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The US blogger Perez Hilton is in a “serious but stable” condition after being admitted to hospital, according to his family.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to his Miami home on Tuesday after members of the public reported concerns while watching a TikTok livestream. <\/p>\n

The Miami sheriff’s office confirmed they attended a scene of a man “livestreaming acts of self-harm” on Tuesday. They did not confirm his name but said the man was alone in the house at the time.<\/p>\n

A statement released on the 48-year-old’s website said he “experienced significant blood loss” and his treatment and recovery would be a “long process”.<\/p>\n

If you are affected by any of the issues in this story, help and support is available at BBC Action Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The statement, external<\/a> said Hilton was being held in hospital under Florida’s Baker Act, which focuses on providing services for people experiencing a mental health crisis.<\/p>\n

The father-of-three, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, is expected to have surgery in the coming days. <\/p>\n

A TikTok spokesman said its automated moderation systems flagged the livestream within minutes to the company’s US moderation team for review.<\/p>\n

A moderator error caused a delay in the removal, TikTok said, but the company alerted law enforcement to the situation, closed several subsequent streams within 90 seconds, and banned the account.<\/p>\n

The pseudonym Perez Hilton is a reference to Paris Hilton who was at the height of her fame when the celebrity gossip blog was launched in 2005. <\/p>\n

The website would go on to attract 8 million hits a day at a time when the internet was still in its relative infancy. It was criticised for vicious commentary of stars including Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga.<\/p>\n

In later years, Hilton admitted having regrets<\/a> about being “mean or cruel”. <\/p>\n

He has also appeared on reality TV shows including Celebrity Rap Superstar and Celebrity Big Brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US blogger Perez Hilton is in a “serious but stable” condition after being admitted to hospital, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-732253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}