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, Wednesday. Neither Carey’s publicist nor Cannon’s manager returned requests for comment.

    If the pair did indeed wed, it would be a whirlwind romance. 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. Speculation swirled that the couple were engaged.

    Latina.com was first to report that the two got married, at Carey’s home in the Bahamas. Friday’s New York Post also had the pair wed. People magazine on its Web site Friday quoted a clergyman, Bishop Clifford Petty of the National Church of God in the Caribbean, as saying he presided over the wedding.

    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 simply as a family member, was quoted telling E!

    People reported Friday that Carey had obtained a marriage license on the island of Eleuthera, in the Bahamas, where she has an estate.

    Cannon has put out a rap album but is best known for his role in the movie “Drumline” and a Nickelodeon TV series. He features in Carey’s upcoming video for “Bye Bye.”

    This would be Cannon’s first marriage but Carey’s second. She famously wed top music executive Tommy Mottola in an extravagant wedding in 1993. They had a bitter divorce in 1998.

    (SD-Agencies)