Nick Cannon Says He and Mariah Carey Talk Almost Every Day—And Laugh at Those “Not Close” Rumors
The exes’ co-parenting rhythm is apparently less “dramatic reunion” and more “who keeps telling the internet we’re estranged?”
Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey are once again being dragged into the celebrity rumor machine, and this time they seem to be enjoying the joke from inside the car.
In a new interview with Us Weekly, Cannon addressed the recurring speculation about his relationship with Carey, his ex-wife and the mother of their 15-year-old twins, Monroe and Moroccan. His update was notably unmessy: the pair talk “almost every day or every other day,” he said, specifically about their children, and they recently laughed together at reports suggesting they are no longer close.
“I was like, ‘Who is telling people that?’” Cannon recalled.
That is a very Mariah-and-Nick sentence: a little incredulous, a little amused, and just self-aware enough to acknowledge that the public has been writing fan fiction about their post-divorce dynamic for nearly a decade.
The estrangement rumor has apparently met its match
Cannon and Carey were married from 2008 to 2016, a stretch that included a lavish wedding, the birth of their twins and plenty of high-gloss celebrity attention. Their divorce, however, did not become the kind of scorched-earth spectacle that usually keeps tabloids employed for years.
Instead, they have maintained a co-parenting relationship while building separate lives in public. Cannon has gone on to host The Masked Singer and expand an enormous family; Carey has remained firmly in her own pop-cultural universe, where Christmas is a season, a business model and a state of mind. Every so often, the internet tries to turn their continued warmth into a secret reconciliation. Every so often, one of them has to explain that being friendly with your ex is not automatically a soft launch.
Cannon did add a playful wrinkle to the latest round of speculation. After discussing reports that he and Carey are not close, he said he had also heard the opposite: that they might be getting back together. His response was deliberately cheeky: “I’ll deliver the truth with the doc. I’m always open [to that].”
Neither has said they are rekindling the marriage. The joke is doing what celebrity jokes often do best: keeping the door entertainingly ajar without walking through it.
A divorce without the usual celebrity debris
What makes this dynamic interesting is not the possibility of a reunion so much as the absence of the usual post-divorce debris. Cannon described the split as not messy and said the two were able to move on and focus on being the best parents they could be.
That kind of sentence can sound almost radical in a culture that treats famous breakups like competing press tours. There is no dramatic “we never speak” chapter here, no public campaign to establish who was the villain, and no apparent need to pretend that a former spouse has been erased from the family tree. Carey is still Carey. Cannon is still Cannon. Their relationship simply exists in a less clickable category: functional, affectionate and mostly about the kids.
Mostly, but not entirely. Cannon spoke about Carey with admiration that went beyond logistics, calling her “my greatest friend and my greatest teacher.” He said she taught him how to hold on to what is true and create his own spaces without allowing outside energy to take over.
That description also happens to sound like an accidental explanation of Carey’s entire public persona. She has spent decades operating on a frequency that is unmistakably hers—part diva theater, part vocal athleticism, part strategic privacy. Cannon said he had never seen someone operate so fully on her own frequency, adding that her faith and ability to block out negative energy help keep her going.
The Mariah Carey privacy paradox
There is a funny tension in Cannon’s description of Carey. The world is convinced it knows her: the whistle notes, the butterfly imagery, the Christmas canon, the glamorous entrances, the memes that have become a second language. But Cannon emphasized that she keeps the things most meaningful to her private.
That may be why even a basic co-parenting update becomes gossip currency. Carey’s public image is enormous, but her actual inner circle remains tightly edited. When someone with intimate history says, essentially, “She is more private than you think,” people lean in.
This is also why every friendly interaction between former celebrity spouses gets treated like a coded message. If they are distant, the internet sees tension. If they are warm, the internet sees a reunion. If they talk almost every day, suddenly the question becomes whether a divorce can be retroactively rebranded as a long intermission.
Cannon’s comments suggest something less cinematic and arguably more impressive: a long-running family arrangement that survived fame, divorce, two extremely recognizable personalities and years of public curiosity.
Co-parenting, but make it headline material
This is not the first time Cannon has discussed the complicated reality of raising children with Carey. In 2024, he spoke about his “crazy antics” and “madness” while co-parenting with her, as well as the insecurities he experienced during their marriage. Carey also made a rare comment about co-parenting with Cannon last summer.
The recurring theme is that the relationship works because it has been allowed to become something new. Not marriage. Not estrangement. Not a nostalgic greatest-hits package. A family connection with its own rhythm, one that apparently includes frequent conversations, mutual respect and the occasional shared laugh at an absurd headline.
And yes, Cannon is still willing to flirt with the reunion rumor because he understands the assignment. Carey and Cannon getting back together would be major celebrity news. Carey and Cannon calmly co-parenting for years is healthier, but somehow much harder to turn into a three-part streaming special.
For now, the most revealing detail is also the least scandalous: they talk nearly every day or every other day, and they are close enough to laugh when strangers insist they are not. In celebrity culture, that may be the real plot twist.
Lindsey Vonn Just Turned a “Summer Recap” Into a Full-Blown Ski Romance Launch
After months of “getting to know each other,” the Olympic champion and French racer Matthieu Bailet are kissing in pools, holding waists on seaside rocks and making the soft launch look extremely underdressed.
Lindsey Vonn has apparently decided that if you are going to hard-launch a romance, you may as well do it with mountains, turquoise water, a hammock and a soundtrack that practically winks at the camera.
On Wednesday, September 23, the Olympic skier shared a carousel of vacation photos featuring fellow skier Matthieu Bailet, and the post is less “casually seeing someone” than “please admire the new couple’s international lifestyle.” The caption was breezy: “About that time for a summer recap… pt 1.” The song was Olivia Dean’s “So Easy (To Fall In Love).” The images did the rest.
In one, Vonn and Bailet kiss in a pool with mountains behind them. In another, he holds her waist as they stand together on a rock above the sea. Then comes the hammock shot, where Vonn rests her hand on Bailet’s thigh while they lounge over the water. Three photos, one caption, and absolutely no interest in pretending this is a friendship trip with unusually cinematic blocking.
It is a very Vonn way to announce a relationship: athletic, sun-soaked and just polished enough to make everyone else’s vacation dump look like a parking-lot lunch.
The soft launch started on Broadway
The Instagram reveal did not arrive entirely out of nowhere. Vonn and Bailet first sparked dating rumors in May when they attended a Broadway show together. At the time, a source described them as “getting to know each other,” which is celebrity-dating language for: there is something here, but nobody is ready to give the group chat a name yet.
Four months later, the couple has moved from theater seats to poolside kissing, and the progression is legible even without a formal announcement. There was the public outing, then the vacation carousel, then the conspicuously romantic song choice. The internet has been trained to read celebrity Instagram like a financial filing, and this one is written in enormous, sunlit letters.
Bailet, 30, is a French World Cup alpine ski racer who specializes in downhill and super-G events. Vonn, 41, knows that world intimately. This is not a celebrity pairing built around one person explaining the other’s job over dinner. They share the same high-speed, high-altitude universe, where “work trip” can mean a mountain, a stopwatch and a very serious discussion about snow conditions.
That shared vocabulary gives the romance a neat bit of symmetry. Vonn is one of the most recognizable figures in alpine skiing, while Bailet is an active racer from the same competitive ecosystem. The result is a pairing that feels less like a random celebrity crossover and more like a new chapter arriving from inside a world Vonn has occupied for most of her adult life.
From Olympic drama to postcard romance
Timing is doing some work here, too. Vonn has spent 2026 in the public eye not only because of her personal life but also because of her recovery after a serious injury at the Winter Olympics earlier this year. The source of the relationship news does not offer a medical play-by-play, and the couple’s carousel is not framed as a recovery update. Still, the contrast is striking: one season of the story was about physical setbacks and rehabilitation; this one arrives in warm water, open skies and a new person’s hand around her waist.
That contrast helps explain why the post lands with more force than a standard celebrity couple reveal. Vonn is not just posting a boyfriend into the feed. She is posting a mood shift. The images say summer, movement and forward momentum without turning the caption into a speech about any of it.
And then there is the song. “So Easy (To Fall In Love)” is not exactly an undercover selection. It is the kind of track that makes a romantic photo carousel feel like it has hired its own narrator. Vonn could have chosen an instrumental, a workout anthem or something with plausible deniability. Instead, she selected a title that turns the entire post into a tiny musical thesis.
That is the difference between a soft launch and a hard launch in the current Instagram era. A soft launch gives you a shoulder, a hand, a blurred reflection or a suspiciously well-placed second wineglass. A hard launch gives you the kiss, the couple pose and the soundtrack that knows precisely what it is doing.
The new couple’s very specific kind of glamour
There is a particular fantasy baked into these photos: not just romance, but romance with excellent vacation logistics. The locations are glamorous without looking like a formal campaign. The poses are intimate without becoming a written declaration. Even the caption keeps one foot in plausible casualness, as if this were merely a “summer recap” and not a major relationship announcement being examined by millions of professionally nosy strangers.
That tension is what makes the carousel fun. Vonn is giving viewers everything they need to understand the situation while maintaining the social-media fiction that she is simply sharing a few memories. The post is both an announcement and a shrug. Yes, that is her new man. Yes, they are kissing in paradise. No, she will not be submitting a press release about it.
It also has the clean visual logic of a relationship that has already passed the awkward first phase. The photos are not tentative. Bailet is not cropped into the edge of a frame or disguised as a hand in a sleeve. He is fully present: holding her, kissing her, appearing beside her in the kind of images people usually save for a private album before deciding whether the public gets access.
Instead, the public got the highlight reel, labeled “pt 1,” which is perhaps the most mischievous detail of all. Part one suggests there is more summer romance content waiting in the wings. It is a small phrase, but it turns one post into a trailer. The couple has not merely arrived on Instagram; they may have a franchise.
Vonn’s dating life, now with a ski-world sequel
Vonn’s romantic history has long attracted attention because her public profile extends well beyond sports. She has previously been linked to major athletes, and her relationships have often unfolded at the intersection of competition, celebrity and an unusually intense media spotlight. Bailet brings a different kind of recognition: he is not being introduced as a random famous face, but as someone whose career belongs to the same demanding sporting world.
That makes this launch feel unusually coherent. The couple can share a language about training, travel and the physical cost of elite competition. They also know what it means to have a name that travels with a result, a race or a headline. Whether the relationship lasts beyond the postcard phase is something neither has publicly explained, and the Instagram post does not need to answer it.
For now, the message is much simpler: Lindsey Vonn is dating Matthieu Bailet, the months of speculation have become a public romance, and the official announcement came with pool kisses, a thigh touch and a song called “So Easy (To Fall In Love).”
Honestly, if this is only “summer recap… pt 1,” the group chat should clear its schedule.
Lexi Wood’s Goodbye to Presley Gerber Is Tender, Complicated and Much More Than an Ex’s Tribute
The former couple dated briefly in 2022, but Wood’s Instagram post makes clear that their bond had outlived the romance — and that she saw the hardest parts of his life up close.
There are celebrity goodbyes that arrive polished, perfectly captioned and carefully kept at arm’s length. Then there are the ones that sound like someone trying to hold several years of history in their hands at once.
Lexi Wood’s tribute to Presley Gerber is the second kind.
The former couple dated briefly in 2022, but Wood’s message after Gerber’s death was not framed as a simple ex-girlfriend farewell. It was about friendship, unfinished chapters and the particular ache of losing someone who had remained important after the romance itself was over.
“It’s hard to put into words what it means to lose someone who was such a meaningful part of my life for so many years,” Wood wrote on Instagram Tuesday, alongside a series of photos with Gerber. That opening is deliberately intimate without trying to claim the whole story. She does not present herself as his final love or closest surviving person. Instead, she describes a relationship that changed shape while keeping its emotional center.
The romance was brief. The history was not.
Gerber and Wood were friends before they dated, a detail that makes the tribute feel less like a standard celebrity breakup post turned retrospective and more like a goodbye to a person who had occupied several roles in her life.
In November 2022, Gerber appeared to make their relationship Instagram-official with a photo of the pair. “Guys I did it,” he captioned the post, adding that he had found “the person that makes me the happiest I have ever been.” It was the kind of exuberant hard launch that feels especially loud in hindsight: young, romantic and blissfully unaware of how quickly public love stories can become archived evidence of another era.
By the following month, E! News reported that the pair had split after realizing the relationship was not “long-term.” The romance was over, but according to Wood’s tribute, the connection was not. “Through every chapter and every version of our relationship, friendship was always at the core of it,” she wrote.
That sentence does a lot of work. It sidesteps the usual post-breakup performance — no dramatic rewriting of the past, no insistence that the romance was either everything or nothing. Wood’s version is messier and more recognizable: someone can be an ex, a friend, a source of memories and still a person whose loss knocks the air out of you.
Wood remembered the person behind the headlines
Wood described Gerber as “one of the kindest, most open, loving and courageous people,” calling him “incredibly romantic and thoughtful.” She also wrote that he was “resilient” and had been open about his fight to stay alive.
“He fought so hard for his life and he was brave enough to be open about that fight,” she wrote. “More than anything, he wanted to use his story to help other people, and he did.”
It is a striking choice of language because it refuses to flatten Gerber’s death into a single news-cycle description. Page Six reported that Gerber died Sunday at 27 at a rehab facility in Santa Monica, California, after paramedics responded to a call involving references to cardiac arrest and an overdose. An insider also told Page Six that Gerber had checked himself into rehab over the weekend because he knew he needed help. His family has asked for privacy.
Wood’s post does not turn those details into spectacle. It points instead toward the long, difficult work that can exist behind a person’s public image — and toward Gerber’s stated desire, as described by Wood, to make that struggle useful to someone else.
That distinction matters. Gerber was not only recognizable because of his family. He was the son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber, and the brother of model and actor Kaia Gerber. That family connection made him familiar before he ever had to explain himself, but Wood’s tribute is about the private texture of knowing him: the romance, the friendship, the openness and the fight.
A goodbye that keeps the door open to every version of him
Wood wrote that she felt “so lucky to have shared so many years of friendship” with Gerber. She remembered “so many memories and so much love,” adding that he would always hold “such a special place” in her heart.
There is no tidy ending here, and the post does not pretend there should be one. The most affecting part is its refusal to make their relationship legible through one label. Exes are expected to become footnotes once the coupledom is over, especially when both people move on publicly. But real lives are less obedient than that. A person can stop being your partner without stopping being part of your emotional history.
Wood’s tribute also lands in a moment when celebrity grief is often consumed at the same speed as celebrity romance: posted, reposted, scrutinized and folded into the larger story. Her message slows that process down. The photos are sweet, but the words are not trying to manufacture a perfect montage. They acknowledge the complicated middle — “every chapter and every version” of a relationship — where most meaningful connections actually live.
For all the attention attached to Gerber’s name, Wood’s goodbye is notably personal rather than performative. It remembers a man who could be romantic and thoughtful, but also vulnerable and candid about needing help. It honors the friendship that survived the breakup without pretending the relationship was simple.
“We will all miss him forever,” Wood wrote, ending with a white-heart emoji. It is a small, quiet sign-off to a post carrying an enormous amount of history. The romance may have lasted only a short time. The goodbye makes clear that the friendship lasted much longer — and that, for Wood, it was the part that mattered most.