5 FABULOUS FACTS ( & A MASSIVE FIB* ) ABOUT.. . MARIAH CAREY

HER DOG HAS ITS OWN LIMO

Ms Carey is the loving owner of a Jack Russell terrier she calls, perhaps unimaginatively, Jack. And when Mistress travels, Jack goes too – in his own personal pooch-mobile.

SHE DIDN’T MAKE A CLEAN SWEEP

Most stars in the making start out working in lowly jobs. The future soul diva, however, managed to get sacked from her job sweeping up hair from a hairdresser’s floor. Now

that’s unskilled.

SHE CAN CHAT WITH FLIPPER

In the Guinness Book of Records Carey holds the record for highest note ever sung, a note so high the only other creature on Earth known to be able to produce it is the dolphin.

SHE LOVES PHIL COLLINS

In the best tradition of Lady Bracknell: to record one cover version of Phil Collins’s Against All Odds is unfortunate, but to do so twice looks like carelessness.

SHE ENVIES THE STARVING

Carey was once reported as saying, ‘When I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world I can’t help but cry. I mean, I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.’

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