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The gay community wasn’t the only one celebrating President Obama’s personal support of same-sex marriage…

Hours after the prez publicly made his famous statement, pop diva Mariah Carey popped by a West Hollywood gay club to party down…. well, at least for an hour and a half.

During lesbian-night at the famed club Abbey, Mariah dropped by at around 12:30 am, entertaining several female guests at a table, and left close to 2 am. Did she dance? Did she get hit on? Hey, who knows. But the most interesting factoid of the evening was that hubby, Nick Cannon, was not around (most likely, home with the kids).

Glad to see mama still, well, gets a girls night out!

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Jennifer Hudson and Mariah Carey are already on their jobs to try and motivate the masses for weight loss success with new commercials just in time for the New Year.

J-Hud’s latest Weight Watchers ad shows the singer in her current svelte state onstage singing a duet with a 2004 version of herself  singing the Four Tops hit “I Believe in You and Me.”  Gotta love technology trickery! The two versions of the star show just how dramatic her reported 80-pound weight loss has been; she practically looks like an entirely different person. It’s the ultimate “Before and After” imagery, especially now that she’s more style savvy.  You know the Oscar winner in her body hugging tan dress and sleek hair wouldn’t even try it with that ill-fitting dress and matchy-matchy flower headband over the curly weave these days. The Jennifer of today’s international fame looks at her former self tenderly and belts “I believe in miracles!” and she’s definitely putting in a good case to start counting Weight Watchers points!

Mariah’s got a similarly inspiring soundtrack to her first Jenny—formerly Jenny Craig—commercial by way of a slight remix to her hit “Make it Happen” (a great track to revisit if you need a little motivation).  “The ‘Make It Happen’ song resonates with people because it comes from a real place,” she said. “I had to push through a lot of adversity in my life and this is just the next chapter.” Mimi’s showing off some serious skin and a newly tight tummy in the spot after losing 70 pounds following the birth of her twins Moroccan and Monroe.

Now that weight loss program endorsements are the new black in Hollywood, we’ll be keeping an eye out for Janet and Scary Spice’s new ad sports too!

Do these new ads make you want to get it right and keep it tight for 2012?

After Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon welcome their twins, don’t expect any future announcements about more kids on the way.

Speaking with Life & Style magazine, the pop superstar and mother-to-be says she’s “ready to be done” when it comes to pregnancies. Carey that her pregnancy has been rough at times and it would take “a much stronger person” than her to go through the experience again.

The singer did note that she has cherished her experiences as a pregnant woman, particularly after her 2009 miscarriage. Carey, who is due in May and expecting a boy and a girl, said, “It’s all worth it.”

You can add Usher’s name to the growing list of celebrities who are washing their hands of money received to perform for members of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s family. The Middle Eastern leader has faced open revolt since February and was referred to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in a unanimous vote by the United Nations.

“I am sincerely troubled to learn about the circumstances surrounding the Nikki Beach St. Bart’s event that took place on New Year’s Eve 2009,” Usher said in a statement Monday. “I will be donating all of my personal proceeds from that event to various human rights organizations.”

Usher has already made an unknown donation to Amnesty International, the AP reports. Beyonce also performed at the same New Year’s fete and reportedly donated her $1 million paycheck from the performance to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund over a year ago. ”Once it became known that the third-party promoter was linked to the Qaddafi family, the decision was made to put that payment to a good cause,” her rep said.

In 2008, Mutassim Gadhafi tapped Mariah Carey to sing at a New Year’s Eve party and she also received $1 million. Carey said she was “naive and unaware of who I was booked to perform for. I feel horrible and embarrassed to have participated in this mess.” While she hasn’t mentioned donating the money, she did issue a warning to other artists: “Going forward, this is a lesson for all artists to learn from. We need to be more aware and take more responsibility regardless of who books our shows. Ultimately we as artists are to be held accountable.”

Despite being previously coy about the details surrounding Mariah Carey’s pregnancy, Life & Style has confirmed that Mariah and Nick Cannon are expecting a boy and a girl.

A friend of the couple revealed, “It’s all about pink and blue these days. It’s truly going to be a dream come true for them. They get a son and daughter.”

Mariah herself also chimed in:

“Even before we announced it was twins, I was trying to keep everything genderneutral because I didn’t want to impose an identity on them too soon. There were fan contests on Twitter about what gender they are and rumors about them being two boys or two girls — but nobody guessed this!”

In the meantime, Nick has been talking about Mariah’s cravings with People magazine:

“Last night we had smothered pork chops, collard greens, red beans and rice and a pecan pie with homemade whipped cream. She cooks it, tastes it, but instead of laying up and eating it, I end up eating it. I think she craves it, but once she cooks it and smells it then the cravings go away.”

Cute. Congrats to the couple!

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If you thought Jay-Z was doing something by buying Beyonce $350,000 worth of Birkin bags for the holidays, check the gift that Nick Cannon got his wife Mariah: a $400, 000 Phantom Rolls-Royce! Mariah is still beaming over the gift. The mother-to-be gushed about her new ride yesterday on Twitter: “Still getting over my Christmas gift from @NickCannon,” she wrote. “License plate: mommyMC : )” 

I’m guessing the twins wont be riding around in car seats on those butter leather seats, although maybe, since all of Mariah’s rides are pretty official. For her 40th birthday her hubby presented her with a pink Porshe.

Must be nice!

See how Mimi’s rolling:

Despite initial denials, Nick Cannon has confirmed that he and Mariah Carey are expecting twins.

Radar reports:

On his radio show Thursday, Cannon shared how President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were among the first to know the good news. He said that while performing at TNT’s Christmas in Washington 2010 last Sunday, Carey ran into the president and his wife backstage.

“They, ironically enough, questioned my wife about, you know, ‘So, what are you having, are you having twins?’” Cannon said. “And at this point, she hadn’t told anybody anything, because doctors advised us to keep it to ourselves until we get further along, and stuff.

“And because of the excitement, because of the emotion,” Cannon said, “she was overwhelmed … and she shared with the president and first lady that we are having twins.

“That’s an awesome story to be able to tell,” Cannon said.

Cannon added that the two had another ultrasound and that “everything is OK.”

He did note that he didn’t warn Mariah that he was sharing with the good news with the world. I wonder

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The grapevine’s been buzzing that Mariah’s expecting twins after the diva did an interview with Radio Disney and used the word “they” when talking about the pregnancy. Maybe when she was talking about kids she was refering to her unborn child and Nick Cannon (sorry, I couldn’t resist, he still looks 12), but her hubby confirmed they’re only expecting one baby:

“That rumor started because she said something about ‘they,” the comic told UsMagazine.com at the Time Warner Cable Launch of SignatureHome Thursday. “Something like, ‘I hope they don’t hate Christmas,” but she was using the word ‘they’ as in, like, he and she.”

And while Cannon said the pair doesn’t know yet if it’s a boy or a girl, he is coming clean about something else. Yes, he did whisper to Carey’s belly that there is no Santa. “I got in trouble for that,” he told Us. “I’m a Santa-ologist. At three-years-old my Dad told me there was no Santa. And my wife is Mrs. Christmas, so I have to compromise on that.”

But he’s not willing to budge on his mandate that Carey stick to flats for the remainder of her pregnancy. “Yes, no more heels,” he told Us. “I’m going to make sure of it!”

The couple is keeping the baby’s due date a secret, but have said the child will be born “in the spring.”

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If I didn’t know any better, I’d say the National Enquirer has it out for Mariah Carey.

With each passing story it seems the tabloid is dead set on passing off Mimi as a terrorizing pregnant woman driving Nick Cannon crazy.

This time, they’re saying Mariah is laying the law down on Nick’s purported party boy lifestyle.

They report:

The party’s over for Nick Cannon! Mom-to-be Mariah Carey has laid down the law to her free-wheeling husband, and demanded he start acting less like a frat boy and more like a dad, sources say.

“Mariah’s tightening her leash on Nick,” an insider told The ENQUIRER. “She’s putting him on a budget, and restricting the time he’s allowed to spend with his pals.”

The 41-year-old superstar singer – who’s due to deliver the couple’s first child in spring – suddenly decided that Nick, 30, should settle down and get ready for fatherhood, the source said. “Mariah sat Nick down and hammered home the point that with a baby coming he needed to make some big changes,” the source confided.

“She’s always been a control freak with Nick, but now she’s scrutinizing his every move and acting like a drill sergeant.”

In my mind, they’re sitting together eating crab cakes and pickles while drinking pink lemonade from one of Mariah’s ultra pink cups. As you can see, I’m not putting a lot into this story, but keep ‘em coming, NE. They’re entertaining.

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The National Enquirer just doesn’t want to let Mariah Carey be happy. Well, actually they don’t want Nick Cannon to be happy. According to them, Mimi’s mood swings are “ripping the two apart.”

Uh huh.

They report:

But Nick, 30,  is complaining bitterly about his wife’s wild emotional outbursts, weight-gain insecurities and other difficult behavior that has taken her diva-tude to new heights, say sources.

Their happy home has turned into a tear-stained battlefield.

“Mariah is driving Nick crazy,” disclosed an insider.

Nick finally hit his breaking point when Mariah cut him off in the bedroom, the insider revealed.

You know, as successful as he is, Nick Cannon isn’t that great an actor. So, when I see that big goofy smile plastered on his face whenever he talks about being giddy over his bride being knocked up, I believe it.

Getting up in the middle of the night in search of Popeye’s, popsicles, and candy from a piñata is probably mad annoying, though.

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