Oprah Winfrey Regains No. 1 in 2013 List Of The Most Powerful Celebrities

<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.25in; margin-top: 11.25pt; mso-line-height-alt: 13.2pt; mso-outline-level: 1; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: white;">Oprah Winfrey Regains No. 1 in 2013 List Of The Most Powerful Celebrities</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.25in; margin-top: 11.25pt; mso-line-height-alt: 13.2pt; mso-outline-level: 1; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img height="400" src="http://img.timeinc.net/time/time100/2007/images/oprah_winfrey.jpg" width="325" /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everyone should know this by now: Never count Oprah out. Despite business stumbles and an $88 million earnings drop since last year, <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #555555; padding: 0in;">Oprah Winfrey</span>returns to the top of annual <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #555555; padding: 0in;">Celebrity 100</span> ranking of the most powerful celebrities after two years in second place. She leads a female-dominated top 10 that includes <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #555555; padding: 0in;">Lady Gaga</span>, Beyonce, <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #555555; padding: 0in;">Madonna</span>, <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #555555; padding: 0in;">Taylor Swift</span>and <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #555555; padding: 0in;">Ellen DeGeneres</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 16.5pt; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 2013 Celebrity 100<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 93.75pt; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even without her eponymous daytime talk show, Winfrey made an estimated $77 million between June 2012 and June 2013, down from last year’s $165 million. While she wasn’t the highest earner on our list, her money, mixed with strong fame scores in metrics like press mentions and social networking power, pushed her to the top.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 0.0001pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winfrey remains a powerful force in Hollywood. Her Oprah Winfrey Network, once a drifting cable outpost that <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">lost an estimated $330 million</span> for parent company Discovery between 2008 and the end of 2012, is now a smoothish-running media machine that could turn a profit by the end of 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 0.0001pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mistakes like Rose O’Donnell’s talk show? History. Nailing must-see viewing, like her two-night interview with disgraced cyclist <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Lance Armstrong</span>, is Winfrey’s focus now, as are scripted shows with help from fellow Celebrity 100 member <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Tyler Perry</span>. In the near future, shows that don’t star Winfrey could become as much of a draw as her own programs. Winfrey also earns from an empire that includes her O magazine, talk shows from protégés like <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Rachael Ray</span> and Dr. Phil, and a network on SiriusXM satellite radio.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 0.0001pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/celebrities/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #555555;">Full Coverage: The Celebrity 10</span><span style="color: #555555;">0</span><span style="color: #555555;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> </span></a></span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 13.5pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unlike most lists, which are based on earnings or net worth, our annual Celebrity 100 takes a stab at measuring that most ephemeral of riches: fame. Yes, we factor in celebrity earnings over the last 12 months, but we also tally how often each celebrity is mentioned in print and on TV, and gauge the strength of their Internet presence and how they’re viewed by a critical constituency: American consumers.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 0.0001pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year we added a marketability score (1-100) for each celebrity that was developed by Encino, Calif.-based market research firm <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">E-Poll</span>, based on opinion polling about 46 different attributes for 6,600 different celebrities.<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Will Smith</span>, <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Jennifer Aniston</span> and <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Sandra Bullock</span> are the most marketable celebrities on our list (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Fifty Shades of Grey</span></em> author <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">E.L. James</span> ranks dead last in that category).<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 0.0001pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For social networking strength, we worked with another new partner,<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Starcount</span>, a Singapore-based company that measures impact across 11 social media platforms including <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; outline: 0px; padding: 0in;">Facebook,</span> Twitter, YouTube and <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; outline: 0px; padding: 0in;">Google.</span> Each celebrity’s Starcount number gives a sense of how popular he or she is on the Internet.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 0.0001pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pop stars tend to do very well on this metric. Last year’s Celebrity 100 cover boy, <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Justin Bieber</span>, has the most social networking power of the 100 celebrities on our list, followed by <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Rihanna</span> and Lady Gaga.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 0.0001pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course, money carries the most weight in our rankings, and thanks to that Madonna is back on the Celeb 100–in fifth place–after two years off the list. Even though her newest album,<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> MDNA,</span></em> was a flop, the Material Girl still managed to rank as this year’s top earner thanks to a world tour that helped her rake in $125 million between June 2012 and June 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 13.5pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lady Gaga, who topped our list in 2011 and is often considered Madonna’s heir, ranks second despite cutting her tour short due to a hip injury. Gaga still managed to earn $80 million and get the second-most press mentions of anyone on our list (behind Rihanna). Gaga is also a master of social networking. Her Little Monsters hang on her every tweet, making her the third most successful social networker on our list.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 13.5pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Together with Beyonce (fourth,) Taylor Swift (sixth) and Ellen Degeneres (10th) women occupy six of the top 10 slots on this year’s list, down from seven last year. Overall, they landed 35 of 100 slots, about the same as last year.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 0.0001pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The four men who crack the top 10 are director <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Steven Spielberg</span> (third), rock band <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Bon Jovi</span> (seventh), tennis player <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #555555; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Roger Federer</span> (eighth), and pop star Bieber (ninth).<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 0.0001pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spielberg is up seven spots from last year, with estimated earnings of $100 million. The director was back in peak form with political biopic <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Lincoln</span></em>. The film not only earned two Oscars, it also grossed a tidy $275 million at the global box office on a budget of $65 million. Spielberg’s TV work isn’t going quite as well, DreamWorks’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Smash</span></em> was recently canceled by NBC. But he’s got several new shows in the works, including a small screen version of the popular video game, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Halo</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 93.75pt 13.5pt 0in; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Federer, the highest-ranked athlete on our list, is up 23 spots from last year thanks to the most impressive endorsement portfolio in sports. Ten sponsors collectively pay him more than $40 million annually. He’s also a press darling. Federer ranks seventh for celebrities with the most mentions in print</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div>

Oprah Winfrey Regains No. 1 in 2013 List Of The Most Powerful Celebrities

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