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Precious moments for a diva
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November 25, 2009
 By Billy Suter
Diva Mariah Carey has shocked many - by behaving well on the promotional tour of America for her latest film, Precious, in which she plays a dowdy social worker.
Notorious for being among the most demanding of divas, the singer-actress has apparently attended all premieres and interviews on time and behaved extremely well.
It has been reported by OK! magazine that Carey is hoping her small, but well-received, performance in Precious will land her an Oscar nomination, so she evidently is pulling out all the stops to get in everyone's good books.
The magazine adds that Carey's Precious co-star, Mo'Nique, on the other hand, is proving a nightmare on the promo tour, refusing to work the red carpet unless she gets paid to do so.
The report states that the actress's tantrums and demands for special treatment became so unbearable that her publicist quit after only a fortnight.
Other news in the tabloids is that British singer-dancer and actress Jennifer Ellison, the 26-year-old host of DStv's recent Dirty Dancing UK: The Time of My Life, and also seen in the film version of Phantom of the Opera, has tied the knot in Mauritius.
The heavily pregnant Ellison and her beau, Rob Tickle, 29, eloped to the island paradise's Four Seasons resort for their secret nuptials.
They had earlier planned to wed in a castle in Ireland, but Ellison's commitments to a tour of the show The War of the Worlds saw them having to put that plan on hold.
However, reports OK! magazine in a large spread devoted to the wedding, just a few weeks later the couple found out they were expecting a baby early in the new year and decided to marry privately.
After emotional phone calls home to their parents, the newlyweds then planted a tree together in The Love Forest at the Four Seasons.
The idea is that as the tree grows, so does the couple's love. Altogether now: Aaah!
News on the television scene is that the annual American Idol charity fundraising special, Idol Gives Back, is set to return for a third year in 2010 - it will reportedly be aired in America on April 21, during the Top 7 results show of the talent search series.
After two successful editions of Idol Gives Back, plans for a 2009 special were cancelled.
Executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz has gone on record to state that she wanted the charity event "to take a break, personally ... I think that's the right amount of time.
"I don't think you should go back to the country and ask them to donate every single year. I think it's too much. Every two years to me feels right."
Proceeds from the next edition of Idol Gives Back will reportedly go to Children's Health Fund, Feeding America, Malaria No More, Save the Children and the United Nations Foundation.
More than $140 million was raised in the two previous specials.
The ninth season of American Idol returns to the United States in January and will be seen in South Africa, on DStv, later in the year.
Moving on to music gossip.. the forthcoming album by troubled British star Amy Winehouse, due next year, is going to be a stunner, if one believes the gushing praise from one of her studio bosses.
"It is already sounding sensational. I've heard a couple of songs that have absolutely floored me," says Island record label co-president Darcus Beese, in a UK newspaper report.
Winehouse's last album, the critically acclaimed Back to Black, won her five Grammy Awards and sold more than 10 million copies.
Finally, actress Keira Knightley has gone on record to say she is "terrified, but excited" about making her London West End stage debut in December.
The star of Pride and Prejudice and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies - soon, also, to be seen as Eliza Doolittle in a big-screen remake of My Fair Lady - is lined up to portray a flirtatious Hollywood movie star in the new stage production, a modern-day version of Moliere's The Misanthrope.
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