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Mariah Carey's promotional visit to the UK

Mariah Carey's promotional visit to the UK has generated no end of reports about outrageous diva-style behaviour. The latest revelations come courtesy of GMTV presenter Kate Garraway, who claims Carey brought her own toilet roll to a recent pre-recorded interview with Lorraine Kelly.
Besides revealing Carey’s lavatorial arrangements, Garraway, who wasn't present in the GMTV studios at the time, told New magazine: "While Mariah was very nice, the amount of people she had in her entourage was hilarious. They outnumbered the entire GMTV crew!
"She had two people to lower her on to the GMTV sofa, in case her dress got crushed, one person to walk in front of her backwards at all times in case she fell over and several people behind the camera making sure she was going to be filmed from the right angle."
Garraway's claims come after reports that Carey's rider demands of 20 white kittens and 100 doves for her switching on of the Christmas lights at Westfield shopping centre in west London last week were refused on health and safety grounds.
A spokeswoman for Carey said Garraway's account of the GMTV interview were an exaggeration: "With regards to the "entourage", every star of Mariah's calibre is surrounded by a working team and Mariah doesn't actually have any more people working with her than any other major star."
Carey herself seems to take reports of her diva behaviour in her stride - to the point of joking about her image for the benefit of commercials. She has even taken the trouble to look up the word 'diva' in the dictionary, saying: "I am baffled, shocked and appalled when I am called a diva. I've never done one diva-ish thing in my life. The actual definition of a diva is a woman who sings well. The secondary definition is a woman who is difficult to deal with. I hope I am the first, but I really don't think I am the second."
Presumably she also knows the word is derived from the feminine form of the Latin word divus: a mortal deified after their death
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