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Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:25 pm Post subject:

The Chav Rich List
They’re the celebrities taste forgot — the chavs who flaunt fake tans, false boobs and mock Tudor houses. But what isn’t fake are their millions.

As the model Jordan boasted last week, they’re very rich. She even claimed she was close to making a billion. So was she exaggerating? Here, NATASHA PEARLMAN estimates the wealth of the Chav Rich List:

One: David & Victoria Beckham £87m

Undoubtedly the King and Queen of planet Chav, Vic and Dave are the ultimate in nouveaux riches. But as Becks has proved with lucrative deals from Adidas, Pepsi, Police sunglasses and Diesel, not passing exams at school doesn’t equate to a poor business sense.

In fact, Brand Beckham has earned a whopping £17.3 million in the past year alone. Becks signed a three-year £40 million promotional deal with Gillette in 2004.

Add this to his £116,000-a-week contract with Real Madrid (£6 million a year) and you’re looking at £50 million generated for the Beckhams’ company Footwork - directors of which include Victoria and her father, Tony Adams.

Posh has a personal fortune of £10 million from her Spice Girls days, the royalties of which bring in £1.5 million a year, meaning there are still an awful lot of people out there playing her records.

She also designs a range of jeans for Rock & Republic worth £250,000 a year - bringing the family’s total worth to £87 million.

Three: Wayne Rooney & Coleen McLoughlin £20m

The potato-headed footballer’s fortunes continue to mushroom. Following in the golden financial footsteps of David Beckham, his Manchester United earnings (a relatively modest £50,000 a week) are dwarfed by his off-pitch income.

Deals with Nike (worth £5 million over ten years), Coca-Cola (£1 million) and Electronic Arts have been augmented by a newly signed deal with Asda, worth £3 million over the next two and a half years. The latter is a joint deal with fiancee Coleen, proof of their increasing marketability as a couple.

Coleen has also signed her own deal with Nike to promote a range of women’s sportswear, Nike C. There are also his and hers book deals: his is the most lucrative sports biography deal in history, worth £5 million over five books; hers is a more modest £2 million.

Assets include a new £4 million house in Cheshire - dubbed Chav Towers - complete with a £13,000 gym and cinema.

Four: Steven Gerrard & Alex Curran £13m

While his fiancee has a talent for eye-wateringly colourful tracksuits and a Tango tan, Gerrard is the real money-spinner.

As Liverpool captain, he earns £100,000 a week - making him the highest paid player in the club’s history - and his deals with Adidas and Persil are worth £1 million and £1.5 million.

He is one of football’s most popular stars — his book, the imaginatively titled, My Autobiography - has far outsold those by fellow England stars Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard.

Alex brings in around £70,000 a year from a weekly column in a national newspaper, but this is small fry compared to the £1 million net assets in Steven Gerrard Promotions, 2004-05. No wonder he owns a £3.5 million home in Liverpool and drives a £100,000 Aston Martin.

Six: Ashley & Cheryl Cole £10m

In footballing circles, only the Beckhams have had more coverage than Mr & Mrs Cashley Cole. The newlyweds earned £2 million from selling their wedding snaps to a celebrity magazine.

The move to Chelsea means Ashley is on £75,000 a week - £3.9 million a year. Add that to his £3 million Adidas boot deal, his autobiography, which was rumoured to have garnered him more than £1 million, and the rumours he will replace Beckham as the face of Gillette, and you’re looking at some serious wealth.

Cheryl earns £600,000 a year with her band Girls Aloud and signed a £1 million deal to front Coke Zero.

They live in a £1 million penthouse in North London. The next plan is a property empire, including a £3.5 million new home.

Others on the list for those who are interested:
Two: Jordan & Peter Andre £30m

Pneumatic glamour model Katie Price, known as Jordan, has claimed she is nearly a billionaire. Like her other attributes, that was more than a little inflated, but she is an astute businesswoman.

Her first autobiography, Being Jordan, sold more than a million copies. Her second, A Whole New World, was the No1 hardback and made £2 million. This year, she published her first novel, Angel. Exposure in downmarket tabloids has increased following her appearance in I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2004.

She and fellow contestant, singer Peter Andre, became a couple - dubbed Dosh and Pecs - and sold the rights to their spectacularly tacky September 2005 wedding to ITV and OK! magazine for £2 million. Even before the wedding, they’d banked £5 million from appearances, interviews and their ITV series, When Peter Met Jordan.

Their earnings have gone into overdrive. In May, Jordan signed a £2.8 million deal to design lingerie. A jewellery collection for Argos earned her £250,000 in its first year. Her 2007 calendar is expected to be a Christmas best-seller.

Homes include a £1 million East Sussex mansion and a £1.75 million Cyprus holiday home. Right now, Katie’s price is right. She’s earned at least £15 million, though little is yet apparent in her company, Jordan Trading, which showed £555,000 assets for 2004 to 2005.

Factoring in her growing world appeal and her assets, she’s worth £30 million - making her one of the richest women in Britain.

Five: Charlotte Church & Gavin Henson £10m

Thanks to a new album and her Channel 4 programme, The Charlotte Church Show, the 20-year-old has earned nearly £9 million.
Her autobiography, Voice Of An Angel, made her £800,000, while her company, Charlotte Church Ltd, had £3.3 million net assets in 2004 to 2005.

She shares a £750,000 five-bedroom house in Cardiff with Gavin. Though not in the same earnings league, he has earned his place as half of the Beckhams of the Valleys.

He gets £120,000 a year with the Ospreys rugby team and last year’s two-book publishing deal has made him £1.2 million. This fiery couple often row in public - maybe they’re arguing about what to spend their money on

Seven: Jade Goody £4.5m

Renowned as having a mouth two sizes bigger than her brain, she is the most recognisable Big Brother star - even though she only came fourth in 2002.

The guileless Goody is, in fact, a savvy investor: she owns a four-bedroom, £500,000 detached house in Ongar, Essex; a £400,000 investment property in Harlow; a £48,000 BMW; a £60,000 Porsche; and a Mercedes.

Then there is the £500,000 autobiography, Just Jade; and her newest TV show, which follows her riveting search for a PA.

She has even launched her own perfume, Shh...It outsold the Beckhams’ Instinct scent by four to one in its first week, earning her £1 million.

Eight: Jodie Marsh £2m

With 11 GCSEs, three A-levels and a middle-class background, she hoped to be recognised as the glamour girl with brains and a ‘natural’ 32FF bust. As the daughter of an Essex millionaire, Jodie, 27, has earned her own fortune from appearing on six reality TV shows.

She regularly graces the covers of lads’ mags and is not averse to making tens of thousands through kiss ’n’ tells, where she rates her lover’s performance out of ten on the back of a T-shirt. She still lives with her parents in Essex and drives a £20,000 Peugeot convertible.

Despite failing to steal Jordan’s crown, Jodie was paid a reported £1 million for her autobiography, Keeping It Real.

Nine: Kerry Katona £2m

After finding fame with the band Atomic Kitten, she quit in 2002 to start a family. Her profile rocketed after she won 2004’s I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! with a six-figure deal to write a column for a celebrity magazine.
She got a £1 million fee for her autobiography. Divorce from former Westlife singer Brian McFadden should land her a share of his £5 million fortune.

10: Jessie Wallace £1.5m

As Albert Square’s tart with a heart Kat Slater, she won the hearts of the nation in EastEnders. But off-screen, a string of drunken antics resulted in a two-month suspension from the show.

After splitting from the father of her baby, her personal life seemed to be crashing around her. However, her professional life thrived. Last year, she earned £270,000 playing Kat and commanding £8,000 for a personal appearance.

When she quit the soap, she negotiated a six-figure deal with the BBC to star in new dramas. She owns a £600,000 five-bedroom Victorian townhouse in East London and drives a £32,000 Mercedes SLK 320.

Guest · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:22 am Post subject:

Reality show set to put the WAGs at war
Some of England's most famous WAGs will soon be at each other's perfectly tanned throats as they compete in a reality show next year.

Ten contestants will be split into two teams to run rival fashion shops in Mayfair for 10 weeks. At the end there will be a grand final to see which one has been more successful.

The show, to be aired provisionally on ITV2, is guaranteed to cause friction among the footie stars' other halves because the competition promises to be so fierce.

Chelsea WAGs Elen Rives and Carly Zucker - fiancées of Frank Lampard and Joe Cole respectively, and Steven Gerrard's girlfriend Alex Curran are all top of the producer's list.

Sources at Talkback Thames - the television company behind X-Factor revealed the plans.

They said: "It is going to be dynamite, there is no way that the girls are all going to remain friends. There is likely to be a lot of falling out, both between the two teams and within them too. Some of the scenes will not be very pretty."

Filming is due to start shortly before Christmas, however the boutiques will not open before the end of January.

With the line-up still not confirmed, there is said, already, to be massive tension between the WAGs, who are all desperately pitching against one another to win a place.

Our source added: "Obviously the more famous of the WAGs are pretty much guaranteed places if they want them but the girlfriends of the more junior England players and Premiership stars are at war with one another over who is going to go on the show.

"It is certainly the talk in the players' lounges across the Premiership stadiums at the moment."

WAGs such as Cheryl Tweedy and Victoria Beckham, who are busy with their own careers, are said to have taken themselves out of the running, as did John Terry's fiancée Toni Poole, who gave birth to twins Summer Rose and Georgie John in May, and Rebecca Ellison, Rio Ferdinand's partner, who has also just become a mum.

The girls' first projects will be to have launch parties for their stores. They will then be open to the public five days a week until April when there will be a grand final.

Guest · Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:53 am Post subject:

Borat is such a WAG - but do the FA think so?

The FA might want to forget all about the WAGS but they were used to great promotional effect on the perimeter advertising at last night's Croatia game advertising Sacha Baron Cohen's new film based on Borat, his spoof character from Kazakhstan. "I love you English WAGS, sexytime," was the Borat quote displayed on the video screen

Guest · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:57 am Post subject:

Wags do more than just watch
By TOM REILLY
October 23, 2006

WAGS went a stage further than just watching a fashion show — one of them joined in.

Abbey Clancy, 20, took to the catwalk as a model for designer store Cricket in Liverpool.

Peter Crouch’s lover was watched by Wayne Rooney’s fiancee Coleen McLoughlin, 20, Steven Gerrard’s girlfriend Alex Curran, 24, and TV’s Sheree Murphy, 30, wife of Liverpool’s Harry Kewell.

Team players ... Sheree, left, Alex, pal Kelly and
Colleen get ready for the show's kick-off

Alex’s pal Kelly Ellison, Peaches Geldof, 17, and Emmerdale babe Charley Webb, 18, were also at the glittering event. Did the DJ play Handbags and Glad Wags?

Guest · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:50 am Post subject:

WAGs style: The hits and misses

By ERICA DAVIES and BELLA BATTLE
October 26, 2006

THEY'VE got the money and the time to shop for England.

But do the WAGs really have the fashion clout to boot now summer's over?

As top Liverpool style store Cricket showcases its latest collection of designer must-haves, we offer our verdict on the girls' recent form.

Relegation potential or definitely room for promotion? See if you agree with Sun fashion editor Erica Davies as she assesses their off-pitch style skills.

ABIGAIL CLANCY

Abbey is fast becoming the WAG we all want to look like.

Blonde, beautiful and bedding the tallest man in football, Abbey's style is usually spot-on but what will Erica make of this midriff-flashing makeover?

Erica says: "Abbey goes for Bardot - but the Fendi B bag ruins the look. Too clunky, Clancy."

ALEX CURRAN

The World Cup saw one fashion frock-up after another for poor Alex Curran. So what will our fashion guru make of Alex's autumn style?

Erica says: "After a few style mistakes, Gerrard's girl has finally hit her groove. Mum-of-two Alex looks amazing in this silver lurex dress."

COLEEN MCLOUGHLIN

Col's been in the news this week for splashing £50k on presents for Wayne's 21st. But is it a case of money well spent when it comes to her winter wardrobe?

Erica says: "Our Col sure scrubs up well. She's channelling Sienna Miller in this all-black two piece after the actress wore a very similar Stella McCartney design earlier this year.

And we thought Coleen said it's NORTHERNERS who start the trends."

CHERYL COLE

Her hubby's fond of transfers but should Cheryl transfer her fashion allegiance after this jungle jane frock-up at Julien Macdonald's Spring/Summer show?

Erica says: "Everything about Mrs Cole's leopard look SHOULD work. But Cheryl looks more barmaid than brilliant with the whole thing just a little too try-hard."

ELEN RIVES

If any WAG gets it right more than most, it's Elen Rives. The Spanish beauty is usually an understated siren but what about this dress, worn to a Giorgio Armani fashion show?

Erica says: "Oh dear Elen. Her face and figure are stunning, but this doily disaster dress is perhaps a tad too suggestive for a new mum."

VICTORIA BECKHAM

Yep, Posh has been raiding the fancy dress box again.

The hit-and-miss queen has made some stunning style statements of late but does Erica like this flouncy number?

Erica says: "That Extra Half An Inch makes Victoria look like a loo roll holder. Great shapes for her skinny frame, but really not winning the style war in white."

Guest · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:40 am Post subject:

Sexy model Abbey Clancy has knocked Cheryl Tweedy off the top of the WAG tree...and Victoria Beckham does not even make the starting eleven, a new poll revealed today.

As Steve McClaren attempts to shape the Three Lions into winners, the WAGs have also been changing their formation as the Premier League of football pin-ups undergoes a reshuffle.

Out goes the 'old guard' of Nancy Dell'Olio - the perma-tanned other half of former England boss Sven Goran Eriksson - while former Queen WAG Victoria Beckham drops to the bench as only the twelfth most desirable footballer's wife.

The poll of 3,000 fans by FHM magazine found striker Peter Crouch's on-off girlfriend Abbey is now rated sexiest WAG, relegating Cheryl Tweedy - who recently married Ashley Cole - into second spot.

Making up the top three is another new recruit to the WAGs - pretty 17-year-old student Melanie Slade, the girlfirend of teenage Arsenal striker Theo Walcott who was named in the England squad for this summer's World Cup.

Wayne Rooney's fiancee Coleen McLoughlin could only make it to fourth place.

The table reveals that children need not hold back WAGs, with the Top 10 dominated by "yummy mummies". Their astonishing ability to get quickly back in shape after the birth of their children secured them places in the top ten.

Frank Lampard's sexy senorita Elen Rives, who gave birth to baby Luna last year, sits pretty in fifth place, while Alex Curran, who gave birth to Steven Gerrard's second daughter days before the Liverpool captain won this year's FA Cup, came sixth.

Michael Owen's cute wife and mother of his two children, Louise, came eighth while mother of John Terry's twins Toni Poole came tenth.

FHM Editor Ross Brown said Abbey swept to victory because she has the "full package".

He said: "Abbey topped the Premier League of WAGs and I can see why. She fulfils the ultimate WAG criteria - she’s the girlfriend of England ’s best striker, she’s beautiful and she likes to part...what more can a rich footballer ask for?"

Abbey is due to appear on the front cover of this month's FHM magazine.

FHM Premier League of WAGs

1 Abbey Clancy (Peter Crouch)
2 Cheryl Tweedy (Ashley Cole)
3 Melanie Slade (Theo Walcott)
4 Coleen McCloughlin (Wayne Rooney)
5 Elen Rives (Frank Lampard)
6 Alex Curran (Steven Gerrard)
7 Louise Bonsall (Michael Owen)
8 Carly Zucker (Joe Cole)
9 Michaela Henderson-Thynne (Stuart Downing)
10 Toni Poole (John Terry)