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Which one’s Kylie? At age 20, she’s the youngest sibling of the Kardashian-Jenner reality TV dynasty. She’s also the richest. Kim Kardashian West’s net worth is $350 million. Kendall Jenner is the world’s highest-paid model. She made $22 million in 2017. But Kylie Jenner is keeper of the most-liked Instagram post ever. And, apparently, because of her line of lipsticks, liners, glosses and more, she’s on track to become the youngest self-made billionaire. Last week, Forbes tallied up the value of Kylie Jenner’s cosmetics empire, combined with her earnings from TV shows and product endorsements. Her estimated net worth is a cool $900 million. The sticker shock stands out given Kylie Jenner’s age and the hard-to-parse secret sauce that vaulted her family into its own celebrity stratosphere. But the figure also serves as the latest — and one of the largest — examples of how celebrities can leverage their fame to take on another job title: business mogul. If Forbes stuck Kylie Jenner in its 2017 lineup of America’s 10 wealthiest celebrities, she’d fit somewhere between David Copperfield, who is ranked No. 5 and worth $875 million, and Michael Jordan, ranked No. 4 and worth $1.4 billion. She is richer than Jay-Z. She is richer than Diddy. Kylie Jenner’s feat, experts say, took a careful mastery of name recognition mixed with social-media influence. Kylie Cosmetics debuted two years ago with $29 “lip kits” and, according to Forbes, has ballooned into a beauty industry titan valued at nearly $800 million. Forbes wrote that the company has sold more than $630 million worth of makeup, including roughly $330 million in 2017 alone.
Yvette Nicole Brown is filling in for Chris Hardwick as host of The Walking Dead and Talking Dead while AMC Networks reviews sexual-assault allegations against Hardwick. AMC announced Friday that Brown will be “interim guest host” of The Walking Dead Season 9 Preview Special on Aug. 5. Brown also will host Talking Dead on Aug. 12. Brown starred in the NBC comedy Community and already was stepping in for Hardwick as moderator of Walking Dead panels next week at San Diego Comic-Con. Hardwick has acknowledged that an online post by his ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra alleging that she had been sexually assaulted and emotionally abused referred to him. He has denied the allegations but has said the couple’s three-year relationship was imperfect and included arguments.