TVSquad

I think the last time I actually cared about MTV was around 1991, so I'm not really invested in the latest Kanye West drama/hype that happened at last night VMAs. But I do think this picture was bizarre enough to post. It pretty much confirms that this is a world I have nothing in common with anymore. Thankfully.

[via The Awl]

Perez Hilton says he got a black eye from The Black Eyed Peas.

According to shrill gossip blogger and almost celebrity Hilton, the manager of the Black Eyed Peas planted a "boom boom pow" in Perez's puss this weekend. That roar you almost heard was grateful, repressed applause coming out of Hollywood.

A faux journalist (nee: rumor mongering hack), Hilton jumped onto the TV viewers' radar last month when he served as a judge for the Miss USA Pageant and started a war of words with Miss California over her stance in gay marriage.

Isn't it funny how the networks themselves are getting in on the web commentary about their shows? We have ABC giving recaps of Lost using action figures, and here's MTV giving a rather funny recap of The Hills, their show with untalented people doing dumb things in annoying ways. For good measure, the host also gets in some shots at Lindsay Lohan and Perez Hilton.

[thanks to Joel for the tip]

Miss California, Carrie Prejean, caused some controversy the other night when she said she was against gay marriage. Today she explained her answer on, well, Today. I think Matt likes her!

Or maybe we should call it Rappin' with the "Stars," considering what the rumored lineup is.

Former Baywatch babe Nicole Eggert, singer Aaron Carter and web gossiper Perez Hilton are going to be on the MTV show, according to a source at the network. Much like Dancing with the Stars pairs a celeb with a real dancer, this show will pair a celeb with a real rapper. I think the only other difference is dancing is spelled with a "g" and "rappin" is spelled without one.

I don't want to see Eggert, Carter or Hilton rappin(g). I want to see people that you'd never expect to see rappin(g) rap. How about Rue McClanahan from The Golden Girls, or Bob Schieffer from CBS News? Or maybe PBS host Bill Moyers?

[via TV Tattle]

I really didn't want to like Victoria Beckham. In photos, she never smiles. She is always impeccably dressed and frighteningly skinny. She was Posh Spice, but she's more famous for marrying David Beckham. She always seemed like a bitch, quite frankly. But, I am embarrassed to say that I found her adorable after watching last night's special, Victoria Beckham: Coming to America.

Good news for fans of celebrity gossip dished out by a gay man with a love for MS Paint: popular online muckraker Perez Hilton is coming to VH1 as the host of What Perez Says, a series of one-hour specials that Hilton himself is describing as "like PerezHilton.com come to life, but even juicier." The new series debuts in September.

I suppose it's somewhat ironic that Perez is becoming part of the celebrity world he so gleefully attacks on his blog. Of course, in this age when almost everyone is a celebrity in some form or another, it's not too surprising.

You won't believe what I overheard in the bathroom at Hyde the other night. I was mixing my Strawberry Quik together with a half ounce of the white stuff - pure as the driven snow - when The Animal comes in and announces that she's making another TV show. Alright, that's how I imagine rumors get started in LA. The way they actually get started is some production company (or prankster) posts a Craigslist ad, and it gets picked up by Perez Hilton. That's how word got out that Britney may be looking to film a reality show for MTV. I personally don't believe a word of it, but you can read the ad for yourself at the Gossip Gangsta's site.

It couldn't have happened to a nicer fella.

Perez Hilton, the annoying Internet gossip who is fond of outing people who don't want to be outed, was being profiled for a segment on 20/20's year-end program about this entire YouTube/blogging/Internet phenomenon thingy I've been hearing about ad nauseum. Almost as soon as he starts talking about Lindsay or Paris or Britney or whatever, the program breaks in to announce that Saddam Hussein has been executed. Since Perez's yapping suddenly seemed insignficant in comparison (imagine that), the show decided to stay with the Saddam story, playing segments created in anticipation of the Iraqi dictator's inevitable execution. So, at least in the Eastern and Central time zones, Perez's appearance has been lost to the winds of history.

To be fair, Harvey Levin of our corporate cousin TMZ.com was also profiled in the piece, so that site's moment was also lost. But I was more gleefully happy to see Perez's moment get pre-empted because, well... I don't think Harvey is a pimple on society's ass. Not sure what I was more happy to see: Saddam's hanging or Perez's momentus interruptus.