Spare Us The BF, Paris

August 24, 2008

Some people have a hard time making friends. And other people have a hard time making money. Paris Hilton, it seems, doesn't have a hard time making either because she tends to combine the two. Remember a little reality show called "The Simple Life" where she and her fellow poverty challenged "bestie" Nicole Richie toured America living with simple folk who taught them to milk cows and plant crops and work at ice-cream parlours, all of which both girls did with typical incompetency for our viewing pleasure?

Well, that was Hilton at her best. Since then, all she's managed is to fall out with Nicole, launch a perfume no one remembers, go to jail, make an album no one remembers and get photographed a lot with a disturbingly small dog in her handbag outside various LA nightspots. All of which has certainly kept her in the limelight, but it isn't really Paris doing what Paris does best.

So now Nicole has moved on, she's had to find a new vehicle for her talents not to mention a new BF, and with typical ingenuity she has combined the two and come up with a reality show called Paris Hilton's New Best Friend.

This revolves around a number of wannabes all living in a house together and competing to become the socialite's new new bosom buddy. All well and good, but the really worrying news came in the form of an announcement that Hilton will be doing a new British version of the show.

This is not good news, because if Paris is coming to London, Paris is "exporting" her friendship formula. And this means no one is safe. Not even us. Actually, that sort of fluffy friendship probably wouldn't be so bad in bleak times like these. Maybe, as a nation, we should put ourselves forward -- it can't hurt to make new best friends.

From-http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/spare-us-the-bf-paris-1462260.html