Having exhausted all 18 people willing to try out to be her new best friend, Paris Hilton is heading to the U.K. for another chance. Her reality show Paris Hilton's New BFF has been picked up by Britain's ITV2, and will follow Ms. Hilton in the same routine as her U.S. version, but its working title is the acronym-less Paris Hilton's New Best Friend, to factor in the additional second of attention span Europeans have for Hilton.
'Worldwide Entertainment Group, the company behind [National Lampoon's Pledge This! ], is suing [Paris Hilton]for $75,000 because they claim she did not fulfill the "reasonable promotion and publicity" part of her agreement.' [OK!]
Presidential candidate Paris Hilton, who has tried, and failed, to attach herself to nightclubs before, is said to be eying her own venue in Las Vegas. If suspicious reports are to be believed, the only reason she isn't sharing more about her plans is because the venue isn't trademarked yet. Actually, we just checked with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and Shitty Overpriced Nightclub That Will Close Within a Year(tm) is still available.
The spoof ad that Paris Hilton released yesterday, in response to John McCain's comparing the heiress to Barack Obama, was covered far and wide on the blogs. Oh, and on television too! Even Living Lohan viewer Anderson Cooper was on the ball, sharing the spot on CNN (shown here) and ending the segment with, "Paris Hilton, front and center in the Presidential campaign – who woulda thunk-it?" Funny, coming from Mr. Cooper: CONTINUED »
"Miss Hilton was neither asked, nor did she give permission, for the use of her likeness in the ad, and has no further comment," Paris Hilton's rep said in a statement last week.
This week? She has further comment.
(And meanwhile, it wasn't McCain who first compared Obama to Hilton. It was Obama himself, in a 2005 WaPo article.)
Rich white man fight!
Just one day after releasing an attack ad that equates Barack Obama with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears – thus calling the Democratic nominee a vapid celebrity – John McCain has been apprised of the news that Rick Hilton, Paris’ father, is a big donor to his campaign.
Here we go! The latest and greatest Obama attack ad out of John McCain’s camp not only juxtaposes the Democratic nominee with wearying tarts Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, it also resorts to one of the oldest scare tactics in the book: reminding everyone that Obama wants to raise taxes (possibly to fund his wife’s Black Panther arsenal? Nobody knows!).
It’s still only July, kids.
This list of all of Paris Hilton's lies is amusing because, though it chronicles a number of her fibs, it is far from a comprehensive account of all her tall tales. But there is only so much column space in a newspaper gossip column.
Paris Hilton, the most dangerous thing to happen to reality television and the animal kingdom, is P.O.'d over a story that surfaced last week that she tried to buy a new puppy from The Puppy Store in Los Angeles for use in a photo shoot she was en route to, but was refused by a store clerk who was probably wise to her illegal dog owning ways. Page Six reported the professional red carpet walker "went 'ballistic' … She started screaming, 'I love my puppies! I want my baby!'" But it's all untrue, says Ms. Hilton! CONTINUED »
That producers on Paris Hilton: My New BFF had to tell the starlet what to do in front of the cameras shouldn't exactly be news; wasn't this Nicole Richie's role on Simple Life? [P6]
We're gonna go out on a limb and suggest that Angelina Jolie did not agree to have her likeness used in this ad for the Xiomara Coronado Beauty Center, under the tagline, "Nobody is younger than you." Lucky for the client, then, that the spot is circulating in Ecuador, where Angelina might have a harder time enforcing her intellectual property rights.
And the same goes for Paris. And Shakira.
But one thing the ad gets wrong, however, is that these women aren't going to "settle" into their wrinkles and let age creep over them. They're going to Botox their way back to youth.
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The Hottie & The Nottie is out on DVD (didn't it go straight to DVD?), which means it's for public relations firm MRPM to start sending out the marketing materials.
In the bundle we received at Jossip HQ: a copy of the DVD, a "I'm With Hottie" tee, a pin, and, most importantly, a nip of Jack Daniels, which we're gonna need to get through the movie.
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Though an outing in L.A. will attract a crowd of photogs, Paris Hilton must now decamp abroad to draw a paparazzi maelstrom as she did with her presence in Turkey, which had cameramen throwing punching and law enforcement brandishing clubs to calm the uproar. Why all the madness? Paris was there to judge the Miss Turkey 2008 contest. And the girl needs all the paid appearances she can get; Grandpa Barron is donating all but 3 percent of his $2.3 billion to charity.
"I love Africa in general — South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries." — Paris Hilton, when asked what she thought of South Africa. [Sun]
Paris Hilton may be tramping around Africa but that doesn't mean you can't follow her every move. When she's not phoning the paparazzi to let them know her whereabouts, a shot of her schedule will do. [Celebslam]
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