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Mariah Carey is to launch her own champagne. Angel Champagne by MC will hit stores later this year and join her 2006 Mariah Zinfandel on supermarket shelves. In announcing her new champagne on Friday, Carey poked fun at her boozy performance at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 6.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Mariah Carey jokingly blames her loony acceptance speech at the Palm Springs International Film Festival awards on director Lee Daniels . “The thing is me and Lee hadn’t see each other in a long time, and then he was presenting my award, so he starts off immediately with inside jokes,” Carey said backstage at the People’s Choice Awards Wednesday night, where she was named favorite R&B artist. “We had splashes of champagne, and I love Lee but he’s a bad influence,” the singer said and laughed.

Mariah Carey lifted the spirits of 35 underprivileged children this holiday season – after renting out a recreation center near her retreat in Aspen, Colorado for an extravagant party. The “Hero” hitmaker hired jugglers, magicians and storytellers for the event on Monday, at Aspen Recreation Center – where kids hailing from Denver were able to use the climbing wall, the pool and ice skating rink

Mariah Carey ’s New Year’s resolution is to start a family with husband Nick Cannon – the superstar singer has hinted they will clear their hectic schedules in 2010 to have children. The Hero hitmaker married rapper/actor Cannon in the Bahamas last year after a whirlwind romance and she admits they’ve been making family plans. But Carey insists they’re holding off on having kids until at least the New Year when work commitments and Christmas celebrations are out of the way – because she wants her children to have their parents’ full attention

Reality TV star Tila Tequila is threatening to take legal action over leaked sex tape footage she alleges was stolen from her laptop. The bisexual star of VH1 show A Shot At Love is featured in an explicit video with an unidentified man on pornography website 4Tube.com.

Mariah Carey ’s representative has blasted a British TV presenter for listing the singer’s “diva” demands during a recent appearance on a morning show – calling the host’s claims a “clear, gross exaggeration.” The pop superstar taped an appearance on the U.K.’s GMTV last week, which was aired on Tuesday. Presenter Kate Garraway took to her weekly column in British magazine New! to describe her encounter with the singer, accusing Carey of bringing her own toilet roll to the studio and forcing her aides to walk backwards in front of her to catch her if she tripped. The TV host wrote, “We had Mariah Carey in the GMTV studios last week

Mariah Carey ’s demands for a white Christmas at an upcoming London event have been refused – the singer has been told she cannot have kittens and doves at the festive bash, according to a new report. The Santa Baby hit-maker is set to switch on the Christmas lights at the U.K. capital’s Westfield Shopping Center on Thursday, and the 40 year old had vowed to make it a party to remember.