Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Finally!!!!!
Another Gay Sequel is released in theaters in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco this weekend.
Master P. has a small but super fun role in the movie. You MUST check it out!
CLICK HERE to watch the trailer.
Click here to buy your tix for NY and Ft. Laud.
And Click here to buy your tix to the L.A. showings.
The film will have an expanded release into other cities next month. We can't wait for y'all to see it!
xoxo
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Click here for your chance to win free tickets and artist meet & greet passes to Y100’s Jingle Ball in South Florida this Saturday, which Perez is hosting!
Our camera crew from our Vh1 show will be roving around and filming the evening. It promises to be a very special night.
AND, click here for your chance to win tickets and artist meet & greet passes for Z100’s Jingle Ball in New York City this Friday, which P-Nasty will be making an appearance at.
P.S. In case you hadn’t noticed, the next episode of What Perez Sez airs this Thursday at 10 pm on Vh1.
Ch-ch-check it out!!!
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Danny Bonaduce doesn’t mind too much that we posted pics of his baby dick.
The former Patridge Family actor asked Perez to appear on his new cartoon - in which he plays a life coach.
Click here to watch P-Nasty’s episode.
The results are far funnier than you’d expect!
Friday, October 19th, 2007
Just the Friday afternoon pick-me-up we needed!
The kids over at ElleGirl.com have come up with some fun and fairly inexpensive Halloween costume suggestions.
Included on their list? The Wino and P-Nasty himself!
Amy Winehouse: Costume Checklist
Black mini dress with neon bra
Beehive wig
Liquid eyeliner
Tooth cap
Fake tattoos
Black stiletto pumps
Model: ELLE.com Fashion News Editor Tracey Lomrantz
“I have to say, being bad feels so good. Wearing this beehive was the most fun I’ve had in days—especially when I rode the subway back to the office from getting it done. I was almost trampled by a girl who thought I was the real Amy Winehouse!:”
Perez Hilton: Costume Checklist
Neon hair spray (pink or blue)
Bermuda shorts Allover print hoodie
Celebrity slogan T-shirt
Gold chain necklaces
Laptop
Knee-high striped socks
Model: ELLE.com Fashion Market/ Accessories Director
“Who’s the queen of all media now?!”
Click here to check out the rest of their zexy costume suggestions!
What are YOU gonna be for Halloween???
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
We were a bit worried that P-Nasty was going to be the only gay on MTV’s Celebrity Rap Superstar, premiering next Thursday, August 30th, live at 10 PM.
Thankfully, there will be some more homoliciousness on the show, we’ve just found out.
Sources reveal exclusively to PerezHilton.com that DaBrat has signed up to be one of the judges on the show and and MC Lyte will be a “mentor” to one of the contestants.
We’re not sure about Lyte, but Brat is a big ol’ carpet muncher.
Hmm. She’s probably not gonna like that we just outed her! Ha.
We don’t care.
We’re coming out blazin’!
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Pretty please CLICK HERE to vote for Perez and give him a good rating.
This is a big and prestigious deal for us!!!
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
“This is like a friends and family show,” Gwen Stefani told the crowd at the kickoff concert of her Sweet Escape world tour, Saturday night in Las Vegas.
The Orange County Girl girl performed at the opening of George Maloof’s new pet project, the Pearl Theater at the Palms Hotel.
Stefani is playing arenas of 12,000 and more on this tour, but the Pearl is “intimate” by comparison, holding a max capacity of 3,000.
Gwen had to adjust her production to accommodate the smaller venue, which made Saturday night’s show a scintillating preview of the full-scale spectacle that every other audience will see on this tour.
The Haraujuku Girls are back - accompanied by a tight band, and while Stefani focused on all her solo material, she gave a shout out to that band that made her famous.
“This is for the No Doubt boys, who are here tonight,” Gwen said. “That [record] is next.” Which is very exciting!
Equally exciting was getting to meet Miss Stefani herself at the after-party at Moon nightclub.
Oh yeah, and we also got to chat for a while and have some drinkies with the deliciousness that is Gavin Rossdale.
He’s also the nicest guy!
Swoon.
Viva Las Vegas!
[Perez’s tshirt courtesy of Harajuku Lovers.]
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
We are on our way to Saskatoon. Yes, Saskatoon!
Perez is flying up to exclusively cover the JUNO Awards for eTalk.
The full red carpet pre-show will be broadcast live online, so viewers from around the world can catch a glimpse of their favorite Canadian musicians, including host and performer Nelly Furtado.
The eTalk at the JUNOS red carpet show will start at 6:00 p.m. ET on the CTV Broadband Network tonight.
Click here for more info!
And….the Queen of All Media is going to be staying in Canada all week.
We have some very exciting things to announce. So stay tuned!
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Here is Pretzel on MTV’s New Year’s Eve celebration!
And, for your enjoyment, here is our play list we submitted to MTV.
1. Madonna - Holiday
2. Regina Spektor - Fidelity
3. Mika - Grace Kelly
4. Lily Allen - Smile
5. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
6. Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
7. Fergie - Fergalicious
8. Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
9. Julieta Venegas - Me Voy
10. Beyonce - Irreplaceable
Visit Music.MTV.com to see the play lists for all of the performers and participants of MTV’s New Year’s Eve celebration.
Monday, December 18th, 2006
CLICK HERE to check out Geraldo At Large’s profile of the Gossip Gangstar.
Sunday, December 17th, 2006
As some of you may know, PerezHilton.com is involved in a bitter $7.5 million lawsuit with a paparazzi photo agency.
We have remained unusually reticent on the situation….until now!
Perez - and our legal counsel - spoke with the Los Angeles times for this article, which ran today.
It sheds a lot of light!
Perez Hilton takes their best shots
The gossip blogger’s use of an agency’s paparazzi photos puts the legal spotlight on copyright infringement.
By Robin Abcarian, Times Staff Writer
December 17, 2006
Photo by Myung J. Chun / LAT
It’s hard to know whom to sympathize with in this fight.
On one side: the paparazzi who stalk celebrities in their moments of greatest vulnerability — at doctors’ offices, with their newborns, when they are falling-down drunk.
On the other: a blogger who helps himself to those photos, scrawls puerile comments on them, and posts them on his immensely popular and profitable website.
The owners of one L.A. photo agency are so frustrated with what they consider to be blatant theft by self-styled “gossip gangsta” Perez Hilton that they’ve decided to make a federal case of it.
On Nov. 30, X17 Inc., known for the aggressive pursuit of celebrity prey, filed a $7.6-million federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Hilton, alleging that he has used 51 photos without permission, payment or credit.
The list of allegedly infringed photos is an almost poetic inventory of the state of pop culture and people’s obsession with it: “Pregnant Katie Holmes,” “Kevin Federline Pumping Gas,” “The New Slim Britney Spears,” “Britney Spears Exposes Her Derriere,” “Britney Spears Exposes Herself (Again).”
Brandy Navarre, who co-owns X17 with her husband, Francois Navarre, said the agency is suing the owner of http://www.perezhilton.com not just because he doesn’t pay or credit them, but also because they don’t like his attitude.
While X17 has agreements with many gossip blogs — Pink IsTheNewBlog, PopSugar and SocialiteLife, among others — allowing them to post photos with proper credit and a link back to the X17 website, Navarre said she was tired of constantly reminding Hilton to credit X17 and had finally given up.
“We’ve had trouble with a lot of bloggers,” she said. “But he’s the biggest, and the most arrogant and pigheaded about it, frankly.”
Reached by phone at his “office,” a corner table in a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Sunset Boulevard, Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, sounded miffed. “She is suing me because I’m arrogant? That’s not what her press release said. My position is that I don’t think what I am doing is illegal, and I am going to vigorously defend myself. I am willing to step up to the plate and fight for my rights and fight for the rights of all bloggers.”
While it’s easy to be flippant about a battle between paparazzi and a sometimes juvenile blogger (who might draw cocaine or mucus trails from noses, mouth drool or other snarky/silly things on the photos he posts), there is a serious legal question at issue.
If it turns out that what he does is copyright infringement — rather than a fair use of newsworthy images, as Hilton’s attorney claims — it would not only put a serious crimp in the photo-driven field of gossip blogs, but possibly create new case law.
“The effect would be to eliminate the ability to comment on and transform photographs under the fair-use exception to the Copyright Act,” said Hilton’s attorney, Bryan Freedman of Century City.
It’s one thing to take somebody’s copyrighted work and turn around and sell it, he added, but to alter the work to achieve a satiric or humorous end is entirely different and is allowed under the law.
‘Basically free-riding’
But X17’s attorney, John Tehranian of Costa Mesa, doesn’t see it as fair use at all. Hilton, he said, “is basically free-riding on the labor and efforts of X17 and its photographers who stay up all night and roam the city, and he simply right-clicks and posts their photos.” (Actually, Navarre said, she has altered her site so that Hilton can no longer right-click to get photos, but he manages to get them anyway.)
This conflict is more than a juicy legal fight between two controversial enterprises. It’s also the manifestation of a cultural shift in how those obsessed with pop culture get their fixes. These days, no one has to wait for People’s weekly appearance on the newsstand or even “Access Hollywood’s” nightly roundups to find out about Nicole Richie’s latest arrest or shockingly low weight.
Hilton, who said he earned less than $50,000 last year and expected to make in the six figures this year, is known for the dizzying pace at which he updates his site, sometimes posting two dozen or more times a day.
“Perez is not being targeted because he’s an affront to paparazzi everywhere,” said technology expert Matt Lum, whose company, Hoodlum Productions, provides technology expertise to both Hilton and X17. “He is being targeted because the entire industry is undergoing a shift that was arguably brought on by blogs like perezhilton.com, which took stargazers from a weekly or nightly television fix to an hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute, entertain-yourself-at-the-workplace enterprise.
“The way that Americans get their news and entertainment these days is a whole lot different from waiting for things to get printed, and that’s what’s at the crux of this whole ordeal,” Lum added. “When he says he is fighting for all bloggers, he really is.”
Getting personal
There is, as well, a personal aspect to the suit. Hilton and X17 used to be allies, linking back and forth to each other’s sites. When Hilton grew tired of being admonished by Navarre to credit X17, he said, he retaliated by removing the link to her site. Hilton said her lawsuit is a public relations ploy aimed at squelching his blog to improve the prospects of hers, X17online.com, which was started last June, and appears to be modeled in concept on what Hilton has done since he launched his current blog in early 2005.
Navarre scoffed at that. “We are suing him,” she said, “because he is stealing our images and costing us money every day.”
Take Monday, for example. X17 had landed what it considered a major scoop: photos of the newly separated Spears kissing an unidentified man.
In an attempt to prevent unauthorized downloading of her photos, Navarre spent hours personally attaching photos in e-mails that she sent to glossy weeklies and the big infotainment TV shows. She used e-mail instead of the much faster but more vulnerable technology called FTP (file transfer protocol), which transfers the images directly into clients’ computers.
“People and Us Weekly are closing today,” she said Monday, “and it would have been so much faster to FTP them, but I don’t want Perez Hilton to have them on his website.”
No such luck.
Hilton had somehow obtained and posted the photos before X17 even had a chance to put them on its own website. “He was the first one to get those photos,” Navarre said. “I am so fuming.”
She said X17 can make as much as tens of thousands of dollars from one magazine on an exclusive story. In the case of the Spears smooch shot, X17 sold a two-page spread to Us Weekly, but the magazine decided to shrink the photo play (which lowered the price by $10,000, to $15,000), Navarre said she was told, because the images had already been on Hilton’s site and others.
One prominent copyright attorney said it was impossible to tell who would prevail.
“Clearly, photographs are copyrighted and afforded protection; on the other hand, wide berth is given to the press to report on newsworthy events,” said Century City copyright attorney David Nimmer, author of “Nimmer on Copyright.” In this context, a photograph could be considered a newsworthy event.
How bloggers get unauthorized photos in the first place is baffling to the agencies, Navarre said.
“Perez gets his photographs from any number of places,” said technology expert Lum, who is not involved in the procurement of photos. “I am sure there are lots of links in so many chains that somewhere along the way, there has got to be a tug here and there, which results in a photograph veering from its intended pathway.”
A joint letter
As it turns out, X17 is not the only agency trying to stop its photos from veering from their intended pathways. Seven notoriously competitive paparazzo agencies have set aside their differences to send a joint cease-and-desist letter to Hilton, demanding that he stop using their photographs. They have not filed suit but are watching X17’s case with interest.
“He’s stealing. Simple as that,” said Frank Griffin of Bauer-Griffin, which has joined forces with six other agencies. “Why doesn’t Us or People just steal the photos and not pay for them? What’s the difference?”
Hilton, for his part, is unrepentant.
“If the law says I am wrong, if a jury of my peers says they think my actions are wrong, then I will listen to them. But I don’t think they will. Especially if they see that the person who is suing me admitted she is suing me because I am arrogant. A judge would dismiss that.”
Friday, December 1st, 2006
This is the hotness!!
Bronques is doing videoblogging now, in addition to his famed party pictures.
Click here to watch his coverage of Wednesday night’s Paper Magzine nightife awards, featuring an onstage cute name-check by Fergie towards the end of the clip.
Ch-ch-ch-eck it out!
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
London is the best city in the world!!!!
And, we are having the most awesomest time here!!!
Saturday night, we went to see Miz Ashlee Simpson's final performance as Roxie Hart in Chicago, and she definitely earned the respect of everyone in attendance.
There's no lipsynching in musical theater! And, she sounded great.
Ass made the role of Roxie her own and the cast and crew toasted her at a farewell reception after the show.
In addition to her parents, Joe & Tina Simpson, Brit Pop legend Robert Smith of The Cure also caught Ashlee's last performance and hung out after the show.
After kickin' it in the theater, we headed over to Asia de Cuba for an amazing (almost three hour) dinner with some friends: Mark, Taryn, Ray and Senorita Nicole Finn (above).
We still have another week in London, and we are madly in love with this city!!
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Despite the shit that comes along with it, we love being the Gossip Gangstar. And, no matter what anyone says, this has been THE BEST FUCKING YEAR of our life!!! Can't take that away from us!
There seems to be no end in sight, either.
We keep pinching ourselves, thinking we're going to wake up from a dream!
We started the year off strong and we're gonna end it with a BANG.
Perez is featured in the November issue of Ocean Drive magazine, in an amazing (and quite lengthy) article by the superexcellent Jacquelynn Powers - with some pretty fierce pictures by Gio Alma.
It means sooo much to be so warmly received by our hometown of Miami and by one of the best magazine's in the world.
The piece in Ocean Drive is one of the best things every written about us, and we hope you can take a moment to read it.
Click here to check it out!!!
P.S. Yeah, we kinda have a thing for bathrobes. They hide the fat rolls really well!
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Lance & Reichen extended an invitation to Pretzel to attend the book release party for Lemkuhl's Here's What We'll Say, and we couldn't refuse the offer.
We took the olive branch and came out to support Monday night at homo central, The Abby in West Hollywood.
If our presence means that more people (one or two) buy Reichen's book, then we're thrilled.
The U.S. policy on gays in the military is still archaic, and that's something that Lehmkuhl touches upon in his book.
Lance and Reichen were very warm and cordial and friendly. We hugged it out. And there was really never any beef to begin with.
Kathy Griffin can still lick our clit, though!
All the homos and lezbots came out to support Reichen, including Bruce Vilanch, Leslie Jordan and Honey Labrador, as well as straight allies and friends Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag from The Hills.
And Perez was happy to be there as well!
Peace, bitches!
P.S. Thanks to Ben Russo for being like Gilette, the best a girl can get!
[Photos via John Heller at Getty Images. Perez's hat courtesy of Ben Sherman; Thanks Dana Dynamite. Tee courtesy of Local Celebrity; Thanks Matt Meyerson.]