It comes as no surprise that the Queen of Gossip, Perez Hilton, has pissed off someone new. The most recent crybaby is Will.i.am, who, at a Much Music Awards after-party in Toronto, confronted Perez about “disrespecting” Fergie. The ensuing confrontation apparently resulted in three quick jabs to Perez’s eye via the iron fist of The Black Eyed Peas’ manager.
Will.i.am and Perez have both posted response videos. Hilton’s account of the events is one of outrage and shame. Will.i.am’s video response, however, is something along the lines of an attempt to convince a teacher why you shouldn’t get a time-out for being a fool. Based on Will.i.am’s account of the after-party scandal we were able to craft a dramatic retelling of the story, using direct quotes as well as purely fictional ones to… fill in the blanks. Read More »
We all know American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert’s stance on sexuality (it’s not an issue!), but what else does the above tongue-wagger in this photo have to say for himself? In this, the inaugural edition of For the Record, we invite you to litter our comments section with captions, New Yorker-style witticisms, LolCatz quips, and the literary equivalent of Perez Hilton penises. So, go to it folks: what exactly is Lambert saying in this image?
In an ironic turn of events, we recently stalked — er, caught up with — the creator of new NYC-based celeb-sighting site omgicu, Hugh Dornbush. Sort of like a full-time Gawker Stalker, after joining omgicu, you report your sightings on the fly, via text message. Likewise, the site will text you about sightings of celebs you want updates on.
Flavorpill: You call omgicu “participatory celebrity gossip,” where anyone can determine who’s worth knowing about. What’s wrong with good old US Weekly?
Hugh Dornbush: Celebrity gossip readers are still given the same stale news about the same stale people. We’ve seen how disruptive services such as Blogger, Netflix, or YouTube allow different types of mass media to be broken up and consumed by niche audiences in a more individualized fashion. But gossip is still controlled by a handful of tastemakers who determine who and what is newsworthy, and then they feed it to people. We can empower the consumers of celebrity gossip and culture to become the creators of it. We can say: I just saw someone who I think is remarkable for one reason or another, and here’s what they’re up to right now.
FP: Besides users sending texts to the site, if someone tells omgicu about a celebrity, you send another text about it immediately. That’s like a stalker’s wet dream. Aren’t you worried about a celebrity getting… bombarded by fans?
While some at Flavorwire guiltily enjoy his glitterati-stuffed gut and poorly Photoshopped penises, I’m pretty over Perez. Still, it’s impossible not to feel some sense of satisfaction when Mr. Hilton annoys an even bigger idiot.
Never mind the fact that the real marriage crisis is the inconceivably high divorce rate of heteros (why aren’t “concerned citizens” spending 1.5 million on ads about that?!), the National Organization for Marriage is hell-bent on spreading homophobia. And when their hilariously bigoted commercials were recently pulled thorough the YouTube wringer, they demanded the parodies be taken down. So, when the group created a new set of ads focusing on the of Hilton’s recent bout with Miss California, he had them yanked using the same copyright claim (nice!).
We honor of his ingenuity after the jump with 5 unfortunate facts about heterosexual non-opposite marriage straight from government census info and the stats division of the CDC.
This ought to kill it for good. And if not, you’ve got much bigger problems. Click through for the NSFW version of Lady Perez if you’re feeling brave. LA readers should note that Bettie Page: Heaven Bound which opens this Saturday at the World of Wonder gallery and runs through May 29.
We don’t usually hate on old people because we’ve got crazy mortality issues. And we certainly never thought we’d want to be mean to someone’s grandmother, especially when she’s a dead ringer for Granny Clampett. (We were huge fans of The Beverly Hillbillies when we were little.) That said, we want to give Carrie Prejean’s 89-year-old grandmother, Jeanette Coppola, a good kick in the curlers thanks to some choice quotes over on RadarOnline.com. Read More »
“Hilton’s dongs, to be sure, were always the weakest arrow in his quiver, but they had a crude, folk art quality that owed more than a little bit to American primitives like Howard Finster and were consequently invested with a larger degree of authority than might otherwise have been the case.”
- Two of our Internet heroes, Choire Sicha and Alex Balk have launched a new site called The Awl; this post is just one of the things on it that made us laugh out loud today. (So we might be a week behind on Michel Gondry portrait news, but at least we’re up to speed on Perez Hilton’s dick drawings. Mom will be proud.) Also: poor Howard Finster.
When we awoke this morning to the juicy news that Rod Blagojevich made a deal to star in NBC’s I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here (pending court approval), our first reaction was to wring our hands and think “What a strange world it is we live in.” Then we made a mental note to DVR it once the summer hits. Then we thought how funny it would be if that guy who plays him on SNL went on the show instead of him. And then finally we polled the Flavorpill office to find out who else they hope ends up on the island/jungle/whathaveyou with Blago. Find Leah Taylor’s brilliant top five (which is even more impressive when you consider that it was written before she’d cracked the day’s first Diet Coke) after the jump. Read More »
“It’s also #1 everywhere else in the world, douchebag. Go away you little parasite.”
– Just one of the barbs tossed out by Lily Allen in yesterday’s impromptu Twitter battle with Perez Hilton that started when he suggested he be cast in her new music video. We kind of can’t believe a public feud this silly is for real; where in the heck was her publicist — or his mom and sister, for that matter?
Like his beloved pop culture icons, Perez Hilton is divisive. But unlike other celebrity gossip bloggers who peaked only to disappear from our bookmarks, he has staying power. Over the past few years he has shaped the way the world looks at Hollywood by breaking stories before the weeklies, fearlessly posting images that demonize him among certain starlets, and working 15-hour days to assure that his one-man show is the freshest in town. Take it from someone who blogs for a living — maintaining that kind of schedule is not for the weak of heart.
But that’s the secret behind Perez, and the reason why we were intrigued when we heard he was writing a book. He’s not jaded. In fact, he’s the opposite — a passionate fanboy who will run around his apartment with his laptop squealing because he got a Christmas card from a Spice Girl.
