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It looks as though “friends” Spencer Pratt and Perez Hilton are now officially frienemies after a fight was sparked via Twitter over the weekend when the self-confessed “Queen of All Media” mocked Heidi Montag’s devout Christianity with a very graphic comment about what “Jesus doesn’t like” the couple doing behind closed doors.

“Do you enjoy making a joke out of my wifes faith? Because you’re walking a very dangerous line!!! Don’t say I didn’t warn you,” Pratt tweeted. “To me you teasing someone about their faith is just as bad as being a racist or a homophobe!”

Hilton responded that he would “never make fun of her faith” and that he was “making fun of her CONSTANTLY shoving down peoples throats.”

“Do you see Heidi talking smack to you all day long for your shoving your non-sense down everyones throat? don’t say I didn’t warn you that make a joke out of God isn’t going to get you way more then a black eye to be crying about!!!” Pratt spat back, before the Hilton announced that he was “unfollowing” the reality TV duo.

“Have fun in TwitterJesusLand,” Hilton retorted. “PS there’s a reason @KimKardashian has 1.5 million followers on twitter and @HeidiMontag doesn’t even have 500k. Just sayin’!”

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The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is demanding the obnoxious blogger apologize for call ing the Black Eyed Peas star a “faggot” at a Toronto music party, raging, “For someone in our own community to use it to at tack another person . . . is incredibly dangerous.” But Hilton told TMZ.com that GLAAD is victimizing him “for how I nonvio lently dealt with a very scary situa tion.” Peas manager Polo Molina allegedly sucker-punched Hilton after the slur. Meanwhile, John Mayer ripped Hilton in a Twitter: “P!nk kneed me in the [bleep] outside Chateau Marmont. I was p – - – ing blood for days. Did I make a scene?” The pop star added: “I also want to train you in an old martial art called ‘Never Call a Black Dude a Faggot Jitsu.’ ”

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Perez Hilton isn’t apologizing for using a gay slur, and says he’s never claimed to be a spokesperson for the gay community.

The celebrity blogger said in a statement Tuesday that he will continue to say things upsetting to gay and straight people alike. The comments came after the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation called for Hilton to apologize for unleashing the word during an altercation with Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am.

Hilton said he felt physically threatened and sought the most hurtful thing he could say during the confrontation at a Toronto nightclub early Monday. Police charged the band’s tour manager with assault for allegedly punching Hilton.

Hilton said he did what he thought best to stand up for himself.

Perez Hilton’s years of bitchy, insulting and obscene blogs about celebrities finally caught up with him over the weekend when he was beaten bloody at a MuchMusic Awards after-party — an attack he’s blaming on Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am.

The band’s manager, Polo Molina, was charged with assault in the Sunday morning punch-up outside Toronto’s Cobra club. But Hilton (real name, Mario Lavandeira) claims will.i.am (real name, William J. Adams) was the cowardly catalyst.

On a video post in which he sobs uncontrollably, the flamboyant blogger says that after Fergie complained about his coverage of the group and will.i.am got “right in my face,” he lashed back: ” ‘I don’t need to respect you, and you’re a fag. You’re gay. And stop being such a faggot’ . . . His manager Polo . . . comes up to me, clocks me in the eye and punches me two or three times. I think my eye is falling out of my head.”

Will.i.am, in his own video, insisted a fan belted Hilton and slammed the blogger for a Twitter post that claimed will.i.am and his security guards were the culprits: “This dude twists it and says I attacked him. He was the one that called me a faggot . . . Shame on you.”

Hilton isn’t backing down, raging on his video, “You [bleep]ing mother[bleep]er. You are subhuman. I would have had more respect for you if you had hit me yourself. You’re a coward! . . . That is not an excuse for their manager to attack me. [Bleep] you, will.i.am . . . And Fergie, you’re a fugly bitch.”

Molina gave himself up after cops told the band that no one in the group would be allowed out of the country until an arrest was made, TMZ.com reported.

Hilton and a Black Eyed Peas rep didn’t return e-mails.

Last year, will.i.am and filmmaker Jesse Dylan, son of Bob Dylan, produced a pro-Barack Obama video, “Yes We Can,” which included cameos by Scarlett Johansson, John Legend, Kate Walsh and Herbie Hancock.

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Perez Hilton’s weekend ended with a Boom Boom Pow! Literally! I’m sorry but I don’t feel sorry for Perez. When you write horrible things about someone constantly poking fun what do you expect? The attack occurred shortly after Will.I.Am repeatedly demanded Hilton stop writing about him and Hilton, by his own account, called him “gay” and a “faggot” to get under his skin.

Well, guess what Perez it worked! You succeeded in getting under his skin! I can hardly blame Molina for defending his artist Wil.I.Am – enough is enough. I know violence is not the answer – but I would have bitch slapped Perez myself if I was Molina and not even thought twice about it. First offense – a fine – maybe house arrest? All worth it to watch that little bitch we know as Perez Hilton cry, tuck his tail and run.

Perez Hilton has made a habit of running his mouth about people for years. It’s what he does – and he’s made a successful career of it – but at some point you have to expect something like this when you’ve made a business out of slamming and degrading people.

Team Will.i.am all the way! He is telling the truth – he didn’t hit Perez. Maybe he doesn’t even know his manager is the one who did.

Police have charged the tour manager of the Black Eyed Peas with assault after he allegedly punched celebrity blogger Perez Hilton outside a Toronto nightclub. Hilton said he got into an argument with band members Fergie and will.i.am at the Cobra nightclub early Monday morning and was punched outside by Polo Molina, the band’s tour manager. They were at the club following a Sunday night video awards show.

Molina turned himself in and has been charged with assaulting Hilton, Toronto Police Constable Tony Vella said. Molina is due in court Aug. 5.

Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, complained about the incident on the microblogging site Twitter. He tweeted at 4 a.m.: “I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke.”

Hilton, who is openly gay, said in interview with The Associated Press that he called will.i.am a “faggot,” a gay slur, inside the club after the musician told the blogger not to write about his band on his Web site.

“He was like ‘You need to respect me.’ He was in my face. He was obviously trying to intimidate me and scare me,” Hilton said. “I was like ‘I don’t need to respect you. I don’t respect you and I did say this, and I knew that it would be the worst thing I could possibly say to him because he was acting the way he was. I said ‘You know what, I don’t respect you and you’re gay and stop being such a faggot.’”

Will.i.am said in a video posting on dipdive.com that he came to Hilton with respect and was called a “faggot.”

Hilton, who was at the club with Lady Gaga, said he then left the club and was punched from behind. The pop stars and the blogger were among celebrities in Toronto for the MuchMusic Video Awards on Sunday night.

A spokeswoman for the Black Eyed Peas declined comment.

Perez Hilton’s Statement About The Will.i.am Incident:

Video of the fight between Perez Hilton and Will.i.am:

Video footage has been released by TMZ of Perez Hilton and Will.I.Am having the argument outside the club and Perez can clearly be heard calling Will.I.Am a “faggot” while Lady Gaga tries to calm him down.

Will I Am’s side of the story:

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Perez Hilton is still poking fun at celebrities. But as a blogger, radio host, author and now highly publicized advocate of gay rights, he’s also become one – and not just as a famous person, but a powerful and wide-reaching brand.

Still, Hilton, whose recent 31st birthday party drew the likes of the Jonas Brothers and Christina Aguilera, seems uneasy with the C-word.

His preferred title: Entertainer.

“I don’t consider myself a celebrity because for every two people that like me, there’s probably 3 1/2 that don’t,” he said by phone from Los Angeles. “And I don’t care if you don’t like me – I just care if you still read my Web site.”

And Hilton clearly likes to stir the pot: As if being asked to judge the April 18 Miss USA pageant wasn’t enough to raise his profile, Hilton went for a bigger media blitz by asking Miss California Carrie Prejean about same sex marriage. Prejean’s response – that “marriage should be between a man and a woman” – became one of the hottest topics on the talk-show circuit.

Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, made the rounds on CNN’s “Larry King,” NBC’s “Today” and other major outlets. He defended his question as fair and relevant. Prejean stands by her remarks; meanwhile, Hilton stands by his, which include calling the beauty queen a B-word.

Their beef launched dozens of online video responses and was spoofed in a skit on Jimmy Fallon’s talk show, ending with Fallon brokering a peace treaty between stand-ins for Prejean and Perez.

“I said she was a dumb (bleep),” he said. “Well, you know what? What she said to me in that answer was that I am a second-class citizen that doesn’t deserve full equality under the law.”

Hilton’s blog has decried Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in his home state of California, and revealed the sexual preference of several celebrities who eventually announced they are gay.

“I’ve always considered myself an activist – even when I was outing people, I did it because I believe in equality. … If I’m gonna talk about a heterosexual celebrity that’s having a secret relationship with someone else, I should do the same thing with a homosexual celebrity,” he avowed.

But he’s not the spokesman for the gay community, he said. He’s just doing what he knows best: Being Perez.

The strategy has served him well: His over-the-top alter ego and celeb-mocking have resulted in an explosion of page views. Love him or loathe him, Hilton emerged as heavy competition for major news organizations, and paved the way for celeb-driven sites like TMZ.

“His blog captured the mood of the world – which is a little snarky, a little cynical, a little provocative, a little tongue-in-cheek,” said Howard Bragman, Hollywood publicist and author of “Where’s My Fifteen Minutes?: Get Your Company, Your Cause, or Yourself the Recognition You Deserve.”

Bragman said Hilton nailed the “right tone at the right time – his instincts were very, very good. And a lot of those things that people were feeling, he was able to put online.”

PerezHilton.com attracted 2.2 million unique visitors in the U.S. and 3.9 million globally last month, according to tracking firm comScore Inc. Henry Copeland, who runs advertising for Hilton, won’t comment on his earnings. But he said that when advertisers take over the site – like promoters of the Anne Hathaway-Kate Hudson film “Bride Wars” did recently – the self-described “Queen of All Media” could potentially make tens of thousands of dollars per day.

“It all is a blessing because I didn’t expect any of this,” Hilton said. “I started my blog for fun. I didn’t think you could make money from it.”

Hilton, who insists money is a low priority, has aimed to expand his brand from the start. He wakes before dawn each morning to do his syndicated radio show, which airs in more than 75 markets. He released a book this year called “Red Carpet Suicide: A Survival Guide on Keeping Up With the Hiltons.” He appears in numerous TV spots, and would like to get his own show.

More than anything, he loves music, often adding plugs for music artists he likes. He has hosted concerts in New York, Liverpool, U.K., Toronto and, most recently, Austin, Texas, where he lured the star power of Kanye West to perform at his party at the South By Southwest festival.

Hilton is also an avid user of Twitter, and has amassed nearly 700,000 followers on the micro-blogging site. Last week he tweeted about Lady Gaga – someone he said he caught onto long ago – and her “MIND-BLOWING acoustic” version of her song “Paparazzi.”

For all his pursuits, Hilton keeps his goal simple: Media domination.

“I want to be like Oprah, only bigger,” he said, without a trace of irony.

Hilton, who ranks No. 1 on Forbes’ list of the 25 most famous Web celebs for the second year in a row, admires the rise of Ryan Seacrest, who leveraged his hosting gig on “American Idol” to build an entertainment empire, and desires the same for himself. And like Seacrest, he keeps a busy schedule: “I work really really hard – I work harder than anyone I know. It could have been really easy for me to get lazy or coast.”

Bragman said Hilton could live out his ambition “by being authentic, by not selling out, by being real – because people have amazing authenticity detectors in this world. … We know what’s real and we know what’s not, and we can smell sellouts. And as long as he sticks to what he does and what got him there and what he believes, and he expands in a controlled way and doesn’t try to do too much too soon.”

Does Hilton worry about keeping his brand afloat – say, amid a crippling recession?

“It definitely is affecting me for sure – but I don’t care! I have a business manager,” he said. “I let him handle all the finances and all that stuff. I’m too busy working to be worried about any of those things. Plus, I still don’t do it for the money.”

Christina Aguilera has never shied away from jazzing up her performance with a show-stopping outfit.

And last night was no exception, as she headed to a gig in a leopard-print leotard, fishnets and knee-high boots.

She wore the revealing ensemble to sing at the 31st birthday party of celebrity blogger Perez Hilton.

With a bevy of bare-chested male dancers sharing the stage, she made sure her attire was suitably eye-catching.

The leotard is part of the Agent Provocateur ‘Season of the witch’ range and was first seen on Daisy Lowe.

Daisy, who models for the collection along with Peaches Geldof, wore the daring garment on the catwalk during the Fashion for Relief charity event which Naomi Campbell organised for London Fashion Week.

After giving birth to son Max in January last year, Dirrty singer Christina took some time out from the limelight, only returning to the stage in October.

Any remaining traces of baby weight now seem to be a thing of the past.

The 28-year-old looked trim and toned in last night’s figure-hugging costume, with a belt accentuating her small waist.

She entertained the crowds with a performance of Lady Marmalade at the bash in West Hollywood’s Viper Room, before posing for photographs with the birthday boy.

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Perez Hilton (L) and Daniel Guez (R)

Perez Hilton and Amanda Bynes

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Ellen Pompeo and Kate Walsh

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Kate Walsh and her husband Alex Young

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