The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists

Read about the leaders, artists, enterpreneurs and thinkers who, in your opinion, deserve a spot on this year's TIME 100 —Scott Brown and Michelle Kung

PEREZ HILTON

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AGE: 30
OCCUPATION: Star-stalking blogger turned demi-celebrity
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1

PRO: His raucous, bitchy celebri-blog continues to be a mainstay of the New Voyeurism, despite all the slings, arrows and lawsuits of Perez haters. And he was the first to report Castro's death: who says he's not a journalist?

CON: Castro's not dead. Whoops. Also, those Perez haters include the paparazzi he needs to survive — they want proper compensation for use of their snaps. What, fame isn't enough for them?

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