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'Tis the season to be merry, and our favorite stars are certainly in a jolly mood. From Diddy's picture-perfect family holiday card to the Obamas' annual Christmas preparations, see how our favorite stars celebrated this festive season.
Kim Kardashian enjoyed a family night out at the cinema on Saturday night as she watched her fiancé, Kanye West's cameo in new movie Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.
The pretty star was joined by her man as well as mum Kris Jenner, 58, half-sister Kendall, 18, older sister Kourtney, 34, and her boyfriend Scott Disick, 30.
The group were also joined by friends Black Chyna and Tyga as they headed to the Edwards Theaters Grand Palace Stadium 6 in California to watch the comedy.
Their fly-all-on-the-wall reality show transformed them into celebrities with fans desperate to know their every move.
But a new report claims that it might be time for the Kardashian family to take a break.
PageSix report that a magazine publisher has revealed: 'It's over. The fatigue factor has really set in. None of the Kardashians, either alone or together, is selling.'
It will be a hot Christmas in Barbados for Rihanna who returned home on Saturday, where she appeared keen to change into much more appropriate attire.
The superstar singer shared a number snaps as she relaxed in a patterned bikini with her mother, ahead of the holidays.
Despite wearing very little make-up, the 25-year-old posted two selfies on her Instagram page in her brown two-piece, while showing off her numerous tattoos.
Shoppers at Walmart were excited to see Beyonce's new album on the shelves, but imagine their shock when the diva herself showed up.
The 32-year-old singer made a special appearance at a branch of the mega-chain store in Tewksbury, Massachusetts on Friday night, where she sparked a mass of screaming fans.
The Crazy In Love singer was there to celebrate the success of her fifth and record-breaking studio album, which is aptly-titled, Beyonce.
Chris Brown is reported to be under strict supervision for an upcoming charity trip.The 24-year-old is said to have been granted special permission to leave rehab for a few hours on Sunday to help collect Christmas toys for underprivileged children.
But the singer has allegedly been warned he will be kicked out of rehab if he misbehaves during the outing.
It seems that serial smoker Simon Cowell will be kicking the habit in time for his new arrival.
The music mogul said in an interview that he would be giving up his cigarettes and not be smoking in front of his son, after he was criticised for puffing away near his pregnant girlfriend Lauren Silverman.
'I won't do that,' Simon told LBC 97.3. 'I've learnt that. I'm trying to do electronic cigarettes, they're not bad. But moderation would be better.
The holidays aren't just for family get-togethers - they're also the time for romantic wedding proposals.
Gabrielle Union became one of the happy statistics as she announced her engagement to Miami Heat basketball player Dwyane Wade on Saturday.
The 41-year-old Think Like A Man actress shared the thrilling news on her Twitter page along with a picture of the spectacular ring on her finger, a square-cut diamond set on what appears to be a platinum band.
'Sooooo this happened...#Yessss,' Gabrielle excitedly wrote in the caption.
'She said YES!!!' Dwyane, 31, echoed on his own Twitter account, alongside a post of the same photo.
The photo is a close-up of just her hand wearing the dazzling ring and resting gently on Dwyane's fingertips.
The basketball player proposed with an 8.5 carat cushion cut diamond ring by jewellery store Jason of Beverly Hills.
And according to reports the dazzling engagement ring is worth almost a million dollars.
And apparently Dwayne took his time in finding the perfect stone for the ring - sending his jeweller to Miami in search of the right gem - and on the third trip - he found the enormous diamond which he set in a platinum band.
The more cynical thought it was a ploy to help repair his battered image.
But perhaps Justin Bieber revealed the true reason he handed out gifts to fans after he posted a picture of himself as Santa on the internet.
The jolly Canadian looks full of festive cheer in the image, in which he stands with his hands in a prayer position.
And while the 19-year-old's costume is traditional, he added a bit of Bieber magic to the ensemble by donning a pair of oversized sunglasses.
A jolly elf also sits upon his left shoulder, and the image will surely raise questions on whether Justin really is from Canada, or if he has a home further afield at the North Pole
It comes after he surprised 150 Boys And Girls Club kids who were attending a special screening his movie Believe in Los Angeles on Monday.
Some cynics claimed it may have been a stunt dreamed up by his managers after his image took something of a battering following his bad boy antics in
They may be 33 and 34-years-old.But Kris Jenner cannot help but buy Kourtney and Kim Kardashian, and the rest of the family, matching pjyamas to wear on Christmas Day every year.
In proof of the tradition, Kourtney recently uploaded a photo of herself, mum Kris, 58, and sister Kim to her Instagram page along with the words, 'An 80s Christmas,' showing the trio in matching outfits.
She's a mother of two-year-old twins but still has one of the most incredible bikini bodies in the celebrity world.
And, just in time to make her fans think twice about having that second helping of Christmas dinner, Mariah Carey has stripped to show off her truly incredible bikini body.
Us Weekly has discovered that Nico Jackson popped the question during their early December trip to India's Oberoi Amarvilas. Cute!
"It was exactly how he planned it," one source told the magazine of the proposal. "Very romantic and grand!"
The pair have been dating for 15 months, and are completely smitten with each other.
Us Weekly also claims that the couple have been celebrating their happy news in private, and a source says that they plan to spend Boxing Day at her family's home, before heading to the Alps for vacation in the new year. Alright for some, hey?
A teary-eyed Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell (left), 23, made an emotional visit to Paul Walker's Santa Barbara, California, home three days after the 40-year-old actor's death. Jasmine, barefoot and without a trace of makeup on her face, broke down in tears as she emerged from her silver SUV and was embraced by an unnamed male friend (top right). She had reportedly been dating Walker since 2006 when she was just 16 and he was 33 (bottom right).
Paul Walker's grief-stricken girlfriend appeared in public Tuesday for the first time since the fiery car wreck that cost the actor his life.
Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell, 23, made an emotional visit to Walker's Santa Barbara home yesterday - just three days after the 40-year-old star of the Fast & Furious franchise was killed along with his friend Roger Rodas in a horrific Porsche crash.
The young woman appeared visibly shaken as she spent three hours at the house with her late boyfriend’s family.
Beyoncé was named Bing's most searched celebrity of 2013. According to Reuters, the singer beat out 2012 list-topper, Kim Kardashian, who came in second this year.
Beyoncé, 32, had a standout year kicking off 2013 with a performance at President Obama's inauguration in January, headlining the Superbowl in February and embarking on The Mrs. Carter Show world tour in April.
The singer also released a very personal HBO documentary, Life Is But a Dream, and covered Vogue and GQ magazines. No wonder her name came up in search engines more often than not!
Bing releases an annual list of its most-searched terms and phrases by categories including, entertainment, sports, technology and news.
This year's list was dominated by women, as Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Madonna rounded out the top five. Nicki Minaj and President Obama were among the top 10 searches.
Beyoncé is pushing to end her year on a high note. Her documentary Life Is But a Dream was released on November 25th and has already topped the charts in the UK. The Mrs. Carter World Tour continues until December 22nd.
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It said deputies found a car engulfed in flames when they responded to a report of a collision. Two people found in the car were pronounced dead at the scene.
"It is with a truly heavy heart that we must confirm that Paul Walker passed away today in a tragic car accident while attending a charity event for his organisation Reach Out Worldwide," the statement on the actor's Facebook page said.
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"He was a passenger in a friend's car, in which both lost their lives. We... are stunned and saddened beyond belief by this news.''
Universal Pictures also issued a statement, saying studio staff were "heartbroken" by Walker's death.
"Paul was truly one of the most beloved and respected members of our studio family for 14 years, and this loss is devastating to us, to everyone involved with the Fast & Furious films, and to countless fans.
"We send our deepest and most sincere condolences to Paul's family."
Walker played undercover agent Brian O'Conner in the Fast & Furious movies.
The first film of the franchise was released in 2001 and the seventh is in development.
Walker was one of the leading protagonists, along with Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez.
Diesel said in a post on Instagram: "Brother I will miss you very much. I am absolutely speechless. Heaven has gained a new Angel. Rest in Peace."
Another Fast & Furious star, the rapper Ludacris, wrote: "Your humble spirit was felt from the start, wherever you blessed your presence you always left a mark, we were like brothers."
Walker began acting as a young boy when his mother, a model, took him to auditions for commercials.
After drifting away from acting, he got his big break when a casting director remembered him from years before, tracked him down and gave him a role in the TV series Touched by an Angel.
Walker later won a recurring part in the soap The Young and the Restless before moving on to supporting roles in teen films in the late 1990s with Varsity Blues, She's All That and The Skulls.
After the success of the first Fast & Furious film, Walker became the leading man for the second instalment when Vin Diesel dropped out.
The sixth instalment of the Fast & Furious franchise topped the US box office
Diesel later returned, however, and the six-film franchise has earned an estimated $2.4bn (£1.5bn) at global box offices. The series has not lost its appeal, with the latest instalment, the sixth, the most lucrative so far.
The seventh instalment began filming in September but has not been completed. It had been scheduled for release in July.
Walker has also filmed Hurricane Katrina drama Hours, which is due to be released on 13 December.
Another forthcoming film is Brick Mansions, a remake of the French action film District B13, for film studio Relativity.
Relativity President Tucker Tooley said in a statement: "Paul was an incredibly talent artist, devoted philanthropist and friend."
Forbes magazine has been hard at work with its calculators to reveal Africa’s 40 richest people – but the list has been scrubbed clean of any dictators.
Top of the pile is Nigerian Aliko Dangote, head of food and cement company Dangote Group, with a net worth of $10.1billion (£6.4billion).
Many of Africa’s former presidents such as Kenya’s former president Daniel Arap Moi and Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodorin Obiang are also billionaires, but Forbes discounts them as much of their wealth comes from being in a position of power.
Forbes describes the list as ‘a testament to the growing global importance of the continent’.
The combined wealth of the 40 richest people in Africa is $64.9billion (£41billion) - and 16 of them are billionaires in their own right.
There are no women on the list at all and the richest men are based in just six of Africa's 47 countries - Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco and Egypt.
Dangote’s wealth has shot up by a staggering 557 per cent in the past year alone, according to Forbes.
His Lagos-based company is Africa’s biggest cement manufacturer –and it also makes enormously popular food products such as noodles, spaghetti and milk.
Like any self-respecting high roller, 54 year old Dangote likes to flash the cash. His 45th birthday present to himself, for instance, was a £28million bombardier aircraft, which he uses to pop over to London for meetings.
Number two on the list is 66-year-old South African Nicky Oppenheimer, who has amassed a $6.5billion (£4.1billion) fortune through the lucrative diamond trade.
He took the helm of world famous De Beers in 1998, but sold a 40 per cent stake in the company to Anglo American, which was founded by his grandfather, for $5.1billion.
You’ll find the third wealthiest African in Egypt. Nassef Sawiris has a net worth of $4.75billion (£3billion) and runs the country’s most valuable publicly-traded company – Orascom Construction Industries.
Fifty-year-old Sawiris makes a bit of extra cash through stakes in cement firm Lafarge and Texas Industries.
Completing the top five are Johann Rupert, the 61-year-old South African worth $4.7billion (£2.9billion) who heads Richemont, an umbrella company for the likes of Dunhill and Montblanc, and 58-year-old oil tycoon Nigerian Mike Adenuga who’s worth $4.3billion (£2.7billion).
Forbes never includes rulers in its rich lists, explaining that it’s hard to distinguish between wealth derived from entrepreneurship and that gained from being in high office.
Were presidents to be included in Africa’s rich list, Daniel Arap Moi would undoubtedly be near the top. He ruled Kenya for 28 years and diverted a billion dollars from the government’s bank account to his own personal one, according to risk consultancy company Kroll Associates.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak has a fortune that Forbes puts at being ‘in the region of nine to 10 figures’.
However, it’s almost impossible to calculate his precise worth.
The magazine said: ‘It is almost certain that Mubarak diverted an enormous amount of his country’s funds into his personal piggy bank.’
Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodorin Obiang has a $600million fortune, according to Forbes, but it is convinced that a lot of this has also been amassed by siphoning off state funds.
Pastors are no longer solely interested in getting people to Heaven; they’ve devised intelligent ways to make good money while reaching out to souls. Take Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, for example. He is the founder and lead pastor of the Christ Embassy, a thriving congregation with branches in Nigeria, South Africa, London, Canada and the United States. His publishing company, Loveworld Publications, publishes ‘Rhapsody of Realities,’ a monthly devotional he co-authors with his wife. It sells over 2 million copies every month at $1 apiece. He also owns television stations, newspapers, magazines, a hotel, a fast-food chain, and more. Many other Nigerian pastors are similarly building multi-million dollar empires from their churches. Today, pastors fly around in private jets, drive fancy cars like Daimlers, Porsches and BMWs, don Rolexes and Patek Phillipes, and own breathtaking mansions all over the world.
Bishop David Oyedepo Affiliation: Living Faith World Outreach Ministry, aka Winners Chapel Estimated net worth: $150 million David Oyedepo is Nigeria’s wealthiest preacher. Ever since he founded the Living Faith World Outreach Ministry in 1981, it has grown to become one of Africa’s largest congregations. The Faith Tabernacle, where he hosts three services every Sunday, is Africa’s largest worship center, with a seating capacity of 50,000. Oyedepo owns four private jets and homes in London and the United States. He also owns Dominion Publishing House, a thriving publishing company that publishes all his books (which are often centered on prosperity). He founded and owns Covenant University, one of Nigeria’s leading tertiary institutions, and Faith Academy, an elite high school.
Chris Oyakhilome Church: Believers’ Loveworld Ministries, a.k.a Christ Embassy Estimated net worth: $30 million – $50 million Last year, the charismatic preacher was at the center of a $35 million money laundering case in which he was accused of siphoning funds from his church to foreign banks. Pastor Chris pleaded no wrongdoing and the case was eventually dismissed. His church, Christ Embassy, boasts more than 40,000 members, several of whom are successful business executives and politicians. Oyakhilome’s diversified interests include newspapers, magazines, a local television station, a record label, satellite TV, hotels and extensive real estate. His Loveworld TV Network is the first Christian network to broadcast from Africa to the rest of the world on a 24 hour basis.
Temitope Joshua Church: Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) Estimated net worth: $10 million – $15 million Nigeria’s most controversial clergyman is also one of its richest and most philanthropic. T.B Joshua heads the Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN), a congregation he founded in 1987, which accommodates over 15,000 worshippers on Sundays. The Pastor has remained controversial for several years for his inexplicable powers to heal all sorts of incurable diseases, including HIV/AIDS, cancer and paralysis. For miracle-craving worshippers, it’s the perfect seduction. The church currently has branches in Ghana, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Greece. In the past three years, he has given over $20 million to causes in education, healthcare and rehabilitation programs for former Niger Delta militants. He owns Emmanuel TV, a Christian television network, and is close friends with Ghanaian President Atta Mills.
Matthew Ashimolowo Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC) Estimated net worth: $6 million – $10 million In 1992, Foursquare Gospel Church, a Nigerian church, sent Ashimolowo to open a satellite branch in London. But Pastor Matthew had other ideas and decided to set up his own church instead. Today, his Kingsway International Christian Center is reportedly the largest Pentecostal church in the United Kingdom. In 2009, the church posted profits of close to $10 million and assets worth $40 million. Ashimolowo earns an annual salary of $200,000, but his real wealth comes from varied business interests including his media company, Matthew Ashimolowo media, which churns out Christian literature and documentaries. Ashimolowo’s representatives did not respond to a request confirming his net worth and ownership of all these assets.
Chris Okotie Church: Household of God Church Net worth: $3 million -$10 million Pastor Okotie made his first success as a popular pop musician in the 80s. He found the light, embraced the bible and set up the Household of God Church, one of Nigeria’s most flamboyant congregations. His 5,000 member church consists predominantly of Nollywood celebrities, musicians, and society people. He contested and lost Nigerian presidential elections for the third time this year under the Fresh Party, a political party he founded and funds. An automobile lover, he owns a Mercedes S600, Hummer and Porsche among several others. Source: www.nigeriaweeklynews.com
'Sooooo this happened...#Yessss,' Gabrielle excitedly wrote in the caption.
burned-out wreckage of a red Porsche[/caption]The red Porsche crashed into a lamp post in Valencia, north of Los Angeles
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