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Nick Cannon “Hopefully” Out Of Hospital In 2 Days, Mariah Tweets

Good news, everyone! Our get-well wishes actually worked! Well, that and probably medical science and the natural wonders of the human body. Anyway, Nick Cannon is on the mend after being hospitalized for mild kidney failure, according to Mariah Carey. “Nick is in stable condition with a good prognosis, hopefully he’ll be discharged within 2 days. As always he’s laughing and in good spirits,” Mimi tweeted today, after posting the above photo of her visiting her hubby.

Nick was hospitalized in Aspen on Tuesday, and Mariah tweeted and blogged about his condition on Wednesday, calling it “painful” without revealing what caused his kidney failure. Later on Wednesday, Cannon himself tweeted: “Currently being transferred to a hospital in LA. Thank you all for all your love, prayers and concern. You know me… I will be a’ight.” And on Thursday, he posted a pic of himself getting a haircut in his hospital room.

This afternoon, he mysteriously tweeted, “Just left the operating table and I was awake during the whole procedure. #OUCH.” Any doctors out there want to venture a guess as to what kind of procedure that was?

[Photo: Twitter]

Nick Cannon “Fighting To Recover” From Kidney Failure, Mariah Tweets

First, the slightly scary news: Nick Cannon is in an Aspen, Colorado, hospital recovering from “mild kidney failure,” according to a tweet from Mariah Carey. Even though she called it mild, and he seems alert enough in the photo above, Mariah also said that “this is very painful” in a blog post she wrote later. Also, we looked this up on WebMD, and found only entries for “acute kidney failure” and “chronic kidney failure,” neither of which sounded like much fun. Acute failure is caused by a drop in flow to blood from the kidneys; damage from medicines, poisons or infections; or something like kidney stones, a tumor or enlarged prostate blocking urine from flowing out of the kidneys. Ow.

But we’re going to follow MC’s example and focus on the positive, like how sweet they look together, even in the hospital. As she said in her blog, “We’re doing OK but we’re ‘straaaaaanded in Aspen.’ #DramaticDivaPlace (I know, we could be in a lot worse places) but the truth is as long as we’re together, we’re OK.”

Get well soon, Nick. Dembabies miss you!

Nick Cannon Pretends To Lose Dog By Tying It To Balloons, PETA Gets Pissed

Nick Cannon should really learn to lay off the pranks. Last spring he gave out his home phone number while broadcasting his 92.3 radio show, leading to fans calling his then-pregnant wife Mariah Carey at all hours. And yesterday Nick pissed people off with his “funny” steez again, by pretending to lose his co-host’s tiny dog after tying it to 50 helium-filled balloons! While allegedly doing an on-air experiment to see how many balloons it would take to lift DJ Sarah Lee’s Pomeranian, Nick pretended that the stunt went horribly wrong and that the animal was floating away. He posted a spoof video of the event on the station’s website, and even made “lost” posters, which claimed that the dog was seen floating over the Hudson towards New Jersey. However, he soon revealed that it was just a dummy flying high in the skies, and that the real pooch was safe and sound.

Although he meant it in good fun, Nick’s canine tribute to the movie Up has animal rights groups up in arms, fearing that a copycat prankster could attempt to do this for real. “If bad taste were a crime, we’d be going to jail with Nick,” says a spokesperson for activist group PETA. “But joking about killing a dog, a kid, an old person — anyone — isn’t cool when there’s always the danger that some numbskull will do it for real.” After getting death threats, Nick remains defiant on the matter. “Even if someone was dumb enough to try the balloon stunt scientifically it wouldn’t work,” he said on his twitter. “Mathematically 50 balloons could never carry a dog into the air.” He better be careful, or else PETA might do an experiment to see how many balloons it takes to make him float away.

[Photo: Getty Images/923 Radio]

Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon Put Twins’ Unbearable Cuteness To Work

While Jessica Simpson is off maybe possibly selling her hugely surprising pregnancy news to OK! for a reported half a million, we have to applaud the latest move from Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon. After showing off Monroe and Moroccan on 20/20 last Friday, they launched a website, DemBabies.com, that features photos absolutely designed to make your womb ache. Also, they are designed so that you can purchase them from WireImage.com, and the proceeds go to the Fresh Air Fund’s Camp Mariah.

“We deliberated for so long about how to reveal the first pictures of our babies to the world,” reads a message on the site. “We just didn’t want to do the typical thing and display them in a tabloid (not that there’s anything wrong with that ).”

Check out two more pics after the jump. Do it for the kids!
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Mariah Carey Talks Miscarriage, Marriage To Tommy Mottola On 20/20

Mariah Carey is letting it all hang out tonight, and not in her usual belly shirt and pigtails sort of way. In addition to introducing twin babies Monroe and Moroccan Scott Cannon to the world, Mariah Carey’s 20/20 interview, airing this evening, reportedly touches on everything from her experience with IVF and the miscarriage she and Nick Cannon suffered prior to conceiving her twins, which Carey described as “really tough” to get through, to the five-year marriage to record exec Tommy Mottola that made her “afraid of the concept of marriage.” Ugh, remember him? The sweet, sweet presence of Nick Cannon almost wiped him from our memory completely. Almost.

Despite the hardships they’ve had to deal with, Mariah and Nick are making this relationship work. “But this is a different situation and … I’m a different person,” Carey explains. “It’s a different time in my life. And nobody will ever be able to steal my spirit again. So I’m just happy to be in love and to be here. ” Hearing how happy Mariah is just makes us want to put on our cutoffs and slow-motion rollerblade down the boardwalk with glee. Just watch out for that insane clown! And no, we do not mean Tommy Mottola!

[Photo: Splash News Online]

Mariah Carey’s Babies’ Backs … And Guess The Other Celebrity Offspring!

Aww. We’re going to have to wait until Friday to see Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s babies, Moroccan and Monroe, from the front on ABC’s 20/20. And that’s when we’ll apologize to little Roc and Roe for forgetting about them while we’ve been counting down the days until Babyonce is born. We didn’t mean it!

In the meantime, we’ll distract you with pics of other super-cute celeb offspring. And to see just how much you know about famous kids, we’ll leave their names off until the very end. No peeking!
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Nick Cannon Joins NBC’s Up All Night

Let’s see: vivacious, magnetic, the target of many people’s secret jealousies. Yup, it was the role Nick Cannon was born to play! Nick Cannon joins Up All Night, appearing on the NBC sitcom headed up by Christina Applegate and Will Arnett. Also on the show is SNL alum Maya Rudolph, who plays an Oprah-esque talk show host; Cannon will have a reoccurring role as Calvin, Rudolph’s jovial, charismatic emcee whose popularity she silently resents. We’re not saying they just hired Nick to hopefully get a Mariah cameo. We’re just saying that would have been a genius plan if they did.

Of course, this isn’t Nick’s first time at the acting rodeo; Cannon has ventured into feature films before, like Love Don’t Cost a Thing and Drumline, in addition to his comedy special Mr. Showbiz and hosting gig on America’s Got Talent. Wow, when you lay it all out like that, it sort of makes us secretly resent Nick Cannon. Oh wait, it’s not a secret if we tell everybody. Oh no, we hit Publish! Close out! Close out!

[Photo: WENN]

2011 BET Awards Green Carpet: Who, What, Wear

Before we can say anything else, how about Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose getting frisky on the green carpet, huh? The 2011 BET Awards took place at the Shrine Auditorium in L.A last night and the duo looked quite happy wrapped around each other! We’re also loving the Dolce & Gabbana blazer and pants combination Alicia Keys wore to the event and Kerry Washington has our vote with that acidic Michael Kors gown. We also totally expected Nicki Minaj to bring on some full-on cray-cray but it was a half-hearted commitment. We think she actually looked quite pretty in the textured pink dress-tight-boots outfit she was working.

If you want the list of winners, click here, but hint hint: Chris Brown and Busta Rhymes are in there. Also spotted were folks like Nelly, Ne-Yo, Mary J. Blige, Jill Scott (love her) and the Smith kids — Jaden and Willow. Of course, Willow’s pal Justin Bieber was there too. Was there any ground breaking fashion? No, but everyone looked really comfortable which is quite a change! Having said that, we would like to forget all about Amber Rose’s shredded catsuit forever. Take a look at our gallery for all the action!

[Photos: WENN]

Guess Whose Celebrity Diva Baby This Is?

So who is this little babe? We can tell you that she has a very high profile celebrity mother. Actually since we’re feeling so charitable, we’ll let in on the fact that she has a celebrity father too! That’s why attitude is in her genetics. Note the ‘no more photographs, please’ hand check she’s got down to an art form. Mom and Dad would be proud — but who are they? (more…)

Mariah And Nick Reveal Twins’ Names; No, You Did Not Guess Them Correctly

Mariah Carey’s twin’s names have dropped, and as to be expected, Mimi didn’t trifle with names that any other baby in the hospital would have. Or any other baby on the planet. The tiniest divas have been dubbed Moroccan Scott “Roc” Cannon and Monroe Cannon. It’s ain’t Apple, but we’re guessing unless you are some kind of infant clairvoyant, you just lost the office pool. We almost want to make you guess which sex goes with which name, but since we don’t want to torture you more than Mariah and Nick Cannon have already, we’ll tell you that Moroccan Scott is the boy and Monroe is the girl. Earlier today Mariah Carey fans guessed the twins’ names based solely on the hint that they started with the letter M. Were we the only ones convinced Mariah was going to go the George Foreman route and name both kids Mimi? You know it crossed your mind.

Reports CNN, Carey’s son is so named because “The top tier of Mariah’s New York City apartment is called the Moroccan Room, because of the Moroccan-inspired decor. It’s also the place where Nick proposed to his wife, overlooking Manhattan!” Monroe is, of course, named after the late, great Marilyn Monroe. Count down to every kindergartner in the Western Hemisphere having those names in five…four…three…and somewhere in North Dakota, another Moroccan Scott is born.

[Photo: Splash News Online]