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The Promote My New Blog Contest ended last night, and I have already drawn the names of the six lucky winners. I originally wanted to post a clip of the drawing here, but after trying for over an hour to get it to work, I gave up. Sorry!

Anyway, here are the winners (they were drawn in reverse order, as I mentioned in the contest rules). I’ll also send the winners an email in order to get their PayPal addresses so I can give them their prizes. Thanks to everyone who participated, and look for more contests like this in the future!

$10 Runner-Up Prize #1: Chris from Kazakhstan Blog

$10 Runner-Up Prize #2: Cheryl from BasenjiMom

$10 Runner-Up Prize #3: Sabriena from Infected Loser

$20 Third Prize: Julie from Just Julie

$30 Second Prize: Justin from Justin Stanley’s Weblog

$50 Grand Prize: Emily from Contests & Freebies Around the World

Congrats to all of you!!

I spent the last hour or so going through all the articles that have accumulated in my feed reader. There was a bunch of celebrity gossip in there, and I read that Daniel Radcliffe (the kid who plays Harry Potter in all the movies) just signed a $50 million deal to star in the final two films of the series. Add that staggering sum to the reported $30+ million that he has received for the first five movies and the result is one extremely rich 18-year-old!

Not to mention the fact that his $25 million paydays puts him on par with the likes of Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt in terms of salary. Boy, did Radcliffe hit the jackpot when he won the Harry Potter role back in 2001.

Now let’s hope once the Potter series ends, Radcliffe doesn’t go astray the way many child/teen stars seem to do these days. I would hate to read about him ending up in alcohol or drug rehabilitation a few years down the road. But famous teenagers with all that money… those situations hardly ever turn out well. Just ask Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan!