Scope out the new artwork for Radiance, the latest fragrance from living legend Britney Spears.
“Just got the imaging for my new fragrance Radiance and thought I’d share it with all my tweethearts,†the 28-year-old singer wrote on her Twitter page.
This is Britney’s NINTH fragrance already. Can you believe it!?
Radiance, a sparkling blend of wild berries dewy petals, will hit stores September 2010.
They’ve won Super Bowls, Grammys, and MVP awards, but perhaps no feat is more impressive than collecting jaw-dropping paychecks in an otherwise dour economy.
Thanks to a lucrative array of athletic contracts, concert tours, and endorsement deals, the 12 best-paid celebrities under 30 collectively pulled in $573.5 million between June 1, 2009, and June 1, 2010. At an average age of 24, these wealthy 20-somethings have out-earned their rivals with a mix of talent and business savvy. Whether they’ve catapulted to fame on the athletic field or the Billboard charts, they’ve shrewdly parlayed their bold-face names into multimillion-dollar brands complete with endorsement deals, fashion lines, and top-selling fragrances.
Missing from a list that’s primarily populated by top-notch athletes (No. 6 LeBron James) and touring musicians (No. 11 The Jonas Brothers) is Hollywood’s TV and movie star set. The reality: Though hit film franchises like “Twilight” and “Harry Potter” have raked in more than $1 billion at the global box office, their stars see only a sliver of those totals. Instead, the estimated sums Kristen Stewart, Rob Pattinson, and Daniel Radcliffe pulled down — $12 million, $17 million, and $25 million, respectively — were not enough to rank among the mid-to-high eight-figure earners on the list.
Topping our annual tally for the second year in a row is Beyonce Knowles, the 28-year-old songstress who raked in an estimated $87 million during the 12-month period. As one half of hip-hop’s most powerful couple, Beyonce’s earning-power is indicative of both her talent and her willingness to diversify, a must to make this top-earners list. In addition to endorsement deals with companies from Nintendo to L’Oreal and her ever-expanding Dereon fashion line, the 90-plus stops on her world tour grossed $86 million.
In at No. 2 is Britney Spears, whose $64 million haul will come as a surprise to many given her erratic behavior in years past. But rather than swing umbrellas or check into rehab, Spears spent last year logging the fifth highest-grossing tour in the world, bringing in $130 million in gross box office receipts over 90-pus nights. Making still more money for the tabloid staple are the pricey deals she’s cut with Candies and Elizabeth Arden fragrances.
Lady Gaga rounds out the top three, pulling down an estimated $62 million — enough to earn her a debut spot at No. 4 on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list — over the year-long period. A younger generation’s Madonna, her success can be attributed to a cocktail of theatricality, talent, and an edgy yet business-friendly image. On top of 106 tour dates that grossed $95 million and a music video for “Telephone” that’s been viewed some 90 million times, the 24-year-old woman born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta has teamed up with a slew of corporate sponsors from Miracle Whip and Virgin Mobile to Monster Cable and Viva Glam. Over at camera company Polaroid, she’s been granted a creative director title.
Teen queen Miley Cyrus registers at No. 4, thanks to the estimated $48 million she earned during the year. Though it’s her Disney alter-ego Hannah Montana that’s responsible for her rise to fame, Cyrus banked the bulk of the year’s income on tour as herself. In addition to heavy radio play and her roles in both “The Last Song” and recently wrapped “Hannah Montana,” the 17-year-old averaged a nightly gross box office of $1.2 million across 57 tour dates. The latest, a Can’t Be Tamed studio album and music video featuring a scantily-clad Cyrus, turned heads and a profit.
Trading on a more G-rated image, Taylor Swift lands at No. 5 with an estimated $45 million for the year. At 20, the country darling is among a shrinking subset of artists who can still convince millions of fans to legally buy her music. Proof: Her Fearless album topped the 2009 sales charts, moving 3.2 million units, while fans downloaded another 12 million tracks from iTunes and Amazon. Still more impressive, she was the most-played radio artist of the year and her 100 live dates during the 12-month period grossed $54 million. Padding her pocketbook are juicy endorsement deals with companies like Sony and CoverGirl.
The Oscar-winning Juno screenwriter, 32, and her husband Dan Maurio welcomed their first son Tuesday, she announced on Twitter.
“We had our boy early this morning! Marcello Daniel Maurio, 7lbs, 2 oz, lightly mustachioed,” she wrote.
Cody (real name: Brook Busey) announced she was expecting on Twitter as well.
“Thanks for the congrats on my fetus,” she wrote in April. “No secrets here. Just thought it would be fun to see how big I could get before someone noticed.”
Cody, who also wrote the box office dud Jennifer’s Body, created the Emmy-winning Showtime series United States of Tara. She’s also helming the big screen adaptation of the Sweet Valley High book series.
Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr sure can keep a secret!
Not only did the lovebirds recently pull off a totally under-the-radar wedding, but a source tells the new issue of Us Weekly that the Victoria’s Secret model, 27, has been keeping something else classified as well: She’s pregnant!
“She’s definitely pregnant… Miranda’s thrilled,” says a source close to the Australia native, who wed the actor, 33, at an undisclosed location — reportedly in the Caribbean — less than a month after revealing their engagement on June 21. “She’s telling all her friends, mostly other models, about it.”
While the pal says no official announcement will be made, the couple of three years’ big news will be hard to keep hidden.
“She poses in lingerie,” says the friend of Kerr, who has modeled for Victoria’s Secret since 2007. “It will be obvious soon enough.”
The bride, who kicked off a Caribbean getaway with Bloom at Anguilla’s Viceroy resort on July 17, certainly hasn’t hidden her desire for a child.
“I have always been very open about wanting to be a mother one day,” she recently told an Australian newspaper. “And I’ve always thought Orlando would be a great dad!”
That was fast. Only a month after their engagement was confirmed, Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr have married.
The model, 27, and the British actor, 33, are now on their honeymoon, Kerr says in a statement that also explains the cancelation of her appearance at the Australian department store David Jones.
“David Jones very graciously released me during this period so we could celebrate an intimate ceremony and honeymoon together,” Kerr’s statement says. “I’m very much a part of the David Jones Family and I am very committed to my role. I am enormously grateful to David Jones to have been given this time to enjoy such a special moment in my life.”
The couple reportedly began dating in late 2007. “We were friends for a while and then it just developed into a little more,” she told Hello! magazine in September 2008, adding that Bloom asked her agent for her number – because she wouldn’t give it to him.
“At the time I was seeing someone else,” she explained.
Bloom and Kerr made their first public appearance in April 2008 at Sydney’s Doncaster Day at the Randwick Racecourse. That same weekend, the Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean actor also met her parents.
Last year, when the two spent Thanksgiving together in Morocco, Bloom told reporters he and Kerr were “just enjoying our time together now” when asked if they planned to wed anytime soon.
 Tiffani Thiessen hoped to use hypnobirthing to aid in the delivery of her first child, but was open to all options. Good thing, because 5-week-old daughter Harper Renn Smith had her own ideas when it came to her June 15 birth.
“First my water didn’t break; they had to do it for me. Then the baby wasn’t descending, because the cord was wrapped around her neck,†the White Collar star — who ultimately delivered via c-section after 30 hours of labor — tells PEOPLE.
“Once she was finally out, I didn’t even get to hold her before they whisked her away… The whole thing was very surreal.â€
Christina Applegate could soon be married with a child.
The actress and her fiancé Martyn Lenoble are expecting, her rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.
Applegate, 38, and Lenoble, 41, dated for two years before becoming engaged on Valentine’s Day. No date has been set for the wedding.
The Samantha Who? actress says her fiancé, a Dutch bass player, helped her recover after undergoing a double mastectomy.
“I’m very grateful to Martyn for coming along at a time that he did because he’s been my rock through all of this,” Applegate told PEOPLE last year. “He gave me something to really want to live for and something to smile about.”