{"id":173688,"date":"2025-06-10T06:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T06:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/mariah-carey-receives-first-ever-bet-award-at-2025-show-encourages-fans-to-be-divas-too\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T06:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T06:28:02","slug":"mariah-carey-receives-first-ever-bet-award-at-2025-show-encourages-fans-to-be-divas-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/mariah-carey-receives-first-ever-bet-award-at-2025-show-encourages-fans-to-be-divas-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey Receives First-Ever BET Award at 2025 Show, Encourages Fans to Be Divas Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p>Can you believe that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/mariah-carey\/\" title=\"Mariah Carey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mariah Carey<\/strong><\/a> has never received a BET Award until now?!<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old entertainer was presented with the Ultimate Icon award at the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/2025-bet-awards\/\" title=\"2025 Bet Awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2025 BET Awards<\/strong><\/a><\/em> on Monday night (June 9) at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re gonna get one, might as well start with the Ultimate Icon Award,\u201d she joked on stage while accepting the award from presenter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/busta-rhymes\/\" title=\"Busta Rhymes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Busta Rhymes<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy life and career have been quite the adventure. I will spare you the long, drawn-out saga tonight. It\u2019s all in my book anyway,\u201d <strong>Mariah <\/strong>added, before encouraging fans to be divas just like her.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2117212\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mariah Carey Receives The Ultimate Icon Crown On The BET Stage | BET Awards &#039;25\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/235UP8V_wLk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mariah <\/strong>said, \u201cIt took me a while, but I finally realized life is far too short to live for anyone else\u2019s approval, which is something I always did. So I decided to own who I am. My extraness, my fabulousness, my and yes, my success and my iconicness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so grateful for you all to celebrate it with me tonight. Thank you so much. I just want to encourage everyone out there to believe in yourself. Love and respect yourself. Be a diva, be a boss, be anything you wanna be. But be iconic while you\u2019re doing it,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mariah<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/06\/09\/mariah-carey-performs-her-new-single-live-for-first-time-at-bet-awards-2025-watch-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">performed her new single live for the first time<\/a> during the show!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/06\/10\/mariah-carey-receives-first-ever-bet-award-at-2025-show-encourages-fans-to-be-divas-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe that Mariah Carey has never received a BET Award until now?! The 56-year-old entertainer was presented with the Ultimate Icon award at the 2025 BET Awards on Monday night (June 9) at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. \u201cIf you\u2019re gonna get one, might as well start with the Ultimate Icon Award,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-173688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}