PROFESSION: Actress and Model

Any English beauty lovers out there? If yes, then I am so sure that you have all heard of Kate Beckinsale! She is an actress and a model. Beckinsale has done movies like Much Ado About Nothing, Prince of Jutland, Cold Comfort Farm, Emma and The Golden Bowl. Beckinsale started out as an actress on television doing minor roles. Beckinsale has also been a part of various stage and radio productions. Beckinsale’s breakthrough was with the famous movie Pearl Harbor and the much loved Serendipity. Beckinsale is known for her like Underworld, Van Helsing, Underworld: Evolution, Whiteout, Winged Creatures, Nothing but the Truth, Contraband, Underworld: Awakening and Snow Angles. Beckinsale made her debut while she was still studying at Oxford University. So, we know now that she is a beauty with brains! Beckinsale is the princess of action movies, for me. Beckinsale has a daughter with Michael Sheen. Her name is Lily Mo Sheen. Beckinsale married Len Wiseman in the year 2004.

EARLY LIFE

Officially known as Kathrin Romary Beckinsale. She was born in England and is the alone child of Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe, who are both actors. Beckinsale made her debut on the small screen when she was only 4 years old, with the episode This is Your Life. The episode was dedicated to her father. Beckinsale lost her father of 31 years old to a heart attack when she was about five years old. This tragic loss really affected her. After this, she started thinking that bad things will happen. After a few years, Judy Loe, her mother, moved in with the director Roy Battersby. Kate Beckinsale shares a pretty close relationship with him. She was brought up along with his four sons and a daughter. Beckinsale has won awards for writing both fiction and poetry. Beckinsale often says that she “loathed being a teenager”.  Her teenage was tough on herB . Beckinsale had anorexia when she was 15 years old and so, she had to undergo Freudian psychoanalysis for a long period of 4 years. Beckinsale has a smart mind! She studied French and Russian Literature at Oxford and is described as slightly nuts and very charming by Victoria Coren. She was involved with the drama society and has also performed at the Oxford Playhouse.

CAREER

Beckinsale knew she wanted to be an actress ever since she was a kid. This was mainly because of the fact that her parents were both actors and she understood the fun that they had. She made her debut with a small part in Devices and Desires. She appeared in the film One Against The Wind. From then on, Beckinsale has done a lot of movies like Much Ado About Nothing, Prince of Jutland, Hamlet, Marie- Louise Ou La Permission, Cold Comfort Farm, Haunted, Emma, Shooting Fish etc. She also did plays and stage shows. That is how she met Michael Sheen.

Around 1998, Beckinsale started looking for work in the United States of America. This move resulted in her doing movies like The Last Days of Disco, The Golden Bowl, Pearl Harbor, Serendipity, Laurel Canyon, The Underworld Series, Van Helsing, The Aviator and the like.

After this phase, Beckinsale shifted her focus to small scale drama. It included the drama Snow Angels, Winged Creatures, Nothing but the Truth, Everybody’s fine and the like. In the year 2012, Beckinsale again started acting in mainstream cinema with movies like Contraband, Reykjavik-Rotterdam, Total Recall and her new movies like The Trials of Cate McCall, Eliza Graves, The Face of An Angel, Absolutely Anything.

Apart from acting, Beckinsale has also tried her hand at modeling. She has worked as an occasional model. She has appeared in the music video “Waltz Away Dreaming” for George Michael. She also also starred opposite Orlondo Bloom in an advertisement for Gap. She has worked for other commodity advertisements like Diet Coke and Absolut Vodka and Lux.

ASSETS

- Chevy Suburban

- Pontiac Grand AM

- Santa Monica Hills Home

PERSONAL LIFE

Kate Beckinsale has managed to keep a relatively calm media image. She has her life pretty sorted out. She was in a serious relationship with Michael Sheen for around 8 years stretching from 1995 to 2003. They have a daughter together named Lily Mo Sheen, in the year 1999. For Beckinsale, it was love at first sight. The man never proposed but to her, the relationship felt like marriage. When this relationship ended in the year 2003, she was involved with the movie Underworld. During the filming time, Beckinsale and Len Wiseman, the director, got involved in a relationship.

Till date, both Beckinsale and Wiseman have remained friends with Michael Sheen. Though Beckinsale has not been able to steer way clear from the media’s paws, there have been issues with the press. She is protective of her daughter and in 2003, Beckinsale filed a complaint for printing her daughter’s picture in the newspaper, Daily Mail. The newspaper had to publish an apology for stating that Beckinsale had to go to a clinic to recover from her split with her partner Michael Sheen. Beckinsale is in favor of the pro-choice movement. She is also seen doing charity work. She also has a charity called British Heart Foundation. Beckinsale has donated for foundations like Entertainment Industry Foundation, Cedars- Sinai Medical Center. She plans to raise awareness regarding the subject of children’s literacy and its importance.

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PROFESSION: Model, Fashion Designer

If you think you know fashion, then you know Kate Moss. Her name is synonymous with fashion. She started working at a young age. She was about fourteen years old when she was “discovered” by Sarah Doukas in the year 1988. Sarah Doukas is the founder of Storm Model Management in New York City. The 1990s were very good for Moss’ career. She is known for the part she played in the whole size zero fashion. Moss has worked with all the leading brands in the world like Gucci, Dolce & Gabbanna, Chanel, Rimmel and Calvin Klein. She has now been associated with the fashion industry for over twenty five years!!

EARLY LIFE

Moss was always a pretty, even as a kid. She was born in Greater London to the proud parents Rosina and Peter Edward Moss in the year 1974. She has a younger brother and also, a half sister named Lottie. Moss’ parents had an unfortunate divorce when Moss was only thirteen years old. Moss was discovered by Sarak Doukas in New York City, when she was only fourteen years old. Her early day pictures were often described as dirty realism or grunge.

CAREER

Moss’ career is filled with ups and downs, drama, controversies and the works! Moss was like an anti-supermodel as she wasn’t curvaceous like the supermodels Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and the likes. Her weight was always a topic of controversy as she was often thought of as being anorexic. Moss has had the pleasure of working with major campaigns for brands like Bulgari, Rimmel, Dolce & Gabbanna and Calvin Klein. Apart from working with these brands, Moss has been featured on a lot of leading magazines like Vanity Fair, The Face, W and Vogue (UK, USA and French Vogue). Making a record, Moss has appeared on the cover of the British magazine around 30 times. Moss has had a shining career, working with top photographers like Mario Testino, Steven Klein, and Peter Lindbergh. Moss is known to have had a serious drug problem. Making her comeback, she signed eighteen modeling contracts in the Autumn/Winter 2006.

After making a very deep mark on the fashion industry as a model, Kate Moss launched a collection for clothes designed by her, in the year 2007. The collection included skinny jeans, leather jackets, vest top, minidresses and T-shirts. She has also released four fragrances. Moss was also the face of Mango from 2011 to 2012. She was replaced by Miranda Kerr.

OTHER VENTURES

Moss is also television friendly. She has appeared in music videos like Don’t Go Away, Fade Away, Be Here Now, Kowalski, I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself, Something About the Way You Look Tonight, Sex with Strangers, Love Don’t Bother Me and God’s Gonna Cut You Down. Apart from appearing in music videos, Moss has lent her voice to songs by Primal Scream, Babyshambles, and The Lemonheads. She has co-written four songs with Babyshambles too! Four fragrances launched by her are called Kate Moss, Vintage Muse, Lila Belle and Love Blossoms.

PHILANTHROPY

Kate Moss is a supporter of War Child. She designed a charm necklace in lieu of helping out the Cancer Research Centre UK. She has been associated with organizations like Comic Relief, Make Poverty History, The Lucie Blackman Trust, Elton John AIDS Foundation and Homes of Hope for a long time.

PERSONAL LIFE

Kate Moss has had her fair share of relationships. Some of them were good, and some of them were bad. She has a lovely daughter named Lila Grace Moss Hack, who was conceived in 2002. The father of the child is Jefferson Hack. Moss has dated Pete Doherty and even though they got engaged in 2007, the couple split up. In the year 2011, Moss tied the knot with Jamie Hince. She looked stunning and wore a gorgeous dress by John Galliano.

There have been quite a few controversies regarding Moss’ drug abuse problem. In 2005, H&M dropped her because of the same reason. The next day, Chanel announced termination of their contract with Moss. Following was Burberry. Even in this phase, Moss was doing campaigns for Dior and was on the cover of W in 2005. Moss was often defended by Alexander McQueen. In 2006, Moss’ drug allegations were cleared by the British police as they could not find any evidence to support their statement. Following this, Moss started her modeling career with her head held high.

ASSETS

- London Home worth $12.6 million. It is located in North London, UK.

- St. Johns Wood Home worth $11.3 million. It is located in London as well

- Range Rover

- MG Midget Mk III

- Vintage Rolls Royce

- London Cab

FUN FACTS

- Having her figure immortalized in solid gold in a 1.5 million pound sterling status that goes on show at the British Museum in 2008.

- Posed as a real life mannequin to mark the launch of her Topshop range in the year 2007.

- Has been voted the 1st Britain’s Most Stylish Woman of the year in a poll conducted by Grazia Magazine in February, 2006.

- Had her nude photographs auctioned off at Christie’s auction house in 2007, fetching a total of 183,000 pound sterling.

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Wendy Williams is a multi-talented personality who has worked as an author, television and radio talk show host. Wendy Williams Hunter is popularly known as Wendy Williams and is well- known face in the America’s media. She is known as a media personality that people love to hate. She has been a controversy queen as a radio and television talk show host. She is well known for her sarcasm, her jokes and her opinions which she don’t hold back and also for dishing the dirt on the popular faces in the media. She has gained an infamy by her spats and comments on celebrities in her talk shows.

EARLY LIFE

Wendy Williams was born in Asbury Park in New Jersey on 18 July in the year 1964. She has done her schooling from Ocean Township High school and done her graduation from Northeaster University in Boston. She has done her B.A. in communication. Here dream for becoming a media personality started in the college as she was the DJ in a college radio station. Due to this she got an internship at a radio station in Boston, WXKS which is more popularly known as Kiss 108. After completing her graduation she didn’t stop being a DJ and continued her career in this field when in the year 1986 she joined WVIS situated in the United Stated Virgin Islands. In the year 1989 she started working for a full time radio show for urban contemporary WRKS. She was moved to Hot97 when WRKS was taken over by Emmis Broadcasting. In the year 1998 Wendy was fired from this job.

FROM HERE THE CAREER GRAPH WENT UP

After Wendy got fired from Hot97 she was hired by WUSL, a Philadelphia urban station. She became a famous radio jockey as she discussed about her life very openly to the public. She talked about her miscarriages and her drug addiction to the public. Her chirpy behaviour helped this station to move to the second position from the fourteenth position. In the year 2001 she was hired for full time by WBLS. After working there she left her job in the year 2009, so as to pay more attention towards her family and her talk show.

SHE IS RICH

Wendy the famous talk show host has a net worth of around 60 Million US dollar. Her annual salary is estimated to be around 12 million US dollars. She has earned her wealth mostly through her radio talk show, The Wendy William Show. Her money has grown because of her fictional and non fictional books published by her. She owns a house in Livingston, New Jersey in USA. She makes around 10 million dollar per year through her famous talk show. She also earns money through her apparel line which she has launched with QVC, Adorn By Wendy Williams and also through her wig line which is called Wendy Williams Hair World.

THE WENDY WILLIAM SHOW

Wendy Williams host a celebrity talk show, The Wendy William Show. She has hosted 5 season of this crispy talk show produced by Debmar- Mercury. The show was aired in the year 2008 and since it has received Most Guiltiest Pleasure Award for the year 2008- 2009 by NewNowNext Awards and Outstanding Achievement in Hair styling Award for the yearm2010- 2011 from Daytime Emmy Awards. Wendy’s daytime talk show has become one of the most popular daytime shows watched in America. The New York Time has dubbed her show as the Breakthrough in daytime and this talk show is aired in 51 different countries. In her show audience get a real life advice and opinion directly from its host and a show where Wendy gives her controversial statements and opinions about the juicy headlines in the world. According to some people it is a mindless show but for some it is an entertainment source.

SHE IS AN AUTHOR

This famous host of talk shows on television and radio is also a very famous and successful author. She has tried her hand at writing and has published six books till date. Out of these books several of them were bestsellers. She has written both fictional and non fictional books. The books are: “Wendy’s Got the Heat” published in the year 2003, “The Wendy Williams Experience” published in the year 2005, “Drama Is Her Middle Name” published in the year 2006, “Is the Bitch Dead, Or What?” published in the year 2007, “Ritz Harper Goes to Hollywood!” published in the year 2009 and “Ask Wendy: Straight-Up Advice for All the Drama in Your Life” published in the year 2013.

MORE ABOUT HER

Williams has also worked in many television shows apart from her talk show. In the year 1992 she worked in “Martin”. In the year 2007 she worked in “Good Day In New York” on the morning show by WNYW. She has been one of the contestants in the Dancing with Star’s twelfth season with Tony Dovolani. She has been a judge on the Drop Dead Diva show in the year 2011. She has been the host for Love Triangle, a game show for GSN. In the year 2013 in March, she also came as a guest judge in the sixth episode of “The Face”. She also played a major role in the movie “ Think Like A Man” which was released in the year 2012. Apart from that she has worked in The Cookout where she was Reporter No. 2 in the year 2004 and The Cookout 2 in the year 2011.

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Yes! $290 million. That is the net worth of Gisele Bundchen. The Brazilian model certainly makes way more than other models. She is also an actress and a producer. Born on July 20, 1980 in Tres de Maio- she is of Brazilian origin. The Brazilian model was born to German parents and she is in fact a multilingual personality. She speaks Portuguese as her native language, but knows Spanish and English too. She learnt German during school. She is one of the highest paid models and is touted in the race of becoming the first billionaire supermodel. She joined modeling when she was only thirteen, at her mother’s insistence where she was spotted by a modeling agency and then went to participate in various other contests. After moving to Sao Paulo she began her career as a successful model. She has also played supporting roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Taxi (2004).

Beginning of a modeling career

She joined modeling at the age of 13 and a modeling agency spotted her. That was the start of her career. She started internationally as a model in the 1990s with “The Return of the Sexy Model” by Vogue. She worked with Victoria’s Secret Angeles from 2000 to 2007. She is also known as the pioneer of ‘horse Walk”. She has been the world’s highest paid model since 2004. She has also been listed as the 16^th richest person in the entertainment industry in 2007. She has graced the covers of various magazines including Vogue Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, W, Allure and many other publications like GQ, Esquire, Arena, Flair, Marie Claire, The Face, TIME, Forbes and Vanity Fair. Overall, she has appeared on the covers of 600 magazines.

She has also adorned the “Red Hot Fantasy Bra” which is considered as the most expensive lingerie (according to Forbes magazine) of all times by Victoria’s Secret Fantasy. She eventually pursued a career in acting and appeared in movies like Taxi and The Devil Wears Prada.

Family

She had a brief relationship with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio but it didn’t quite work out. She is married to football quarterback Tom Brady with whom she tied the knot in 2009 in a small Catholic Ceremony in California. They have two kids Benjamin Rein and Vivian Lake.

How much money does she make?

Her annual earnings according to Forbes magazine are given below:

2004 – 2005 Earnings = $15.12 million

2005 – 2006 Earnings = $30 million

2006 – 2007 Earnings = $33 million

2007 – 2008 Earnings = $35 million

2008 – 2009 Earnings = $25 million

2009-2010 Earnings = $25 million

2010-2011 Earnings = $45 million

Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady were named the highest paid celebrity couple by Forbes in 2011. Their combined income was $76 million.

Movie Salaries:

The Devil Wears Prada: $350,000

Taxi: $1,800,000

Endorsements Deals and Sponsors

Max Factor, Pantene, American Express, Nivea Lotion, EBEL, Apple Inc, Volkswagen, Duracell Batteries and Vivara are some of the brands Gisele Bundchen has signed deals with.

She has also modeled for Victoria’s Secret, Valentino, D&G, Chloe, Versace, H&M, Ralph Lauren and Gianfranco Ferre.

Business Ventures

She started her line of flip-flop sandals in 2001 by the name of Ipanema. In just three years, the sales were over $30 million. It turned out to be very successful venture as by 2011 the brand had made over 152 million Euros and over 250 million pairs had been sold. She is also the sole owner of Pure Skincare- a company that makes all-natural cosmetics. She also started a lingerie company in 2011 in a joint venture with Hope which is Brazil based.

Real Estate and Homes:

She owns a villa in Costa Rica, a house in California and land in Trancoso in Brazil.

Californian Mansion ($20 million)

The Brazilian model and her quarterback husband purchased a dream-like 22,000 square feet mansion in California in the elite Brentwood area, a little outside LA. The dream mansion has everything one can think of. It looks straight out of Disneyworld.

This is what she drives…

Gisele Bundchen has a flair for cars which is reflected from the cars she owns and drives.

Audi S8

When the Brazilian beauty steps out of her silver Audi S8, people are in a fix trying to decide who is better!

Audi A8

The simmering hot supermodel also owns a sleek Black Audi A8. The car is known to be a modern classic and lifts the driver’s personality up a notch.

BMW X5

Apart from two Audi, she also owns silver BMW X5. This is a recent feather to her cap.

Rolls Royce Ghost

The Brazilian babe also drives a metallic black Rolls Royce Ghost.

Charity Work

Gisele is an ardent environmentalist and regularly raises and donates funds to sponsor environmental projects. She donated a percentage of her earnings from the sandal venture to the Socio Environmental Institute (ISA) in 2009. Every year a certain percentage of sales from her sandals venture goes to any chosen charity. She also became of part of Product Red Initiative in 2006 wherein she sends a percentage of her earnings to HIV/AIDS victims of Africa. She also made news by donating $1million to the earthquake fund by Red Cross Society, Japan. She is also associated with the Brazilian government’s plan of Zero hunger and makes regular donations to America’s Health Care Society.

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