USA: Pop diva Mariah Carey unveils a giant replica of her legs in New York City as she receives the first 'Celebrity Legs of a Goddess' award

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  • Title: USA: Pop diva Mariah Carey unveils a giant replica of her legs in New York City as she receives the first 'Celebrity Legs of a Goddess' award
  • Date: 1st June 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) MARIAH CAREY, POP DIVA, SAYING: "I don't like to talk about money but I would definitely say that if your legs were insured for a billion dollars, it wouldn't be the best thing to go around talking about it." MARIAH CAREY BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) MARIAH CAREY, POP DIVA, SAYING: "I was like maybe I should just go immediately back into the studio and make an album, but I wanted to take a little bit of a break and kind of see the fans, see the world. I'm taking a tour bus this time, so it's going to be lot different. Really going to get a chance to get in touch with seeing the people that you're performing for, being part of the environment, just being there, with the people and it's exciting. It's really exciting to perform the new hits for the fans."
  • Embargoed: 16th June 2006 13:00
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  • Story Text: Pop singer Mariah Carey will hit the road this summer, three years after her last arena tour was downsized to theaters. But before getting into the tour bus, the diva got a little bit of well-orchestrated publicity in New York, with Gillette Venus naming her the first, 'Celebrity Legs of a Goddess' and giving her an award - for her legs.
    Carey, clad in a short black dress unveiled a sixteen-foot likeness of her legs at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. She said she was honored to get the award and that as a child she could never have imagined having a giant replica of her legs. "It's amazing and it's really great because it's kind of so tied in with my tour in terms of just how festive and you know it is about me being in shape and about me being really like grounded and you need your legs to be, you need to be strong, you need to be able to kind of be strong internally and strong externally," Carey said.
    Her new tour, crisply titled 'Adventures of Mimi: The Voice, The Hits, The Tour' gets underway August 5 in Miami, and dates are on tap through October 10 in Phoenix. Sean Paul will open the majority of the tour's first portion, with other openers to be announced.
    Tickets begin going on sale June 2. The tour comes in support of Carey's smash hit album 'The Emancipation of Mimi,' which has sold nine million copies worldwide, according to Island Def Jam. The album captured three Grammy awards this year and recently passed its one year anniversary on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and includes Mariah's 16th and 17th No. 1 career singles, 'We Belong Together' and 'Don't Forget About Us', respectively.
    During the tour, Carey promises to also perform several tunes from her back catalog live for the first time.
    Other news circulating about Carey was that she recently had her legs insured for a billion dollars. The comeback diva turned coy when asked whether the rumor about her leg insurance was true.
    "I don't like to talk about money but I would definitely say that if your legs were insured for a billion dollars, it wouldn't be the best thing to go around talking about it," she smiled and said.
    While Carey was shy about her long legs and the insurance rumor, the star was eager to talk about her upcoming tour, saying that she was really doing it for her fans and that she saw it as a chance to get in touch with seeing the people that she performs for. She added that she was also looking forward to performing new hits on the tour.
    Apart from the tour, Carey has her hands full these days with preparations for a new film project called 'Tennessee' with Oscar award winning producer Lee Daniels. Carey said that Daniels approached her after seeing her in an independent film and that she was learning a 'different approach' to music while getting ready for the shooting.
    She is studying a variety of music genres and also recently learned to play the guitar for her role as a waitress in the film.
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