Now video: Watch new photo shoots, trailers, red carpet, celebrity interviews, fashion and beauty how to videos and more

Prince Harry qualifies
He's completed his Apache...
The Risk become sexy builders
EXCLUSIVE X Factor boy band strip
Amanda Holden's feeling...
BGT presenter releases photo of...
Geri Halliwell's new Next...
She launches new line of Union...

Close video player >

Friday, 29 September 2006

Madonna takes home £26m paycheck

The material girl is top earning female singer

Madonna is the world's highest paid female singer according to the Guinness Book of Records.

The material girl's annual earnings of £26.6million have knocked Britney Spears off the top spot which she has dominated since 2001.

And going on how successful the 48-year-old's Confessions tour has been, combined with the popularity of her latest album, the chances are her lead on her contemporaries is likely to grow.

Other record breakers include James Blunt who's album Back To Bedlam scooped the award for the most albums sold in a year in the UK with 2,368,000 copies.

Jamie Oliver emerged as the highest-paid chef with an estimated annual income of £4.8million and Ricky Gervais has the most downloaded podcast.