For a lot of people, including me, that was the same approach that we were making, but for a human being. But around or , one of her mentors lent her a book: How Race Is Lived in America , a compilation of articles from writers at the New York Times. Is there misogyny here? There was a New York Post cover calling her a trampire! In the ensuing years, Lui and her team have started to add disclaimers to old posts that are racist, anti-gay, anti-trans, sexist, or otherwise offensive.
Since then our site has grown and evolved. We have apologised, continue to take accountability, and documented our changes. I also understand that forgiveness is not guaranteed. In , when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were divorcing, Lui was able to keenly dissect the statements they were offering up to the gossip rags, why they picked the magazines they did, and what they were actually trying to say.
And in , when Jennifer Aniston did a splashy Architectural Digest feature of her then-home with her soon-to-be-ex Justin Theroux, Lui wondered if it might be because they were divorcing. They were. But she still has to face the humiliation sparked by her old work. Like, then what? You shut it down, you wait for it to go away, it is still just going to follow you.
You might as well eat the shit. I knew at the time what I was doing was wrong. Look at Donald Trump. In , in a post that has since been removed, Hilton published photos of Black having sex with an ex-boyfriend, promising that a sex tape would be coming too.
I apologized in his book. So that was very nice of him. That was very noble of him. Lui mentioned that part of the discomfort of admitting that some of your old coverage failed is that it may also wash away some of your successes.
Maybe this is true — Hilton did promote queer artists and musicians on his blog, and he participated in the It Gets Better campaign as a way to reach out to queer young people. But the public will always remember your most bombastic acts first. But plenty of celebrities, as you can imagine, weren't thrilled by the site's content.
Nicole Richie turned up one day to complain in no uncertain terms about his mean-spirited coverage. Hilton rejects this specific charge, pointing to the countless celebrity magazines that preceded him. Maybe I was the first to do it online, and therefore, I'm a pioneer! However, there were other complaints about the website which prompted him to significantly change its tone.
The LGBT community criticised him for outing gay celebrities, while others were upset by his use of nasty nicknames. In , for example, Hilton repeatedly referred to Christina Aguilera as "Floptina" in an effort to damage her sales and boost those of his then friend Lady Gaga.
Hilton's remorse for his behaviour makes for one of the most interesting sections of the book. That is something I no longer believe. Hilton, who is gay himself, received death threats when he outed former American Idol contestant Clay Aiken. But it was a social-action campaign that led him to change his ways. In , activist Dan Savage launched the It Gets Better movement in response to the multiple suicides of teenagers that year who had been bullied because they were gay.
But when Hilton recorded a message of support for the campaign, he faced an immediate backlash. Hilton has since made efforts to make amends.
But I was paralysed by fear, that I would lose everything that I had worked very hard to achieve up until that point," he says. Perez Hilton, a name inspired by Paris Hilton , quickly took to blogging, but rather than writing about himself, Perez opted to focus his stories on celebrities. Perez Hilton created his very first website 'PageSixSixSix' in the mids and began to gain traction.
It didn't take much time before PerezHilton. Although he has since turned into one of Hollywood's most hated people , he has certainly made a fortune doing so. Perez Hilton is no stranger to the entertainment world!
The star, who is most known for his well-known gossip blog, PerezHilton. After graduating from New York University, Perez ventured off into the world of acting, however, after not finding success in that area, he turned to professional writing and started his very own blog. Before having his self-titled website, Perez began blogging about celebrities in the mids on his site that was once called PageSixSixSix.
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