“Touch My Body” singer Mariah Carey, 38, got secretly hitched yesterday to her 27-year-old boyfriend after a one-month relationship, shocking the chart-topping songbird’s family and friends.
Carey married TV actor Nick Cannon at the home she just bought in Eleuthera in the Bahamas, a source close to the singer said.
“They have been smitten with each other for days, weeks,” the friend said. “And she’s always had a crush on him.”
It’s the second marriage for Carey, who took her first walk down the aisle with record kingpin Tommy Mottola.
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Cannon had last been linked to Victoria’s Secret model Selita Ebanks, to whom he proposed via the Times Square JumboTron. Five months later, the couple broke up.
Carey and her boy toy had tongues wagging when she was seen sporting Cannon on her arm and a shiny ring on her finger at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Asked what he loved about Carey, Cannon reportedly cooed “everything.”
“Everyone is happy to see her happy,” Carey’s friend told The Post. “And it could work out – some people know each other for five years and get divorced. Maybe this is true, instant love.”
Not everyone is so over the moon.
A friend told The Post that Carey and Cannon got a quickie pre-nup, adding that the pop diva “is no dummy.”
In addition, the dazzling 17-carat diamond ring Carey wears is similar to the one Cannon gave Ebanks, whom he dated for six weeks before proposing.
Ebanks’ rep confirmed to media outlets yesterday that the model did, in fact, return the blingy ring, said to be worth $2.5 million, to Cannon.
Guests at the Carey wedding included Carey’s longtime pal, rapper Da Brat.