<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, tila tequila]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, tila tequila]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/tilatequila http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/tilatequila <![CDATA[How Tila Tequila's Maid Totally Ruined Her Day]]> Twitter's co-founder gave some free advice to Google; Heather Gold talked about starting a brothel; and Tila Tequila complained that her inconsiderate maids aren't grateful enough. The Twitterati had some suggestions for you.

Tila Tequila's maid came an hour early and it was a HUGE imposition. It just screwed up the professional attention-getter's whole day, to say nothing of her poor little dog Onyx who has to rush through her meal outdoors like some sort of ANIMAL.

San Francisco comic Heather Gold played "freak out the neighbors" with her landlady. Cool landlady!

Twitter's Evan Williams tossed a product suggestion at his old employer. The guy does have a track record, Google, although this sounds more like an Odeo than a Blogger.com.

Online brander Damien Basile rushed out a Google Wave/tsunami joke while it was still in good taste.


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<![CDATA[Susan Orlean's Wedding Will Be Twittered]]> Susan Orlean's e-engagement confused us, Steve Krakauer's umbrage perplexed us and Tila Tequila's conversations with underaged boys frightened us. The Twitterati were off kilter.



Steve Krakauer of Mediaite marveled that someone spelled the name of his website wrong. We marvel when anyone manages to spell it right.

UPDATE: The original version of this post mis-spelled Steve Krakauer's name.



The New Yorker's Susan Orlean announced her marriage to Mashable's Pete Cashmore, who will presumably elevate her above her past work as a part-time farmhand.



This is why TheFrisky's Jessica Wakeman can't have nice things.



Tila Tequila welcomes a conversation with your child, however prurient.



Paris Hilton is just fulfilling her moral obligation to entertain you, people. One does not question life advice from Marilyn Monroe. Especially when everything turned out so well for her.



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<![CDATA[Will Sluts Be the End of Twitter?]]> It's an age-old tale: site becomes popular, slags and hags use it for financial gain, the olds get mad. And Twitter is not immune. Thus, Business Week's Sarah Lacy warns the company to clean up its act.

Though she once praised Twitter, Lacy has since become disillusioned by the amount of skin-centric span that's clogging her and her friends' feeds. Yes, there are ways to block the site's cabal of sluts, but Lacy argues it's far too hard, so she's offering Twitter her own advice — and knocks Tila Tequila in the process:

There's no reason why Twitter shouldn't be catching spam, or at least making it easier to report.

Unless, of course, Twitter wants to be the new MySpace (NWS). After all, a lot of that site's early growth came from call girls, strippers, and purveyors of porn. Tila Tequila, who has been pictured in Playboy, Penthouse, and other publications, even got an MTV show out of MySpace.... If Twitter wants growth for the sake of growth, porn will do that.

But knowing the founders, my guess is that the site doesn't want that kind of success. Lewd content helped hobble MySpace's advertising efforts.

With The Olds leading the Twitter revolution, Lacy insists the site do something about this madness or face the consequences. But we say there's a far easier solution: don't "follow" or click on links to people you don't know, especially if they have whorish names like "Kiki" or "Cocoa" or feature pictures of bikini-covered breasts.

Even if Lacy and other worried people do leave the site, it shows no signs of slowing down, especially since a federal judge just launched a page that educates kids on civics and DePaul University is offering a class all about the site. If anything, Lacy's arguments will only help the site: you're nobody until somebody tries to stir up a frenzy of "family values" outrage.

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<![CDATA[Currently Ranking No. 3 in Twitter Trends]]> Everything wrong with Twitter: "Tila Tequila has instructed all her followers to tweet #farts today."

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<![CDATA[MySpace plague Tila Tequila smooches Yahoo CEO spawn]]> What is it, precisely, that is so annoying about the on-off romance between MySpace-MTV fameball Tila Tequila and Courtenay Semel, the daughter of former Yahoo and Warner Bros. bossman Terry Semel?

The dotcom heiress is best known for being Lindsay Lohan's first same-sex fling, before the actress hooked up with Sam Ronson and Semel moved on to Tequila. (She's also got a violent streak, and swears like a venture capitalist!) She showed up at a Los Angeles Borders for a book signing to promote Hooking Up With Tila Tequila. (With that title, shouldn't Semel herself have been the author?)

Socialite Life has a clip that's sure to leave you diabetic. "She's not here to beat up any fans," Tequila explains. "I'm just here to get my book signed," says Semel. Then they coo and hug and kiss, all for the cameras. Interviewed alone, Semel says she attended the event "to support my girlfriend" and that "she couldn't put the book down, for somebody with, like, major ADD problems ..." ADD problems? It's a mystery why her dad never got her a job at Yahoo. She would have fit right in.

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<![CDATA[Tila Tequila switches from Yahoo spawn to Mac guy]]> Promiscuous MySpace friender Tila Tequila recently denied reports that her relationship with Courtenay Semel, the publicly drunken daughter of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, was on the rocks. But The Superficial says the Hollywood Z-lister's shot at girl-on-girl love has ended. Why does she no longer Yahoo?

Gossip column Page Six spotted Tequila "hooking up" with Justin Long, best known for his role as a Mac in Apple commercials, at a Vegas nightclub on Halloween. Will the Mac preference stick? Who knows, but according the a New York Post spy, Long reportedly "asked her [Tequila] to straddle him while making out." What would John Hodgman have to say about this? (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Cirque du Soleil)

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<![CDATA[Ex-Yahoo CEO's daughter: "Google me"]]> Terry Semel, the former Warner Bros. chief who used to run Yahoo, can't catch a break from wild-child daughter Courtenay, who continues to embarrass him. The latest, via celebrity blog TMZ: Testimony from a court case about an incident last August where Courtenay — who's now dating MySpace hottie Tila Tequila — got handcuffed after swearing at Jaroslaw Jarczok, a security guard at Pure, a Las Vegas nightclub. The line that did her in: "Do you even know who I am, f**king idiot?...Google me, you dumb f**k." You would think, if she had any respect for Daddy whatsoever, she'd have told Jarczok to search for her name on Yahoo.

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<![CDATA[Lindsay Lohan denies coke-fueled affair with Terry Semel's daughter]]> Former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel's daughter Courtenay told what reports call a "friend" that she and actress Lindsay Lohan met a party in the summer of 2006 and attending parties together "where they kissed and touched each other in the corner and did lines of cocaine in the toilet." Lohan denies the account: "No, that's not true." The friend says Courtenay thinks the drugs were Lohan's way of coping with a lesbian desires that she feared would ruin her career.

"At the time she was terrified her career would be over if she revealed her sexual tendencies," Courtenay told this "friend," who also says that "Courtenay still can't understand how Lindsay is now so open with [her current live-in girlfriend] Samantha [Ronson]," says the pal. "Every time she sees a picture of them together it kills her." Take heart, Courtenay. Daddy feels the same way about MySpace cuddling up with News Corp. At least you've got Tila Tequila. (Photos by AP and Getty)

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<![CDATA[Terry Semel's daughter arrested after assaulting a security guard in Las Vegas]]> Hollywood C-list scenester Courtenay Semel — former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel's daughter — left Pure nightclub last night with her MySpace and MTV famous girlfriend, the pseudo-bi Tila Tequila. Then she "smacked" a security guard in the back of the head. Security detained Semel until police arrived four hours later and issued her a citation for battery. Where was this kind of feistiness in papa Semel when Google started stomping all over Yahoo?(Photo by Getty)

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<![CDATA[Terry Semel spawn Courtenay dating MySpace star Tila Tequila]]> Plasticly popular MySpace personality Tila Tequila and Courtenay Semel, the daughter of ex-Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, attended a premiere together last night in Los Angeles. There, the pair confirmed a more successful merger than Semel senior ever managed. “I’d seen the show [A Shot at Love] and just needed to meet her and it just happened,” Semel told People magazine. “It’s true what they say about lesbians," said Tequila. "You meet and then the next day you move in together, because I can’t get rid of her. She pretty much lives at my house.” We think this is the only Yahoo-MySpace deal we'll see happen. (Photo by AP/Steinberg)

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<![CDATA[Tila Tequila demands cash or date with Mark Zuckerberg to ditch MySpace for Facebook]]> On the "yellow carpet" at the SpikeTV Guy's Choice Awards, Mahalo Daily host Lon Harris asked Tila Tequila what it would take for Facebook to woo the über-popular MySpace user. "A big fat check," she jokes at first. But after a little prodding, she admits that an appeal to the heart might also work, "if the person or whoever runs it is hot and takes me out on a date." Harris proceeds to explain that 24-year old co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is "pretty hot." He must like guys with long necks and big ears.

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<![CDATA[Defamer's New Media Tuesdays: Bisexual Search Engines And Hollywood Biz Boards]]> Because we here at Defamer are committed to leaving virtually no stone unturned in our efforts to bring you the latest in life-easifying web-based conveniences (so long as that stone is brought to our attention via e-mailed press release), we now pass along two such applications.

First, we have SearchWithTilaTequila.com, described as "a fan-oriented search engine that rewards her fans with very exclusive, limited edition Tila merchandise and prizes." Sure, you might find at first that the Shot At Love star's search client isn't quite as robust as the one you use already: Nine out of ten searches, after all, bring you to the Fox's U-Bet fetishist's MySpace page. Still, if you're looking for the best fake-bisexual-endorsed celebrity search engine currently on the internet, this is probably in the top five or six.

A first look at Variety's new virtual community for Hollywood's unemployeds is after the jump!

The Biz, meanwhile, is a bold new social networking experiment from your friends at Variety: Think Second Life married with the screenwriter-heavy Starbucks at Santa Monica and Bundy. Besides offering helpful dictionary-quality definitions to must-know industry buzzwords like "connect," "careers," and "community," the homepage also offers this enticing promotional copy:

Are you from The Biz? Want to be in The Biz? Or, just love The Biz? Then you need to get in THE BIZ. Simply set up your personal profile and connect with others in the entertainment industry.

What strikes us about that—beyond the fact that if you say the words "The Biz" repeatedly, they quickly lose all sense of meaning and start sounding really weird—is that short of the UTA joblist and the Defamer Job Board (do we still do that? No? OK, then! Moving along), just how badly our community was in need of such a service—if for nothing more than facilitating meet n' greets between industry vets like user XMN3VISNARY, and the legions of aspiring starlets and D-cup-girls hoping to get a foothold into an extremely insular business.

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<![CDATA[Tila Tequila explains why MySpace is still more popular than Facebook]]>

Riding the momentum of her hit single, "Fuck Ya Man," MySpace's most popular member, Tila Tequila has a new hit on her hands. MTV's A Shot At Love, which pits 16 lesbians against 16 men in a contest for Tequila's affections, is now the No. 1 show for its time slot among people ages 18 to 34, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Of course Tequila's been a hit on MySpace for quite some time now; she says she accepts 10,000 to 20,000 friend requests a day. I'm not sure who Facebook's most popular member is — Scoble? I know you just can't wait for the first episode of A Shot At Love With Robert Scoble.

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