14 DAY TRIAL // In what could turn out to be a devastating move for his business, gossip blogger Perez Hilton has promised to stop bullying celebrities on his website – meaning, to ditch that which made him famous in the first place.
Perez (real name Mario Lavanderia) was on Ellen DeGeneres the other night and, in light of the tragic teen suicides as result of bullying, has promised to change his wicked ways.
Gossip lovers and fans know that what got Perez noticed in the first place was the way he altered celebrities’ names to imply other things (MANiston for Aniston, SaMANtha Ronson, Lindsanity for Lindsay Lohan etc.), how he doodled on their pictures and how he constantly picked on them.
Now, he’s about to change all that – but without losing his “thing,” he assures Ellen. In other words, he will tone down, but not dilute the sassiness.
“A lot of people have called me a hypocrite and a bully myself. From now on, I really want to be part of the solution and not part of the problem,” he says, as cited by E! Online’s The Awful Truth.
“I still want to be me, and be me, and be sassy, without being vanilla – and also without being malicious and hurtful and nasty,” Perez adds.
He echoes the same sentiment on his official Twitter page, where he boldly announces a change is coming – and he wants to be a part of it because he knows love is stronger than hate.
“No more hiding behind a mask! I was 26 when I started blogging. I’m almost 33 now. Time to grow up. I can’t keep justifying my behavior,” he tweets.
“It’s time to share more of the real me with the world. I want to be part of the solution – not the problem,” Perez declares.
“Change is coming – and I’m going to be the change I want to see. I am going to be doing things differently from now on,” he promises.
He’s already apologized on Twitter to most of the celebrities he’s offended throughout the years, like Demi Moore, Lance Bass and Lindsay Lohan.
While many of his followers and even some of the stars he picked unprovoked fights with have already embraced the new and “reformed” Perez, but there still are many who are not convinced.