1. Forbes Magazine has named Jay Zand Beyonce the highest paid celebrity couple in the
world. Together they made $78 million - from May 2011 to May 2012. Beyonce -
$40m, Jay Z - $38m. And Beyonce took a break for most of the year.
2. The ex-husband of Amy Winehouse is on
life support in a British hospital after an apparent drink and drug binge just
over a year after the untimely death of the "Rehab" singer, Britain's
Sun newspaper reported on Thursday.
Blake
Fielder-Civil, 30, who was married to Winehouse for about two years until 2009
and was widely blamed for fueling her own addiction to drugs, was found choking
on his vomit last week after a drinking session and a reported dose of heroin.
3. A
16-year-old boy retained his title as America’s fastest texter Wednesday in a
duel of the thumbs staged before yelling fans on New York’s Times Square.
Austin Weirschke took home $50,000 prize money for the second time in two years
when he bested 10 other texting demons in feats of thumb speed, memory and
fluency in texting shorthand