Nene Leakes highest paid of the Real Housewives: report

Leakes

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It pays to be a Real Housewife. RadarOnline got ahold of a salary report, and the top earner is ... Atlanta troublemaker NeNe Leakes, at $750,000 per season. Orange County pioneers rake in the most overall, with Vicki Gunvalson making $450,000 a season. Even though The RH of Beverly Hills are rolling in it, Bravo is shelling out $250K a season to Lisa Vanderpump and similar quantities to the other drama queens. The lowest paid of RHers is OC newcomer, Heather Dubrow, who takes home $30,000. There was no mention of our Miami friends.

Free ride

In other money matters, Sean Combs’ son Justin Combs is getting a sweet scholarship (in the 54K range) to UCLA. The school confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that the incoming freshman would enroll on a full athletic scholarship; Daddy Diddy is worth an estimated $475 million.

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Celebrity birthdays on May 21

Singer Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers is 72. Guitarist Hilton Valentine of The Animals is 70. Actor Richard Hatch (“Battlestar Galactica”) is 68. Singer Leo Sayer is 65. Comedian-turned-U.S. Senator Al Franken is 62. Actor Mr. T is 61. Actor Judge Reinhold is 56. Actress Lisa Edelstein (“House”) of 47. Actress Fairuza Balk (“The Waterboy”) is 39. Rapper Havoc of Mobb Deep is 39. Actress Ashlie Brillault (“Lizzie McGuire”) is 26. Actress Sarah Ramos (“American Dreams”) is 22.
As seen on TV

Ray J back on reality TV as host of Oxygen’s ‘Bad Girls All Star Battle’

Thought Bad Girls Club: Miami was over the top? Steel yourselves for another spinoff, Bad Girls All Star Battle, which takes the rivalry out of the mansion and onto the playing field in L.A. Fourteen of the franchise’s most notorious cast members compete for $100,000 and the title of “Baddest Bad Girl of All Time.” Can’t beat that on the obituary. We talked to Ray J, host of the show, which debuts 9 p.m. Tuesday on the Oxygen Network.
Celebrity roundup

Rob Pattinson & Kristen Stewart: Is it really over?

It’s looking permanent this time. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are on a break again. Apparently, the Twilight costars couldn’t get past Stewart’s affair with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders last summer.That fling may be ongoing. In April, the Web was aflutter with pictures of her and the soon to be divorced Sanders in a car together.

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