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Bruno Mars just gave all his band members gold watches that cost more than $55,000 each.Bruno posted photos of himself presenting all seven of his bandmates with the Audemars Piguet timepieces, in custom boxes that read “Bruno Mars 24K Magic World Tour Edition.” “My boys continue to show the world what time it is, and a band that sings together blings together!” Bruno captioned the photos. According to the website Hodinkee, the watches are yellow gold Extra-Thin “Jumbo” Royal Oak models, and the full retail price of just one is $55,400 – meaning Mars spent a whopping $443,200 on timepieces for the eight-member band. Mars presented the gifts at the final stop of his 24K Magic World Tour in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve. Each watch came in a commemorative box with the tour name on it.
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ED SHEERAN’S ON-THE-ROAD SALARY IN 2018: Ed Sheeran’s 2018 Divide tour raked in a historic amount of money: $429.5 million, to be exact. And he brought home a pretty paycheck from it. E! Online reports that documents filed by Ed’s touring company, Nathan Cable Touring, on December 31st show that the singer personally earned about $49 million for the financial year ending March 31, 2018. Divided by 365 days in year, that’s $134,000 per day…and that’s only the money he made from touring. Ed also has a company called Ed Sheeran Limited, and in 2017 alone, it earned a gross profit of over $34 million.
BLACK PINK TO MAKE HISTORY WITH COACHELLA PERFORMANCE: South Korean girl group Black Pink will make history with a performance at Coachella in April. The quartet, consisting of members Jisoo, Jennie, Ros and Lisa, will become the first female K-pop group to take the stage at the annual music festival. Coachella announced Black Pink and the rest of its 2019 lineup in a tweet Wednesday. The girl group will perform at the festival Friday, April 12th and Friday, April 19th. Black Pink confirmed the news in an Instagram post Thursday. “@coachella 2019 see you there #BLACKPINK #COACHELLA #2019_LINEUP #20190412 #20190419 #YG,” the post reads.
ZAYN MALIK & GIGI HADID SPLIT: Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik have reportedly broken up – again. “They’re done,” a source told Us Weekly about the 23-year-old model and 25-year-old entertainer. “They could get back together, but it’s over for now.” “She cut herself off from all her friends every time they were together,” another source said. “She focused all her time and energy on him, but it just got to be too much.” Gigi and Zayn previously broke up back in March of 2018 and got back together in April of 2018. Fans found it odd that neither star shared photos together from the holidays. Plus, Hadid spent New Year’s Eve at good friend Taylor Swift’s NYE party, dressed as Mary Poppins, with the former One Direction member noticeably absent.
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