DAILY DOWNLOAD: Kat Graham - 'Sassy'

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Kat Graham talked about her debut, Perez Hilton-endoresed first single, "Sassy", on "The Ralphie Radio Show."

EXCLUSIVE: Kat DeLuna Insists 'Inside Out' Will Be Released This Year

Kat DeLuna insists, Inside Out, her sophomore LP, will be released this year.

“No, no, no, not hopefully, it is!” she quickly replied, correcting my statement that she’d “hopefully” release the album later this year. “We haven’t picked the precise date yet, but looking toward around the summer.”

Some may have been wondering if DeLuna would ever release her second album: the project has gone through multiple years of work, multiple singles… even multiple record labels. The “Whine Up” singer left Epic Records in 2008 for Universal Motown. Since landing at the label, she’s collaborated with label mates Lil Wayne (“Unstoppable”) and Akon (“Push Push”).

DeLuna says the latter track is the official debut single for Inside Out. Produced by David Guetta, Kat created her own “Push Push” dance, which she already taught to Akon. The artist plans on uploading a tutorial to YouTube.

“I love to dance,” she gushed. “It’s funny, when I wake up and I’m getting ready in the morning, like I’m just dancing (while) looking at myself in the mirror.”

Dances have been a common theme in Kat’s singles. The “Whine Up” rose in popularity as the corresponding song shot up the charts. Of course, who could forget Perez Hilton dancing like a fool to “Dance Bailalo” last summer?
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Spring '08
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Hilton, real name Mario Lavandeira, shares Latino heritage with Deluna - he’s Cuban, she’s Dominican. The celebrity blogger jumped on the bandwagon of critics in September 2008 after DeLuna received a chorus of boos following her rendition of the “The Star Spangled Banner” on "Monday Night Football." But, he loved “Dance Bailalo”, and apparently is a fan of her new work.

“He actually heard it a couple of days ago, and he said ‘Smash,’” DeLuna reported of Hilton’s reaction to the song. “He’s been a really good, amazing friend… you know, we can be friends today and I’ll still love him if tomorrow he goes on the other side.”

Hey, in entertainment, you never know – things change quickly and can turn inside out in no time. But don’t bother telling that to Kat – no pun intended – you’d be preaching to the choir.

“It’s a blessing to be able to do what you love every day,” DeLuna said. “With this second album, I’m so excited for my fans… people are going to discover me, again.”

EXCLUSIVE: Ke$ha - The Father-Less Pop Star With A Not-So-Soft Side

You know her as Ke$ha, the trash-talking, hard-partying pop star who's single, "TiK ToK" recently sold the most digital copies in a week by a female artist. BTW, the song that she sings the hook of, Flo Rida's "Right Round", sold the most overall.

Her family and friends know her as Kesha Rose Sebert - a trash-talking, hard-partying aspiring artist, who is finally breaking out on the grandest stage of 'em all.

And as for Ke$ha, seems she knows who she is, and what she's doing - but as for who her father is? Well, that’s another story.

“This guy called me up, and said, ‘I think I’m your dad,” explained Ke$ha. “So like, I moved to (Los Angeles), and off-the-plane moved in with him. And turned out he’s totally not my dad, and so I lived in my car for a minute… and then, I ended up getting my own apartment.”

Believe it or not, that’s one of Sebert’s more tame stories… her official website’s bio starts with an account of the pop star’s face-to-face meeting with an icon. Ke$ha paid off a gardner and snuck in to Prince’s house to give him a demo. Sebert met The Purple One, and she left the CD there for him, but she never heard back.

It seems Sebert loves to tell stories – and tales she tells on her debut LP, Animal, which hit stores Tuesday. The following day, before taping a performance on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” – the 22 year-old singer/rapper/story teller called in to “The Ralphie Radio Show.”

It’s a true Hollywood tale: the girl who lived in her car, and still doesn’t know the identity of her father, goes on to help sell the two most downloaded singles in a sole week. Of course, you probably didn’t know Ke$ha sang the hook of “Right Round” because she didn’t receive credit for the single. It was her decision to not be credited and not appear in the music video. Matter of fact, Sebert says at first she didn’t receive much of anything for the performance.
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Part 1: CD Release Party Shut Down By Po-Po, Living In Her Car

Part 2: Animal, "Right Round", Katy Perry's Engagement

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“I didn’t get shit,” Ke$ha said, rather calmly, noting that in addition to no up-front payment, the track did not yield her any royalty checks. “I got a car,” she later admitted when pressed about whether the song could be credited with landing her a deal on RCA Records. The 1978 Gold Trans-Am that she currently drives can also be seen in the video for “TiK ToK.”

You can say what you’d like about the type of music, or the context of it – but Ke$ha insists the songs are sincere and “unapologetically fun.”

“The music is honest,” she clarifies. “I write with sheer honesty, so anything that’s in any of my songs, like, chances are I’ve probably done that at some point. I’m not saying like, I do these things every day.”

“Unapologetically fun” is kinda a term you could use to describe another track… Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl.” Perry and Sebert are friends – and Ke$ha made a cameo in the video for Perry’s debut single. Yet, due to all of the commotion around her own debut, Sebert did not hear that comedian Russell Brand proposed to Perry… until I told her on The RRS.

“Are you serious?!” she exclaimed, before I cited multiple reports from Brand’s publicist and the comedian himself. “Wow, no shit.”

Sebert hasn’t met Brand, but is happy for the newly engaged couple. Although, she did have to think for a second on what she would give them as a wedding gift.

“I would get her… a giant… inflatable…,” she said, thinking out loud, before I cut her off and reminded her that the censors were standing by, if need be.

“No, some sort of animal. Or I’ll buy her a boat… I dunno.”

TMZ'S LESLIE HARRIS: Sopranos Star Calls Out Perez Over Miss Cali

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"Johnny Sacks" isn't a happy camper. TMZ's Leslie Harris explains...

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DAILY DOWNLOAD: Kat DeLuna - Dance Bailalo

Summer, 2007
Part 1: The new song

Part 2: Perez Hilton, CD release, new record label, what she's been up to

Kat's new CD, Inside Out, drops this Summer.

Spring, 2008

RALPHIE REPORT: Speidi v. Ralphie, Round 1.

Love or loathe him, Spencer Pratt is a marketing genius. The villain of MTV’s “The Hills” created a marketing scheme for pure celebrity that rakes in the cash without having to release a sex tape.

Of course, that isn’t to say that Spencer – along with girlfriend Heidi Montag, doesn’t make the rounds… the media rounds, that is.

Enter The Ralphie Radio Show. Last week, capitalizing off of the premiere of “The Hills” fifth season and the release of two new Heidi singles on iTunes, the couple affectionately known as “Speidi” kicked off a three hour radio tour with 97 BHT’s Kidd Kraddick In The Morning. Towards the end of the phoner-fest, Spencer and Heidi called up The RRS. The possibly-engaged duo wanted to talk about Montag’s music and their supremacy on “The Hills”. Of course, there were a few other topics I wanted to touch on – namely the type of money we’re talkin’ here with these “reality” shows and staged photo-ops.

“Ralphie, to be honest, with this recession we’re so broke and we need money,” Spencer spewed before I cut him off by citing a leaked report to In Touch Weekly last August that the couple made $65,000 – each – per episode.

“…Yeah… and I heard Santa Claus was real,” retorted Pratt, clearly annoyed that I wasn’t offering up your typical softball questions. Game on.

Not letting up, I attempted to reference that same article, which stated that according to Lauren Conrad’s contract, no one on the show could make more money than her. Pratt then tried to spin that statement – claiming L.C. would be foolish to give up such money. Finally, I cut to the chase: doesn’t the couple stand to make a considerable amount of money directly by Conrad exiting the show (L.C. insists that this is her last season)?

“(2 seconds of silence) If you’re our agent, I’d think you were right,” Pratt finally admitted.

While we were discussing money, I decided to bring up the couple’s relationship with blogger Perez Hilton. The self-proclaimed “Queen of All Media” holds nothing back when it comes to “The Hills” – stories of staged events, criticism of the cast’s side projects, and rumored revelations of behind-the-scene deals. Yet despite this, Spencer and Heidi tweet back and forth with Perez, and attend his parties. In one recent post, Hilton wrote that “Speidi” stood to make $200,000 with an undisclosed tabloid for the exclusive rights to report on a staged breakup/reunion of the couple.

“Like I said, where is this money?” asked Spencer. “I wanna see it. Because if it was true, I’d be taking you out to dinner right now Ralphie in Pennsylvania.”

Pratt stumbled over words and changed the subject when I brought up the fact that everyone else sees this money on “The Hills” during shots of Spencer driving his BMW.

“Perez is very honest,” chimed in Montag.

That was all I needed to hear. Montag used the term “honest” to describe the man who falsely accused rapper Flo-Rida of killing a rabbit and claimed Cuba Dictator Fidel Castro was dead, without citing a source.

Whether it’s the TV show, Heidi’s body, or Spencer’s paparazzi deals – there’s something fake about The Hills, and it doesn’t get much more honest than that.
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EXCLUSIVE: Spencer Pratt & Heidi Montag

Whole-lotta awkward moments, plus Heidi's new track is the Daily Download.

Part 1: All About The Hills: Season 5, L.C.'s Departure, Salaries, Perez Hilton

Part 2: Heidi's Single, "Look How I'm Doin'", The 5-Track EP, Music Videos

katy perry interview...

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Katy Perry invited Ralphie Aversa on to her tour bus for an exclusive interview after the Vans Warped Tour at Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain. Katy chats with Ralphie about her hit song, her boyfriend, and meeting Barbara Walters!

For full Warped Tour Coverage - click here. Or, view Ralphie's recap below:

new heidi montag song...

so much for that christian album aspiration... this song is called, one more drink.

the man involved with the perez scandal speaks!

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Former celebrity publicist and current blogger J.J. Jaxson chats exclusively with Ralphie Aversa about the scandal surrounding himself and fellow blogger Perez Hilton!

For more on this story, read the Page Six article here.

where do i start with this video?

let's summarize this...

perez hilton is a complete tool for not asking spencer and heidi about all the "fakeness" on the hills, all the "exclusive" news that he so proudly writes about on his blog.

spencer pratt's comments on the reason for people commenting on heidi montag's new video (a video so bad, i won't even link to it) are laughable. clearly, spencer and perez are chillin' in the same shed.

poor heidi montag. such a pretty girl - with such a douchebag bf.

leo dicaprio sinks bar rafaeli's ship...

i'll always have a special connection with these two because i broke the news on perezhilton.com (scroll down, half way on the right) over the summer that they were still dating.

although i'm sure you'd much rather have a connection with one of them, exclusively.

after officially breaking up back in october, the couple is now together again.

cmon avril...

so perez hilton posted this picture of avril from the ama's, along with a story about the lack of ticket sales for her upcoming tour that kicks off this march.

i guess he got too caught up in avril failing yet again to realize this...

does avril's hickey turn you on?

nick hogan behind bars.

vitamins, milk, steroids, or prayers can't help nick hogan - the hulkster's son - at this point.
authorities arrested the wrestler's child under a number of charges. click here to see the press release (kudos to tmz for the document, perez for the photo).

you havta hear this!

despite her first cd released yesterday since november 2005 - britney spears did absolutely no media or publicity on tuesday. instead - the mother of two opted for a typical, low-key day in which a judge ruled that she couldn't regain 50/50 custody of her children. brit then went home and ate fried chicken while watching a movie with enablers alli sims and sam lufti.

how do i know all this? because britney finally did an interview yesterday - although with this her second media appearance in as many months, maybe jive records would be doing everyone a favor by not scheduling britney appearances on the airwaves.

spears spoke with ryan seacrest at kiis-fm in los angeles this morning. of course when ryan called, britney had to be woken up by sims and lufti.

what ensued over the next twenty minutes could be described in a number of different ways. click here or here for perez's and tmz's account. click here to listen. or tune in to the show tonight for highlights from the interview.

just when you thought everything with lindsay had calmed down...

perez hilton posts this about her new boyfriend, who she met in rehab - and his criminal background (guessing of course the reason he landed in the utah facility).

then the national enquirer breaks this story - about how lindsay lohan stole this guy from his fiance!

who would you rather marry - this chick or la lohan?

britney gets her booking on.

paris, nicole, lindsay, and now britney.

the pop princess turned herself to authorities late last night. police booked spears on her one charge of a hit and run. all reports confirm britney cooperated fully with the LAPD. there is a spears mugshot, but it will not be released :(

this is kinda funny slash interesting...

so last night best in drag held its annual aids fundraiser in LA - hoping to raise awareness and funds for aids research. big fans of the gays included martin and charlie sheen. but according to tmz, who did the crowd boo after his introduction?

yeah - perez... one of their own!

the interview you can't miss

will.i.am.
on the peas.
on the new solo cd.
on kanye.
on perez hilton.
on america.

the interview - tonight in the 9pm hour.

and it continues to worsen...

perez hilton with a post about a report by in touch weekly that there could be a britney spears sex tape released very soon.

i wouldn't even want to see it.