Beyonce Knowles now best paid celeb under 30!

October 7th, 2009 BEYONCE wants to turn her manager/father MATHEW KNOWLES' early life into a major movie. The Knowles family patriarch gave up his job as a salesman in the early 1990s to help guide his daughter and her Destiny's Child bandmates to success.

October 7th, 2009 LONDON - Pop singer Beyonce Knowles is so impressed with her dad's past that she wants to make a movie about his "childhood and school years". According to contactmusic.com, her father Matthew Knowles had left his job as a salesman to help his daughter and her bandmates to stardom.

October 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Beyonce Knowles' father has landed in a paternity suit filed by a woman in Los Angeles. Alexsandra Wright, who is due to give birth in December, has named Mathew Knowles as the father of her child.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Beyonce Knowles has reportedly thrown Lindsay Lohan out of her dressing room at the F1 rocks concert in Singapore. Knowles was performing over the weekend and had ordered her entourage to get her the largest dressing area backstage.

August 14th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Beyonce Knowles is proud of her body but hates to be mentioned on lists of the world's sexiest women. "I believe beauty lies in the eyes of beholder.

August 7th, 2009 BEYONCE KNOWLES is challenging dance crews to perform a series of her hit songs in a U.S. TV competition for a $100,000 (£66,670) prize.

July 17th, 2009 LONDON - Star Wars creator George Lucas is Hollywood's Highest-Paid Man, according to business website Forbes.com. The director has topped a poll by Forbes.com after making 170 million dollars in the past year.

July 15th, 2009 SYDNEY - Megan Fox has topped Heat magazine's 'Most Envied Bodies 2009' list. The 'Transformers' star was followed by Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole, who came second "We've always known that Megan Fox is a hit with men, but we were surprised at how quickly she has made an impact on women- they consider her to have the most covetable celebrity body," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Julian Linley, editor of the magazine, as saying.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - Singer-actress Beyonce Knowles has trumped her chart rivals Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brother to be named the Best-Paid Celebrity Under-30 in a new Forbes magazine poll. The R&B superstar, who is married to rap icon Jay-Z, raked in an estimated $87 million between June 2008 and June 2009 to top the survey, reports contactmusic.com.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - Rocker Tom Petty's song "American Girl" tops a new poll to find US anthems. Contactmusic.com reports that the Rolling Stone magazine asked readers to vote for the most patriotic song to celebrate Independence Day, which was July 4.

June 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Madonna has pipped Celine Dion and Beyonce Knowles to top the world's highest earning musicians list. According to America's Forbes magazine, the Queen of Pop earned a staggering 110 million dollars from June 2008 to June 2009 due to her Sticky and Sweet world tour.

June 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has topped Giant's new Most Influential list. Second on the list is his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama, reports Contactmusic.

May 23rd, 2009 NEW YORK - Unlike other celebs who force themselves into gruelling exercise regime to maintain their curves, singer Beyonce Knowles feels sexier only when she's not "really thin". "To me, it's sexier when it doesn't look like you go to the gym," the New York Daily News quoted her as telling Britain's Daily Mail.

May 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Beyonce Knowles has found the perfect teacher to learn about the nuances of professional F1 racing-Lewis Hamilton. The race ace has reportedly agreed to teach the 'Baby Boy' singer how to drive like a professional.

May 11th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Beyonce Knowles is reportedly planning a two-year break from her work to focus on her private life. Beyonce, who recently got married to rap mogul Jay-Z, will be taking time off from work after she wraps up her current tour.