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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 5 January 2017
‘Mortified’ Mariah Carey discusses

‘horrible New Year’s Eve’

Associated Press ed that stance to EW and “Rockin New Year’s Eve”
Mariah Carey says she was praised the late Clark. co-host Jenny McCarthy
“mortified” in “real time” “I’m of the opinion that defended Dick Clark Pro-
during her disastrous live Dick Clark would not have ductions on her SiriusXM
performance moments be- let an artist go through that radio show Tuesday , say-
fore the ball dropped on and he would have been ing “for Mariah to defame
ABC’s “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ as mortified as I was in real them was so incredibly in-
New Year’s Eve.” time,” she said. sulting.” “The truth of the
Carey spoke to Entertain- While she described the matter is Mariah didn’t do
ment Weekly in her first night as “a horrible New a sound check,” McCar-
interview since the show Year’s Eve,” Carey said the thy said. Instead, Carey
in which she stumbled experience wouldn’t stop rehearsed her stage move-
through her songs. At many her from doing another live ments but stood off to the
points she stopped singing, television performance. side while having a stand-
even while a prerecorded “But it will make me less in do a sound check, ac-
vocal track played in the trusting of using anyone cording to McCarthy. q
background. outside of my own team,”
Carey’s publicist blamed she added. Dick Clark Pro- In this Dec. 31, 2016, file pho-
show producer Dick Clark ductions has called the to, Mariah Carey performs at
Productions earlier this Carey camp’s claims “ab- the New Year’s Eve celebra-
week for not addressing surd” and said an internal tion in Times Square in New
technical difficulties be- investigation showed the York.
fore the performance, in- company it had no involve- Associated Press
cluding a malfunctioning ment in the issues affecting
earpiece. Carey reiterat- Carey’s performance.

This June 27, 2015, file photo, shows the Hulu logo on a window
at the Milk Studios space in New York.
Associated Press
Hulu adds CBS for

upcoming live TV

streaming service

NEW YORK (AP) — Hulu is Some shows can also be
teaming up with CBS to watched on demand after
add three of the network’s they have aired.
channels to its upcoming Hulu says its live-streaming
live TV streaming service. service will launch in the
The deal will give Hulu the coming months, but did
right to live stream the not give a date.
nation’s most-watched The streaming company al-
broadcast network, CBS, ready has similar deals with
as well as CBS Sports Net- Time Warner Inc., 21st Cen-
work and cable channel tury Fox and The Walt Dis-
Pop. Hulu said Wednesday ney Co., allowing it to live
that more CBS Corp. chan- stream CNN, Fox, ESPN and
nels may be added later. several other channels.q