First Name: Mariah Carey

Hometown: NYC

Celebrity Cougar of the Month: Mariah Carey

"Let this be a lesson to would-be cougars around the globe: some young ass can turn your life around!" - urbancougar.com

In the annals of cougardom, the past couple months represent a real watershed of the urbancougarTM phenomenon. The film version of Sex and the City premiered to huge numbers confirming once and for all that women the world over are down with the cougar program. During a TNT broadcast, hall-of-fame basketball player and gambling aficionado Charles Barkley noted, "She's a cougar, isn't she?" when confronted with rumors that NBA-star Dywane Wade was in a relationship with television personality Star Jones. Cher announced in an interview that during the early 1980's she took future movie-magnate and alien-obsessed Tom Cruise under her expert paw, educated his naïve mind in the ways of the world and likely devoured him as if he were an abandoned deer carcass.

But nothing rocked the cougar world quite like Mariah-Nick! In May, the world's biggest recording star, Mariah Carey, 38, married some dude named Nick Cannon, 28, (who despite the name is not actually porn manmeat) in a semi-secret wedding in the Bahamas. Yes, folks, the woman who has topped the charts more times than Elvis and The Beatles has gone full cougar, and she must have taken her cues from Demi Moore. Mariah snatched her cub from relative obscurity. While Nick Cannon is an actor and former rapper who had a show on Nickelodeon and has been in some reasonably successful films including Underclassmen and Drumline, his bona fides are not quite that of the crazy and crazy-talented Carey. But you've seen it before – an absolute megastar hunted down and tamed by a young good-looking, but respective nobody. Yup, Mariah-Nick is the 2008 danceclub remix of Demi-Ashton.

And we couldn't be more excited!

We knew Mariah could do it. All the signs were there. Huge star with piles of money. A misguided marriage to a much older music mogul. A hint of craziness. The need for career reinvention. What better way to climb back to the top of the mountain than to take a young lover to rejuvenate the soul? Now, Mariah is back on top, looking ridiculously hot, putting the American Idol set to shame with her incomparable voice and sexual grooves, and sporting a huge rock on her finger and bit of man-candy on her arm. Let this be a lesson to would-be cougars around the globe: some young ass can turn your life around!