The daily gossip: Lady Gaga and Perez Hilton are having a big fight on Twitter, and more

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last updated 8 January 2015

1. Lady Gaga and Perez Hilton are having a big fight on Twitter

After more than a year with no new songs and relatively little publicity, Lady Gaga dropped her new single "Applause" last week — and wouldn't you know it, she's suddenly engaged in a high-profile Twitter fight! On Sunday, a fan tweeted that gossip columnist Perez Hilton was at Gaga's apartment building, prompting Gaga to reply that the news, if true, was "EXTREMELY EXTREMELY serious." Gaga went on to accuse Hilton of "TRYING TO RENT AN APARTMENT IN MY BUILDING TO STALK ME," prompting Hilton to reply that he was simply on a "day of house hunting with [his] baby boy and [his] mother," and that his proximity to Gaga was just a coincidence. Clearly, this is a dispute that can only be sorted out by a bunch of angry, all-caps public messages. [BuzzFeed]

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Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.

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