DC ExtraTime: Team MTV Meets Perez Hilton

From During Are You The One? Season 5, and originally posted the night of the 2017 Oscars

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Tonight marks the climax of the Awards Season, as the movie industry caps off a stretch that began in November, seen many important awards and honors take place - including several in the past few days, and culminates tonight with the Academy Awards - the Oscars, at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. After coming seemingly out of nowhere to dominate the Golden Globes - typical for a movie that doesn't garner as much buzz mainstream-wise like a summer blockbuster, La La Land is expected to dominate tonight after receiving the most nominations.  Awards shows are always one of my favorite events, as it always brings together the best in any field under one roof for one night.

Two weekends ago saw music's best gather for Music's Biggest Night, as Los Angeles welcomed the best musicians on this planet for the Grammy Awards. Of course, Adele added to her growing legend in snaring five awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Album for 25 (which she felt the first one should've gone to Beyonce for Lemonade and broke off a piece of the award for her), and Record & Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance for "Hello," for which she also performed that song to open this year's Grammys. Chance the Rapper won three awards including Best New Artist and two of the four rap awards - Drake took the other two in that field, while David Bowie was posthumously honored with four awards, and Beyonce & sister Solange took the stage and won awards too. Other key winners included Twenty One Pilots, The Chainsmokers, Pentatonix, Justin Timberlake, Megadeth and The Beatles.

Among those in town to rep Team MTV that week included three members of the Real World Bad Blood house and two of the lone members of their cast to go straight to Thailand for The Challenge Invasion in Anika, Theo and Jordan, who we featured hanging out with Giovanni of last year's AYTO season and the upcoming All-Stars Challenge not long ago. And also joining them for Grammys week was the co-subject of our look at the horror film Habit, AYTO alum Brittany. And when they were all partying in the same Avalon Hollywood nightclub that night, they ran into a very important - or infamous - person in the town where dreams come true.

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Over a decade & a half ago, Perez Hilton graduated from New York University with nothing to do and nothing planned in his post-college life, and tried anything from becoming an actor to working for GLAAD and serving as a freelance writer covering New York City's LGBT scene. But one day, this son of two Cuban immigrants from Miami would ultimately find his calling in something we know very well here - the art of blogging. He has become known for looking for those juicy pieces of gossip, both written and visual, that has made his web site, PerezHilton.com, the guilty pleasure of many of those who just love the celebrity culture. But unlike our site, he and his site have often been targets because of his relentless persona, having brought out of the closet a number of celebrities who are gay or lesbian, and Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande and one-time BFF Lady Gaga, among others, having brought him to court for over-covering them in a mostly negative light.

Despite his tainted reputation in Hollywood and in this world of celebrities, Brittany, Anika and Jordan all got to meet Perez when they spotted him at Avalon during Grammys week, for which their photo here above. Brittany captioned, "Perez Hilton and a some of my pretty #MTV family ❤, great meeting u! keep shining 🙃⭐," for which the blogger responded with a couple kissing emojis and Anika added a couple purple heart emojis, too.


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