Be on your best behavior, Perez is coming

Published April 3, 2008 4:00am ET



Sadly, in the world we live in, this could be one of the biggest celebrity “gets” for this year’s White House

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Correspondents’ Dinner. We’ve learned that celebrity blogger Perez Hilton (www.perezhilton.com) will be here as a guest of Bloomberg News. Perez (real name: Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.) posts gossip items about all sorts of celebrities on his Web site and has become famous for “outing” various stars.

Hilton joins such other Bloomberg guests as “The Hill’s” Lauren Conrad and “The Soup’s” Joel McHale, who clearly will not enjoy dinner since they’ll be trying oh so hard to make sure Perez doesn’t write something nasty about them.

Not to be outdone, Time magazine is coming strong with some VIP guests as well: It has snagged three guys from HBO’s hit series “The Wire”: Jamie Hector, Isiah Whitlock and Sonja Sohn. But best of all, Time Style has landed fashion maven Donatella Versace and actor Rupert Everett.

Perhaps Donatella could give fashion advice to schlubby “Superbad” Jonah Hill, who will also attend the dinner as a guest of Bloomberg News.

Finally, People magazine has secured pop stars The Jonas Brothers as guests, meaning that their table willbe flocked with teenage girls.