There is a rich list of reality stars given today - top are girls aloud, WY. 12.5 million, GG 6.2 million. Darius is at no.20 with 900,000. There are a number of others above him like Suzanne shaw, mylene klass kym ryder all from hearesay, etc etc. I am doing this from memory as cant find copy of paper that was given to me. The comments on D werent derogatory. Will try and find complete list.

Found the list - here it is -

 

29th May 2009 By Gemma Wheatley

Pop babes Girls Aloud have notched up another No1 – in the reality TV rich list.

 

 

 

Since finding fame on Popstars: The Rivals in 2002, Sarah Harding, 27, Cheryl Cole, 25, Nicola Roberts, 23, Kimberley Walsh, 27, and Nadine Coyle, 23, have amassed a £25million fortune with hits such as Sound Of The Underground.

 

But who else is a top telly earner? Here Gemma Wheatley rounds up the top 25.

 

2 Will Young £12.5million Age: 30

Since winning Pop Idol seven years ago, all four of his albums have charted well.

 

3 Leona Lewis £10million Age: 24

She won The X Factor in 2006 and her career has zoomed into the stratosphere.

 

4 Jade Goody £8million 1981–2009

Won hearts of British public back in 2002 when she entered the Big Brother house.

 

5 Myleene Klass £7.5million Age: 31

Won Popstars in 2001 with Hear’Say and is now a top presenter and M&S TV ad star.

 

6 Gareth Gates £6.5million Age: 24

Runner-up to Will Young in Pop Idol, he is now star of Joseph on West End stage.

 

7 Paul Potts £5million Age: 38

Former Carphone Warehouse manager won Britain’s Got Talent in 2007.

 

8 Craig Phillips £5million Age: 37

Won first Big Brother in 2000. Has steady income from TV and public appearances.

 

9 Lemar £4million Age: 31

Third place on Fame Academy in 2002. Has now sold over two million albums.

 

10 Jane McDonald £3.5million Age: 46

Sailed to fame on The Cruise and appeared in Las Vegas. Now a star of Loose Women.

 

11 Liberty X £3million

Michelle Heaton, 28, and gang had 10 hit singles and sold over a million albums. Split in 2007.

 

12 Brian Dowling £2.5million Age: 30

Won second Big Brother in 2001. Later voted most popular BB winner ever.

 

13 Ben Fogle £2million Age: 35

Leapt to fame in BBC Castaway 2000. Now a top presenter of countryside series.

 

14 Kym Marsh £1.8million Age: 32

Hit the big time with Hear’Say. Now earns £100,000 a year in Coronation Street.

 

15 Suzanne Shaw £1.4million Age: 27

Another refugee from Hear’Say. Appeared in stage shows and won Dancing On Ice.

 

16 Abigail Clancy £1.25million Age: 23

Second on Britain’s Next Top Model. But is now one of UK’s top glamour babes.

 

17 Charlotte Hobrough £1.2million Age: 33

Won £1million prize in first series of Survivor. Ex-policewoman has now rejoined force.

 

18 Chantelle Houghton £1million Age: 25

Won Celebrity Big Brother in 2006 – after entering house as the only non-celeb.

 

19 Jonny Gibb £1million Age: 38

Ex-policeman Jonny won second series of Survivor. Now works as a personal trainer.

 

20 Darius Danesh £900,000 Age: 28

Lost out on Popstars and Pop Idol, but had big-selling album and star roles on stage.

 

 

 

 

Sure Darius would have even more if he had been promoted well

I never ke much notice of these. I just feel it's all guess work and none of their business.

on the news craig from bb just raised his eyebrows at his amount, i am sure its guess work - after all it always transpires in later years people seem to have nothing and moan about the labels taking so much..i do wonder how some of these are supposed to have made so much.

as for darius, they dont seem to think he has done anythng since ps...i am amazed they gave him that much, that would do me till i am too old to need it.

They did say he's starred in Stage shows.

on the news craig from bb just raised his eyebrows at his amount, i am sure its guess work - after all it always transpires in later years people seem to have nothing and moan about the labels taking so much..i do wonder how some of these are supposed to have made so much.

as for darius, they dont seem to think he has done anythng since ps...i am amazed they gave him that much, that would do me till i am too old to need it.

 

I think you're right.

 

I wasn't going to post in the thread in the reality TV forum but in view of those who've expressed surprise at the figure for Darius, believing it should be higher, I posted this today with some thoughts on how many considerations need to be taken into account and a sprinkling of some of the things D has done which most people may be unaware of.

 

The point is no-one knows what criteria they've used to come to their conclusions.

 

No-one knows if they've taken into account foreign sales and more importantly for a songwriter, foreign airplay.

 

Have they worked on the basis of what proportion of the rights the co-writers had on particular songs or have they just used one size fits all?;

 

have they taken into account the sales of compilation albums the artists' songs were on?,

 

or if songs which were written but not recorded by the artist were later recorded on albums by other artists and also released as singles?

 

And what of cover mount deals with newspapers, are they counted?

 

All of that brings in quite a bit of revenue and all of those apply to Darius. Without that sort of information it would be pretty impossible to judge what any individual songwriter earned. Then there are ringtones, karaoke tracks and re-mixes, for all of which a songwriter gets returns.

 

How much was Darius paid when Colourblind was used in the film Afterlife? Did they count his book deal? What of his speaking role in Hollyoaks, other TV presentation and many stints as guest DJ on several stations?

 

Do they ever have the remotest clue of anything Darius or others do in Scotland or the North of England unless it's fed to them by PR people? He'd been working solidly there for months and when he appeared in London at 19's Gala Celebration the tabloids claimed it was his first UK appearance for ages.

 

Do they know what he earned as Billy Flynn at the Adelphi and later at the Cambridge, as Sky Masterson and as Rhett Butler last year?

 

Has he been producing others in his LA studio?

 

I suspect the Sun wouldn't have researched too deeply into Darius or others and can't say with any certainty what any of them have earned.

 

Darius is an astute young man and he's never led a lavish lifestyle. Did he sell his UK business interests and London property at the height of the boom when he went to LA or are some of them still earning him money while he sleeps? Did he make a further killing when he sold his LA residence to move in with Natasha?

 

Observing him with P Y Gerbeau outside the Cambridge, I couldn't hear their conversation but it seemed more than social and I wondered if they had business relations.

Edited June 15, 200916 yr by Baytree

Very interesting, I am sure not everything on here has been taken into consideration

I've never considered these 'lists' to be accurate,,,,,,,,more like hopeful guesswork to make an eye-catching

article to boost the paper's circulation, aimed at a gullible public in the presnt-day climate of celebrity-worship

or celebrity-curiosity.

yes you are right

I read somewhere that the alleged source of this list was Current TV, an internet TV channel which is user driven and whose strapline says .." where you make the news and we put it on TV".

pity the Darius dedicated sites have shut down then

Pity the media can't resist picking up any drivel which comes in list form to fill left over column space. Then everyone accepts it as gospel because several other blogs etc. post it all over the net over and over for months on end.

Edited June 20, 200916 yr by Baytree

I just don't take any notice - it really is rubbish. It succeeds though, most people seem to read it and believe it.

I think this sort of thing is interesting but I suppose we don't really know for any of them how accurate it is.

I always assume they're not.