Smash Hits catastrophy
Mariah Carey found herself splattered with vomit on Friday after a journalist threw up on the diva. According to Q Magazine, Carey was being interviewed in her limousine by John McKie, an editor with the English teenybopper magazine, Smash Hits.
McKie was apparently feeling ill, and not because he had the duration of a car journey in order to pick Carey's brains. The journalist was severely hungover from a wild night on Thursday. After travelling over several speed bumps, McKie asked the driver to pull over.
In a scene familiar to alcoholic music journalists the world over, McKie didn't quite escape the car in time. Instead, he emptied the contents of his stomach on the multi-platinum-selling superstar's designer shoes.
Carey, needless to say, was not pleased. She quickly ordered another car to take her to the television studio where she was due to be interviewed by another, more sober journalist. An assistant quickly wiped her shoes free of the regurgitated detritus. Reports say that it was clear from the effluvia that McKie had eaten carrots.
Like McKie's meal, the incident will not have gone down well with the exacting diva. On a trip to London's MTV studios last year, Carey refused to perform unless kittens and dogs were supplied for her to frolic with. According to Q Magazine, Carey also refused to go to one studio because "she didn't want to walk up the stairs." It was also necessary to supply a large crowd to give the diva a rousing welcome upon her arrival. According to Q's source, "Everyone at MTV was made to go outside and people from Carey's record company were desperately rounding up anyone who happened to be walking past."
Carey is currently in Europe prepping for her world tour and promoting her forthcoming film All That Glitters. Last weekend she discussed the contents of the soundtrack. "I was working with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis again," Carey said of the new songs. "I'm going to be singing six songs in the soundtrack. My character is in a girls group. She's not the lead singer. I actually also spent a brief few minutes with the Artist formerly known as Prince discussing the soundtrack, and he was giving me some possible things to work on and to write, too. I've been a fan of his forever and it was a great experience."
Carey will no doubt be looking forward to returning to the United States, where the only danger posed to a diva is if Jay-Z or Puff Daddy go to the same club. (VH1)
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