Mariah Carey shocked and nauseated the world with Glitter, the singer's simply atrocious 2001 big screen flop, and with her marriage to Nick Cannon, her 2008 off-screen flop.
While one would think the 38-year would be inclined to stay away from the movie business, Ms. Carey's picked herself up and thrown herself back into acting. And apparently she doesn't suck:
Madonna on Out. Jennifer Aniston on Redbook. Kelly Clarkson on Elle. All of these are shining examples of magazines Photoshopping their cover subjects to within a inch of reality. Pop superstars replaced with alien lifeforms. Body parts swapped in and out. Arm, torso, and ass fat replaced with white space.
Now, Elle is adding Mariah Carey to the esteemed list of cartoons. CONTINUED »
Perhaps the most eventful part of last night's Time 100 gala was the presence of newlyweds Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, choosing Jazz at Lincoln Center to make their first public appearance together. Though she performed last night, she was also an honoree on the list, giving Rick Stengel the good fortune of naming her to the Time 100, and holding the event last night, to pick up the PR boon. How convenient, then, that Mariah and Nick also "gave" their exclusive wedding pics and interview to People, a Time Inc. cousin. Below, some red carpet video. CONTINUED »
It was a big week for Mariah Carey — she lost her single status and her No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200. In her defense, there was really no competing with Madonna’s Hard Candy.
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TOUCH MY BODY, DON'T TOUCH MY BANK ACCOUNT Mariah Carey is DEFINITELY married to Nick Cannon, claims one gossip, and also DEFINITELY signed a pre-nup with her 10-years-younger husband because, heaven forbid things should go awry, she doesn't want to give him anything more than a stage prop.
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Somebody must have after this morning's massive disaster that was Mariah Carey's performance.
You know how Ashlee Simpson bungled her Saturday Night Live performance, with the sound engineer running the wrong background vocal?
On GMA, the correct Mariah vocal got played, but at the wrong time. And more than once. Ever the professional, in the middle of (actual) singing, she ad-libbed, "Stop singing my part now, baby." Brilliant.
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In ditching the Today show at the last minute, and opting for ABC's Good Morning America, Mariah Carey has NBC execs pissed — except, as manager Benny Medina puts it, he never guaranteed the peacock network his client. The two parties were negotiating to have Carey perform as part of concert series, but Medina wanted all-out promotion for Carey, which meant a guest starring role on My Name Is Earl and promotion of her fragrance on Today. They agreed, but when her album needed retooling, NBC's promotion was pushed back. Now she's bailed on the gig altogether, but Medina hopes reneging on his verbal arrangement doesn't make Today "feel disrespected by me trying to do right by my client." No hard feelings, right kids?
• Jared Leto and Paris Hilton go to first base. In pop culture ranking, there's no difference between being on a short-lived, critically acclaimed television show in the nineties and being an heiress with a predilection to party.
• Spy shots of Mariah Carey topless, but conveniently covering her nips with her arms. Someone's publicist has been working overtime.
• Speaking of good publicity, Scarlett Johanson visits soldiers in Kuwait. She's so much more than a pretty face and a great rack.
• LC mixes it up in the hot ATL. Pretty soon we're going to need new episodes of The Hills to keep writing about these appearances.
• New York's new tourism ad has us considering a move to Portland.
• Ambition, noun: Wanting your own reality television show. Denise Richards is the definition of ambition.
If there's one thing we here at Jossip never get tired of, it's heartwarming tales of how the rich get richer. Which is why we were thrilled to read all about how ambiguously gay designer type Tommy Hilfiger bought his oceanfront East Hampton summer home for $18 million last May, and just sold it for a staggering $26.5 million.
That's "more than $8 million profit!" Page Six excitedly points out. (Also known as $8.5 million). As it turns out, however, there's an excellent explanation for the sudden increase in property value. And it has to do with some combination of Mariah Carey and a cornucopia of bathrooms.
I wouldn't want to speak to those people specifically, but I would say you need to be very centered, and spiritually know where you're at, all the time. Don't read the tabloids. Don't be obsessed with what people are writing or saying. Live your life for you. My lifestyle has changed since making it. It's not a financial struggle, but I'm still struggling in a lot of ways
–Mariah Carey gives advice to troubled teen stars in the latest issue of Glamour magazine [via MTV]
While Britney Spears makes a habit of inviting paparazzi into public restrooms, Mariah Carey is evidently a bit more modest about what happens behind closed bathroom doors.
Mariah Carey, drinking deeply at VH1's Music Cares event, invaded the ladies' room with two burly bodyguards. Two women already there say her security tried to evict them, but they refused to leave. Says one: "One of the bodyguards said to us, 'If you're going to stay, you better not watch Mariah pee.' "
Oh come on, Mariah. You can't expect mere plebeians to employ that kind of restraint in the presence of your celebrity vagina. Besides, it couldn't possibly be any worse than watching Glitter.
Launching a perfume isn't enough. P. Diddy had to launch an inane rivalry too. To promote his Unforgivable Woman scent, P. Diddy picked a fight:
I send out a challenge … I challenge all of my female counterparts that have fragrances … that my fragrance is better than theirs. I’m a man and I know how women should smell!
What woman would want to smell they way a man like P. Diddy thinks a woman should smell?
Mariah Carey, who has her own perfume, M, to promote, took up the challenge.
• Victoria Beckham to perform with the Pussycat Dolls, presumably because she encapsulates their unique brand of slim physique and questionable vocals.
• Meanwhile, Mariah Carey is mistaken for Britney Spears, presumably due to her propensity for gaining weight and history of cinematic abortions.
• Salma Hayek gives birth, but the world was too busy staring at Nicole Richie's protruding belly to notice.
• Finally! Someone admits Sex and the City would have been a whole lot sexier if the women on the show were still pre-menopausal.
• Jennifer Aniston has never looked happier than she does on the set of He's Just Not That Into You. Does anyone else find that strangely disconcerting?
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