Mariah Carey at the premier of Precious at the Cannes Film Festival (5/15)

I should get into this whole "pop icon" thing. It seems like it pays really well. From the New York Post:

Mariah Carey is celebrating Memorial Day with hubby Nick Cannon in Turkey -- and getting paid handsomely for it. The songbird, whose new album, "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel," will be released later this year, is getting $1.5 million to perform at the opening of "Europe's most expensive hotel," the Marden Palace Hotel in Antalya. Tom Jones is getting paid the same amount to croon his tunes. Also flown in for the gala are the Cannes crew: Sharon Stone, Richard Gere, Seal and Heidi Klum and Paris Hilton.

I guarantee that even though Mariah got paid a ridiculous amount of money to perform for a single evening, she was absolutely fuming that Tom Jones got paid the same amount. It is easy to see why the organizers pushed for the identical payday: both have over-processed hair, overtly large bulges in their undergarments, and an affinity for feminine-looking mates. That's right Nick Cannon. I just called you out. What are you gonna do, pull my hair?

[WENN]