Liquid Assets. (BBC3 on BBC1)

Vorige week Elthon John (die soms een miljoentje aan ponden per maand uitgaf), de week daarvoor de Beckhams met hun ietwat ridicule financiele uitspattingen, vanavond is Bono Fox aan de beurt.

Iedereen komt aan het woord, van kappers tot kledingmakers, met als slotronde hun actuele kapitaal in welke ondertussen in de aflevering cummulatief wordt bijgehouden in ponden.

Helaas nog maar 4 afleveringen: vanavond Bono dus, morgen David Bowie en maar liefst twee (!) over P. Diddy op 9 en 15 maart.

Must see.

De vorige afleveringen worden herhaald, alleen @ random, ff opletten dus.

Over Bono:

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We've got the short and sweet stats of the big money (earned and spent) by our lush celebs uncovered by the finance fiends from Liquid Assets. Bono is the latest to reveal his figures... which are quite handsome for a strong-minded singer from Dublin.

We reckon Bono can bank on a personal fortune totalling around £108 million - having earned around £26m of it from U2's songs. And that's despite splitting all profits not four, but five ways - with all band members and manager Paul McGuinness.

Because artists in Ireland are exempt from paying tax on royalties or artistic incomes, Bono's saved millions of pounds over the years. The band's royalty rate is believed to be 28% making them one of the highest earning acts in pop history.

Touring has helped increase the tally:

Gigging world-wide in the 90s = £210m
Record sales = £200m
Songwriting royalties = £200m

And the band's still going strong - U2 earned around £5m from performance royalties last year alone.

Bono has made a few investments in property:

Apartment in Atlanta worth £2.5m
20-room house in Ireland worth £2.5m

He co-owns a house in France as well as a hotel in Dublin with The Edge but the hotel has recently reported accumulated losses of £4.5 million. In spite of this, Bono can still claim an overall bricks and mortar wealth of £7 million.

Touring doesn't come cheap for the gang - the stage show is often well worth an evening with U2. But to get there the boys have gotten used to travelling by private jet. To buy this would cost £35m, to rent it would cost £20k a day plus another £3k for every hour it flies.

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We've got the short and sweet stats of the big money (earned and spent) by our lush celebs uncovered by the finance fiends from Liquid Assets. Bowie's not far behind the leaders with his lengthy recording career, but he's had his share of spending sprees...

With his recording and business interests, Bowie's assets add up to over £240m. Take away his loan repayments, something for tax and his house-keeping expenses and you get his Liquid Assets total of, a still impressive, £150m.

Britain's original star man has made his money through record deals and by selling 120m albums. But he's also spent heavily living an extravagant rockstar lifestyle:

One room service account while touring in the 70s = £10,000
Debts in mid-70s = almost £400,000
Settlement for divorce from Angie in 1980 = £500,000

But he kept his career going and in the early 80s Bowie's greatest commercial album sold 6m copies, making him a nice £2m by 1984.

Touring has also been a good little earner for David:

The Glass Spider Tour = £15m
Serious Moonlight = £10m
Sound and Vision Tour = £10m

Including other gigs his tour total comes to an impressive £45m.

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We've got the short and sweet stats of the big money (earned and spent) by our lush celebs uncovered by the finance fiends from Liquid Assets. Posh and Becks are far from struggling... but are they far from reality with their spending?

David is definitely the family breadwinner - his wealth is estimated at £35 million. He's reckoned to have earned £15 million in the last few years from sponsorship alone. That includes:

Police sunglasses = £1m per year
Adidas = £2m
Pepsi = £1m
Rage software = £1m
M&S = £2m
Vodafone = £2m
updated biography = £2m

The couple have made an estimated £3.5m in magazine deals alone.

Posh's liquid assets are estimated at £28m. Much of her personal wealth comes from her days as a Spice girl. Merchandising, sponsorship and the film Spiceworld meant Victoria took home an estimated £3m. At their peak the Spice Girls earned her almost £9m in song writing royalties.

Posh and Becks' combined wealth is estimated at around £48 million.

Spend it like Beckam? Now let's see what the unofficial royal couple likes to luxuriate in:

David's cars = £800k
Beckingham Palace = £2.5m
Security system for humble abode = £300k
Home recording studio = £100k
Brooklyn's first birthday party = £10k
Brooklyn's nursery = £20k

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We've got the short and sweet stats of the big money (earned and spent) by our lush celebs uncovered by the finance fiends from Liquid Assets. The man who's renowned for big glasses and impulsive buying opened the accounts for us to look at...

Elton has accumulated a sizeable amount over a lengthy and successful recording career... resulting in a personal fortune of £305 million!

So how did he do it? Lets look at the music side of things first:

30 years touring= £300m
Record sales = £200m
Record deals = £280m

Elton's back catalogues's a nice little earner too. His income's set to rise £7m a year thanks to those sad, sad songs.

The five homes scattered across the globe add a nice, cosy £12 million to his total. Do stop by when you're in town:

Apartment in Atlanta= £1.5m
Windsor mansion = £5m
House in Nice = £3.5m
Apartment in Venice= £1.2m
London pad= £1m

So how does he spend it? Very well, aparently. He loves flowers, he adores Versace and when it comes to music... he's been known to spend thousands at a time on CD's, buying multiple copies for his multiple homes.

And you can forget the mad wigs of yesteryear, hair transplant surgeon Bessam Fargo estimates Elton spends between £5-£7k on hairpieces plus around £1k on maintenance costs (?!). Which totals around £60-£80k over a ten-year period.

Elton also likes his cars - at one point he owned a mere 200. Art? But of course - he has over 1,000 glass sculptures in his collection which, in its entirety, is worth £25 million.

The credit card bills are likely his worst fear - in one 20-month period he racked up £40m, making his average bill a quarter of a million pounds. Aw, but he is kind to friends - he once bought Kiki Dee a ring worth £15k just because she was feeling a bit low (gee, mum just makes me a cuppa).

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In de avond/nacht zo rond de 00:45, 60 minuten per aflevering.

_{PS: de uitzendschema's zijn wat chaotisch geplanned, ff goed in de gaten houden.}

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Op zaterdag 8 maart 2003 00:47 schreef yvonne het volgende:
Leuk topic

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*weer weg*

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Oasis's Millions looks behind the headlines to discover how the brains and brawn behind Oasis made their fortune. The programme charts the brothers' glory story from a grey and dingy suburb of Manchester to the star-studded leafy avenues of Primrose Hill.

Simon Sharman blows apart the myth that Alan McGee signed Oasis and secures the first ever interview with the man who did, he gets access to sleeve designs the battling brothers of Britpop didn't want people to see and finds out who the Gallaghers have let down in their dogged quest for fame and fortune. Sharman also works out just how much their notoriously bad behaviour and legendary 'borrowing' of other artists material, has actually cost them.

With a cast list including Mani from the Stone Roses, Clint Boon from the Inspiral Carpets, Terry Christian and Wayne Hemmingway, the programme shows when and where the Gallaghers made their millions and discovers that it has not all been squandered on dentist bills.

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Op zaterdag 8 maart 2003 00:50 schreef RemCow het volgende:
Hmm, ik zal es kijken!!

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Max Flint investigates the money trail of Jeffrey Archer, the man who likes to tell stories. The journey takes us to Bangkok to meet his right hand man who laundered millions of pounds, and to Canada where Jeffrey lost everything in an elaborate scam.

This investigation uncovers how a string of tall stories got him into high office at Westminster, but landed him in a prison cell for perjury. Politician, fundraiser, art dealer, property investor, and international best selling author, Jeffrey is worth millions.

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Liquid Assets is back for another snoop into the handbags and credit accounts of those you knew were rich but... how rich? This series investigates the bank balances and financial careers of Robbie Williams, Prince, Oasis, George Michael, Whitney Houston, Madonna and Jeffrey Archer.

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Op maandag 21 juli 2003 18:11 schreef BlaatschaaP het volgende:
Even voor de duidelijkheid: Die o moet dus een on worden?

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This investigation uncovers how a string of tall stories got him into high office at Westminster, but landed him in a prison cell for perjury. Politician, fundraiser, art dealer, property investor, and international best selling author, Jeffrey is worth millions.

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The Material Girl is paid another visit, with brand new footage and unseen interviews from those in the know in Madonna's life.

Her movie earnings come under scrutiny, with presenter Max Flint paying a visit to the organisers of the Razzies - the alternative to the Oscars - who reveal how she won nine awards in their history and three this year, after her panned performance in Swept Away and the Bond movie Die Another Day.

Liquid Assets stays on the trail of Guy Ritchie's Swept Away (which went straight to DVD in this country), and meets the Production Manager in Malta, where the film was shot, to find out just how Diva-like was the icon of pop on set. Max Flint also talks to her first business manager, who reveals how Madonna used to give him just 60 seconds to speak to her on the phone, and how they parted company after 15 years.

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Liquid Assets uncovers the money trail that tells the remarkable story of the shy chubby boy who grew up to be a pop pin-up and one of the most successful male solo artists of all time. Club Tropicana drinks may be free, but George Michael's lifestyle is definitely not - on the shopping list is a £17K haircut a £1million pop video and John Lennon's piano costing nearly £1.5 million!

We chart the rise of Wham! the biggest band of the 80s and reveal how his decision to kill off the pop-star image he created, landed him one of the most expensive court cases in showbiz. Across the Atlantic we talk exclusively to the Judge who fined him after he was caught with his trousers down and reveal what his public coming out did for his career and his relationship with America, the biggest music buying market in the world. George Michael's Millions is a story of hedonism, power, sex and a money making machine on which George Michael himself pulled the plug!

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Lifting the lid on Whitney Houston's finances. The most successful female recording artist ever, she's amassed a huge personal fortune, but how did she do it?

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