Secrets of Rylan Clark’s huge interview with Mariah Carey as he reveals notorious diva’s surprising demands

HIS festive peculiar with popular royalty Mariah Carey volition beryllium a superb bauble connected the BBC’s Christmas histrion this year.

Now Rylan Clark has revealed however overmuch of a acquisition it was for him – arsenic the renowned prima donna was a joyousness to enactment with.

And it was successful information him that ended up feeling similar the diva, arsenic helium inadvertently kept HER waiting.

Rylan laughed: “Oh, my God.

“She was fractional an hr early, truthful she had to hold for me.

“I was truthful embarrassed.

“She was conscionable truthful decent, like, successful betwixt erstwhile we were benignant of cutting cameras and worldly similar that, we were conscionable chatting normally.

“She’s promised to travel circular and she’s looking guardant to gathering [my mum] Linda.

“Do you cognize what her portion was?

“She likes a Snapple, conscionable similar a small effect juice.”

Rylan flew to Los Angeles to film the 55-minute peculiar to observe the 30th day of her opus All I Want For Christmas Is You.

But Mariah wasn’t his archetypal diva.

Sitting down with TV Biz for my exclusive takeover to sermon his epic 2024, Rylan added: “I’ve been fortunate to interrogation Madonna, Cher, Kylie.

“I would emotion to person Celine Dion — she is adjacent connected my deed list.

“I consciousness similar I’m ticking them each disconnected the list.

“If I’ve cornered the diva marketplace past great, everyone determination retired the f***ing way, like, I’m coming through!”

It comes arsenic Rylan hosts a caller mini chat amusement for Amazon called the Black Friday Week Show.

It’s a format helium feels comfy with aft fronting Up Late for Channel 5 successful 2016.

He said: “I had a dabble 8 years agone present with Up Late, which I loved, but I was truthful young, I didn’t consciousness similar I’d earned the right.

“But, yeah, it’s the earthy happening for maine to beryllium and speech b*****ks with idiosyncratic for an hour.

“Eventually that is thing I would 100 per cent emotion to do.”

And aft years successful the biz, he’s surely got the telephone publication to capable a sofa oregon two.

Rylan laughed: “Yes! I consciousness similar I could beryllium similar the booker for Saturday Night Live now!

“I was truly fortunate backmost past — Mel B confirmed the Spice Girls reunion connected my chat amusement truthful that was a spot of a moment.

“But my imagination guest? All 5 Spice Girls together!”

Tell maine what you want, what you truly really want.

My daze implicit Zoe quitting

RYLAN is present a steadfast fixture astatine Radio 2 with his Saturday day show, which means helium has felt the shockwaves of Zoe Ball's resignation from the Breakfast Show this week.

He took connected Zoe’s Saturday day slot erstwhile she moved to meal six years agone – and besides succeeded her connected Strictly: It Takes Two.

He said: “Zoe’s honestly conscionable the astir decent pistillate that you could perchance person around.

“The clip we were unneurotic was astatine Scott Mills’ wedding and we were conscionable truthful blessed to spot her determination due to the fact that she’s had specified a pugnacious year.

“I’ll miss waking up with her.

“Scott’s my Eurovision hubby and I’ve ne'er been much arrogant due to the fact that for him it’s the fig 1 job.

“One downside is that we won’t person arsenic galore precocious nights retired together, but I’m definite I tin transportation him to bash brunch oregon something.”

I was a spot wheezy successful India

JET-SETTING Rylan has conscionable returned from India wherever he’s been filming the 2nd bid of his BBC travelogue, The Grand Tour.

Behind the scenes snaps person shown him and Rob Rinder gathering elephants arsenic they research the state – inspired by E.M. Forster’s 1924 caller A Passage To India.

Sharing an update, Rylan said: “I’ve been retired determination for a period with Rob.

“No Delhi belly!

“I was truly lucky.

“But erstwhile we went to Jaipur, I got a spot of a thorax corruption due to the fact that it’s truthful polluted retired there, and due to the fact that it was adjacent Diwali determination was truthful overmuch fume from each the fireworks.

“It was crazy!”

Probably makes for amended telly than a dodgy tum.

Dating critics Ryl me

ONE of Rylan’s biggest projects this twelvemonth was saucy Dating Naked for Paramount+, which saw a radical of brave singles autumn successful emotion wholly successful the buff.

So has it inspired an uptick successful the host’s ain emotion life?

Rylan said: “There’s thing to report, unfortunately.

“I’m successful a antithetic state each week and I don’t adjacent support up with my friends but if I had clip to really spell connected a date, I’d emotion to.”

Dating Naked fared a small better, though, and a 2nd bid is connected its mode contempt immoderate lofty critics’ antagonistic reviews.

Rylan deed back: “I’d accidental to them, wherefore was the amusement astatine fig 1 connected Paramount+ then?

“If you deliberation that amusement won’t beryllium for you, past don’t ticker it.

“It truly is that simple.”

Ry look astatine Xmas pressies

THIS period Rylan has been engaged fronting Amazon’s Black Friday Week show, wherever helium sits down with swimmer Adam Peaty, Stacey Dooley and Clara Amfo to chat bargains.

As good arsenic discussing the retailer’s biggest deals, helium grills the trio connected immoderate festive acquisition faux pas.

Rylan said: “Because I cognize Stace, I cognize Adam and I cognize Clara, it conscionable felt similar fun.

“Adam, he’s a antheral upland isn’t he?

“We were talking astir transportation drivers and helium was saying that each clip 1 comes astir he’s moving out, they’re like, ‘You’re looking well’.

“And Stacey, she’s like, ‘Oh I request kids’ books present for the baby’.

“We had a monolithic giggle, they’re a due bully bunch.”

All 8 episodes volition aerial connected Amazon UK’s Instagram until December 2.

RYLAN is simply a large instrumentality of regifting this Christmas.

He laughed: “I’ve opened perfumes earlier and it’s got that person’s initials engraved connected it.

“Or, like, a vessel of champagne that says: ‘A monolithic convey you from ITV’.

“It ever makes maine giggle.

“I ne'er accidental thing due to the fact that I conscionable don’t mind.”

IT’S a lesser-known information that Rylan’s archetypal showbiz occupation was connected Love Actually, arsenic a schoolkid successful the philharmonic number.

This week helium was a astonishment diagnostic successful different musical, Here & Now, which is based connected songs by Steps, with 1 quality describing Rylan arsenic her “dream man”.