Posted March 23, 200817 yr March 23, 2008 11:00pm SHE is known worldwide as the down-to-earth diva with a bank account that would make King Solomon blush. Now visiting superstar Celine Dion is also proving to be the queen of generosity, according to one of the dancers performing in her Taking Chances world tour. Celine and her entourage arrived in Brisbane over the weekend in preparation for her first Australian show – at the Entertainment Centre on Wednesday night – and touched down after a gruelling 17-show run throughout South Africa, Dubai, China and Korea. Though normally accustomed to five-star accommodation, a promoter error saw the show's dancers put up in some less-than-stellar lodgings on a handful of occasions leading up to their arrival in Brisbane. To make it up to her devoted staff, Celine handed them all a small parcel recently to thank them for their patience. And what was inside? Each dancer opened a box to find a large, gleaming two-carat diamond. "It's huge. I've got no idea what to do with mine," one dancer told Qconfidential. "But it's beautiful. She is so lovely to work for. All the dancers love her, she's amazing." And the gift has a pretty amazing price tag. A jewellery expert tells us a diamond of that quality could fetch anything from $10,000 to $200,000. Not that it would make much of a dent in Celine's earnings. The French-Canadian songbird, who holds world records in album and ticket sales, raked in just over $250 million from the three-year run of her A New Day show in Las Vegas. SOURCE
