Tom Cruise Katie Holmes with Suri

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter Suri has been named the World’s Most Powerful toddler. A new poll carried out by Forbes magazine has named two-year-old Suri as the most powerful. This means Tom Cruise’ adoring daughter is well ahead of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s brood of kids. The poll was done in order to search for the most influential child under the age of five.

Others who featured in the survey include David Banda, Madonna’s adopted kid with estranged husband Guy Ritchie, Victoria and David Beckham’s youngest son Cruz, and Britney Spears’ three year old son Sean Preston with ex Kevin Federline.

The top 10 is as follows:

1. Suri Cruise

2. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt

3. Zahara Jolie-Pitt

4. Pax Jolie-Pitt

5. Sam Alexis Woods (daughter of golf ace Tiger Woods)

6. Cruz Beckham

7. Matilda Rose Ledger (daughter of actress Michelle Williams and the late Heath Ledger)

8. David Banda

9. Sean Preston Federline

10. Sam Sheen (daughter of Charlie Sheen and ex-wife Denise Richards).

Katie Holmes has been busy celebrating her second year of marriage with husband Tom Cruise. She was seen quickly jetting home to Los Angeles after a recent performance in New York so that she could be with her husband and daughter who spreads her newly found happiness.

Holmes took off to the west coast after Sunday’s (16Nov08) matinee performance of her hit Broadway play - ‘All My Sons’.

Tom and Katie reportedly spent a quiet evening at their L.A. home on Monday (17Nov08) before the actress had to rush back for her regular Tuesday show.

Cruise and Holmes married on 18 November 2006 in a star-studded ceremony in Italy to the dismay of critics, skeptical their relationship was a mere publicity stunt. Critics had even presumed that their relationship would not go further and surely they would not ever be together making a family. But they had proven all of them wrong by staying together and even raising their Suri and only time will witness the couple’s growth as proud parents.

In an interview last year (07), Cruise talked about the lavish wedding, “As big as it was from the outside, it was a very personal experience and something obviously I’ll never forget.”

The pair was reportedly joined by their two-year-old daughter, Suri, and Cruise’s adopted children from his marriage to Nicole Kidman - Isabella, 15, and Connor, 13 to mark the event.

Until we receive any other speculations the valid Forbes list will definitely create a furore with Suri creating ripples all over.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley has left us and several decades have gone by. We have rued his absence for so long. But his memories and his songs are fresh in our minds. Forbes.com have made him the top ranking dead celebrity who has the most powerful earning for the second year in a row.

Presley had made $52 million in the past year, which was made possible by increased visitors to his Graceland estate in order to commemorate his 30th death anniversary.New ventures like the Elvis Sirius Satellite Radio show according to the web site had also pulled in huge earnings. Presley’s earnings between October 2007 and October 2008 are much more than the living artists. Justin Timberlake ($44 million) and Madonna ($40 million) fall short according to the recently published Forbes.com.

Forbes.com said that it had done a lot to peep into the expert says and close sources in order to get the actual picture of the dead celebrities’ estates and their gross earnings, before taxes, management fees and other costs, from the period of October 2007 to October 2008 to come up with the rankings. “While things might be topsy-turvy in the financial markets above ground, it’s still a bull market in the boneyard,” Forbes.com said. Charles Schulz, the cartoonist was in the second spot and Australian actor Heath Ledger grasped third spot and at No. 4 is German-born physicist Albert Einstein. The full list can be obtained from Forbes’ official website. Forbes has come up with the worthwhile rankings after a harrowing time with the inside views and news.

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