In 2007 teenage star Miley Cyrus who plays Hannah Montana in the Disney sitcom of the same name, earned a staggering $18.2 million – the highest wage for a teenage star this year.

Miley is also a pop singer who had no less than seven songs from her soundtrack album in the US singles chart at the same time, something that both Elvis and even the Beatles never did.

With computer games, DVDs, make-up, pillow diaries, towels and loads of other stuff that little girl’s love, Hannah Montana (Miley in a blonde wig) is a merchandise machine. Quite remarkably she is also penning her autobiography which should net her a cool $1 million.

There is also a big-budget movie in the pipeline, which is sure to know the crown right off ‘High School Musicals’ squeaky clean head, and with her father (and dad in the show) country singer, Billy-Ray Cyrus (you know – Achy Breaky Heart) on the production credits, talk about keeping it in the family…

Time Magazines ‘Most Influential People in the World’ List, Miley ranked 59th – higher that George Clooney, Mariah Carey and media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.

All this has made Miley the paparazzi’s main target. According to reports Briteny Spear’s has around half a dozen trailing her around but Miley has over 30. How long will it be before she get’s married for 12 hours, shaves her head and run’s over a photographer? Well she’s already got the ball rolling with a photoshoot with Vanity Fair where she posed topless under a blanket – which as you can imagine caused outrage amonst the parents of America.

Despite approving the shoot, Miley has since apologised and hinted that she was tricked in to the shoot: “I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed,” she said in a statement. “I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologise to my fans who I care so deeply about.”

The new ‘all grown-up’ image has already attracted Playboy boss Hugh Hefner who invited the star to pose in his magazine when she turns 18. “She would be welcomed in the magazine. She’s a very pretty lady,” he said.  

The ‘lets try make Miley breakdown before her sixteenth birthday’ bandwagon is in full effect now and the star herself is making matters worse by defending out-of-control stars like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears. “Basically, they’re being normal 21-year-olds, especially Lindsay Lohan,” she said recently. “I mean, most of that’s pretty normal.”

Former child star Paul Petersen (one of the original Mousketeers), who now runs a support group for child stars, says he believes a Miley Cyrus meltdown is inevitable: “I fear that since this path has been trodden so many times, that unless someone takes aggressive, active steps with her – I’m talking serious intervention – that we’re going to watch yet another meltdown.”

All I can say is good luck Miley, you are going to need a hell of a lot of it to get through your teenage years unscathed.

TV presenter Fearne Cotton is “addicted to tattoos” and would love to cover her whole body in them, but is worried it would harm her career.

She said: “Seriously, if I wasn’t on TV I’d have tattoos all over my whole body. I would go mental. Because I’m addicted to tattoos. I love the look, the process, the feeling of, ‘Yes! I didn’t pass out, I’ve just achieved something.’ I have more than 11 now. Not that my mother knows.”

Ever the rebel, Fearne also got another tattoo while she was in the US recently.

The 26-year-old star added to in an interview: “I got a new one in Los Angeles, it covers most of my back at the bottom and it’s a 50s pin-up mermaid, lovely boobs, beautiful. I love Amy Winehouse’s tattoos but I can’t do arms. I can’t do ‘Children In Need’ with a naked chick on my arm, can I?”

Although she is wary of her image when she is on TV, Fearne refuses to change her sense of style.

She said: “People have tried to pressure me over the years to look more conservative. But this is how I dress. I’ve always been quite strong in the sense that I believe in who I am. Obviously you want to appeal to a mass audience and not scare people off, but I don’t think it’s a scary prospect, I just like quirky clothing!”

Sam Ronson has thanked fans for their well wishes after girlfriend Lindsay Lohan took her to hospital. The DJ sister of producer Mark Ronson was taken to Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Lindsay’s Cadillac Escalade car with Lindsay in the front seat, Sam in the back with an unidentified male.

Sam wrote on her MySpace blog on Monday: ”Thanks for all your messages, I’m home and all good. was just pretty exhausted from travelling and working too much to buy Chanukah gifts and my Jewish mother was worried about me. I had good company and a Jerry’s deli delivery of chicken soup and potato pancakes and am feeling much better and am back to watching all my favourite Jerry Bruckheimer shows!”

On Saturday night Sam, 31, and Lindsay, 22, were at Hollywood’s Ecco Ultra Lounge, where Sam played a set along with Adam 12 and Benji Madden. Lindsay left the club before Sam had finished playing. 

Sam’s DJing fees have rocketed since she started dating Lindsay according to the New York Daily News. She used to earn £1,000 a set and now charges up to £17,000 because club promoters know there is a good chance Lindsay will turn up with her. She is thought to have made around £2 million from gigging in 2008!

What began so dreadfully has turned into a quite extraordinary year for Cheryl. Since joining the X Factor team she’s become the nation’s new sweetheart, charming viewers with her warmth, humility, steely commitment, tears, smiles and wit.

It’s been nearly six years since Cheryl, Kimberley, Sarah, Nadine and Nicola pipped rival reality boyband One True Voice to the Christmas No1 slot with their debut single Sound of the Underground. Since then, they’ve notched up four No1 singles. All 19 of their singles have gone Top 10. Out of Control, their fifth studio album, and sixth overall, shot straight to No1.

Being one-fifth of Britain’s biggest girlband and playing a pivotal role on the nation’s biggest TV show means there’s not a lot of free time for Cheryl.

After X Factor, she’s into rehearsals for the tour which will take her through until next June. “After that I’m going somewhere hot,” she laughs. “But working hard is normal for me. People will think I’m a weirdo but when I’ve had time off I’m glad to be back at work.”

This week, in between photoshoots and filming, Cheryl and her bandmates launched a new education initiative with Canine Charity Dogs Trust and Nintendo. Nadine and Kimberley are appearing in Nintendo DS ads, and the scheme sees the firm donating DS consoles and copies of Nintendogs to Dogs Trust to take into schools.

Spending the day at Dogs Trust and seeing how many animals had been badly treated nearly set off canine-crazy Cheryl’s famous waterworks.

“People see a newborn puppy and fall in love with it. But they don’t have time to look after it properly. That’s distressing enough. But to see cruelty breaks my heart. Nintendogs is a great way to show people how much work is involved in looking after a dog.”

Cheryl has two dogs herself – Buster and Coco her two chihuahhuas, “I see them as my babies,” she says. “Sometimes I think I love dogs more than I love humans. I know they can’t talk back to me. But they express their personalities in other ways.”

“When I’ve been away for a couple of days Buster goes in a huff with me. He won’t run up and be happy to see me – he’ll give me a filthy look.”

Madonna’s latest single she has released is her worst ever, including her performances when attempting to promote the new release. The single is called Miles Away and she has released it from her new album Hard Candy, the single entered the charts at number 39 and it has now disappeared without a trace, this has never happened to Madonna before and we are wondering is it because of how she has treated Guy Ritchie during their public divorce this past few months. 

This will be a massive blow for Madonna and it is not what she needs in her current situation, only managing to reach number 39 in the charts could be disastrous for her, as she is completely obsessed by her career and ensuring she is successful. 

Madonna is now reportedly worried that her divorce may of ruined her career, as this is he first time in her 24 year career that her single has not even made the top 20! 

Madonna’s previous lowest entry before Miles Away was a track called Oh Father which she recorded for a Estee Lauder perfume in 1996, and even this managed to get to number 16 in the charts… 

Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker (SJP) claims she’s not a slave to fashion like her character Carrie Bradshaw.

In an interview, after the Berlin premiere of her upcoming movie, the 43-year-old actress said, “I am a mother, wife and working woman in the first place, clothes do not play such a big role in my life than they do in Carrie’s.

“And there is no favorite designer or accessory as there is Manolo Blahnik for Carrie — there are so many talented and exciting designers, I could not possibly choose one favorite.”

The Berlin premiere came about due to the enthusiastic fan-base of the HBO series in Europe – much to the chagrin of some of the star’s who believed it should have taken place in New York (where the movie takes place). The series ran from 1998 to 2004 and broke many barriers. Joining Parker on the red carpet Thursday night were co-stars Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.

The movie begins in the present, with the characters older and more thoughtful than their younger selves. Carrie, now in her early 40s, is a contributing editor to Vogue and a best-selling writer. She’s got more money, and she’s also got Mr. Big (Chris Noth), her longtime love.

Talking about how the movie got off the ground, SJP said: “It took me a year and a half to put this movie back together again,

“I never in a million years thought I could. Our goal was to get the four women on that set. Lo and behold, we did and it was thrilling.”

“People are gonna be stunned, floored and happy,” the actress said of the plot. “They’re gonna be happy, surprised, feel a lot of sadness, and hopefully understand what it is that’s happened in Carrie’s life.”

With the plot of the film still under wraps, fans will have to wait until the movie opens to find out if Carrie ends up in wedded bliss with her man, Mr. Big. But Parker did reveal that fans should expect a grown-up movie.

The film was directed by Michael Patrick King and is bout finding ‘the happy ending’ – but apparently has some surprising twists. When asked about a sequel, SJP replied: “We have not discussed this.” “Sex and the City” opens May 30 in the U.S

Diana Vickers has said that her plans are to look for someone new in her life this new year, she has said it is a new year and she wants a new, fresh start for 2009, and would like a loveable companion to share it with… 

The X Factor starlet’s love life with ex-boyfriend Chris Jones and fellow finalist Eoghan Quigg has been the subject of rumours for the past few weeks, and she has recently ‘cooled things off’ with Chris as she is moving from her hometown of Blackburn to London, and they will be too far apart to continue the relationship, but the blonde  is not looking for a replacement boyfriend, she has revealed she is looking for a loveable mutt.

“I want a dog, I really want a pet dog,” she said. “But I don’t know whether I am going to be busy, whether that would be practical.”

And it seems she’s not the only X Factor star who enjoys spending time with canine friends.

X Factor choreographer Brian Friedman says he loves spending time with his dogs, as they help him to relax and switch off from everything, he has just spent christmas in Barbados with his dogs, sounds so much more peaceful than having all the family round for christmas dinner!

Rachel Stevens is reportedly struggling to rehearse for Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing final after falling during training her training this week. Rachel is a former member of pop band S Club 7 and has hurt her back badly in a rehearsal with her dancing partner Vincent Simone. 

Rachel, 30, is said to be undergoing emergency treatment to help her get well enough to perform in Saturday’s live show.

A source said: “Rachel’s having emergency physio and is taking painkillers. It couldn’t have come at a worse time because she’s desperate to be fully fit for the final.”

“She’s been struggling with her back and all the lifts haven’t helped. However, she really jarred it after falling heavily. It’s a real shame.”

Rachel is the bookmakers’ favourite to win the glitter ball trophy at odds of 6/4, ahead of grand finalists Tom Chambers and Lisa Snowdon.

There is always a team of physios on hand to help the contestants with any problems they may have and hopefully this will mean Rachel will be performing in the final on saturday.

Details are emerging from Britney Spears’ upcoming documentary on Sky1, which includes many personal revelations from the singer about her struggles over the last two years.

The troubled star admits she regrets her marriage to Kevin Federline, the pair were engaged just three months after they met which Britney had now admit was far too soon, and they then married in September 2004 and separated two years later, after the birth of their two sons.

“I think I married for the wrong reasons, Instead of following my heart and doing what made me really happy, I just did it for the sake of the idea of everything.”

The mum-of-two also made the shocking admission that she finds her life harder than a jail sentence: “Even when you go to jail you know there’s the time when you’re gonna get out. But in this situation, it’s never ending. It’s just like Groundhog Day every day.” A very strong comment which maybe we should all step back and think about, living in the limelight is not always great fun. 

“There’s no excitement, there’s no passion,” Britney said. “I have really good days, and then I have bad days… If I wasn’t under the restraints I’m under, I’d feel so liberated. When I tell them the way I feel, it’s like they hear but they’re really not listening.”

Generally boring songstress Leona Lewis has started what could turn in to a war of words with stick-thin mess Amy Winehouse. The Bleeding Love singer said that although she admired Amy’s singing talents she did not want to end up like her.

She claims she will avoid the pitfalls of fame and fortune (must suck when you’re a squillionaire…) by having the support of a strong family to keep her feet on the ground.

Leona, 23, said: “Amy is so talented. But a performer’s privacy is taken away. The media are always there.

“You can’t make your mistakes in private. I have the advantage of a great support structure.

“I get honest opinions from family and friends. They aren’t always telling me what I want to hear, but the truth helps keep my head straight.”

The singer was also proud to be likened to legendary diva’s Whitney Houston, 44 and Mariah Carey, 38.

Leona in her interview with a US magazine added: “It’s exceedingly gratifying because they’re so great.”