When was perezhilton.com started

It sees him reflect on his success, but also express his many regrets. It's a memoir he hadn't intended to write. Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, had been approached by a Swedish writing duo about doing a memoir while he was in talks with publishers about the wellness book, but hadn't initially taken them up on the offer.

He later relented, and when you read the many juicy anecdotes in the memoir, you can see why they were so keen. And yet, the year-old says candidly: "I expect my book to not do well, in terms of sales. And I'm fine with that, because it's not a reflection on me at all. I'm 16 years into my career.

I have a whole life that she hasn't quite lived yet. At the time, he couldn't afford to have internet installed at home, so he would use the free wi-fi at The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in LA. The website grew quickly, attracting eight million hits a day at a time when the internet was still in its relative infancy. Hilton would write stories about the celebrity world, often adding his own catty comments. All rights reserved. Breadcrumb Home Cite Perez Hilton. Name at birth: Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr.

Perez Hilton has described himself as "the Internet's most notorious gossip columnist. His name was a play on Paris Hilton , the celebrity socialite. Long before he took on his alter ego, Lavandeira spent his childhood in Miami, as the son of Cuban immigrants. He says he knew he was gay from a young age and felt left out of the all-boys Catholic school his parents sent him to.

Instead, Lavandeira says he spent much of his childhood in front of the television. As a drama student at New York University, Lavandeira consumed gossip magazines and began creating collages in his dorm room of celebrity and pop culture images that intrigued him. His physical collages were the precursors to the digital compositions that would come to delight and appall the general public once he became Perez Hilton.

He said U. The AP later found the rumors were sparked by Miami officials who met to determine what would happen when he died. Castro later appeared on TV mocking rumors of his death. Perez later said that announcement was one of his biggest regrets. Perez has also come under fire for outing people he claims are closeted gay celebrities. If you know something to be a fact, why not report it?