Mariah Carey Skipped the 2025 BET Awards Carpet but Made Up for It as She Emerged for Her Performance Dripping in Gold

Mariah Carey brought a manner imagination to life astatine nan 2025 BET Awards.

On June 9, nan singer, 56, made a melodramatic entranceway during nan awards show aft skipping nan reddish carpet.

She took disco glitter for a rotation onstage during her capacity of nan starring azygous disconnected her upcoming 16th workplace album, "Type Dangerous," earlier delighting fans pinch "It's Like That."

Carey's look consisted of a metallic golden minidress dress and matching heels but she mixed metals pinch her eye-catching jewelry (a.k.a. bedazzled hoops and layers of light-catching bracelets). For glam, nan popular prima transformed her curls into a sleek consecutive hairstyle and kept her glitter '90s-coded.

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Carey is nary alien to nan awards show having attended aggregate times successful nan past, nevertheless nan past clip she graced nan BET Awards shape was successful 2022 erstwhile she performed pinch Latto.

This year, she's being honored pinch nan BET Ultimate Icon Award alongside Jamie Foxx, Kirk Franklin and Snoop Dogg. While accepting nan honor, Carey stepped retired successful different ensemble, this 1 much curve-hugging and glitter successful design.

Her 2nd look featured a floor-length achromatic corset gown pinch a low-cut sweetheart neckline. She upped nan glitz pinch a gem necklace topped pinch a ample gemstone and rewore her stack of bracelets. She switched up her hairsbreadth too, putting her chromatic blonde tresses successful a half ponytail (which again seemed for illustration a motion to nan pre-aughts).

Her past reddish carpet was astatine nan Recording Academy Honors' Black Music Collective arena successful February 2024. Although Carey showed up for nan iHeartRadio Music Awards successful March, she skipped nan carpet and alternatively fto her mermaid gown radiance onstage erstwhile she accepted her Icon Award.

Carey has been ushering caller beginnings some personally and professionally.

The superstar celebrated her 56 day connected March 27 successful ultra-glam fit. In a TikTok video group to her 2005 song "It's Like That," nan mom of 2 showed disconnected her curves successful a sheer sequin dress coated successful sequins.

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On May 2, Anderson .Paak confirmed that he and Carey have a caller collaboration successful nan works while appearing connected Track Star*. The news was announced only months aft .Paak was seen holding hands pinch Carey aft accompanying her to nan iHeartRadio Music Awards. The rumored mates were leaving nan Birds Street Cafe successful West Hollywood, Los Angeles, astatine nan time.