Paris Hilton spends time away from Sex Tape doing Dog Photos

Paris Hilton spends time away from Sex Tape doing Dog Photos Feature Story Paris Hilton spends time away from Sex Tape doing Dog Photos: "Paris Hilton spends time away from Sex Tape doing Dog Photos

Hollywood- Paris Hilton, the infamous Hotel family socialite, actress, and model, posed for recent photos for celebrity photographer Christopher Ameruoso/Stella Pictures, at Hollywood Car Designer George Barris Studios. She is seen with her pet Chihuahua and the brand new Barris Monster Hearse created by George Barris for the new Comedy TV Pilot 'Uncle Davver's Really Scary Movie Show' produced by Wally Wingert. The show comes from some of same people who produced the hit animated comedy TV series 'Family Guy'. The new show is currently being shopped to US and foreign markets and co-stars David Naughton (American Werewolf in London) with Wally Wingert, famed character and voice over artist.

Paris Hilton was seen posing with the dog and the totally customized Barris Monster Hearse. '..with all the controversy and craziness surrounding the recent release of the Paris Hilton sex tape on the internet, I am impressed with the strength and professionalism of Paris Hilton during this photo shoot here at my studios.' stated Barris.

Barris, a world renowned producer and car designer(The Batmobile, The Knightrider Car, Back to The Future Delorean) has invited Hilton to appear in any of his future film & TV productions as well as to model for his new clothing line.' We are all human and when it comes to matters of love and passion, we all have made mistakes' continues Barris."

Living the dreamy future life of 'Simple' girl Paris Hilton: "Living the dreamy future life of 'Simple' girl Paris Hilton

Sure, she's young and spoiled now, but what of the future?

You've seen photos of Paris Hilton in supermarket tabloids and glossy fashion mags. You've seen her on E!'s Celebrities Uncensored leaving parties drunk with smeared makeup. Her Fox TV reality show, The Simple Life, is a big winner in the ratings. At 22, she has nothing else to do.

What will life be like for the hotel heiress during the next 40 years?

Let's speculate."

Free Internet Press | Paris Hilton in Heber Springs, AR: "'Paris in Heber Springs is what Justin Seaman, 15, is saying. 'I was at Country Mart in Heber Springs around 6:30 on the evening of November 21,' said Seaman. 'A white limo pulled up, a window came down and the woman inside the car asked if they served fresh donuts inside the store.' Seaman was already curious who was in the car, even before the donut question was asked. 'I told her yes.'
The woman then told Seaman she was in Arkansas for a reality show being shot called 'The Simple Life'. At this point, Seaman realized who the woman was, Paris Hilton, heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune. Not only was Paris Hilton in the limo, but also, according to Seaman, so was her sister Nicky.
'Paris said they were on their way to Little Rock for something.' She didn't get out of the limo for the donuts, but a traveling companion went inside, according to Seaman.
'Once I made it home, it hit me that I didn't even ask for an autograph,' he said. 'I found a website for Paris and emailed them, telling them what had happened and asked for an autograph.' As of Tuesday of this week, no autograph has arrived, and the story Seaman was able to tell his friends might just have to do. ' "

Jed Leiber Picks Paris Hilton as John Oates' 'It Girl' in Current Video Project: "Jed Leiber Picks Paris Hilton as John Oates' 'It Girl' in Current Video Project
Wednesday December 10, 10:01 am ET
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Over a year ago, before she was a mainstay in the daily media, Paris Hilton was chosen as the it girl for a video for John Oates' (of Hall and Oates) single, aptly titled 'It Girl.' Jed Leiber picked Hilton and recognizing that she was perfect for the part, gave her the starring role in the video. Jed serves as co-writer and co-producer on this, John's current solo album entitled 'Phunk Shui'.

Last October, while casting the 'It Girl' video role, Jed approached Paris Hilton, who had been a regular at the 'Whiskey Bar,' which is located in the Sunset Marquis Hotel where Jed's studio lives and where most of the video was shot. 'While I can't say that I had the foresight to see that Paris was going to have the attention that she has today, I did feel that she was soon to be the girl of the moment, the 'It Girl' if you will. After meeting Paris, I stumbled on some beautiful pictures of her in a magazine, which showed how photogenic and comfortable she was in front of the camera. She fit the role like a glove and we couldn't have found anyone more perfect ... she was just great. Given the current media craze, John and I were both a little cautious about this video being perceived as jumping on the Paris bandwagon, but we decided that her performance and the song really spoke for itself...'
Musician / composer Jed Leiber owns The Studio at the Sunset Marquis Hotel and Villas in West Hollywood, CA, a state-of-the-art music production facility located in a private area of this world-class hotel. Guests of The Studio include: Aerosmith, Mar"

Archives: Story: "Paris Hilton in Heber?
By Louis Short / Sun-Times Staff
Paris in Heber Springs is what Justin Seaman, 15, is saying. 'I was at Country Mart in Heber Springs around 6:30 on the evening of November 21,' said Seaman. 'A white limo pulled up, a window came down and the woman inside the car asked if they served fresh donuts inside the store.' Seaman was already curious who was in the car, even before the donut question was asked. 'I told her yes.'
The woman then told Seaman she was in Arkansas for a reality show being shot called 'The Simple Life'. At this point, Seaman realized who the woman was, Paris Hilton, heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune. Not only was Paris Hilton in the limo, but also, according to Seaman, so was her sister Nicky.
'Paris said they were on their way to Little Rock for something.' She didn't get out of the limo for the donuts, but a traveling companion went inside, according to Seaman.
'Once I made it home, it hit me that I didn't even ask for an autograph,' he said. 'I found a website for Paris and emailed them, telling them what had happened and asked for an autograph.' As of Tuesday of this week, no autograph has arrived, and the story Seaman was able to tell his friends might just have to do."

Yahoo! News - All quiet on Paris front: "All quiet on Paris front!

For a promotional event, Fox's premiere party Tuesday for The Simple Life had an unusual theme: Paris Hilton will be seen and not heard.

The party at the nightspot Bliss marked a public re-emergence of the 22-year-old media magnet. Hilton has shunned publicity appearances, including a guest spot on Late Night With David Letterman (news - Y! TV), since a 3-year-old sex tape of her and then-boyfriend Rick Salomon surfaced last month.
The hotel heiress, who became famous because of her appearances at paparazzi-laden events, posed for pictures but took no questions as she speed-walked the crowded rope line, arm in arm with her father just moments before the reality show's first broadcast.
'She's been very down about' the situation surrounding the tape, said Hilton's aunt, Kyle Richards.
Inside the club, a smiling Paris greeted friend Nicole Richie, 21, her co-star on the Green Acres-style reality series, which follows the two Beverly Hills socialites as they try to survive a month on an Arkansas farm.
The pair sat together in the center of the main room, becoming a show within a show, as photographers and reporters watched"

Yahoo! News - Party On, Paris!: "Party On, Paris!

Elizabeth Snead and Jenny Peters
Fashion Wire Daily - Los Angeles, CA - Two words which have never applied to Paris Hilton? Camera Shy.

Fashion Wire Daily Photo


But socialite and sex video starlet Paris Hilton shunned photographers at the Hollywood party for her new Fox reality show 'The Simple Life.' Seems the infamy she?s earned from that 3-minute 'Best Of' internet sex video starring a naked Paris and her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon has ended her love affair with the lens.
Yes, folks, the debutante designer-clad darling of the red carpets, famous solely for being rich and famous, who has never met a camera she didn?t love, acted downright shy at Bliss restaurant Tuesday night in L.A.
Wearing a politely tailored pink pantsuit, Paris ignored the impatient paparazzi screaming her name and went quickly inside the party on the arm of her protective father, Rick Hilton. 'She?s very upset about this tragedy that?s occurred,' her dad tells press. Is he talking about the video or just the video?s bad lighting?
At the party, the hotel heiress, 22, stayed with her supportive sis Nicky, 20, wearing new subdued brown locks, and her 'Simple' co-star Nicole Richie (daughter of singer Lionel Richie (news)), clad in a sunny yellow strapless frock.
The reality series, from the creators of MTV?s 'Real World', chronicles the two jet-setting babes leaving their lives in the lap of luxury to live a 'simple' life on a Arkansas farm where they milk cows, flip burgers in a fast food restaurant, and, like, gag me with a spoon, "

Yahoo! News - Paris Hilton's 'Simple Life' Debuts Big for Fox

Paris Hilton's 'Simple Life' Debuts Big for Fox

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - You've seen her in magazines, you've seen her at parties, you may even have seen quite a bit of her on the Internet -- but socialite and heiress Paris Hilton had her biggest showing yet on television on Tuesday night.

"The Simple Life," in which Hilton and pal Nicole Richie move to rural Altus, Arkansas to live and work on a farm, was the highest-rated show of the night among teenagers as well as adults ages 18 to 49, two demographics key to advertisers, broadcaster Fox said on Wednesday.


Citing preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research, Fox said the debut of its latest reality series drew an average of 13 million viewers, with a 16 percent share of adults under 50 who were watching TV during the show's 8:30 p.m. time slot.


Hilton, daughter of the famous hotel-owning family, and Richie, daughter of singer Lionel Richie (news), easily beat NBC comedy "The Tracy Morgan Show." The show had its premiere at 8:00 p.m. and immediately followed with a second show opposite "The Simple Life," when it drew 8.83 million average viewers in its premiere and a 10 percent share of the adult under-50 audience.


After a disappointing "sweeps" ratings period in which it finished fourth among the major networks, Fox was counting on "The Simple Life" to tide it and its audience over until the return of "American Idol" early next year.


The show may have been helped by the very public saga of a video tape, making the rounds of the Internet, showing Hilton engaged in various sex acts with ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon.


The second episode of "The Simple Life" is set to run on Wednesday night at 8:30 p.m., where it will face a mix of repeats, news and holiday specials.

New York Post Online Edition: entertainment:

"HELLO, MS. POTTY MOUTH

Paris and Nicole strutted their English language skills at the Billboard Music Awards.
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December 12, 2003 -- OOPS! 'The Simple Life' star Nicole Richie managed to pepper Wednesday's live telecast of the 'Billboard Music Awards' with profanity that Fox's censors weren't fast enough to bleep out.
'They call it the simple life? Have you ever tried to get cow-s*** out of a Prada purse?' Richie wondered, in a scripted presentation while sharing the stage with her co-star, hot-blooded hotel heiress Paris Hilton.
'It's not so f****** simple,' she said, while the audience gasped.
Several of her earlier foul-mouthed phrases were bleeped out.
According to Fox, Richie's cuss words came out so fast that the digital delay used by network censors to bleep out profanity just couldn't keep up with her.
'We experienced a failure in the system designed to prevent such an occurrence and are working to ensure that it does not happen again,' Fox officials said in a statement. "

Fortune.com - Value Driven - Admit It: You, Too, Are Paris Hilton
Admit It: You, Too, Are Paris Hilton
The average American has far more in common with spoiled TV heirs than you might think.
By Geoffrey Colvin


Florida, Nov. 29 (AP)?A mob of shoppers rushing for a sale on DVD players trampled the first woman in line and knocked her unconscious on Friday as they scrambled for the shelves at a Wal-Mart Supercenter.

The woman, Patricia VanLester, had her eye on a $29 DVD player, but when the siren blared at 6 a.m. announcing the start of the post-Thanksgiving sale, VanLester, 41, was knocked to the ground by the frenzy of shoppers behind her....

[The woman's sister] said that some shoppers tried to help VanLester and that one employee helped her reach her sister. But most people just continued their rush for the deals, she said.

"All they cared about was a stupid DVD player," she said.

Maybe you remember Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich's famous prediction in the late 1960s that by now America would be so near starvation that we'd have food riots. The reality is exactly the opposite. We have shopping riots. Instead of panicking as the ultimate necessity of life grows so expensive that no one can afford it, Americans flip out because a product absolutely no one needs is available at a price so low that even a year ago no one would have believed it possible. Food, if anyone still cares, takes a lower proportion of our income than ever before.

By odd coincidence, just as the season of peak acquisitive madness grips the nation, we're being treated to a glut of TV programs about some of America's most revoltingly excessive consumers, our hyperwealthy kids. Rich Girls (MTV) follows a couple of heiresses who embark on buying orgies with the immortal cry "Let's do some damage." In Born Rich (HBO), we meet 21-year-olds who know they need never work a day in their life, and we learn of the wrenching conflicts they face, such as what one girl might have done with the $800 that she dropped in a bar the other night ("I could have bought a dress!"). The Simple Life (Fox) places Paris Hilton (hotel money) and Nicole Richie (daughter of former pop star Lionel Richie) in a tiny Arkansas town so that we can marvel at their cluelessness about real life; Richie, for example, had never pumped gas "because my guard usually does that."

What's your reaction? Laughing? Loathing? Fine?but be careful. Because the truth is, if average Americans of even 30 to 40 years ago could see us today, they'd think we were all spoiled just as rotten as any young Trump, Newhouse, or Bloomberg.

You know it's true. How many televisions do you have? Do you even know? How many channels do you get? Do your kids refuse to watch black-and-white programs? No one had a VCR in 1970. Now 240 million of us do, but VCRs are history now that Wal-Mart is selling DVD players for $29.

If anyone had told you in 1980 that today you'd use a cellphone the size of a cigarette pack to call someone else's cellphone in Sao Paulo?and would complain about the connection?would you have believed him?

How big is your house? The average new house is 34% bigger than it was in 1970. Yet despite that supersizing, more people own their homes today than ever in our history.

No, I'm not overlooking the poor, especially at this time of year. They are indeed always with us, but not the way they used to be. Some 21% of U.S. families were poor in 1960, while in 2001, the latest year for which figures are available, just 10% were. And those official statistics exclude the value of noncash government benefits like food stamps and Medicaid, which didn't exist in 1960. That's why some economists estimate that today's real poverty rate is much less than officially reported, maybe only half.

Malnutrition was still a major concern in the 1960s. Today's crisis is very different?obesity. That's a problem of national excess on an unprecedented scale.

The consumer culture has achieved total victory. We spend more and save less than ever before. We are richer, fatter, and more obsessed by consumption than any people have ever been.

So let's enjoy gawking at the rich kids on television. It really is fun. But let's also confront the new reality: With precious few exceptions (and home videos aside), we are all Paris Hilton.

New Zealand News - NZ - Christmas email with view of Paris Hilton
Christmas email with view of Paris Hilton

12.12.2003


A friendly email newsletter sent to Nelson Rotarians left its editor red-faced when she found it contained a bit more than Christmas cheer.

The newsletter was emailed to about 50 members, reminding them about the upcoming carol service at Nelson's Christ Church Cathedral.

Problems started when the editor decided to add a touch of colour with a picture from the internet of a trio of carol singers.

She did not know the graphic contained a little more colour than she intended: a pornographic video was hidden in the attachment and automatically sent with the email.

Rotarians who clicked on the attachment were treated to a rather explicit three-minute movie.

Rumour has it that the clip starred New York socialite and heir to the Hilton hotel fortune, Paris Hilton.

The editor said she was "absolutely mortified for a couple of hours", but relieved people saw the funny side.

"People have been very very sweet about it," she said.

"They have been ringing me up saying they didn't get the email - and could I send it again."

- NZPA

Paris Hilton, in an Age Beyond Embarrassment (washingtonpost.com)

Paris Hilton, in an Age Beyond Embarrassment

By Tina Brown
Thursday, December 11, 2003; Page C01


The success of society babe Paris Hilton's reality TV show "The Simple Life," hard on the heels of the bootleg porn tape showing her steamily in flagrante delicto with her dirtbag then-boyfriend Rick Solomon, proves once again there is no such thing as bad press. We live in the post-embarrassment age. New promotional and marketing offers are pouring in for Paris, and a sequel (to the Fox series, not the sex tape) is in the works. Today, if some private sex act of yours winds up on the Internet, the only appropriate response is: How did I look?




As image rehab, her publicist Dan Klores shrewdly got Paris onto "Saturday Night Live" last weekend. The guest host was presidential candidate Al Sharpton, who, in the inevitable Michael Jackson skit, at one point played the celebrity lawyer Johnnie Cochran riding a Neverland roller coaster. Surreal? No more so than Gen. Tommy Franks choosing the influential news organ Cigar Aficionado this month to ruminate on America one day winding up under martial law. Everyone has to play his part in the Andy Warhol apocalypse.

Ms. Hilton's skit was a double-entendre exchange with Jimmy Fallon on the "Weekend Update" mock news sequence:

"Is it hard to get into the Paris Hilton?"

"Actually it's a very exclusive hotel, no matter what you've heard."

"Is it roomy?"

"It might be for you."

Ooooh! In her "SNL" dressing room the 22-year-old, dressed in a seven-inch-long bright pink miniskirt, teetered around like a gorgeous extraterrestrial stork. Her skin has the perfectly smooth, honey-colored finish of Scandinavian furniture. She signed an autograph for my 13-year-old daughter on notepaper she produced from her very own baby pink "Hello Kitty" wallet and adorned the envelope with stickers. "You never grow out of 'Hello Kitty,' do you?" she asked me with an adorable, needy smile.

The post-embarrassment age probably became official with Bill Clinton and the Starr report, but the British royal family were the pioneers. The pirated telephone tape of Prince Charles in 1989 telling his mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles, that in the next life he would like to come back as her Tampax was a high-water mark in unlivedownable revelations. Nothing in Princess Diana's "Squiggy" tapes of her love banter with Maj. James Hewitt equaled this indelible image provided by the Heir to the Throne; his mournful jug-eared profile behind the smoked glass of the official car never regained its aloof authority.

Before Monica's blue dress, even something as marginal as a wayward presidential brother could mortify the White House. Billy Carter drank beer and burped. Result: a nation horrified. Roger Clinton snorted and smoked. Result: a nation shocked. Neil Bush romped around with call girls on business trips to Thailand. Result: a nation indifferent.

It was the late Clinton years and the explosion of the Internet that inured us to the daily parlance of traduced intimacy. By the time Monica Lewinsky did her sit-down with Barbara Walters, the only thing we cared about was the color of her lip gloss. (Glaze from the Club Monaco chain, appropriately enough. Every woman I know bought it.)

Four years later, revelation alone is not enough. Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's marital workout raised the bar. There has to be a new angle to satisfy the media maw. In the case of poor Paris Hilton's nude frolics, the angle is class: the defiling of a posh girl (or, "Riding Miss Daisy"), which adds a piquant element of political porn to the grainy videotape. After the Bush administration's gigantic tax bonanza for the super-affluent, perhaps the hoi polloi just want a little payback.

What people don't get about the Hiltons, though, is that while they live in the Waldorf and work the New York social scene, they are more like a moneyed version of a trailer-dwelling circus family than drop-dead socialites. Paris's mother, Kathy Hilton, a former child actress who had a tchotchke shop on the Sunset Strip and sold gewgaws on QVC, colludes with and protects her wild-child girls like an indulgent but shrewd stage mom. There is a lot of love and loyalty, as well as self-promotion and silliness, in the sprawling Hilton clan. This makes them nicer.

Unlike the stuck-up snobs who appear in the MTV series "Rich Girls," Paris comes across as a gentle exhibitionist who is eager to please. This means waking up in full cover-shot makeup and going out with a half-naked behind in freezing weather. Her need for attention is a bit like a souped-up version of Monica Lewinsky, who, lacking skinniness and golden hair extensions, rambles on in this month's GQ about what it's like to live in the lonely aftermath of exposure and innuendo. "Only when you get older can you turn around and think, oh my God, what was I thinking?" she says. "When you come out of college you think you are invincible. Let this be a lesson."

Since the porn tape, Paris too may have a hard time meeting a nice boy when her 15 minutes is up. But she won't have Monica's other difficulty, cash. The new transparency, it seems, applies to sex but not money. There were a lot of red faces in the Hollywood community this week when the Los Angeles Times revealed that charity fundraisers are securing celebrity appearances from stars like Cher, Bill Cosby and Sylvester Stallone with big fat fees and costly merchandise. In the post-embarrassment age, stars are shocked only when you ask them to pay.

NEWS.com.au | Entertainment | Paris shows she's not shy (December 11, 2003): "Paris shows she's not shy
By Toby Forage
December 11, 2003


PARIS HILTON has proved she is far from shy about her boudoir behaviour, filling a recent guest spot on Saturday Night Live with raunchy sexual innuendo.

Paris lip: Paris showed her cheeky side.

Appearing on the Weekend Update segment of the American TV classic - a mock news bulletin with regular cast member Jimmy Fallon - Paris made several cheeky references to her 'reputation', evidence of which has aired on a few computer screens of late thanks to some nifty amateur camera work.
'So, there really is a Paris Hilton,' Fallon said as the pair came back from a clip.
'Yes there is,' Paris replied, flashing Fallon a coy, sideways glance.
After saying he'd like to 'check in to the Paris Hilton', Fallon then asked: 'Is it easy to get into?'
Paris - looking every inch the fantasy newscaster babe in a sexy pink suit - raised the bar but lowered the tone when Fallon asked her about 'space available' and whether he 'would fit in'.
'It might be a bit roomy for, you but for others it's pretty comfortable,' she quipped, which brought raucous laughter from both the studio audience and Fallon alike.
Paris' more legitimate television offering, The Simple Life, debuted in American homes this week in a big way.
More than 13 million people across America tuned in to see the reality-style show that documents a month in the 21-year-old's life posted on an Arkansas farm with pal Nicole Richie, daughter of former Commodores singer Lionel.
However, the show didn't win its primetime slot, beaten by Navy legal drama JAG, which pulled in 1 million more viewers.
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Herald Sun: Porn pays off for Paris Hilton [11dec03]: "Porn pays off for Paris Hilton

11dec03

WHO said porn was a career killer? The suddenly everywhere Paris Hilton is about to become even more omnipresent, reports The New York Post.

Fox is so happy with the runaway success of Hilton's riches-to-rags reality TV show The Simple Life, it's now in talks with her to star in another reality show. Word is Hilton - who became the talk of the town after a sex tape with her ex-boyfriend surfaced - could get up to $US3 million for her next TV foray, but that her comedic costar Nicole Richie is not included.
A family friend said: 'The negotiations have just started. Fox always had a first-look option with Paris for another show and they are picking it up.'
Meanwhile, The Simple Life is so popular (13 million people tuned in), Fox scrounged up some outtakes and has put together a sixth 'bonus' episode to air Dec. 17. "

The Observer | International | Sex video gives Paris Hilton publicity money can't buy
She is a party-loving socialite heiress whose amateur sex video fuelled an internet frenzy and sparked a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the world's most famous hotel-owning family.
But as Paris Hilton pleads her embarrassment and regret at the damage done to the family name, suspicions are growing that the entire episode might have been one giant and well-timed publicity stunt designed to further the career of America's newest celebrity obsession.

The scandal broke just before last week's television premiere of a new reality show starring 22-year-old Hilton, blonde great-granddaughter of hotel empire founder Conrad Hilton, who with her younger sister, Nicky, stands to inherit up to $30 million of the family's estimated $5.2bn fortune.

The Simple Life, in which the pampered Hilton and best friend and fellow 'heirhead' Nicole Richie, daughter of pop star Lionel Richie, swap the Beverly Hills and New York party circuits for 30 days working on an Arkansas farm, was panned by critics yet still attracted 13 million viewers.

'It all seems very convenient and worked just right for her in the run-up to the show,' said Cynthia Cotts, a respected columnist on New York's Village Voice newspaper, which has been following Hilton's rise from obscurity.

'It's impossible to know what drove the release of the sex tape, but I look at who benefits and that's Fox TV and Paris Hilton. Whether she actually came up with this hare-brained scheme herself is irrelevant when you look at the publicity it attracted.'

Excerpts of the grainy three-year-old tape, shot in night-vision and featuring Hilton and former boyfriend Rick Salomon engaged in various sexual acts, became one of the year's hottest internet downloads, despite a deal reached between the Hilton family and porn company Marvad Corp to prevent copies of the 27-minute video being sold commercially.

Hilton's parents, Rick and Kathy, say they will take legal action against anyone seeking to distribute the tape and are in turn being sued for $10 million by Salomon for defamation. He claims that the family and their publicist, Siri Garber, have in effect accused him of rape following suggestions that Hilton was underage or incapacitated when the film was shot.

Those who have seen the tape describe it as average, with notorious radio DJ Howard Stern rating the action as 'four out of 10' at best. The highlight is when Hilton, who is fully aware of the camera's presence, leaps off the bed to answer her mobile telephone.

At first she denied the film's existence, but now says she is upset at the hurt she has caused her family. 'I'm just so embarrassed,' she told this week's Us magazine. 'I don't want to go out any more, I don't want to party. Every time people see me, it's all they'll be able to think about.'

Hilton's stock as a celebrity, however, continues to rise, despite her lack of any discernible talent other than an ability to court the attention of the paparazzi. She and her 20-year-old sister share a permanent suite at the family-owned New York Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and photographs of them at showbiz parties in various states of undress appear regularly in the city's newspapers and magazines.

In The Simple Life, Hilton, who is said to spend $1,000 a month on tanning sessions, admits proudly that she has never had a job. The nearest she has come is bit parts, ironically as a partygoer, in the 2001 film Zoolander and this year's The Cat in the Hat.

New York Post gossip columnist Richard Johnson has been charting Hilton's activities since she hit the East Coast social circuit at the age of 16 and believes she might not be as contrite as she makes out about her role in the sex scandal.

'When people were saying she was devastated by it, I wasn't buying it,' he said. 'It's very difficult to get Paris upset about anything that's written about her, she's very thick-skinned. I don't think this tape thing has slowed her down in the least. If anything, it's had the opposite effect.'