Mariah Carey remains to be bringing the glitter.
Whereas she skipped the 2025 VMAs purple carpet, the music icon took the stage to carry out a medley of her best hits and settle for the musical awards present’s largest honor of the night, the Video Vanguard Award.
Whereas she initially donned a champagne-colored silk bathrobe, she quickly whipped it off to disclose a corseted gold crystal-covered bodysuit paired with matching glowing boots.
She wore her blond hair in waves and accessorized with much more bling, together with a number of diamond bracelets, a press release necklace and chandelier earrings.
“I simply have one query, what within the Sam Hill had been you ready for?” she quipped, whereas accepting the coveted award, introduced by Ariana Grande.
Although she famously doesn’t imagine in birthdays and, actually, refers to her growing old as an “anniversary” — (or admittedly lives in denial) Carey is the oldest recipient of the Video Vanguard Award up to now at age 56.
She follows within the footsteps of final 12 months’s Video Vanguard Award recipient, Katy Perry, in addition to previous lifetime achievement winners together with Shakira, Beyoncé, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna and others.
Coincidentally, she introduced the exact same Vanguard Award to LL Cool J in 1997 — and the rapper is internet hosting this 12 months’s present, which airs on CBS and Paramount+.
Shockingly, this would be the famous person’s very first Moon Particular person; she has by no means received one of many eight awards she’s been nominated for on the MTV present regardless of her decades-long profession. Tonight, she’s up for her ninth: finest R&B video for her track, “Sort Harmful.”
Right here’s hoping Mimi’s heading dwelling along with her fingers full.
