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Gates was the runner-up to Will Young in the first Pop Idol series in 2002.
He nevertheless won a £750,000 contract to promote Pepsi soon afterward, and after a slow start on the music front (his confidence was affected by a life-long stammer) ended up selling 3.5 million records in the UK.
His version of Unchained Melody was the second best selling single of the 2000s. More recently he moved into musicals, last year playing the title role in the West End production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and this year appearing as Marius in the International 25th Anniversary World Tour of Les Miserables (he is also on the cast recording). The 26-year old underwent therapy for his stammer and is now also a qualified course instructor.
Gates, who lives in a £1m house in Chiswick with his dancer wife Suzanne Mole and 18-month-old daughter Missy, has topped up his income from other sources, taking part in shows such as ITV's Dancing on Ice contest in 2008 and appearing in panto. He currently has a net worth of $5 million.
Earnings & Financial Data
|
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2018 |
Asset |
Purchase value of a farmhouse just outside Bradford for Gareth Gates's mother Wendy and father Paul so they can stay with him in London every time he is in the capital |
$761,590 |
|
2018 |
Asset |
Purchase value of Gareth Gates' Range Rover |
$80,000 |
|
2013 |
Ticket Sales |
Ticket sales of Les Miserables at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff (approximately 3.8 thousand tickets sold) |
$25,120 |
|
2010 |
Sponsorship |
Earnings from an endorsement deal with Pepsi |
$991,970 |
|
2009 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Money won from the ITV's All Star Family Fortunes for The Bobby Moore Fund for bowel cancer |
$39,670 |
|
2003 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Go Your Own Way (approximately 100 thousand copies sold) |
$130,000 |
|
2003 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Seeing Double as a cloned version of himself |
$3,480,000 |
|
2002 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album What My Heart Wants to Say (approximately 663,324 copies sold) |
$862,320 |
|
2002 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the single "Unchained Melody" (approximately 1,348,000 copies sold) |
$1,750,000 |
|
2002 |
Contract |
Gareth Gates' advertising contract with Pepsi |
$992,520 |