So if you haven’t heard or read on Twitter yet, last night at an after party for the Much Music Video Awards in Toronto, Canada gossip blogger Mario “Perez Hilton” Lavandeira and Will “will.I.am” Adams got into fisticuffs at hot spot Ultra. Of course both sides of the story are completely different but here is what I have gathered from both sides statements:
- Perez Hilton doesn’t like the new Black Eyed Peas CD so save your money and use a torrent.
- Don’t disrespect will.I.am or the Black Eyed Peas or else they break-a-your-face.
- Fergie would rather approach you in a public place to work out private matters than text or have lunch.
- These people have nothing better to do than give each other awards, party, party again after that & then fight.
- Neither of these people are famous enough for my mother to know what I am talking about right now.
- Nevermind, my mom just recalled that Perez is that “trollish gay guy with the weird hair.”
- My mom forgot he also has an obnoxiously shaped head.
But seriously, the story goes that in Toronto at an after party for the MMAs Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas approached gossip blogger Perez Hilton and simply asked “Hey, do you have a problem with me?” (See will.I.am’s DIPDIVE video for the best Fergie impression ever).
Perez responds with the less than appropriate and far from friendly,”No, I just don’t like your record.” According to will.I.am (and from what I remember, Perez himself) Fergie and Perez are friends. How you can be friends with the guy that says you look like Brett Michaels is beyond me – but hey, different strokes. I guess this display of blatant honesty offends miss Fergie. At this point I just want to say, if Fergie was so offended and hurt by a simple opinion maybe she should rethink a profession that is basically built on the validation from millions of strangers. I digress.
An image from PerezHilton.com comparing Fergie (L) to Brett Michaels. Rough.
From there the stories split into two versions. According to Perez Hilton, he states in a video that at another club (because what’s an awards show without an after-after party?) will.I.am comes over to Perez and rudely tells him to stop being mean to the BEP on PerezHilton.com. My guess is this arrangement still allows for Perez to be mean to the BEP in the privacy of his own home, just not on PH.com. According to will.I.am he approached Perez and asked him to refrain from being “blatantly rude” to the BEPs. He then goes over how it’s okay to have an opinion but not a rude one. He asks Perez not to disrespect him and Perez responds with a snippy “I respect you!” Based on will.I.am’s impression of Perez saying “I respect you,” I believe Will’s side of the story. His impression is just too dead on.
After this altercation will.I.am leaves Perez and continues enjoying his after-after party. Later in the night Perez finds will.I.am outside of Ultra and says “You know, it was pretty gay of you to come at me like that.” According to Perez’s statement video on his website, Perez admits to calling will.I.am insensitive slurs such as “fag”, “faggot”, “homo” and saying variations of “You’re gay.” Perez even goes so far as to say he knew before he said those slurs that those are the words he thought would provoke and set off will.I.am the most.
While it is still unclear who threw what body part into what homo, it is clear that Perez Hilton got knocked around. I don’t think I need to go into too much detail to convey that we all know Perez loves his drama. In his statement video you can see a mark under his eye, however it isn’t that bad, especially since the video was made the morning after the event and blood vessels around the eyes break easily – hence they bruise much more easily than other body parts. Perez says he was bleeding, wondering if perhaps his eye was knocked out. He then performed two acts of Shakespeare’s Hamlet because he didn’t want to be typecast as the guy that “can only act like the gay friend from Mean Girls.”
Anybody on Twitter last night knows everything that happened as it went down (according to Perez) because while his eye was possibly hanging from a bloody retna in a dirty Toronto nightclub, Perez was tweeting about his assault RATHER THAN CALLING THE AUTHORITIES. He states he wasn’t sure how badly he was assaulted and that he thought it was a possibility that he lost an eye, all the while tip-tapping away on Twitter about the events happening.
“OMG! I’ve just been assaulted. RT @lifealertlady I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.“
Since the morning has rolled around a clear line has been drawn into the sand. On one side is Perez Hilton and every effeminate tween boy that idolizes him. No word yet if Lady GaGa and Katy Perry have joined the pink side. Of course on the other side of the line is will.I.am…and pretty much everybody else.
I mean it…everybody…even me.
I’ve spent years reading PerezHilton.com while pretending to work in cubicles. I’m a member of the LGBT community and I have appreciated things he’s done in the past. Nobody can deny that if you need to shine some light on a subject, Perez Hilton & his website are definitely the platform to take it to. However, my love of the Perez has consistently declined. A big bit ‘o’ beef I had with him was late last/earlier this year during the Prop 8 campaigns. I completely believe that Prop 8 is unconstitutional, but unfortunately it was put up for a vote and the majority ruled for it, banning gay marriages. From that point, all anybody who wanted change could do was protest and prepare for the next battle for civil rights. However, Perez fought hate with hate – to the point where it became obnoxious and even I was turned off from the cause.
will.I.am is fin to get aggro in some plaid, yo.
And now in addition to that faux paus (see Patti Stanger, that’s how you say it!) he’s mixed up in this new controversy which affects the LGBT community as well. The simple fact that Perez Hilton, an openly gay (and can I just say VERY FLAMBOYANT) man used the words that hurt & put him down to provoke someone else. Perez used hateful slurs to intentionally try to hurt and shame a man into fighting and/or attacking him. I do not advocate violence whatsoever, but I can’t help but think Perez got exactly what he was asking for, regardless of who hit him. It baffles me how Perez didn’t stop and think about the damage his words would do. Aside from the attack that he was all but literally asking for, he has also given an insurmountable amount of power to words like “fag” and “homo” because not only were they used in a hateful, violent and degrading way; they were used by a man that knows more than anyone else the pain and embarrassment those words cause AND HE STILL USED THEM. To me, a gay man using those words tells every one else it’s okay to use those words. Unfortunately a night has passed and Perez has made his hateful, MFbomb laden statement video, in which he admits to using these words – and he still doesn’t think it’s wrong!
Perez Hilton wants you to forget he used to look like Mimi Bobeck.
I am so ashamed that Perez Hilton is a member of the LBGT community. I have never and very likely will never accept him as a positive gay role model. I further suggest that any and all people and groups stop treating him like a public figure that has an opinion that matters. It was bad enough to see him on CNN talking about Prop 8 (and you wonder why it passed), let’s not further empower his words by acting like they have meaning. I understand gossip is an entertainment industry standard, but what would the world really be missing if there were no more PerezHilton.com?
Yeah, I couldn’t think of anything either.
will.I.am’s videos via DipDive:
First video about the night (before will.I.am was aware of the “Tweets” & before Perez made claims about the assault via his website)
Second video in response to Perez’s accusations.
will.I.am’s Twitter account (made specifically to defend himself against Perez’s tweets).
Perez’s statement video via PerezHilton.com
Perez’s Twitter profile.
And just for fun, Tila Tequila’s Twitter profile (with actual photos of will.I.am’s texts and bad spelling. Take that Parez!)
