Retro Rewind: Perez Hilton Brawls With Will.i.am

Welcome to Retro Rewind, the TGJ original feature launched to unearth some of entertainment’s most surprising moments!

Today, we take a journey to 2009. In that year, after doing his part to elevate Lady GaGa‘s young career to higher ground, Perez Hilton found a fresh enemy in the Black Eyed Peas.

One night, after learning of remarks Hilton had made about the group, its lead vocalists Will.i.am and Fergie approached him and asked him to stop writing about them.

This, much to everyone’s horror, is where things took a turn for the worst.

Twitting? Dip dive? The Jonas Brothers?

How things have changed.