Time Bringing Donatella, Colin Firth, Bloomberg Toting Perez, L.C. To White House Correspondents' Dinner

Women's Wear Daily's Stephanie D. Smith reports that Time will bring Donatella Versace and Colin Firth, among other celebrities, to the White House Correspondents Dinner later this month:

Donatella Versace and her close friend, Rupert Everett, will be the dinner companions on April 26 of their host Time Style & Design editor Kate Betts, as well as Time managing editor Rick Stengel. Time recently interviewed Versace for its "10 Questions" column in the weekly edition. No word as to whether Versace will dress either Stengel or Betts for the event. But what once was a relatively staid evening for the White House Press corps and D.C. politicos clearly has turned into the journalistic equivalent of the Oscars: Instead of simply going for a Washington VIP, Time will also host Colin Firth and his wife, Livia, and actors Jamie Hector, Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Sonja Sohn from HBO's "The Wire."

Life & Style Weekly reports that the Bloomberg Network has invited star blogger Perez Hilton, as well as other young members of the Hollywood scene:

"I'm a guest of the Bloomberg Network," Perez tells Life & Style exclusively. "D.C. should fear me because I speak the truth unlike a lot of politicians. That scares a lot of people. But I've been writing a lot about politics lately on my site, so it should be fun."

One person in particular that might want to beware? The President! "I would tell President Bush...."'Good job! Good job getting us into this recession!'"

Also rumored to be sitting with Perez at his table is "The Soup" host Joel McHale, as well as "The Hills" star Lauren Conrad. "An eclectic group of people always go," says Perez.

Comments

[verlaine]

The White House Correspondents Dinner is a giant load of crap and should be cancelled for good.

Journalists with an ounce of self respect would know better than to spend an evening yukking it up with Bush and his cronies who played the White House Correspondents like a bunch of knucleheads by lying and deceiving them about the Iraq war and the war on terror.

Washington journalists need to stop playing the role of lapdogs and start playing the role of watchdogs

[verlaine]

The White House Correspondents Dinner is a giant load of crap and should be discontinued for good.

The idea of these lackey, bootlicking journalists yukking it up with Bush and his cronies after 8 years of lies and distortions is nauseating and disgusting.

This Dinner is perfect evidence of how gutless, craven, and self-loathing these hack journalists are.

[JScott]

Wow getting more D list and less celebs to this.
Next maybe 'normal everyday folk' (like politicos constituents and those who consume the media)
might get to attend....­.........


Like me

But then again I probably wouldn't go, unless the food is REALLY REALLY good.

[Malarcus]

Perez Hilton to attend a White House press corps dinner? Huh.

Like Joel McHale said during last week's The Soup: "There have been so many signs of the apocalypse that I'm beginning to think it will never come."

[LeftCoastLefty]

mmmmmmm...­.Colin Firth.....­..

If he does something spectacular at that dinner (for example bouncing a dinner roll off the side of W's head from across the room) I'll be completely in love. I'll have to quit my job, leave my husband and spend all day every day attending to my fantasy love affair with him.

[rbspickles]

Is this really a woman? And a fasion mogul? Whoa.

[trinity]

Goodness..­.can Donatella possibly have any more plastic surgery done?

[ObamaEdwards]

Yes. She's having a hinge installed in her jaw so she can open her mouth wide enough to bite off the heads of younger designers.

[rzan]

That's what she looks like with plastic surgery? She is absolutely hideous.