Finally, Ryan Seacrest weighs in on Mariah Carey’s “unfortunate” New Year’s Eve performance
Finally, after days of waiting, we have an answer to the question everybody has been asking — how does Ryan Seacrest feel about Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve mishap on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve? You know, that internationally broadcast show Seacrest hosted, where Mariah had mortifying technical issues that went viral within seconds, then her management later dragged Dick Clark Productions without mercy?
Well, let’s just say that — surprise, surprise — Seacrest is being the consummate professional and a total pal to Queen Mariah. Sort of. We think.
“It is difficult to perform in Times Square," he said during the Thursday, January 5th broadcast of On Air with Ryan Seacrest. "I mean, she had done it before because she was the first musical guest that we had had live when I started doing the show a decade ago. So she had seen it; she knows what Times Square is about. It’s complicated. I don’t know what you realize on TV or you see, but imagine: Every single TV outlet in the world is there. There’s all kinds of technical things going on."
“It’s live television, and things happen on live TV — if something goes wrong, it’s unfortunate for anybody,” he continued.
Basically, it seems like Seacrest is acknowledging that Mariah had a difficult time with the performance, but also saying she should have known better since she did it all before way back when.
Which is … actually pretty diplomatic of him, considering Mariah’s camp has been saying things like Dick Clark Productions “set her up to fail,” something the company later said was “defamatory, outrageous and frankly absurd.”
“This is a team that wants to do everything they can to accommodate any artists," Seacrest concluded. "They, and we, are in the business of wanting people to look good! And believe me: Tricky things, tough things can happen, on live television. You’ve seen artists before, in a concert, pull out their earpieces because something happened. So something could have happened in the ears; I wasn’t in those ears. It’s just unfortunate that it comes to all of this -- because it’s a night of celebration and a night of fun.
Believe us, Seacrest — for the rest of us, this has all been really, really fun.
