Gossip blogger Perez Hilton was slammed by Los Angeles TV station KTLA for walking out before a scheduled morning interview. Apparently Perez thought the interview to promote his new book would take place earlier, so he arrived at 8am. The interview wasn’t until 9:20 though, and he decided to take off instead of waiting it out, complaining that he needed to go work on his blog. Anchor Sam Rubin explained that Perez was offered the use of an office until his scheduled slot, but that he decided to leave instead of staying and said that he could Skype in for the interview. That wasn’t acceptable to the station and Perez refused to stay. Predictably, Perez got indignant about the way KTLA explained his absence to their viewers and tweeted “I expect an apology and an on-air correction/retraction!” Instead of ignoring him, which they probably should have done, KTLA anchor Rubin explained how the incident went down and how unprofessionally Perez had behaved, calling him a “talentless dope,” who “upchucked his way onto the scene.”

“Perez said we lied about what happened here, and he demanded a retraction…Well demand this you talentless dope, here is what really happened,” KTLA anchor Sam Rubin said.

“So Perez, you can take this as my deposition. We booked Perez at his request to promote his new book and appear on our show at 9:20 AM. Somehow the Perez Hilton staff — not our staff, who he yelled at by the way — but his staff got him here in a car he commissioned around 8:00 AM. And when Perez found out he was on at 9:20, he said he simply could not wait. Now, the available slots in our show yesterday were taken. We had somebody you might have heard of, Snoop Doog at 8:45,” Rubin explained.

“We had a children’s choir on right at 9 o’clock. Perez said rather than wait his rightful turn — the other guests were here when they were supposed to be here — he needed to work on his blog. We offered Perez the use of our entire KTLA newsroom, even my luxury office, so he could work here. Perez was adamant that that would not do. Perez said he wanted to leave and would be happy to visit us via Skype. You know what, maybe I could Skype in from my home every day, too,” he continued.

You asked to be here … do what you agreed to do and be here,” the anchor admonished.

“We did not misrepresent what happened with Perez yesterday and he knows it. And guess what, KTLA morning news and yours truly have been here long before Perez Hilton upchucked his way onto the scene and we will be here long after he slithers away,” he said.

Rubin told the audience that Perez’s publicist asked for the gossiper to be booked again. His response? “Absolutely, when hell freezes over.”

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I don’t understand why Perez just couldn’t work from the KTLA offices until his timeslot. It’s not like they don’t have computers and Internet access. If he left his laptop at home and was jonesing because he didn’t have a program to draw sperm on people’s faces there are free online programs that let you easily edit photos. (My favorites are picnik.com and Aviary.) There’s a lot of pressure to write when you run a blog, especially in the morning, but Perez could have stuck it out and worked while he was waiting. The good thing about being a gossip blogger is that you can work from anywhere. The guy used to work out of a coffee shop for God’s sake. Perez is the Tila Tequila of bloggers, though. He really will do anything for attention. I wouldn’t be surprised if he escalated this small incident in order to get more publicity. It worked.

In response to this statement from Sam Rubin calling Perez out, Perez personally went after Rubin and tweeted three times in various ways “Sam Rubin is my kind of guy! He’s been SUSPENDED from his job 3 times http://bit.ly/6kLuAP Such a pro!” Oh please, as if Perez would be able to keep a job in which someone else told him what to do.

Perez is shown on 12/3/09 outside MTV. Credit: WENN.com