Sentence examples for highest paid performer from inspiring English sources

It focused on a radio program in October in which Jonathan Ross, the BBC's highest paid performer, and a fellow comedian, Russell Brand, left lewd messages on an aging actor's telephone answering machine.

Miss Baez, the highest paid performer at $26,000, said she would donate some money to A.S. Neill's experimental board ing school, Summerhill, in Leis ton, Suffolk, and some to the Institute for the Study of Non violence in New York.

Later that year she became the first solo female artist to headline the main Pyramid stage at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival in over twenty years, and was named the "Highest Paid Performer Per Minute in the World", having earlier earned £1.25 million for a five-song performance at a private New Year's Eve party on St. Barts in 2010.

Maria Bartiromo grew up in the cable television business and became one of its highest paid performers and brand name figures.

Our friends at HuffPost Teen documented the mega-star's accomplishments -- he has had five number one albums on the Billboard charts and is one of the highest paid performers under 30.

As vaudeville's emphasis shifted from sentiment to sex in the early 1900s, Eva Tanguay became the highest paid single performer in vaudeville, but she lost her fortune during the stock market crash of 1929, and she spent the remaining two decades of her life a bedridden recluse.

A singer who was called the "Empress of the Blues", at one point she was the highest paid black performer in the U.S. ____ 2.

This summer Forbes revealed that Katy Perry was the third highest paid entertainer and the highest paid musical performer on the planet, earning $135m£88m8m) over 12 months.

David Beckham, in his fifth season in Los Angeles, is still the highest paid player in Major League Soccer — and still more of a celebrity than a consistent performer for the Galaxy.

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