In the year since Perez Hilton renounced his obnoxious and exploitative ways — remember, this is the guy who gave the world upskirt photos of an underage Miley Cyrus — the notorious blogger has undergone quite a strange transformation. These days, for instance, he scribbles unnecessary captions (“Ugh!”; “Surprise!”) on celebrity photos, rather than just drawing penises on them. And just a few weeks ago, Hilton published his first children’s book, The Boy with the Pink Hair, about a kid who gets teased because of his abnormally colored tresses. Now, Reuters reports that he’ll continue his quest to balance rumor-mongering with wholesomeness in a new endeavor: Perezitos, a site that will combine news about famous families and children with original content geared toward parents and created by advice-dispensing “mommy experts.” According to Hilton, the site makes sense because “[p]eople love babies and children and pregnancies. People love weddings; people love new couples. It’s not just about train wrecks and out-of-control celebrities.”
A few reactions to this news: 1. So it isn’t just about train wrecks… but it is kind of also about that. Right? 2. Does the world really need another mommy blog — one created by a childless 33-year-old gossip blogger, no less? 3. So if the other main focus of Perezitos is celebrity babies, baby bumps, and weddings, can someone tell us exactly what makes this new-media venture different from, say, People or Us? [via Jezebel]
Editor’s note: Each Friday, our internet-savvy friends over at BuzzFeed curate a post for us that’s filled with links to some of their favorite items on the web that week. Enjoy!
The final week of March has come and gone, spring is in the air, and for some that means it’s time to have sex in public. No, really. The week began with Community star Donald Glover Tweeting these candid shots of a couple getting intimate inside of a Bank of America. [Insert tasteless joke about "making a deposit" here.] Three days later, this other couple was spotted smooshing parts on a rooftop somewhere on the University of Southern California campus.
1. Perez Hilton appeared on The Joy Behar Show last night to tell America he has no regrets about posting an upskirt photo of 17-year-old Miley Cyrus. [via TV Squad]
2. Can’t decide between CDs and LPs? Now you don’t have to. A new collaboration between designer Yuri Suzuki and DJ Jeff Mills is a disc that’s digital on one side and vinyl on the other. [via Designboom]
3. Congratulations to America Ferrera! She has announced her engagement to longtime beau Ryan Piers Williams. [via MSNBC]
4. Get ready for Depeche Mode: The Musical. [via The Daily Swarm]
5. A new study has found that only 37 percent of the Internet is porn. [via io9]
As you may know, we’re big fans of Diablo Cody around here. Yes, the language in Juno might feel dated these days, but any adult woman who is part of a group who call themselves “The Fempire” is aces in our book. So when we read Perez Hilton’s exclusive scoop that the Oscar-winning screenwriter recently got remarried and is about to give birth, we were as happy for her as you can be for someone who you don’t actually know. (Remember back in 2007, when she was forced to engage in some very public post-divorce tattoo doctoring? No one deserves that.) We’re still waiting for an official announcement, but until then keep your fingers crossed that she’s forshizz up the spout, and it’s not just a food baby…
After the release of her eponymous debut album, New Zealand musician Phillipa Brown, known as Ladyhawke, enjoyed near-unanimous critical acclaim and the development of a steadily-growing international fan base. She’s co-headlining a tour with Semi Precious Weapons, Julian Perretta, and Frankmusick sponsored by gossip blogger Perez Hilton (which kicked off yesterday in Atlanta) and is currently working on the follow up to her debut. Her singles “Paris Is Burning” and “My Delirium” are slick throwbacks to the glory days of ’80s synth pop and have both been hits overseas.
After the jump, read our complete interview with Brown, where we chat about meeting Perez, Christina Aguilera’s rumored cover of one of her hits, and why she’s really grunge at heart. Read More »
1. CocoPerez.com, which Gawker is calling Perez Hilton’s sad bid for legitimacy, launches today. [via Gawker]
2. You can grab your tickets to check out a 16-minute clip of James Cameron’s 3D sci-fi flick Avatar starting Monday. [via THR]
3. Seth MacFarlane will out baby Stewie in an upcoming episode of The Family Guy… sort of. [via NYDN]
4. Is this a new Radiohead song? [via Pitchfork]
5. Quentin Tarantino plans to quit movies when he hits 60 and a become a novelist. [via The Toronto Star]
1. Lollapalooza. [via Pitchfork]
2. Germany’s Central Council of Jews wants to republish a critical version of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, a book that has been banned in the country since the end of World War II. [via PW]
3. Have you ever eaten from the most expensive hot dog cart in the world? (It was parked right outside the Met.) [via NYDN]
4. The LA Times thinks Perez Hilton is a tastemaker; Gawker says he’s an unapologetically awful person. [via Gawker]
5. ABC would love to have Paula Abdul on Dancing With the Stars because of her sensitivity and empathy. [via People]
1. Joe Simpson is shopping around a Michael Jackson covers album from his daughter Ashlee. [via NYP]
2. Perez Hilton is launching his own music label. [via Perez]
3. Vampire Weekend has almost finished their second album and they’re taking you on a video tour of the Brooklyn studio where the magic’s happening. [via NME]
4. Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman will star together as a pair of Chicago cops in A Steady Rain on Broadway. Previews begin on September 10. [via BBC]
5. Aaron Sorkin has been hired to save Moneyball, that Steven Soderbergh/Brad Pitt movie that Sony killed. Soderbergh is no longer involved. [via Gawker]
1. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s staff says he’s just taking a hike on an undisclosed trail. [via The State]
2. The Met, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, and a handful of other major museums are trying to block a bill in the New York State Legislature that would regulate the deaccessioning of collections. [via NYT]
3. Matthew Modine may star in To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway following the revival’s successful run at the Hartford Stage. [via NYDN]
4. At the age of 72, artist David Hockney is making new work with his iPhone. [Insert old dog new tricks metaphor here.] [via BBC]
5. Black Eyed Peas manager Polo Molina has been charged with assault in that Perez Hilton punch-up; most coverage of the incident seems to hint that the blogger deserved to get hit. [via NYP]
