Amicable co-parents Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey were spotted Sunday taking their twins Moroccan and Monroe to Disneyland for their sixth birthdays. The pop diva's been a fixture on Nick's Instagram page lately - though always with the children - and rumors are swirling that he and Mariah are back together. Yet the comedian's denied rekindling a romance with his ex-wife, insisting as much during a full-hour guest shot on The Wendy Williams Show this past Thursday.
For their Sunday out, Mariah, 47, wore a typically busty black top beneath a cropped orange jacket that matched the orange belt emphasizing her waistline. Her seemingly airtight jeans featured tears down each leg, and she'd added a splash of glitz to the ensemble by way of a necklace and gleaming hoop earrings. Slits ran up the sides of the jeans, though they were covered over with crisscrossing straps, and she'd completed the look with a black pair of chic stiletto boots.
Meanwhile, her 36-year-old ex-husband showed off his toned, tattoo-sprawled arms in a sleeveless button-down top featuring purple checks over a pink background. Accessorizing with a pair of aviators and a pink turban, Nick - who's got an affinity for turbans these days - had clashed dark jeans stylishly with sand-colored boots.
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They were spotted with their children ambling about, as well as hopping aboard such iconic rides as Splash Mountain, the Matterhorn and Space Mountain. By the time she clambered onto the Splash Mountain carriage, Mariah'd ensured the safety of her hairdo and outfit by pulling on an immense transparent rain poncho. Nick, meanwhile, posted an Instagram photo of the birthday twins, each standing at a Disney-themed cake, and the proud father captioned: "We lit."
Nick and Mariah had begun their marriage, his first and her second, back in 2008, but he filed in 2014 for a divorce that was ultimately finalized this past November. Mariah had previously had a go at matrimony with music executive Tommy Mottola, whom she'd been married to from 1993 and 1998 with no children to show for it.
Since splitting from Nick, the infamously mercurial songstress has kept busy, including via a now-shattered engagement to Australian billionaire James Packer. After Mariah and James were over, she apparently veered into a dalliance with her backup dancer Bryan Tanaka, but in early April, People reported they'd broken up.
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Nick's love life has been even more eventful: he welcomed a baby son called Golden "Sagon" with dancer, actress and beauty queen Brittany Bell this February 21. When he sat opposite Wendy Williams on her show this week, the talk-show hostess asked her guest outright: "So, Nick, are you and Mariah still sleeping together?"
The onetime radio shock jock said: "In my mind, I believe you are, and there'd be nothing wrong with that," to which Nick replied: "There would be nothing wrong with that, but that's not the case," audibly disappointing the studio audience.
Wendy displayed an Instagram photo he'd recently posted of himself and Mariah laying in bed as she read their children a bedtime story - and he, as he noted, dozed. "Listen, after midnight..." Wendy prodded, prompting Nick to laugh and add: "Once the kids are in bed," whereupon Wendy soldiered on with her theory.
"Once the kids are in the bed, and the wine is flowing - we know she likes to have a drink - and whatever you do. And look, she's in a negligee!" said Wendy. "Gorgeous. Amazing," said Nick, as Wendy continued: "She never calls you: 'Hey, Nicky,' and then you come in, and she lets it drop?" pointing out: "Come on, it's nice to go back to a comfortable place."
"It is," Nick allowed, "and there's nothing but unconditional love there. I mean, she's gorgeous, but you know, I'm respectful. I put the kids in bed and I go home." The crowd started with the 'Aww's, but Wendy stoutly insisted: "I don't believe you," to which Nick spread his arms incredulously and asked: "Why not?"
"I just don't. Listen, I'm rooting for you guys to get back together in five years, and I said that on Hot Topics," said Wendy, to an eruption of applause from the room. She put it to Nick that he'd wind up returning to Mariah "after going to your set and seeing all those gorgeous women", who are "just throwing themselves around".
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Conceded Wendy: "You could have any pick of the litter, and I know that you're picking and littering, you know, and I see you around town and stuff." The 52-year-old told Nick: "You need five years to just, like, get out there and do it, and then come on back home to Mama. Yes," she added, as the crowd cheered.
When Nick pointed out: "What about her?", Wendy countered that "She needs time, also, but you've already broken up two of her relationships that we know."
"I broke 'em up?" said Nick in apparent disbelief, and Wendy shot back by claiming Nick had contributed to Mariah's romantic splits "cause you're always around." Quoth Wendy: "When she was with the billionaire, you broke them up, along with, in my mind..." but Nick spluttered: "I wasn't - I want her to be with the billionaire," and joked: "Let's give some more yachts for everybody," with the crowd having a ball.
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Wendy pulled back to the gossip, saying: "Along with the diva antics, though, I do think that you run a lot of interference," and throwing out: "I don't believe that that was a real relationship with the background dancer, Bryan Tanaka." On that subject, Nick's maintained to Wendy: "I don't know. I - really, I don't get involved in that. I'm just there to support my children. That's all it's about."
"But you're always around," she said, and the father of three insisted his frequent reappearances in Mariah's life were "For my children! And I - whatever she wants to do in her personal life, I support. I salute. I just want her to be happy."
"Well, then," said Wendy, forthright as ever, "why did you divorce?" and when Nick asked: "You want the real?" she gave, of course, the natural answer: "Yes!" Nick's thinking about romance, as he explained, is that "when two people are in a relationship, it should be about growth, right? You should be - it should be a situation where everyone's becoming a better human being in the relationship."
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Which is to say that "when you get to a point where there's no longer any growth, and you're not bettering each other, and especially as you're building a household to become one cause that's what marriage is all about - I felt like it was probably best, especially for our children, since they're the number one priority."
Said Nick: "If I could be the best human being and the best father from outside of that house, that's what I had to do," whereupon an audience member said: "Preach!" Wendy replied: "Got it. By the way..." and when Nick interjected: "It was my fault. I did it." Wendy said to him: "No, that's - you're a man, mookie. Yeah, you are."
As their interview careered from subject to subject, eventually Wendy steered the conversation back to Mariah, asking: "Do you ever sleep over the house?" When Nick said: "Yeah, I do," Wendy pressed: "In close proximity to her room?" at which point Nick specified that "I sleep in my kids' room."
(Daily Mail Online)
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