Video: Nick & Mariah Talk About The Twins on HSN

Husband Nick Cannon greets Mariah with a kiss live on HSN

Less than a day after Mariah effortlessly plugged her new range on numerous live segments on HSN yesterday, the online tabloids are up to their usual tricks in calling her appearance bizarre.

BET Real Husbands of Hollywood

This needs to be a TV show. The response from these skits has been fairly positive and I can see why.

Played during the 2011 BET Music Awards Kevin Hart [who was also the host] starred in a series of skits parodying the Real Housewives franchise.

Kevin Hart acting like a bitch

Nick Cannon playing the real-life protective husband to Mariah

and Bobby Brown still acting like he really is the 'King' I blame Whitney for that.

Happy 3rd Anniversary to Nick & Mariah! & Congratulations on the Twins Arrival!!

 

A HUGE Triple congratulations to Nick Cannon & Mariah Carey. One for each of their new twins [a boy and a girl] and another for today being their 3rd wedding anniversary. 

Mariah & Nick's Baby Nursery for The Twins

Mariah Carey: Glowing mommy-to-be

The most famous unborn babies, who already have been nicknamed by Mariah as 'dem babies' have yet to make their way into the world, but it seems that their parents Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are more than prepared for their arrival.

Mariah spoke to Life & Style magazine about the lavish nursery for her first two children, expected any day now.

"I wanted to create a beautiful, tranquil, cozy environment for the babies," Mariah tells Life & Style in an exclusive interview. "Everything matches, but pieces are individualized to celebrate the twins as separate entities."

Mariah's favorite part of the twins' LA nursery? The cloudscape, star-speckled ceiling. "The ceiling has orangey-pink clouds in a blue sky with golden stars twinkling. It's based on two songs I wrote that are fan favorites: 'Underneath the Stars' and 'Close My Eyes,'" Mariah tells Life & Style. "Sometimes I just sit in the nursery and stare at the ceiling because I love it so much. To me, it symbolizes wanting my children to dream as big as possible and to let their imaginations be unbridled." Mariah also incorporated her favorite winged insects, butterflies, into the nursery and super-soft stuffed-animal lambs, what the singer endearingly calls her fans. 

 "Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us," Mariah says. "It's going to be a delicate balance between raising them around glitz and glamour and keeping them grounded. One thing I'm sure of is that I'll be grateful for the twins every day, no matter what."

Patiently waiting: Nick has already confirmed a May 14th due date for the babies.

No babies yet! But the nursery is ready!

I expected it to be very gaudy, but for all the millions that Nick & Mariah have combined I'm actually very impressed at how pretty and neutral it looks.

You can read the Life & Style interview in full here.

The Proposal. The Song. The Anniversary Gift.

There's a love story behind Mariah Carey's latest anniversary gift, bought AND PAID for by her husband Nick Cannon.

On April 30th 2010 Mariah and Nick celebrated their 2nd year wedding anniversary and chose to renew their vows [again]. This will be an annual ritual for the loved up couple so in 12 months time you'll see the new pics and a new gift.

Nick proposed to Mariah with her 17 carat diamond ring disgusied in a ring pop candy wrapper.

Mariah then went on to write a song called Candy Bling which featured on her Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel album.

And that's how we get to the 'Candy Bling' anniversary gift from Nick to Mimi, in the short n sweet version [no pun intended].

Love it or hate it, I'm just happy a famous couple are another year into happily wedded bliss and not caught up in affairs, divorces or bitter custody battles. Can we have more of this in celebville please.

 

 

Nick Cannon's April 12th Jet Magazine Cover - He Isn't Mr Carey!

People call him corny, but the brotha man and husband to one of the biggest selling female artists of all time is very accomplished...and he hasn't even hit 30 yet. 

Nick Cannon made his first million at 15 years old. 

Can we please stop with the NICK CANNON IS BROKE CRAP! 

"Well..." I hear you say, "compared to Jay Z and Diddy...." 

Shut up!!

...no need to compare, because compared to Bill Gates & Steve Jobs, Jay-Z and Diddy are broke, so that's neither here nor there. I'm highly doubting anyone reading this blog is on Nick's level so check your bank account before you call anyone broke. How are broke folks gonna call someone richer than themselves broke?

This is a hard working man with more fingers in business related pie holes than the average Joe out there.

He hasn't got x amount of kids by x amount of women. he's not doing prison time. He's not buying up ridiculous amounts of cars and houses from every cheque. Nor is he spending over $100k in clubs on Dom P and Cristal in one night. 

Nick doesn't really flaunt his wealth, and it seems he is secure enough within himself to be married to a highly successful woman 11 years his senior.....but according to a lot of you Nick is broke, and it was Mariah who paid for her ring? Stop the madness!

I like the way Sherri, put Barbara in her place on The View back in October 2009, referring to Nick as being an entrepreneur. You could tell she looked a lil pissed off about her even asking "did Nick Pay for the ring?" How do you even have the gaul to ask Mariah (or any woman that) for that matter?

You can see the rings in all their glory at the 4:00 mark.

According to Forbes magazine Nick Cannon's net is worth an estimated $34-39 million, and Mariah worth around $250-$300 million. Based on their careers and success it's easy to to see why, but I'm not going to knock a man who's worth a hell of a lot more than you or I. If he likes it, I love it.

Now to some, people would say his net worth isn't much. Truth is Nick Cannon is a rare breed in Black Celebville. As long as he stays hard working, committed to his businesses and marriage, he's alright by me. From what I see of Nick Cannon so far I wouldn't mind seeing more brothas like him in every walk of life. We should be proud of him and his accomplishments. How many times do black men get press for negativity, and the minute someone pops up like Tyler Perry or Nick Cannon we always have to find SOMETHING to focus on and harp on about. I constantly hear 'coonery' referred to Tyler and 'corny' referred to Nick, but there will be women in droves saddened by Lil Weezy doing jail time and signing damn petitions for his release. Some of you are supporting the wrong brothas I swear!

Send me a Nick Cannon any day, if that's corny I want it. I'll appreciate him. 

He's not afraid to marry a woman more financially affluent and successful than him. 

Has no problem showing and telling the world how much he loves her.

Continues to be a highly successful business man with his 'corny' self cashing those 'corny' checks and driving his 'corny' cars with a brand new 'corny' mansion in LA which he recently purchased with Mariah.

You know there are a ton of highly successful, highly paid black women that would want a brotha that fits the bill like that? Especially one who earns substantially less than his wife and he just doesn't care because he's too busy trying build his own empire. Go get it Nick I wish you the best of luck and anyone else out there trying to be their own boss and build some wealth for themselves.

You can also read about Nick's up & coming projects for 2010 in a back dated Essence feature.

Nick Cannon: Being His Own Man

JET - April 12, 2010 issue

Nick Canon says he laughs when people call him "Mr. Mariah Carey." 'That type of stuff is humorous to me," he says. "The 'Mr.Carey' stuff is not an insult to me." Cannon and Carey married two years ago in a top-secret ceremony in The Bahamas that surprised many in and out of Hollywood.

He says if he was not accomplished in his own right, he might worry when people refer to him as just Mariah's husband. "If I were an insecure individual or if that was true, that type of statement—that I am a 'boy toy' or 'yes man' and all that type of stuff—would bother me. "But anybody who knows me or talks to me for five minutes knows clearly that's not the picture," says Cannon, who is 29.

Cannon has established himself as an actor (in the film Drumline, for example); a recording artist and music producer; stand-up comic; radio personality; and TV host of America's Got Talent.

These days, he is also building a business empire. Cannon is the CEO of his own multimedia company, NCredible Entertainment, and chairman of the Teen Nick television network. Still, his marriage to Mariah Carey gets a lot of attention.

The two clicked when Carey cast him as a lover in the video for her single Bye Bye in 2008. They wed soon afterward (JET, May 26 2008). Some said it wouldn't last more than a few months because of their age difference and her megastar status. He's heard all the rumors and speculation about their relationship.

"You can't take any of it seriously. As long as you are strong with who you are and put your family first within your household what people say on the outside is meaningless," Cannon says. "I believe a marriage is a union where two become one. I am not worried about it." He says age is not a factor in their marriage. "On the outside it may look like it, but it never comes up. We both have youthful spirits; we enjoy life."

Cannon says they will have children when "the time is right." "You can't have a family and be all over the world. You've got to focus and get it right," he says.

When A Man Loves A Woman

As I type this I'm on mariahdaily.com looking at last night's pics of Mariah and Nick on the red carpet., my Blackberry is on shuffle and on pops Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman.  No better time than to write this blog post me thinks.

Nick Cannon gets so much slack for being Mr Mariah Carey. Luckily he's a man in his own right who rather than gets insecure about being in a relationship where his wife is more successful and earns more money, he goes out and creates more TV shows, hops on a plane to boost more business in China, puts more movies out, becomes the CEO of Teen Nick, gets more TV work on America's Got Talent, signs new artists, radio host as of tomorrow on NY's 92.3 NOW FM (WXRK-FM), Lord knows what else, and still has time to accompany his beautiful wife down the red carpet at the Golden Globe awards and hold the umbrella over her head whilst the paparazzi takes pictures of her in the rain. And to think Elin Woods was pregnant with Tiger's child and he was off screwing other women, when he should have been by her side holding umbrellas up over her head, rubbing her belly and damn knows what else.

I follow Nick and Mariah on Twitter and the man will go without sleep to catch the red eye flight from LA to New York just to be with Mariah on a TV appearance, then hop back to LA to fulfil his contractual work duties. Mariah will do the same, sit and stay in the DJ booth whilst Nick is working in a club in Vegas or Miami.

It seems that a man doing what a man should and being constantly attentive to his wife is just too much for some people to take or even comprehend. When you're married to your soul mate I don't think holding and guiding your woman to and from the car in 5 inch heels, holding her hand every time you step out and holding an umbrella over her head is too much. What on earth is happening to love and romance in the heads of some people in 2010? You don't like PDA's fine, but he's no more a butler to Mariah than a mother is a maid to her children. You do what you're supposed to do when you take on the role as wife, husband, mother, and father. Some on Twitter last night referred to Nick as Mariah's personal Fonzworth Bentley. I'm sorry I just saw him being an attentive husband to his wife. Funny how the same women will be all up in arms if a man didn't hold the door open for them, or walked off to the car leaving you standing under some shelter whilst it poured down with rain. If Nick had left Mariah standing there getting soaked, the same people would be talking about it's time for her to find a new man. I swear some brothas can't win for trying!

I love men like Nick Cannon I really do. He knows exactly what is being said about him, he makes reference to it that he knows and STILL continues to love both Mariah privately and publicly. I guess it's all manly to talk about how good you are in bed and how many hoes you slept with last night. Please give me the Tevin Campbell days back when a brotha was singing about being ready to love you, wanting to talk to you, getting to know you and what your name is. Or when Aaron Hall was wailing for 6 minutes and 22 seconds about how much he missed you. I don't want to hear about any foolishness that you invented sex, or what size are your breasts and booty cause I just wanna hit it right now. You me and my homies.

Physical support is just as important as emotional support. If I'm feeling a little wobbly in my 4.75 inch heels then yes I'd love for my man to hold to my hand to keep me steady. If it's raining, for him to do whatever he can to stop me from getting wet. Or if I'm sick to look after me till I'm better and vice versa. I want to be steady both physically and emotionally with the man I love, not be with a part-time asshole who's not man enough to show me affection in public and has the time to worry what everyone else is thinking. Make it a 24/7/365 thing.

I said it on twitter last night and I'll say it again. "I'd rather have a Nick Cannon over a Tiger Woods any day!" To a lot of people Nick is corny *raises hand* "I'll take corny over a disrespecting thug please"

Nick and other men like you, continue to hold that umbrella over her head, hold her hand and keep her steady, in every single way possible. It's the little things in a love life that keep it happy. Women need to learn to appreciate these things in men too. Mariah doesn't treat Nick like a lap dog because she's Mariah Carey, she's simply allowing Nick to be a man and care for her and for her not to be Miss Independent screaming "I GOT THIS" every damn minute. I'm sure Mariah can open a car door herself, but ever thought (a) Nick loves doing it for her and (b) she too loves him doing it for her? Ladies, it's not all about what he can BUY you and when you get it, any asshole with enough credit can do that. Assholes don't rub your back, feet and neck, run you a bath, hold an umbrella over your head for you and continue to do it out of the love and admiration they have for you. If it's for ulterior motives, in time it will stop. Only a real genuine man can keep it up. When the money runs out and all you have is each other, kisses and cuddles between the two of you are the best gift ever! And they don't cost a thing.

When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge

When a man loves a woman

Can't keep his mind on nothing else

He'll trade the world

For the good thing he's found

If she's bad he can't see it

She can do no wrong

Turn his back on his best friend

If he put her down

When a man loves a woman

Spend his very last dime

Tryin' to hold on to what he needs

He'd give up all his comfort

Sleep out in the rain

If she said that's the way it ought to be

Well, this man loves a woman

I gave you everything I had

Tryin' to hold on to your precious love

Baby, please don't treat me bad

When a man loves a woman

Down deep in his soul

She can bring him such misery

If she plays him for a fool

He's the last one to know

Lovin' eyes can't ever see

When a man loves a woman

He can do no wrong

He can never own some other girl

Yes when a man loves a woman

I know exactly how he feels

'Cause baby, baby, baby, you're my world

When a man loves a woman.....

"Looks Like We Made It!"

I for one this time last year was in complete shock. A die hard Mariah fan aka Lamb for nearly two decades. One minute she's in a long term relationship with Mark Sudack, then next Nick Cannon is her husband.

Ummm OK. I thought this was a joke, others a publicity stunt. I even believed it to be a cover up for a real marriage to Mark Sudack, as Mariah's a very private person when it comes to her personal life. So why all of a sudden was she talking about Nick all the time and even put him in her 'Bye Bye' video.

365 days on I believe it. Took me a while but it's bloody obvious, these two love the hell out of one another whether in photos or on Twitter messages to one another you can tell it's Real Love *singing Mary J in my head now* he's at an airport and can't wait to get home to his wife, and she's at home in bed and can't sleep cause Nick isn't there beside her. Awwww how sweet.

Mariah with the Jack Russell Terrier puppy named Cha Cha, a gift Nick bought her for her 39th Birthday in April.

I gave it 6 months. I was wrong. Not that I didn't want my beloved Mimi to be happy but I thought post Selita and Christina Nick, wasn't the right one, but I guess the old adage rings true "who am I to judge."

Celebrating tonight in Las Vegas with friends is their 1 year wedding anniversary. And I wish them many more. This is one celeb marriage I'm really rooting for. Mariah deserves it and Nick seems to have matured before our eyes both personally and professionally over the past year.

Good Luck for passing that 1st year [especially in Celebville]