We have two new attention-whore celebrity couples that hit the scene around the last two weeks. John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston are trying to act like they’re not courting the press, but they’re snuggling poolside at a hotel and hitting up the paparazzi hot spots with shit-eating grins on their faces. Mariah and Nick got married after a whirlwind romance and quickly sold their Bahamian wedding photos and the story of their everlasting kiddie love to People. They’re probably calling the paparazzi, who show up in droves to photograph a beaming Mariah and wary-looking Nick trying to help her wade her way through the camera-weilding crowd.
Yesterday Nick and Mariah went to the annual event for Operation Smile, where Nick was DJing, so at least they’re benefiting charity. Mariah showed up late and made sure to visit Nick and give him a kiss in the DJ booth. Nick is said to have pointed at Mariah in the audience frequently and to have played her hit “Fantasy.”
As for the wedded bliss, Mariah called it “fantastic” and “A stone smash” to the press last night
Mariah Carey and her secret producer boyfriend of four years split up just a few months ago, and he is said to be devastated that it took her no time at all to move on and marry the next guy who came along. The poor guy was hardly even acknowledged by Mariah and now she’s flitting all over the place with her new younger husband, who she married after less than six weeks of dating:
Call Mark Sudack a casualty of Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s whirlwind love.
For nearly four years, Carey, 38, quietly dated the music producer, who worked on her E=MC2 CD.
Though the two secretly split in early 2008, Sudack is shattered by his ex’s nuptial news.
“Everyone is scared to call him because no one knows what to say,” a pal says in the newest issue of Us Weekly, on stands now.
“He never thought she would go off and marry someone else. He’s heartbroken and shocked,” says the pal, adding that he “loved her so much.”
[From US Weekly]
Maybe Mariah’s last boyfriend just didn’t do it for her or whatever and when she met Nick she was swept off her feet, causing her to act so impulsively. Sometimes it doesn’t work out after years together and you’re not progressing in the relationship and it’s time to move on. It’s still pretty revealing that she just got out of a four year relationship when she met Nick. Given the timeline, she couldn’t have been single for more than three months so it does sound like a rebound romance.
Mariah and Nick are said to be planning a nursery in Nick’s LA home. Her people called exclusive baby boutique Petit Tresor and inquired about fabric samples and butterfly designs. She is said to have scheduled a private meeting with their designers.
Meanwhile these two had a large party for 100 friends to celebrate their wedding at Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA Tuesday night. They rented the entire park starting at around 8pm and rode several rollercoasters together. Refreshments included cupcakes adorned with butterflies, and guests were given pink and blue superman capes as souvenirs. It seems fitting for a couple who describe themselves as perpetually 12 years old.
Newlyweds Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon went out to dinner at Gyu-Kaku restaurant in Beverly Hills last night and it looked like everyone who owned a camera within a five mile radius turned up to take their picture. Mariah was triumphant in a vermilion-colored (I looked that up on Wikipedia) low cut short cocktail dress, shades and a look that said “I deserve all this attention.” Nick again looked wary and overwhelmed. Unlike the last time they went out to dinner, he had on an outfit that wasn’t all matchy-matchy with Mariah and kind of clashed. You can’t help but think that it won’t be long before they part, but maybe Cannon will learn to swim upstream in the rough waters of Mariah’s massive fame.
Mariah was on Ellen yesterday. She gifted her with a bunch of pink satin and gauzy lingerie. Ellen put it on over her clothes and Mariah said “this is such a YouTube moment.” Yes, Mariah, the whole Internet thinks you’re so clever, giving Ellen lingerie that she finds comical.
Mariah also told Ellen that she plans to have another wedding with Nick next year. She also said “I always said… if I found the right person who I felt would be on the same page as me in term of raising kids and having the same belief system, [we’d have kids].” That’s not quite true, considering that she said two weeks ago she never thought about it.
See People Magazine’s latest edition for the tattoo photos
When you hear that Nick and Mariah got each other’s names tattooed on their body as a symbol of their undying six weeks of love, you assume that they’re small to medium tattoos of the type that are regrettable but easily lasered off or covered over after an inevitable break up. Johnny Depp had his “Winona Forever shoulder tattoo altered to read “Wino Forever” and Angelina Jolie had her “Billy Bob” tattoo removed and replaced with the coordinates of her children’s birthplaces.
The disparity between Nick Cannon’s tattoo for Mariah Carey and Mariah’s “Mrs. Cannon” tattoo is huge, though. Hers is easily covered up and is hard to see. She has a small butterfly at the base of her spine with “Mrs. Cannon” in script as the center line of the butterfly. It’s nearly impossible to see and you can’t tell that the center of the butterfly is actual writing unless you’re right up close.
Nick Cannon has “Mariah” tattooed across his entire upper back in giant half-cursive writing with a mirror image of the tattoo beneath it like a reflection. That is going to be super painful to remove. What’s more is that these two got the tattoos right after they met each other, because Mariah told People it had been a “few weeks” since they had the tattoos done and they’ve only been together for six weeks. Scary Spice and Eddie Murphy also got tattoos for each other almost immediately, and look how that worked out for them:
On how they connected immediately while collaborating on “Bye Bye” video
Nick: From the first time we sat down to discuss the video… we connected. We had so much in common spiritually, and we laugh at the same things. I didn’t have to put on my Mac Daddy suave mode. I was able to be myself with her. We are both eternally 12 years old.
Mariah [laughing] We were having a [sic] such a good time on the shoot.
Nick: I brought her little pieces of candy. I’d write little third-grade notes instead of being over-the-top.
Mariah: He wrote a note, “Will you be my girlfriend?” with boxes for yes or no. In the video, we’re boyfriend and girlfriend. It seemed very natural.
[From People Magazine, print edition, May 19, 2008]
On if their friends were surprised by the marriage, and about their tattoos
Mariah: Some were, but some weren’t. One thing [few people] knew was we got tattoos a few weeks earlier. So anyone who saw my [Mrs. Cannon] tattoo wasn’t surprised.
Nick: To me rings are special and exciting, but tattoos mean more than anything. They’re forever and ever. They professed our love.
Mariah: And they hurt!
Nick: A lot.
[From People Magazine, print edition, May 19, 2008]
How Nick Proposed with a Ring Pop, filmed it, then did another take for the cameras
On April 25 Cannon took Carey to the roof of her NYC apartment to see the Empire State Building, lit pink and lavender to honor her album E=MC2. As he often did, he gave her a Ring Pop - candy shaped like a big jewel. But inside the wrapper was a 17-carat pink-diamond ring… Her reaction? “He had ribbons around it, so I said ‘I think mine’s broke,” says Care. When he drpoped to one knee, “she ran away and got all shy,” he says. Finally, she said yes - twice. Cannon, who filmed it all, proposed again to get a perfect take, this time on a helicopter. “That,” says Carey, “was beautiful.”
[From People Magazine, print edition, May 19, 2008]
So Nick says they both act 12, that he sent her candy with little notes on it, and that he even proposed with candy. And he taped the proposal twice so I assume it will be on television at some point after someone pays a hefty sum for it. They marked their names on each other like a junior high student writes on a notebook cover, and then topped it off by having an impulsive wedding. Mariah wasn’t stupid though and she seems to have hedged her bets. Reports say she did get a prenuptial agreement. Now that I know her tattoo for Nick is tiny and hard to decipher she seems to have thought this through much more than I previously gave her credit for.
Here’s a clip from Oprah with some of the photos that are now in People. It’s pretty funny.
Thanks to Huffington Post for the video. You can see more wedding photos in the latest edition of People Magazine.
Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey were predictably photographed outside the Waverly Inn in NY last night. The Waverly is the Ivy of the East Coast, and celebrities go there to get their picture taken and be noticed. The newlyweds showed off their matching over-the-top diamond studded wedding bands. Nick and Mariah were also dressed similarly, with Nick in a suit and Mariah wearing a matching button-front tailored dress with pockets. US Weekly notes that they were at the Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People event also that evening.
The National Enquirer has details of their wedding reception and ceremony, which included 40 guests Mariah flew down to the Bahamas, a cake she had made in NY which she personally brought with her, and white roses and pink bows decorating her Bahamian estate. A walkway was built down to the beach for the ceremony.
Before jetting off to the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas, where she owns a spectacular, $5-million, 3-acre compound called “Sea Lilly,” the singer bought five “itsy-bitsy bikinis” from Beach Bunny Swimwear that look like lingerie, an insider told the Enquirer.
The happy couple hired two Gulfstream private jets to fly 40 of their closest pals - including rapper Da Brat - down to the island the day before the ceremony.
“Mariah was in a really happy mood, and she and her guests were popping open bottles of Dom Perignon champagne on the runway as soon as they got off the airplane,” says an eyewitness…
Mariah had her cake made in New York and was so concerned about it arriving in one piece, insiders say she kept it in the seat next to her during the flight!
While guests were transported to local hotels… Mariah and Nick immediately set of to get a wedding license…
By the time they had arrived [at Mariah’s estate] cars had been rented, dozens of brightly blooming tropical plants had been planted and a wooden walkway had been erected to the beach for the sunset ceremony.
“It was really beautiful - they had lined up the chairs upstairs so that guests could see down onto the beach, where the wedding would be held, and there were white roses and pink lace bows everywhere. The whole house looked like a wedding cake!” said another insider…
Later, guests dined on lobster flown in live in a tank of water on a commercial jet from Fort Lauderdale, FL, while dozens of white roses decorated the interior of her house.
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, May 19, 2008]
Best of luck to them, but if these two last longer than 9 months I will be surprised. You really need to know someone for more than a few weeks before you rush into marriage. You hear those stories about old married couples who met and married haven’t spent a day apart in 50 years but I think those are the very few exceptions. When two celebrities are involved the odds are definitely stacked against them.
Look at how Mariah is eating up the attention as usual while Nick looks kind of dazed and unsure. They’re not on the same page at all.
A still from Mariah’s “Bye Bye” video, which is below
I mentioned this briefly yesterday when People promised that their upcoming Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey wedding issue would have details of their “plans for kids.” That statement is kind of vague and I thought that maybe they weren’t planning on kids right away, since Mariah said around two weeks ago that “It’s hard to have kids in this world… I don’t think I could properly educate a child right now. Maybe in the future, but I actually haven’t thought about it.” It also sounded like she said having kids would make her feel violated, because she added “I never wanted to feel violated and I know that’s a kind of weird thing to say, but that’s how I am.” (Those quotes were printed in OK! Magazine and reported online around April 22, so maybe Mariah said that up to a month ago, but the quotes are not more than a month old.)
Now there are actual excerpts out from People’s interview with Mariah and Nick, and she did indeed say she wants kids, and she seems kind of resolved to it. Mariah also claims that their tattoos for each other are “forever and ever” and Nick says it was love at first site and they haven’t left each other’s company since they met:
Nick on their whirlwind affair: “It was a love-at-first-sight thing. Since we’ve been together, we’ve been inseparable.”
Mariah on how friends knew they were getting serious: “One thing (few people) knew was we got tattoos a few weeks earlier. So anyone who saw my (”Mrs. Cannon”) tattoo wasn’t surprised. To me rings are special and exciting, but tattoos mean more than anything. They’re forever and ever.”
Nick on their connection: “From the first time we sat down to discuss the video at the Beverly Hills Hotel, we connected. … I was able to be myself with her. We are both eternally 12 years old.”
Mariah on plans to have kids: “It’s part of the whole purpose of getting married. I’d just want our children to have the best childhood and upbringing they possibly could.”
[Quotes from People Magazine, print edition, May 17, 2008 thanks to Faded Youth]
The way Mariah phrases it, she makes it sound like it’s inevitable and that she just will make sure her children are well taken care of and that’s all she can do. It’s a complete turnaround from her statement just two weeks ago that she hadn’t even thought of it and seemed kind of daunted at the thought of children.
Mariah got married without much consideration, and is now the wife of a guy she started dating just six weeks ago who probably hasn’t even gotten on her nerves once yet. She seems to have changed her mind about children about as quickly as she decided to get married. These two are in for a surprise once they wake up from their endorphin haze and start having to assert their own opinions in the relationship. I have a feeling Mariah isn’t going to be having children anytime soon, and is just saying what she thinks her new husband wants to hear.
Here’s Mariah Carey’s Bye Bye video featuring Nick Cannon:
See people.com for the cover image of the magazine
The upcoming issue of People Magazine has details of Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s “six-week romance and surprise wedding” with photos of their wedding and honeymoon including a shirtless Cannon cavorting on the beach with Mariah in a bikini. I wonder how much People paid for those exclusive rights, because it’s probably enough for my entire extended family to retire on.
People has some quotes from Mariah and Nick, and Mariah calls Nick her soulmate even though she’s had less than two months to make that decision. Nick’s statement that Mariah is beautiful inside and out sounds sweet and a lot more realistic than Mariah’s. He married her though, so it’s not like his judgment skills aren’t impaired too. Sex endorphins can be a powerful and stupefying force:
“We really do feel we are soulmates,” Carey tells PEOPLE, following their sunset ceremony at the pop star’s Bahamian estate. “I never felt a love like this was in the cards for me.”
Cannon adds: “She is beautiful on the outside and 10 times as beautiful on the inside.”
People also promises to have details and photos of “their new tattoos… Nick’s candy-themed proposal” and “their plans for kids” despite the fact that Mariah said about two weeks ago that having kids would make her feel violated. Maybe they plan to adopt and pass of their kids to other people to raise. That way Mariah can make sure that the level of pampering and attention she’s getting is maintained at pre-child levels.
Everyone assumed that music superstar Mariah Carey didn’t have the wherewithal to protect her assets before she married 9 years’ younger rapper/actor Nick Cannon in a super secret ceremony in the Bahamas last week. Carey and Cannon knew each other as acquaintances in the music business for years, but only started dating after Cannon worked with Mariah on a music video less than three months ago.
Since Mariah and Nick got married so fast, everyone was kind of chuckling and wondering how much of her fortune the lucky guy would walk away with when they inevitably split. It turns out that Mariah did get a prenup, according to sources quoted by Fox News.
The happy couple is also said to be planning a larger reception and perhaps another ceremony when they get back to NY from their honeymoon:
Mariah Carey — yes, she’s married, it’s confirmed, it really happened down there in the Bahamas. She is now Mrs. Nick Cannon. You always thought you’d marry Mariah? Well, you’re too late now!
More importantly: Miss Mariah and Mr. Cannon have a very nice prenuptial agreement.
Mariah apparently told a mutual pal of ours: “Anyone who thinks we didn’t have a prenup is smoking something!!!”
This is not the Mariah Carey of old. She is a smart, smart business woman. Just for example: post Tommy Mottola, Carey nabbed $50 million from her short lived deal with Virgin Records. After “Glitter,” they just paid her all that to walk away!
She’s had three hit albums since then: “Charmbracelet,” “Emancipation of Mimi,” and the current “E=MC2.” She has her own perfume line, as well. Mariah also has substantial real estate holdings. And let’s not forget the publishing royalties. Her name is on every song. This is not Whitney. She has a small fortune, and she’s not about to lose it, even in love.
As for the wedding, I know this much: Mariah’s cousin, Shawn McDonald, walked her down the aisle. And the Bahamas ceremony will not be the only one. When Mariah and Nick return from their honeymoon, expect a big party and maybe even a second ceremony, something not so secret, for all the singer’s New York pals.
I hope these two have several huge parties in NY to celebrate their wedding, because nothing says lasting love like having multiple parties as showy demonstrations of your newly-wedded bliss. Just ask Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock.
Whatever happens with Mariah and Nick, she’s not about to get fleeced and she’s not stupid. She is vain, though, so look for photos of Mariah wearing a gown and flanked by attendants in OK! or People Magazine in a month or two.
Nick Cannon is shown at the Tribeca Film Festival on 4/26/08. Nick Carey is also shown there on the same date, and they took pains not to be photographed together.
Well the union between Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon appears to definitely be legit – the pair filed for a marriage license on the Caribbean island of Eleuthera, where Carey has a home, according to People magazine. It also appears that they wed at her estate on the exclusive island.
“Touch My Body” singer Mariah Carey, 38, got secretly hitched yesterday to her 27-year-old boyfriend after a one-month relationship, shocking the chart-topping songbird’s family and friends. Carey married TV actor Nick Cannon at the home she just bought in Eleuthera in the Bahamas, a source close to the singer said.
“They have been smitten with each other for days, weeks,” the friend said. “And she’s always had a crush on him.”
Carey and her boy toy had tongues wagging when she was seen sporting Cannon on her arm and a shiny ring on her finger at the Tribeca Film Festival. Asked what he loved about Carey, Cannon reportedly cooed “everything.”
“Everyone is happy to see her happy,” Carey’s friend told The Post. “And it could work out - some people know each other for five years and get divorced. Maybe this is true, instant love
Well who could stand that feeling of being smitten for WEEKS? I mean that is just an intolerable length of time. The Post also says that Carey isn’t as dumb as we feared – she did get a quickie pre-nup. I didn’t know that was possible, but good for her for being somewhat smart while being fairly stupid. Linda Cannon – who People says is a relative of Nick’s, but doesn’t elaborate – says that after they married, Nick “called and told us all about it.”
While there’s still no official announcement, it seems like the pair probably did wed. My only suspicion was that Mariah was perhaps following the Ashlee Simpson school of thought (NEVER a good idea, no matter what the thought) of getting a lot of free press around the time of your CD release by starting a bunch of rumors you refuse to address. While that’s probably not what happened, the possibility is still sticking in my head, and I can’t help but wonder why Mariah chose to get married so quickly, and why right now.
Photos of Mariah showing off her 17-carat ring at the premiere of Tennessee at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26th. Images thanks to PR Photos.
There’s a story that Mariah Carey, 38, impulsively married Nick Cannon, 27, yestday after dating him on the sly. They’ve been friends for years but only recently started dating from what people can tell. The first stories that they were dating came out around April, and they’re said to have struck up a romance when Nick did a cameo on Mariah’s “E=MC2″ video and was promoted to director of her “Bye Bye” video.
Nick most recently was engaged to model Selita Ebanks, and they broke up in October after an engagement that lasted less than a year. Mariah is wearing the same enormous ring once seen on Ebanks’ hand.
The details on this story are vague - there is no specific location, it’s based on an unnamed source, and there is no confirmation or denial yet from either side:
A source close to Nick Cannon has confirmed exclusively to Latina.com that Cannon and Mariah Carey are married! The couple wed yesterday in a small ceremony on an island and it was “very implusive,” according to our source. The wedding was attended by a few close friends of the couple, including Da Brat.
If this is true it means these two got married after less than two months of dating, and they probably didn’t get a prenup. Nick Cannon will be a much wealthier man by the end of the year.
US Weekly reports that the updates to Mariah Carey’s nephew’s facebook status (yes I know that’s ridiculous) have him half-confirming half-denying the rumors. He said he was in the Bahamas at the time of the alleged wedding, listed his status as “witness” at one point, but then updated it to say he “can officially say that what you may or may not have read or heard is not true.”
Update: People and E! Online report that although the engagement rings look similar, Selita and Mariah have different rings that were custom designed by Nick Cannon. Selita’s engagement ring from Nick was 12 carats and made of clear diamonds while Mariah’s is 17 carats and with colored diamonds. Mariah’s is worth $2.5 million and Selita’s was probably worth 7 figures too. How does Nick Cannon have that type of money to blow on two engagement rings in just over a year?
