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Carey sings the praises of sweet ‘melodic beverage’

- DOUG CAMILLI

Mariah Carey is marketing a new non-alcoholic beverage, named Butterfly. It’s pink.

The idea, the Los Angeles Times suggests, is to help boost her new album, humbly entitled Me. I Am Mariah … The Elusive Chanteuse.

The press release says it is “a melodic beverage inspired by the magic of Mariah Carey.” The fine print says the ingredient­s include water, sugar, sodium benzoate, sucralose, and colourings. Yum.

There is no “we” in pregnancy: Mila Kunis, who’s expecting a baby, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel’s show the other night. Introducin­g her, he noted that “My wife and I are pregnant. We’re having a baby very soon as well.”

This set Mila off on a pretend tirade: “… all you soon-to-be fathers, stop saying ‘We’re pregnant.’ You’re not pregnant. Do you have to squeeze a watermelon-size person out …? No. Are you crying alone in your car listening to a stupid Bette Midler song? No. When you wake up and throw up, is it because you’re nurturing a human life? No. It’s because you had too many shots of tequila. Do you know how many shots of tequila we had? None. Because we can’t have shots of tequila … because we’ve got your little love goblin growing inside of us. All you did was roll over and fall asleep!”

How the rich live: In 2011, rapper/tycoon Dr. Dre paid $15.4 million for his Hollywood Hills mansion. Now he’s selling it, asking $35 million. He just paid $40 million for the Tom Brady — Gisele Bundchen estate.

Hollywood-bound: Cressida Bonas, until recently Prince Harry’s main squeeze, has abandoned hope of a royal wedding. That’s how I read her decision, reported in the Evening Standard over there, to take a role in a Hollywood movie.

The paper says she’ll star with Cara Delevingne, more or less her look-alike, in something called Tulip Fever. It’s a love story set in the Dutch tulip-mania of the 17th century. Cressy plays a merchant’s wife. Also starring: Judi Dench and Christoph Waltz. Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) directs.

Cressida studied dance in school and has acted in some respectabl­e amateur production­s. She’s 25. Quote of the day: Anna Kendrick, whose parents split up when she was 15, tells Elle mag “I hate when people think you’re broken because your parents are divorced.

“And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they’re growing up in a house that’s not healthy, it’s better to know that’s not the model of what marriage should be.” She’s 28.

 ?? FREDERICK M. BROWN/Getty Images ?? Advice from actress and mom-to-be Mila Kunis: “All you soon-to-be fathers, stop saying ‘We’re pregnant.’ ”
FREDERICK M. BROWN/Getty Images Advice from actress and mom-to-be Mila Kunis: “All you soon-to-be fathers, stop saying ‘We’re pregnant.’ ”
 ?? ANDREW H. WALKER/Getty Images ?? Advice from singer Mariah Carey: Buy her newly launched drink, Butterfly.
ANDREW H. WALKER/Getty Images Advice from singer Mariah Carey: Buy her newly launched drink, Butterfly.
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