Perez Hilton: The Queen of Mean

At the Wynn, Hilton goes to his room and squirrels himself away there for the next twenty-five and a half hours. Once he changes back into his shorts and T-shirt, he doesn't change again until the next evening. He blogs for a while, then orders dinner: an Italian deli plate full of meat and cheese, a shrimp quesadilla, a tortellini meal, truffle mashed potatoes, a Coke and crème caramel for dessert. Digging in, he says, "I don't like being a fat cow, but it's OK, because I love to eat, and whatever I love, I like to do a lot. What I don't understand is why I don't take better care of myself. At some point, I've got to commit to me."

He gets up and ambles around the room. It's huge, with floor-to-ceiling windows that look out upon a wide expanse of romantic Las Vegas lights.

"I've got to go tinkle," he says.

Returning, he takes a seat on the couch and says, "I don't care that I don't have a boyfriend at the moment. I'm not one of those people that feels like you need one to be complete. At the same time, I do say negative things to myself, like, 'You're fat and unworthy of being loved.' One reason I don't want a relationship now is I don't want to get naked with someone, because I feel really fat and unsexy."

He sighs. The way he's talking, he seems to be Mario now, not Perez.

"I don't masturbate that much, either," he goes on. "I do it at least once a week. But I should do it more. It's not the worst thing. Whatever."

Then he gets back to being Perez and, as Perez, he says that he's not about to say what those white dots are that he so likes to doodle on his site. Some people think they're sperm, or snot, or pee. "They are whatever you want them to be," he says. "I call them love. Love is what I call them." He's silent for a moment, thinking. "You know what? So what if some people hate Perez. I don't care. I go to sleep at night really well. For one thing, I'm a character. Perez is the one to tear people down. For another, at first I thought it was really lame to go out and call myself Perez. Now, I embrace it. Perez has brought me opportunity," he says. "Perez has made my life better."