Perez Hilton must be totally bored. Having made headlines for his public smackdowns with Will.i.am. and former Miss California Carrie Prejean, he’s now taking on bigger game: actress Demi Moore. On his Twitter site, he tweets that Demi is a bad mother for dressing her 15-year-old daughter Tallulah Willis in scanty outfits. Yeah, like moms have tremendous control over what 15-year-olds wear when the parents aren’t looking. Demi, whose husband Ashton Kutcher is no stranger to Web war, is fighting back on her Twitter site, calling (Read more…)

Just days after Perez Hilton’s alleged altercation with Will.I.Am and the Black Eyed Peas’ road manager Liborio “Polo” Molina, Zac Efron has teamed up with Breckin Meyer for a Funny or Die parody of Hilton’s passionate video account of the incident. In the video, Meyer says he is using his legal name of Luigi Lopez Hyack Banderas Conchito Alonzo as he describes an incident that occurred between him, Efron and Efron’s girlfriend at the Robot Chicken skate party. In the same shaky-but-emphatic tone that Perez used in his video, Meyer says, “What happened to me … happened to me as a human being and should never ever happen. Never. Ever. Never.”

Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton says he was “misguided” in using a homophobic slur against will.i.am during a violent confrontation outside a Toronto bar early Monday that was apparently captured in a photo now on a Toronto-based blog. In a statement released yesterday on perezhilton.com, Hilton responded to criticism for calling will.i.am a “faggot” during the argument, which ended when the Peas’ tour manager allegedly punched him. The openly gay Hilton sounds in turn contrite and defiant in the statement. “I was in an out-of-the-ordinary situaton and used a word that I would not utter under normal circumstances,” the statement says. “My intention - however misguided it may have been - was to stand up for myself and tell this belligerent man that I had enough of his badgering and was not going to continue to let him berate and intimidate me. I wanted to hurt him with the word I chose, not anyone else. Unfortunately, the one who got hurt was me and, subsequently, a lot of other people. I wish none of it had happened. I can’t take it back. I did what I thought was best at the moment to stand up for myself in a non-violent yet still assertive way. Clearly, I am not homophobic.” He says he now regrets making fun of another celebrity who was attacked last year, but never explicitly apologizes for using the slur, despite condemnation by the U.S.-based lobby group Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Hilton later adds: “I will continue to speak out for equality and I will continue to say things that upset both gay people and straight people.” Earlier in the day, GLAAD said Hilton’s use of the “vulgar anti-gay slurs that feed a climate of hatred and intolerance toward our community.” Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, has been at the centre of a media storm since the incident after Sunday night’s MuchMusic Video Awards. His website, a hugely influential voice in the entertainment industry with up to 8 million hits daily, is laden with bitchy barbs aimed at celebrities. Celebrity watchers who gleefully clicked between his tearful accounts - in a barrage of Twitter postings and online videos - and an online counterattack by will.i.am at dipdive.com, now can see the actual punch that kicked it all off, according to the Canadian gossip blog drinktheglitter.com. The blog posted a reader-supplied photo early Tuesday that seems to show a crowd of people outside and a fist apparently connecting with the face of Hilton. In the crowd is a blond woman who appears to be singer Lady Gaga. “There was no paparazzi there,” said David Robert, co-owner of drinktheglitter.com, in an interview last night. It’s the picture of the (MuchMusic Video Awards) in my opinion. We’re epically excited about it.” Robert said he received the picture in an anonymous email around 2 a.m. Tuesday. The photographer has since revealed himself to Robert. “He works in the Toronto media industry. He works for some of the people that actually dealt with the MMVAs,” he said. “He was standing there, jaw on the floor, and he took the picture.” The Star asked to be put in touch with the photographer to confirm the photo’s authenticity. Robert declined. Traffic to Robert’s seventh-month-old blog has exploded since the picture was posted, doubling his all-time visitor count in less than a day. Hits reached into the tens of thousands yesterday and, at around 5:30 p.m., said Robert, the site temporarily crashed under the strain. “It just hit the fan like I can’t even imagine,” said Robert, adding he has already received “a lot” of offers for exclusive rights to the picture, but has turned them all down. “It’s Canada’s to sell, it’s not mine to sell,” he said. According to Hilton, the now-notorious incident began when he was accosted by Peas’ singer Fergie, at an MMVA after-party at the club Ultra, for things he had written about the band on his blog. Hilton says he then went to the Cobra club on King St. W. where will.i.am came at him “like a heat-seeking missile” and asked him not to write about the band again. They exchanged words and later, outside the bar, Hilton claims he was punched several times in the eye by Peas tour manager Polo Molina, who was later charged with assault. Hilton says he called 911. When police didn’t arrive quickly enough, he sent a string of Twitter pleas for others to call police and help him. “I was assaulted by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards. I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke,” read one of them. Later in the day, he and will.i.am used Twitter and web videos to take shots at each other, with other celebrities including Miley Cyrus and Ryan Seacrest chiming in. An email to Hilton from the Star about the photo on drinktheglitter.com blog went unanswered last night. So did a tweet to Hilton.

The Black Eyed Peas are possibly the greatest bubble-gum group of the Extreme Ice Fruit Explosion era. Following in the path forged by the Monkees, the Archies and the Spice Girls, the Peas present themselves as a cast of zany characters whose music is, on one level, like a child’s game, and on another, as calculatedly smart and seductive as test-marketed pop gets. The titles of the Peas’ biggest hit singles tell the story: the giggle-inducing pun of “Don’t Phunk With My Heart,” the cheerily crude anatomical gesture of “My Humps” and now the IMAX-ready sound-effects burst of the chart-topping “Boom Boom Pow.” Crass, good-hearted, funny, unfailingly loud scavengers of every shiny thing lying on pop’s cross-cultural dance floor, the Peas present themselves as juvenile — but there’s plenty going on behind the mugging. “The E.N.D.” (Interscope/Universal), the group’s fifth studio album and the third since the singer Stacy Ferguson (better known as Fergie) joined and took it from the earnest hip-hop underground to the glamorous, necessarily compromised pop mainstream, is more accomplished and more confounding than any of the foursome’s previous efforts. It’s likely to dominate radio and the Internet this summer, its sharp flavors simultaneously driving listeners nuts and drawing them back. Will.i.am., the Peas’ lead rapper and main idea man, has said that he doesn’t envision “The E.N.D.” (the acronym is for “The Energy Never Dies”) as a regular album. Instead, it’s a template, designed to be constantly reworked through remixes, both in the recording studio and by DJs on the dance floor. Indeed, this collection has none of the attributes that make listeners love albums: no narrative arc, no ebb and flow, no break from the in-your-face beats and high-fructose hooks. As a plunge into the users’ manual of post-disco dance pop, “The E.N.D.” is quite charming, if predictably goofy. Working with club-savvy collaborators including MSTRKRFT, David Guetta and Keith Harris, Will takes on electro, deep house, dancehall and dance-punk, to name just a few trends.Ever true to their defining characteristic, the Peas have no shame. Fergie puts on ill-fitting dreadlocks for the faux-Jamaican “Electric City” and goes hilariously punk in “Now Generation,” a rant about social media that sounds something like Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” rewritten on a Sidekick. “Ring-a-Ling” is a strangely innocent celebration of drunken booty calling. As always, Fergie’s performances provide the most interest throughout the album. More than the rappers Taboo and Apl.de.ap, whose spotlight turns are always competent but downplayed, or Will, who clings to an Everyman persona that belies his role as the group’s Wizard of Oz, Fergie embraces the essential cartoonishness of being a Pea. Whether she’s being weepy in “Meet Me Halfway” or superbad in “Imma Be,” she takes her part to its logical end. Her obviousness once seemed to reflect a lack of skill, but by now it’s clear that it’s a strategy. “The E.N.D.” doesn’t ask too much of fans of the band. Its more substantive musical and thematic statements are interrupted by many others showing the Peas’ deep, deep commitment to a good party.

CHERYL COLE has sent Will.i.am a box of doughnuts to congratulate him on his success. The Girls Aloud star - who featured on the singer’s solo hit ‘Heartbreaker’ - sent the sweet treat when Black Eyed Peas topped the UK singles chart with ‘Boom Boom Pow’. But while the rapper was grateful for the gift, he admitted he didn’t eat them as he is watching his weight. He said: “Cheryl is cool. When I was in London she sent me some Krispy Kremes and a note saying congratulations. “I didn’t get the chance to eat them though because I’m on a diet. I want to eat healthy and feel right before we tour and staying regimented is hard.” Despite being careful about what he eats, Will hasn’t curbed his alcohol intake. He added to Britain’s Daily Star newspaper: “White wine is cool. I’m controversial when drunk. Once I get tipsy I talk about weird, odd things like what’s the opposite of colour - translucent.”