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The Sunday Times has published it’s 2012 Rich List and Sir Terry Matthews, Sir Tom Jones and Catherine Zeta Jones all make it into the top 20 richest people in Wales.
The Newbridge born business man, who is reportedly worth £1.09billion, has regained the top spot on Wales’ rich list. The telecoms tycoon last topped the list in 2009.
According to the survey, since last year the 68 year-olds fortunes has reportedly grown by £47m.
In second place is Cardiff born Michael Moritz who set up the internet site Linkedin. Stakes in social media websites, including Facebook, Linkedin and Badoo have boosted the wealth of a number of millionaires in the latest** **rich list.
In third place is founder of Specsavers, Douglas Perkins and his wife Dame Mary. Last year they topped the list of the richest people in Wales.
Both Sir Tom Jones and Catherine Zeta have also kept hold of a spot within the top 20 of the Sunday Times Rich List.
- 1. Sir Terry Matthews – £1,090m
- 2. Michael Moritz – £1,082m
- 3. Douglas Perkins – £870m
- 4. Simon Nixon – £536m
- 5. Henry Engelhardt – £528m
- 6. Steve Morgan – £410m
- 7. David Sullivan – £400m
- 8. Sir Stanley and Peter Thomas – £225m
- 9. Malcolm Walker – £200m
- 10. Catherine Zeta-Jones – £185m
- 11. Dai and Richard Walters – £180m
- 12. Sir Tom Jones – £140m
- 13. David and Heather Steven – £137m
- 14. Duncan Cameron – £132m
- 15. Sir Chris Evans – £120m
- 16. = Andrew Owens and Alex Lewis – £110m
- 16. = Andy Pritchard – £110m
- 18. Hayley Parsons – £95m
- 19. William Lloyd – £93m
- 20. Bernard Rees Smith – £90m
- 21. Andrew Vicari – £85m
- 22. = Tarsem Dhaliwal – £80m
- 22. = James Hull – £80m
- 24. Peter Darwell – £77m
According to the complete Sunday Times Rich List the wealthiest 1,000 people in the UK are now worth a record £414 billion.
There are 77 billionaires in the 2012** **rich list this year, two more than the previous record of 75 in 2008 and the threshold to even be among the 1,000 richest people in Britain rose by £2 million on last year – with individuals needing at least £72 million to make the list.
[054] June 12th – 65th Annual Tony Awards
[019] September 10th – 2011 US Open
[007] October 1st – Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark
[065] October 13th – Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s 6th Annual Kirk Douglas Award For Excellence In Film Gala
[183] October 15th – 6th Annual A Fine Romance Event
[087] November 21st – 2011 Children Of Chernobyl’s Children At Heart Gala
[003] November 30th – Art Basel Miami Beach
Michael Douglas will be honored with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Monte Cristo Award in a ceremony to be held at the Edison Ballroom on Monday, April 16. Tony Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is Douglas’ wife, will serve as presenter of the award.
Douglas has won Academy Awards for his performance in Wall Street and for producing the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Among his many other screen credits as an actor are Fatal Attraction, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, Disclosure, and The American President. In addition, he received a Theatre World Award for his performance in George Tabori’s Pinkville off-Broadway.
The Monte Cristo Award is given to a prominent theater artist in recognition of a distinguished career exemplifying Eugene O’Neill’s “pioneering spirit, unceasing artistic commitment, and excellence.”
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DOUBLE Oscar-winner Michael Douglas says his “happier” marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones is good for the couple’s children.
The 67-year-old Hollywood actor was speaking to friend Alec Baldwin in a new series of star interviews Baldwin is doing for US radio station WNYC.
During the frank talk, Douglas spoke of his heartbreak over his son Cameron, 32, who is serving five years in prison for drug dealing and possession.
He said he felt his son’s drug problems might be genetic, adding: “I think there’s a certain genetic part, and I think as far as drug addiction, your peer group plays a huge part.”
Douglas said his experience with his younger children from his second marriage to 42-year-old Welsh star Zeta-Jones, Dylan, 11, and Carys, seven, was very different.
He said this was partly because the world had changed, but also because he was in “a happier marriage”.
Douglas, whose 23-year marriage to first wife Diandra ended in 2000, added: “Secrets play a part in this, in the fact that whether it’s a bad marital relationship that you’re trying to keep from your children and the tension is there and you’re not really kind of up-front.
While January is generally considered a dumping ground for studio leftovers, don’t tell that to Mark Wahlberg. His upcoming thriller “Contraband” is slated for release on January 13, 2012 and it looks like the actor wants to keep starting off your year with a bang, because he’s got another film a year later, pretty much right in the same frame.
The crime noir “Broken City” co-starring Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones will now land on January 18, 2013 via 20th Century Fox who have acquired the film, reports THR. Set to be directed by Allen Hughes, the dark tale follows Billy Taggart (Wahlberg), an ex-cop thrown off the force after shooting a 16-year-old kid. Eight years on, he’s working as a private detective and is hired by the colorful incumbent in the New York mayoral race to investigate his wife’s infidelity. Taggart, however, digs up much, much more including a shady real estate deal in a story of city corruption that is not unlike “Chinatown.” Crowe will play the mayor, with Zeta-Jones as his philandering wife. But the movie will have some big competition that weekend.
Lionsgate has already slated “The Last Stand” with Arnold Schwarzenegger for that date, so somebody is gonna have to blink as they will be playing right to the same crowd. But there is still plenty of time for release date jostling to happen. This is another high profile flick to go to the typically awful early winter frame. Tom Cruise‘s “One Shot” is another straight genre piece that will be arriving on February 8, 2013. With summer dates now getting more and more competitive, it seems studios are trying to find gaps in the calendar where they can have a bit more breathing room to play as evidenced by the move of “Thor 2” to November 15, 2013. Whether this roll of the dice will pay off remains to be seen—those pesky students are still in school and not looking to occupy their time. But it’s the mark of a trend that is worth keeping an eye on.