Perez Hilton & Milo Ventimiglia (Image Source: PerezHilton.com)

What can I say, I’m one of the people out there that actually likes Perez Hilton and will gladly admit to the fact. The guy gets hated on more than any other blogger I know of, but I guess that’s the price you pay for becoming one of, if not the single most successful bloggers in North America.

Perez Hilton (real name: Mario Lavandeira) has been elevated to near celebrity status through his blog and gets to meet people I could only dream of meeting. He gets invited to all the best parties, gets mass amounts of swag, makes a 6-figure income and, best of all, gets to meet some of my absolutely favorite celebrities. Just recently Perez had the distinct honor of meeting NBC Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia at one such party. Milo was hanging out, having a good time with some of his friends and agents from CAA, and apparently even Milo is a fan of Perez Hilton and a regular reader.

In case you can’t tell, this is me, being jealous.

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The self proclaimed Queen of all Media Perez Hilton paid a visit to Howard Stern and the results were fantastic! Perez’s popularity is skyrocketing, and his chat with Howard Stern is certainly one to remember. I only wish had have been able to listen to it all live. Luckily Perez has the last 20-mins of his appearance available for listening on his website!

My favorite part comes near the very end when one of Howard Stern’s fans calls in and doesn’t seem to be to big a fan of Perez, to say the least. It’s hard to believe people so ignorant and close minded still exist on this planet, it really is unfortunate.

Listen to Perez Hilton on the Howard Stern Show!

Image by Miami New Times

Well, it was bound to happen eventually. One of my personal favorite’s in the celebrity blogging qord, the self proclaimed queen of all media, Perez Hilton, has been slapped with a $7.5-million lawsuit.

Perez Hilton, like the vast majority of other blogs, gets all of his images from various different sites online, one of which is X17, who just happened to be a paparazzi agency. It used to be that the guys at X17 didn’t mind if people used their pictures on blogs, and then they started to watermark all their pictures, but still allowed them to be used; however, just recently, they have changed their minds yet again, and have now decided any publicity gained from the use of their watermarked images wasn’t enough, and now they’re charging for people to make use of their pictures. Alas, there is only one problem with that situation, they’re still posting all their picture on their OWN website, for everyone to see! If you post pictures on the internet, you have to be willing to accept that fact that at one point or another, someone else is likely to make use of them. I’m afraid that’s just how it works, and as much as X17 wants to change the world in that respect, they don’t stand a chance.

The thing that gets to me the most about this entire situation is the fact that X17 and a hand full of other paparazzi agencies have banded together to pick out and target Perez Hilton alone. Hundreds, if not thousands of other blogs and sites with significant visitors use images from these agencies as well, alas, these agencies don’t see to care about those sites. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that PerezHilton.com is one of, if not the single largest celebrity gossip blog online? Perez is the face of the gossip blogging world and has been featured on just about every TV show and in just about every magazine in North America. Whether you like him or not, he’s the highest profile celebrity blogger out there, and his site sees well over 3-million unique visitors a day because of it. This past Thursday he cracked the 4-million mark and had roughly 4.4-million unique visitors. That is a huge achievement for anyone, let alone a celebrity gossip blogger!

The only reason X17 and the likes are singling our Perez is because he IS the face of the celebrity blogging world, his site DOES get the highest traffic and the free publicity garnered by suing/threatening/annoying him is substantial! My hat goes off to X17 and the other pap agencies that are going after Perez, you’re making one hell of a PR push. Funny how the paparazzi agencies suddenly develop ethics and a set of morals when PR is involved. To bad it’s not fooling anyone.

Celebrity Gossip Queen and self proclaimed queen of all media, Perez Hilton, got into it with a photographer at an XBox 360 party at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery last night.

Watch the video after the jump!

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If you’re a celebrity blogger, a gossip blogger, or you read blogs related to either topic, you have most likely heard of the Queen of all Gossip: Perez Hilton. Perez Hilton is about as famous as one can get for being a blogger and has ties to Paris Hilton (obviously his namesake) and a number of celebrities. Perez has even been featured on Canada’s answer to MTV, Much Music, on numerous occasions.

PerezHilton.com, run by gossip blogger Mario Lavandeira. is one of those sites and guys that you either love, or utterly despise. I, personally, fall into the love category. I read PerezHilton everyday and get a kick out of everything that Mario manages to dig up. Some people say he’s brash, crude and to hard on celebrities he doesn’t like. Personally, I think it’s funny. Everyone has their friends and enemies, why would it be any different for a celebrity gossip blogger, I would think it to be more so, if anything.

Like I mentioned above, you either love him, or you hate him, and those that hate him, really hate him. Some people, like the folks at FadedYouth, even spend time digging things up on him, like they did earlier this year. They managed to dig up Mario’s profile on ManHunt.net and, even though I like PerezHilton, I have to admit, it was good for a laugh.

Like any good celebrity gossip blogger, Mario is of course gay, so having a profile on ManHunt.net isn’t anything of a surprise, but the pictures on the profile, compared to current pictures, are pretty good and his write up is good for a laugh too.

Check out PerezHilton.com blogger Mario Lavandeira’s profile on ManHunter.net, compliments of FadedYouth.