NEWSMAKERS | Mariah Carey gives birth to twins

NEWSMAKERS

Mariah Carey gives birth to twins

NEW YORK

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon celebrated their anniversary with another milestone — becoming parents to a baby girl and boy.

Carey’s representative, Cindi Berger, confirmed the births to The Associated Press. The singing superstar gave birth Saturday at 12:07 p.m. EDT at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles. Berger says the baby girl was born first, weighing 5 pounds, 3 ounces and was 18 inches long; her brother was next, at 5 pounds 6 ounces and was 19 inches.

Berger says the couple has not named the children yet. Cannon drove Carey to the hospital in their Rolls-Royce Phantom. Berger said the 41-year-old Carey, who had gone through false labor, was calm, thinking that it was another false alarm.

Meanwhile, the 30-year-old Cannon was so nervous he went to the wrong department at the hospital and was guided to the maternity ward by a nurse.

“It was like right out of an ‘I Love Lucy’ skit,” said Berger.

Berger says they were listening to Carey’s “We Belong Together” after the children were born.

The couple are expected to renew their wedding vows today.

The pair got married in 2007 after a whirlwind romance. They were the subject of endless baby rumors, and the couple actually were expecting shortly after their marriage, but Carey had a miscarriage; they did not reveal the miscarriage until she announced her pregnancy last fall.

The couple plan to live a bi-coastal life and have luxurious nurseries in both New York and Los Angeles.

As far as more children, Carey recently declared she’s done.

‘Dancing’ finale tickets go for more than $10K

LOS ANGELES

A trip to next month’s “Dancing With the Stars” finale is worth more than $10,000.

The winning bidder paid $11,000 for tickets to attend the season finale of the hit ABC show during a live auction Friday at the 18th annual Race to Erase MS fundraising gala at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.

“Dancing With the Stars” professional dancers Cheryl Burke, Kym Johnson, Louis Van Amstel and Anna Trebunskaya presented the prize during the gala’s live auction, which also featured tickets to “American Idol” and a chartered trip on a private yacht (selling price: $35,000).

Race to Erase MS founder Nancy Davis says the fundraiser’s auctions have raised more than $10 million for research toward finding a cure for multiple sclerosis.

Associated Press