Mariah Carey ‘wed lover’ in secret ceremony

NICK Cannon is cast as Mariah Carey’s lover in her new video — but has the superstar diva given the young actor a considerably bigger role in real life?

According to several published reports, Carey, 38, married Cannon, 27, on Wednesday. Neither Carey’s publicist nor Cannon’s manager returned requests from The Associated Press for comment.

Word that the two were seeing each other first surfaced in the past few weeks. Last Saturday, Carey was seen sporting a huge diamond ring on her finger at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of her movie, Tennessee, in which she plays a waitress. Cannon was at her side at the party.

Latina.com was first to report that the two got married, at Carey’s home in the Bahamas.

Friday’s New York Post also has the pair wed and E! Online quoted a relative of Cannon’s as saying that he called his family and confirmed the news.

“He called us and told us all about it. We are happy for him. If that is what he wants then we are happy for him,” Linda Cannon, identified as a family member, was quoted telling E!.