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Liam Payne named on rich list top 10 with £43 million fortune

Liam Payne has has been named in the top 10 of the UK’s wealthiest young British stars.

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Liam Payne and his ex-partner Cheryl

The Wolverhampton singer has an estimated wealth of £43 million.

His former One Direction band mates are also in the top 10.

Adele tops the charts as the richest, young British star, having boosted her wealth by £15m.

The Rolling In The Deep singer tops Heat magazine’s annual guide to the UK’s wealthiest names aged 30 and under, with an estimated £147.5m. Daniel Radcliffe has slipped to third place, with £87m, while Ed Sheeran climbs to second position with £94m.

Adele, 30, earned millions from her world tour, which finished in the summer of 2017, and that same year she pocketed £9m from record sales.

She had an estimated £132m in last year’s published rankings.

The top 10 also sees Little Mix move from tenth to sixth place this year with £48m, partly thanks to concerts and endorsements, from dry shampoo to fashion dolls.

Harry Styles is in fourth place at £58m, the highest earning ex-One Direction star, followed by Emma Watson at £55mn.

Styles’ former bandmates complete the top 10, with Niall Horan at £46mmillion, Louis Tomlinson at £44m, Liam at £43m and Zayn Malik at £37m.

Star Wars actors John Boyega and Daisy Ridley are newcomers on the list at joint 28th place with £4.6 million each. Reality TV star Spencer Matthews, who recently married model Vogue Williams, makes his debut on the list at number 30 with £4.5m.

Heat also said that Kylie Jenner has toppled Justin Bieber as the wealthiest young star outside the UK, thanks to her cosmetics line.

The full list of the 30 richest celebrities under 30 appears in this week’s Heat.