Eamonn Holmes recalls disastrous interview with diva Mariah Carey: ‘She refused to sit up!’
GB News presenter Eamonn Holmes has revealed details of a disastrous interview attempt with Mariah Carey – with the global superstar keeping him waiting for hours before the encounter fell apart.
Speaking with co-host Isabel Webster during a discussion about favourite Christmas songs, Eamonn made it clear he wasn’t a fan of the singer, despite her festive hits.
“The song may be lovely, but she’s not lovely. I can’t listen to anything she says,” Eamonn told Isabel Webster when she mentioned liking All I Want for Christmas.
Isabel begged: “Please tell us what she was like. Tell us the gossip.”
Eamonn explained: “I went to interview her and basically to cut a very long story short, she kept me waiting for four or five hours, and was lying on a chaise longue.
“I went over and I laid down beside her, and her entourage went ballistic. They asked what’s happening? What’s going on here?
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“I said, I’m just lying down beside Miss Carey. They said Miss Carey is very tired, she can’t do this interview.
“I said she’s very tired? I’ve been up from four this morning. I did breakfast television and she’s kept me waiting for hours, so I think I can lie down here.
“They said, this cannot happen. You’ve got to get up. I said, look, listen, there’s only way this interview is going to happen. Either she sits up with me and I sit up or we both lie down. You make your choice. Interview didn’t happen.”
The incident appears to align with Carey’s well-documented preference for chaise longues, with The Guardian noting she once explained on MTV Cribs that she has one in her kitchen because “I have a rule against sitting up straight”.
Carey herself has been open about her high-maintenance reputation, embracing the diva label wholeheartedly.
In an interview with The Guardian, the superstar was unapologetic about her behaviour.
“You know what? I don’t give a s****. I f***** am high-maintenance because I deserve to be at this point,” she declared.
“That may sound arrogant, but I hope you frame it within the context of coming from nothing,” she explained.
Carey insisted she had earned the right to be demanding after years of hard work.
“If I can’t be high-maintenance after working my ass off my entire life, oh, I’m sorry – I didn’t realise we all had to be low-maintenance. Hell, no!” she said.
She added that she “was always high-maintenance” but simply “didn’t have anyone to do the maintenance” during her childhood.
When asked if she minds being called a diva, Carey was equally dismissive of any criticism, “No! Who the f*** cares?” she responded.