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C.J.: Mariah struggled to sit like a lady during live KARE interview
C.J.
Star Tribune



The official story is that Mariah Carey flashed nothing more than her "Charmbracelet" on "KARE-11 Today." Heavy breathing has it that Carey wasn't wearing underwear when she sat down for an interview following her special "Today" show concert at the Mall of America two weeks ago. "Yeah, she was wearing underwear," said an assistant to Carey's NYC PR woman on Tuesday. "She did not know she was going to be seated for the interview; she was wearing a short skirt. . . . " The assistant's cell phone then conked out. Carey's skirt length was an issue the minute the singer arrived. Taking one look at the elevated set, Carey seemed to realize she couldn't step up. Members of her entourage lifted her. A woman who seemed to be among Carey's handlers appeared absolutely panicked as she kept going in and out of the bottom-right corner of the camera frame, holding a coat that was eventually draped over Carey's lap. On a raised stage, seated in a tall director's chair, Carey tried to keep those knees together as she crossed and uncrossed her legs and shifted positions. Responding to a question from KARE-11's Roxane Battle, Carey said, "I'm very much into being with my fans, getting close to them." At this point, a hand that did not belong to Carey could be seen tugging at the hem of her miniskirt. Carey had just placed her left palm over that space that would give live guests a direct view of the nether region when she interrupted the interview. "I'm sorry," Carey said, diverting her attention to someone to her left. "What's the matter . . . ?" said Carey. "We have a problem here," Carey told Battle, who asked, "Would you like to stand up, Mariah?"



Carey stood and tugged at the clingy brown dress, which couldn't come down much because of a lack of fabric. "We didn't know that I was coming to sit up on a platform, or I would have had a little bit of a longer dress," Carey told KARE viewers and throngs of fans at the stage. Battle's co-host, Pat Evans, motioned to Carey that the camera angle was a chest-and-head shot. HA! Maybe Evans should have suggested on the air that the camera operators keep the angles tight, as in not from the knees up. People are insisting that Carey's skirt was so short you could see . . . home plate. I don't think I saw any untoward Carey scenery. Of course, I don't have a big-screen TV or the technology to enlarge frames. At one point, I saw a suspicious flash of something. I'm hoping and assuming it was upper thigh. Had it been more, don'tcha think this video would already be floating on the Web, not to mention getting the treatment by David Letterman and Jay Leno? Still, one KARE insider reported that colleagues huddled in a viewing room to examine the tape: "I don't know what people saw or didn't see; but from what I heard, it was a revealing interview." Rimshot. A KARE Demi-Boss viewed the tape after I called Monday to ask whether Carey had paid homage to Sharon Stone's "Basic Instinct" money shot. "I didn't see anything remotely interesting like that," DB reported Tuesday, sounding more like a member of Carey's image staff. "It's a standard old interview." Come on, there is nothing standard about Carey halting the interview and allowing a coat to be draped over the problem area. There seems to be a little bit of the exhibitionist in Carey, as underscored by Twin Cities flirting authority and author Jill Spiegel's recollection of Mariah's "Cribs" episode. "She started out in kind of a regular skimpy outfit. Then we went into her closet. Then she changed into a negligee and got into the bath," said Spiegel. Carey might have covered up with a towel, too. As for the KARE appearance, a panty-less Carey "is not something that would seem totally unbelievable," Spiegel said. "A lot of people don't [wear underwear] these days. She seems like someone who might not. You never see any panty line. She could have been wearing beige underwear, which always looks like skin." Fabulous point, Jill, but it will probably do nothing to quell what may become an urban legend.

Go Jome!

haha that shit is tite, props....

lol if the person in the audience didn't say shit we would have had a nice eye full

Apparently, 2 or 3 of the camera-men zoomed in on the hot-spot, but the producer chose the camera that didn't show much.
At the rerun same might, they had edited the whole shit.
Somewhere out there is 2-3 camera-angles with some hot action..