Jesuit Educated: Perez Hilton

Perez Hilton: the big fat gossip who won't shut up
In 2004 a wannabe actor called Mario Lavandeira started a celebrity blog. Now renamed Perez Hilton, he is the most powerful, widely read, cruel and vicious writer in Hollywood. His real name is Mario Lavandeira but nobody besides his mother, his sister and a handful of friends from “before” is allowed to call him that any more. To me, to you, to the now formidable number of people around the world who read his blog and share with him a non-ironic addiction to celebrity culture,

Mario Lavandeira, age 29, is Perez Hilton, currently the most influential, perhaps also the most facetious, definitely the cruellest, gossip columnist in the world.

Before Mario was famous he used to have mousey hair and wear bland slacker clothes over a relatively slender, well-exercised body.

He'd grown up a middle-class boy in Miami, the son of Cuban immigrants, and won a scholarship to what he describes as a “very posh” Jesuit all-boys school.

He was a swot but also obsessed with television and dreamt of becoming famous, perhaps as an actor.

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