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The Project host Waleed Aly’s interview with Mariah Carey got off to a bumpy start last night when the singer made an awkward faux-pas.

The Project’s interview with Mariah Carey got off to a bumpy start on Monday night when the music superstar got interviewer Waleed Aly’s name wrong.

“Hi, Maleed,” Mariah said sweetly as she greeted Aly via videolink from a wildly festive setting.

Aly glanced off-camera, but chose not to correct the singer and instead forged ahead with the interview, which focused on Mariah’s upcoming Christmas special – her second in two years.

And Carey also opened up about the inspiration behind her top-selling Christmas anthem All I Want For Christmas Is You, a song she wrote in just 15 minutes in 1994 and which The Project reported has since made her around $83 million.

But Carey, who opened up about her difficult upbringing in recent memoir The Meaning of Mariah, explained that the song was borne out of a wish to have the sort of perfect, drama-free Christmas she never got as a child.

“I grew up not having great Christmases and wanting that thing you see on TV where everybody’s happy and everything is beautiful. But I had a very dysfunctional family and a lot of issues about myself. After I wrote All I Want For Christmas Is You, very early on in my career, I started every year being able to create what I want to do for the holidays.”

“I’m thankful for it … it comes from a real place. Longing, but also being celebratory.”

And at interview’s end, when Aly thanked Carey for her time, she obviously decided not to risk trying out his name again: “Thank you, dahling,” she said.

Back at the desk, the other Project hosts ribbed him about the awkward moment.

“Maleed … that’s pretty cool, from Mariah. You’ll take Maleed from Mariah,” said Carrie Bickmore.

“You’ve now got to change your name,” said Tommy Little.

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