Facts Of The Day (Beyonce Knowles)

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 6th, 2009 LONDON - American singer Beyonce Knowles says she has taken to riding a bicycle to travel around cities when she is away on tour and that she enjoys the anonymity being on two wheels gives her. "It's amazing how I'm able to ride around on a bike.

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 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Beyonce Knowles is taking secret ballet classes to brush up on her dancing skills. The singer has enrolled herself for ballet tutorials in New York and attends classes without an entourage.

August 17th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Beyonce Knowles is brushing up her dancing skills by secretly enrolling for ballet tutorials in New York. Beyonce used Manhattan's Ailey School to rehearse for her last tour and now she has checked in for an open ballet class, reported contactmusic.com.

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.

July 26th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Beyonce Knowles has been left so confused by her gruelling world tour schedule that she even forgets where she is. Just over three months into her tour, the singer was recently unable to tell exactly where she was in America.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - Beyonce Knowles has been named the Best-Paid Celebrity Under 30 in a new Forbes magazine poll. The R and B superstar earned an estimated 58 million dollars in the last 12 months to top the survey, reports the Daily Express.

July 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Beyonce Knowles is urging Disney bosses to remake 1992 movie 'Sister Act', for the actress is desperate to play the role of nun in the movie. The singer's interest developed after she watched 'Sister Act' stage musical in London's West End theatre in between her UK 'I Am Sasha Fierce tour', reports the China Daily.

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 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Beyonce Knowles has revealed that she buys clothes which are too small for her as a motivation to shed extra pounds. In an interview to Self magazine, the singer-and-actress, known for her curvy figure, admitted that it takes a lot of hard work for her to stay in shape so she sets goals for herself.

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.