot, they then signed to Simon Cowell’s Syco Music label.

Three years ago they were worth £3million each, but within the last 12 months their wealth has grown by 67%, with good reason. Their four albums have gone platinum in the UK, while their single Shout Out To My Ex won the girls Best British Single at the 2017 Brit Awards.

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Little Mix’s career seems to be getting bigger and bigger with record sales, sponsorships and larger tours

Their third album, Glory Days, was one of 2017’s biggest-selling records, shifting more than 96,000 copies in the first week. Last year, the band’s Glory Days tour took £31m, not including income from supporting Ariana Grande on the North American leg of her Dangerous Woman tour, which saw them perform 30 shows.

In their first year alone the girls made £3.5m in music and merchandise sales, including Little Mix headphones, dolls, puzzles, accessories and games, plus hugely successful perfumes.

There have also been brand endorsement deals aplenty, from a kids’ clothing range in Primark to a range of Elegant Touch nails and a collaboration with Schwarzkopf Live Colour XXL to promote their selection of hair dyes.

Then in 2016 they became global ambassadors of sportswear company USA Pro. There’s now even talk of a Little Mix fashion exhibition by the same team who curated this summer’s SpiceUp London expo about the Spice Girls. Little Mix, you’re unstoppable!

Little Mix’s Leigh Anne Pinnock sparks engagement rumours after video emerges of boyfriend’s family making an emotional speech

No.4: Louis Tomlinson, 26 – £42million

LOUIS’ solo career had a tough start following 1D’s hiatus. His debut solo single Just Hold On with EDM star Steve Aoki was released just days after his mother Johannah passed away in 2016. But following an emotional performance on the X Factor series finale, the track hit No.2 in the UK charts.

The following year he reached No.8 with Back To You, and although track Miss You failed to light up the Top 40, Louis bagged top male artist at the 2018 Teen Choice Awards, so it’s clear his fans are still behind him, and his debut album is expected later this year.

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Louis’ earnings range from his music, judging role on The X Factor and investment

He launched his record label Triple Strings Ltd in 2015 and has since signed 2014 X Factor finalist Jack Walton plus girl group Did Alice Call.

But it’s his foray into prime-time TV that’s really racking up the cash. Simon Cowell has reportedly shelled out £4m for Louis to join the judging panel of this series of The X Factor.

And Louis is investing his cash wisely. He bought his eight-bed home in LA’s Calabasas for £7.8m in 2015 and put it on the market this year for over £10m.

He also owns a £5.7m house in the Hollywood Hills and a £2.25m London home. Two-year-old son Freddie looks set to inherit a substantial nest egg.

X Factor judge Louis Tomlinson calls EVERY act ‘lads’ leaving viewers in hysterics

No.3: Niall Horan, 24 – £46million

NIALL wasted no time starting over after 1D called a halt to proceedings in 2016. The County-Westmeath-born singer cut ties with Simon Cowell’s Syco label and signed a deal thought to be worth in excess of £4m with Capitol Records US.

Since then he’s released four singles, and debut album Flicker topped the American chart after its release in 2017 and reached No.3 in the UK. Niall is currently on an 80-date world tour, which should earn him close to £9m.

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Niall Horan’s debut album Flicker topped the US charts after its release in 2017

When 1D parted ways, a share repurchasing deal for their company delivered a £70m payment between the band, on top of the £38m received in previous years.

The Irishman has ploughed his cash into companies that collectively boast assets of £1.8m.

Niall is a shrewd property investor.

As well as London and LA pads, he owns a glass-fronted apartment in the capital with its own penthouse cocktail bar. Standard.

Niall Horan dedicates his Mexican show to last year’s earthquake victims as part of his world tour

No.2: Liam Payne, 25 – £54million

WHILE Liam may be a fast mover in his personal life, going public with new beau Cairo Dwek just six weeks after splitting from Cheryl, in business he prefers the slow game. He was the last member of One Direction to launch a solo career, which he did in May 2017 with the release of racy Strip That Down, co-written by Ed Sheeran, Steve Mac and Quavo.

His patience paid off when the single shifted 5 million copies globally and was streamed more than 70 million times. Since then, Liam’s released three more tracks, including For You with Rita Ora from the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack, and his album is due to drop next month.

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Liam Payne’s successful musical releases and publishing company has made his £54million fortune

Liam set up his publishing company Hampton Music Limited in 2014, almost two years before 1D went on their break, and began producing material for other artists including Cheryl, which made him the band’s top earner that year.

He and Louis were also directors of One Mode Productions Limited, which signed Australian band 5 Seconds Of Summer, from 2012 until 2015.

He owns a £9.8m pad in California, which he snapped up in late 2015 for £7.6m, and has recently started renting out for a staggering £46k per month. Since moving out of the £5m Surrey home where Cheryl continues to live with their son Bear, Liam has been renting a London bachelor pad and has reportedly appointed divorce lawyers to protect his fortune.

Over the years Liam has made sure to spread the love. While he splurged on a £260k Lamborghini, he also bought his parents a £400k Wolverhampton home and a £20k BMW. One Christmas he even blew £3.5k on festive decorations – what a star!

Liam Payne celebrates birthday in Bali as he spends it away from Bear

No.1: Harry Styles, 24 – £56million

THE One Direction boys dominate our Top 10, but it’s Mr Styles who tops our rich list, thanks to the £62m three-album solo deal that he signed with Sony Music UK’s Columbia Records in 2016.

Harry has wisely set up his own record company, Erskine Records, where the rights to all his solo work are likely to revert after his Columbia licence deal ends. What’s more, through his publishing company HSA Publishing, which boasts assets of £1.58m, Hazza retains the copyright to all his self-penned music, which means even more cash.

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Harry Styles has topped our Reality TV Rich List after a hugely successful feature film, massive debut album and his own publishing company

And of course he’s sitting pretty on the money he earned from his 1D days: £38m to be precise. So how has he done it? In short, with the support of his uber-loyal fans. His first single Sign Of The Times shot to No.1 in April 2017, as did his self-titled debut album, which shifted more than 1 million copies to become the ninth-biggest-selling album in the world in 2017.

Harry recently wrapped an 89-date global solo tour, racking up in excess of £48m from more than 800,000 tickets, and squeezed in a live performance at the Victoria’s Secret show in China. And it’s not just singing that’s stacking the cash.

He’s the star of Gucci’s new men’s campaign and is also the exec producer on CBS’s Happy Together, a sitcom inspired by the time he spent living in producer Ben Winston’s attic after appearing on The X Factor. He’s also ventured in front of the camera for Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, which went on to win three Oscars.

Harry hasn’t held back from spending his fortune. He owns a £3.4m pad in north London, a £6m pied-à-terre in New York complete with 71ft pool, and a West Hollywood mansion – which went on the market for £6.5m and should earn him a tidy £1.3m profit on completion.

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He’s got a fleet of flash motors, including a £143k Ferrari, a £100k classic mid-90s Porsche 911, a £118k E-Type Jaguar, a £105k Mercedes-Benz plus a Ford Capri, an Audi R8, and a Range Rover Sport.

Just when you thought Harry couldn’t bring home any more bacon, get this – he still receives regular royalties from 1D’s joint company PPM Music Limited, which has a net worth of £2m. Er, Harry, can you lend us a tenner?

Heartthrob Harry Styles poses in chip shop for bizarre Gucci shoot holding a chicken

MEET THE REALITY TV STARS SNAPPING AT THEIR HEELS…

They may not have enough dosh to make our list this year, but watch out for them in 2019.

Dani Dyer, 22, Love Island

Mike Thalassitis, 25, Love Island

Gabby Allen, 26, Love Island

Tokio Myers, 34, BGT

Pete Wicks, 29, TOWIE

Jack Fincham, 26, Love Island

Megan Barton-Hanson, 24, Love Island

Chloe Lewis, 27, TOWIE

Liam Charles, 20, GBBO

Rak-Su, 25-27, The X Factor

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Miss R electric car could be FASTER that Tesla’s Roadster

When Elon Musk revealed the world's fastest production car last week, it wowed the automotive world and was hailed as the world's fastest production vehicle.

But a Taiwanese firm has revealed a new car that could beat it – just.

The 'Miss R' 1,000-kilowatt (1,341-hp) electric on-road/off-road supercar will be able to accelerate from 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in just 1.8 seconds – a tenth of a second faster than Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster.

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The Miss R will cost $1m, and only 20 will be made. However, it will be able to accelerate from 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in just 1.8 seconds – a tenth of a second faster than Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster.

The car is powered by 4 independent 350V motors, and has a max speed of over 270km/h

MISS R SPECS

Powered by 4 independent 350V motors

Projected performance of 0-100km/h in 1.8 seconds

0-200km/h in 5.1 seconds

Max speed of over 270km/h

Battery swap system that allows the entire battery enclosure to be exchanged within 5 minutes

However, the firm behind it, Xing Mobility says production will be limited to 20 – and each car will cost $1m.

The firm hopes the car will prove the performance and reliability of its electric powertrain systems.

'While the Tesla Roadster aims to achieve an experience based on existing sportscar ideals on the road, XING Mobility designed Miss R with an entirely different aspiration: reaching unthinkable performance capabilities on-road, on-track and off-road, and achieving the kind of versatile driving experience that has never been available to drivers before,' the firm said.

'Miss R is the embodiment of the paradigm shift of EVs surpassing traditional combustion-engine cars in both performance and capability, ' said XING Mobility's Co-founder and CEO, Royce YC Hong.

'The core idea behind the prototype is to achieve game-changing performance levels and driving experiences that are otherwise impossible to achieve in a gasoline-powered vehicle.'

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The firm says the secret behind its performance is a patented immersion cooling technology.

The 'XING Battery System' consists of stackable, LEGO-like battery modules which house 42 lithium-ion cells, all of which sit directly in a special liquid.

Called 3M Novec 7200 Engineered Fluid, it long been used for solvent cleaning, heat transfer applications, fire suppression and supercomputer cooling.

XING Mobility says it has adapted the liquid to keep its battery packs cool.

The firm has already begun testing a prototype of the car, and says the next step will be high-speed testing the vehicle at full power, with a view of revealing the completed prototype in late 2018.

Rather than chase a fast recharging time, Xing Mobility has taken an alternative approach by adopting a highly efficient and lightweight battery swap system that allows the entire battery enclosure to be exchanged within 5 minutes.

'The use of Novec Engineered Fluids to immersion cool EV batteries is a breakthrough application, addressing the critical performance needs of the market in a new and disruptive way,' said Michael Garceau, who leads 3M's market development effort for EV battery immersion cooling.

Miss R's battery pack can produce 1 Megawatt of power with 98 modules holding 4,116 cells,between 30-50% less than that of other electric supercars currently being produced.

Rather than chase a fast recharging time, Xing Mobility has taken an alternative approach by adopting a highly efficient and lightweight battery swap system that allows the entire battery enclosure to be exchanged within 5 minutes.

Miss R's battery pack can produce 1 Megawatt of power with 98 modules holding 4,116 cells,between 30-50% less than that of other electric supercars currently being produced

The firm says the next step will be high-speed testing the vehicle at full power, with a view of revealing the completed prototype in late 2018.

The company will build just 20 of the limited-production cars, which they intend to make available for purchase in 2019 with a price starting at $1million USD.

Alongside their aims to put an incredibly capable supercar into production, XING Mobility is already working with commercial and industrial vehicle makers from around the world to apply the 'XING Battery System' in their respective city buses, ride-sharing scooters, construction vehicles and special-purpose boats.

Hitting 200 km/h (124 mph) will take 5.1 seconds, how long it takes last year's Maserati Quattroporte to reach half that speed, and Miss R is expected to have a top speed between 270 and 300 km/h (168 and 186 mph)

Tesla unveiled the world's fastest production electric car last week. The $200,000 (£151,000) sports car (pictured) can seat four and travel 620 miles (1000 km) on a single charge, a new record for an electric vehicle. Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk has now hinted the vehicle will come with a 'special option' package

TESLA UPGRADES

Tesla is known for releasing over-the-air software updates that raise the performance of its cars.

The Tesla Model S received a 'P85D' update in late 2014 with an 'insane mode' that let it go 0-60 mph (0-100 kph) in 3.2 seconds.

The following year, Tesla released the Model S P90D upgrade, which came with a 'ludicrous mode' that cut this time down to 2.8 seconds.

Since then the firm has shaved this down even further, with the current Model SP100D making the distance in just 2.3 seconds, Tesla claims.

Last week Elon Musk announced Tesla's new Roadster was built with a special mode that lets the 250 mph (400 kph) electric car go even faster.

Tesla unveiled its brand new $200,000 (£151,000) sports car – the fastest production car ever made – at an event in Los Angeles last week, claiming it will go from 0 to 6 mph (0 to 100kph) in 1.9 seconds.

Just two days later, Musk hinted that the vehicle, which is set for release in 2020, would come with a special upgrade package that 'takes it to the next level'.

He joked that the car will feature 'rocket tech' that will accelerate the vehicle at such speeds it may be able to 'fly short hops'.

Referring to the car's reveal last Friday, the billionaire wrote on Twitter: 'Should clarify that this is the base model performance. There will be a special option package that takes it to the next level.

'Not saying the next gen Roadster special upgrade package *will* definitely enable it to fly short hops, but maybe…

'Certainly possible. Just a question of safety. Rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities.'

Tesla has not yet released official details of the package, and is yet to respond to MailOnline's request for comment.

The firm is known for releasing over-the-air software updates that raise the performance of its cars.

The Tesla Model S received a 'P85D' update in late 2014 with an 'insane mode' that let it go 0-60 mph (0-100 kph) in 3.2 seconds.

Tesla unveiled the fastest electric production car ever made last week, with chief executive Elon Musk bragging that he wants to 'give a hardcore smackdown' to gasoline vehicles. Pictured is the new Roadster and its 'base model' stats

The following year, Tesla released the Model S P90D upgrade, which came with a 'ludicrous mode' that cut this time down to 2.8 seconds.

Since then the firm has shaved this down even further, with the current Model SP100D making the distance in just 2.3 seconds, Tesla claims.

When Tesla unveiled its new Roadster last week, Musk bragged that he wanted to 'give a hardcore smackdown' to gasoline vehicles.

A shiny red Roadster surprised everyone when it emerged from the trailer of the company's other big reveal – an electric truck named the Tesla Semi – during a presentation at an airport in Los Angeles last week.

The sports car – an updated version of Tesla's first production vehicle – can seat four and travel 620 miles (1000 km) on a single charge, a new record for an electric vehicle.

The car – which also features a removable glass roof – can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour (0 to 100 km/h) in 1.9 seconds and has a top speed over 250mph (400 kph).

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This would make it the quickest electric car ever sold to the public, beating the Chinese-made NIO EP9 all-electric hypercar, which has a top speed of 194 mph (310 kph).

It also makes the vehicle the fastest production car ever, with a 0 to 60 miles per hour acceleration quicker than any non-electric vehicles, including the record-breaking Bugatti Chiron, released this year.

The Chiron manages the distance in 2.3 seconds, 0.4 seconds slower than the Roadster, largely because combustion engines cannot produce immediate torque, while electric engines can.

The vehicle has three motors, one in the front and two in the rear, all-wheel drive and torque steering.

The car – which features a removable glass roof – can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 1.9 seconds. It travels 0 to 100 miles per hour in 4.2 seconds

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TESLA ROADSTER VS THE NIO EP9 HYPERCAR

With a top speed of over 250 mph (400 kph), Tesla's new Roadster will challenge the Chinese NIO EP9 all-electric hypercar for the spot of fastest electric car in the world.

The $1.5 million (£1.2 million) hypercar, built by a small electric car start-up based in Shanghai, can hit speeds of 194 mph (310 kph) and goes from 0 to 60 miles per hour (0 to 100 km/h) in 2.7 seconds.

Tesla's Roadster, which has three electric engines to the EP9's four, will go from 0 to 60 mph (0 to 100 km/h) in 1.9 seconds.

The two-seat EP9 can be recharged from flat in as little as 45 minutes, and offers a range of more than 265 miles (425 km).

By comparison, Tesla's Roadster will cost $200,000 (£151,000), can seat four and will travel 620 miles (1000 km) on a single charge.

The EP9 is designed for track racing, and so far maker NIO has only put it through a small production run, with six early investors receiving a vehicle this year.

The firm has confirmed it will produce a further 10 cars for the general public at a later date.

With a top speed of over 250 mph (400 kph), Tesla's new Roadster will challenge the Chinese NIO EP9 all-electric hypercar (pictured) for the spot of fastest electric car in the world

The showmanship wowed the crowd although some analysts´ heads started throbbing at the variety of new projects launched as the company is struggling to produce the more affordable sedan upon which its future depends

Powering the car is a 200 kilowatt hour battery pack. Pictured: The futuristic steering wheel for the vehicle. Musk claims drivers will be able to drive from LA to San Francisco, and back, at highway speed without recharging

'Driving a gasoline sports car is going to feel like a steam engine with a side of quiche.'

The first 1,000 cars will cost $250,000 (£190,000) each, paid in full up front, with later models starting at $200,000 (£150,000).

It will be available to buy in 2020.

Powering the car is a 200 kilowatt hour battery pack.

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JEREMIE FRIMPONG is on the brink of his first winner’s medal – before he has even gone into double figures in first-team appearances.

The 18-year-old Amsterdam-born right-back could get the nod from boss Neil Lennon to face Steven Gerrard’s Ibrox side in the Betfred League Cup Final on Sunday, December 8 after the news Hatem Abd Elhamed is likely to be ruled out for the rest of the year.

The Israeli international defender limped off with a groin problem in the Hoops’ historic 2-1 Europa League Group E victory over Lazio in Rome last week – the club’s first-ever win on Italian soil in 13 attempts.

It was first expected the £1.6million summer recruit from Hapoel Be’er Sheva would miss around three to four weeks, but his agent Dudu Dahan revealed he will be on the sidelines for a longer period, possibly six weeks which will virtually take him up to the turn of the year.

OUT…unfortunate Hatem Abd Elhamed will miss the Betfred League Cup Final.

That will open the door for Frimpong who has been impressive in his five games for the club since arriving from Manchester City on transfer deadline day in a deal that will rise to £1million.

The adventurous kid, already a favourite with the champions’ followers, made his debut in the 5-0 triumph over Championship Partick Thistle in the Betfred quarter-final in September.

The Dutch Under-20 ace also played in the 6-0 rout of Ross County and scored his first goal for the team in the 4-0 win over Aberdeen at Pittodrie.

He kept his place for the 5-2 success over Hibs in the semi-final and was in place again in the 2-0 victory over Motherwell at the weekend.

It looks it will be a straight choice between Frimpong and on-loan Austrian international Mortiz Bauer for the No.2 position against the Govan outfit at Hampden.

Before that meeting, though, the Hoops have Premiership confrontations with Livingston, Ross County and Hamilton Accies before Lennon can turn his attention to attempting to lift the club’s TENTH successive piece of domestic silverware.

Bauer will almost certainly play in the Europa League game against Rennes at Parkhead on November 28 with Frimpong missing out as he wasn’t included in the manager’s original European squad.

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Cassie Sainsbury waves in Colombian jail: $1MILLION TV deal

Cassie Sainsbury has broken her silence and asked for ‘immediate freedom’ from the notorious Colombian prison she is holed up in.

The 22-year-old accused cocaine smuggler from Adelaide flashed a grin and waved to cameras through prison bars as police carried out a drug raid on her wing.

Joined by another female inmate – believed to be another English speaking accused drug trafficker – Cassie soaked up the limelight as she pointed her finger at TV crews, at one point bursting into laughter as reporters asked her if she was okay.

Moments later friend held out a sign reading: ‘Cassandra Pide Libertad Immediata’, which translates in English to: ‘Cassandra asks for freedom immediately’.

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Sainsbury is due to be visited in the coming days by her mother Lisa Evans and sister Khala Sainsbury, who reportedly negotiated a $1 million TV deal with 60 Minutes.

The former personal trainer is staying in El Buen Pastor’s Patio Five wing – nicknamed ‘narco patio’ –  and faces up to 25 years in jail if found guilty of smuggling drugs.

She was seen wearing a different outfit to the grey tracksuit pants and plain shirt she was in when authorities nabbed her trying to fly out of Bogota airport back home.

The young blonde woman was arrested on April 11 when 5.8kg of cocaine was found in her suitcase concealed in the packaging of 15 headphone boxes.

She has maintained her innocence and claims to have been set up by a man who duped her into buying the electronics at a discount price for her bridal party.

Her family has reportedly negotiated a $1 million TV deal with 60 Minutes, just days after Cassie pleaded for taxpayer funds to help pay her legal costs.

The family reportedly wanted $1 million to their story, but settled for an ‘eye-watering’ sum, the Daily Telegraph reported.

While it has not been revealed how much the show paid for the interview, 60 Minutes paid disgraced health blogger Belle Gibson $75,000 for an interview in 2016.

The show also paid a substantial sum to Gold Coast man Gable Tostee, who was cleared of murdering his Tinder date.

The family has pleaded with the public to help fund Miss Sainsbury’s legal costs from the beginning, first appealing for money on a Go Fund Me page following her arrest.

News of the deal comes as the first photo of Miss Sainsbury from inside her Colombia prison surfaces.

Wearing a bright-coloured floral print dress, the Adelaide woman is seen smiling in the photo alongside another prison inmate.

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Miss Sainsbury reportedly refused to leave her cell following her arrest, but is slowly adjusting to life inside the overcrowded Bogota prison, Nine News reports.

Taxpayers could end up paying for the legal aid of accused cocaine smuggler Cassandra Sainsbury under a government scheme designed to help Australians facing serious criminal charges overseas.

The 22-year-old’s Bogota lawyer confirmed he and Miss Sainsbury filled out a form to apply for financial assistance as her legal costs mounted, News Corp reports.

‘They are looking for state funds in Australia for the legal costs, so she was signing a form for that, to put before the government there,’ Colombian attorney Orlando Herron said.

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