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TMI

My Life in Scandal

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TMI is the story of how Mario Lavandeira became Perez Hilton, a celebrity blogger with millions of readers around the globe who was sometimes called the Most Hated Man in Hollywood. Growing up in Miami's Little Havana in the 1980s, Perez was bullied at school because of his weight and his sexual orientation, so he devoted all his free time to eating and watching TV in his bedroom. A scholarship to NYU was a lifesaver, as Perez felt at home in New York. But his finances took a battering, and he moved on to LA. After being fired from three different jobs within the space of ten months, Perez suddenly hit it big in 2005 with his gossip blog. With Perez's help, many promising young artists reached the masses—Katy Perry, Adele, Amy Winehouse, and Lady Gaga, to name just a few. Perez soon became a Hollywood insider, but during his dramatic fallout with Lady Gaga he realized that he had been used. Perez's blog became increasingly mean—"It went from bitchy to nasty," he recalls.

But a turning point came when Perez uploaded a video for the It Gets Better campaign and was surprised by the backlash it received. People called him a bully and a hypocrite because he previously outed gay celebrities on his blog. Perez was forced to reevaluate not only his alter ego, but also himself as a person. Following the birth of his son, he was also faced with a number of new opportunities for growth and personal reflection. TMI reveals the man behind the blog in a new, revealing, and still-juicy memoir.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 24, 2020
      Celebrity blogger Hilton (Red Carpet Suicide: A Survival Guide on Keeping Up with the Hiltons) recounts his exploits—and surprisingly self-aware regrets—in this delicious memoir. Growing up gay in 1980s and ’90s Miami, Cuban-American Hilton (“back then,” he reveals “my name was Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.”) was taunted for his weight and sent to a therapist to “make sure I wasn’t gay.” But he got the last laugh by toggling between New York City (“a mecca for gay men”) and L.A., where he started a red-hot gossip blog. No one was exempt from his snarky repartee as he climbed the fame ladder—something he claims he now regrets, along with other “self-destructive, impulsive” behavior such as selling not-yet-released books online, running up credit card debt and declaring bankruptcy, and alienating Kim Kardashian. Hanging out with the likes of Paris Hilton, Amanda Bynes, Amy Winehouse, and Lady Gaga, Hilton mercilessly spread insider secrets, including the time when John Mayer put his tongue in the author’s mouth. Hilton also waxes poetic (and rather touchingly) about his three children, conceived via surrogate, and how they’ve softened his world view. This is catnip for Hollywood gossip hounds. Agent: Daniel Kim, Arena Scripts Literary & Film Agency.

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