She’s blonde, she’s hot and she wants your vote: Paris Hilton for president?
The American hotel heiress has thrown her bikini into the presidential campaign with a video in which she declares she's "like, totally ready to lead."
Barack just another Britney?
Analysis: an advert for misjudgment
In the clip, posted on the website www.funnyordie.com, Ms Hilton reclines on a poolside sun lounge dressed in a barely-there leopard print bathing suit and gold stilettos, and promises that, if elected, she will paint the White House pink.
The video is a spoof of John McCain's 'celebrity' advertisement released last week in which the Republican candidate compared Barack Obama's popularity with that of Ms Hilton and claimed the Democrat was no more than a celebrity candidate who was not ready to lead the nation.
In Ms Hilton's version of the advertisement, she tells electors: "Hey America, I'm Paris Hilton and I'm a celebrity too. Only I'm not from the olden days and I'm not promising change like that other guy. I'm just hot!”
Between flipping pages of a travel magazine, the 27-year-old socialite adds: "But then that wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means I'm running for president. So thanks for the endorsement white-haired dude, and I want America to know I'm, like, totally ready to lead."
Ms Hilton then offers a bumbling alternative US energy strategy, suggesting that she plans to combine elements from Mr McCain and Democratic rival Mr Obama's policy platforms.
"We can do limited offshore drilling with strict environmental oversight while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars. ... Energy crisis solved, I'll see you at the debates, bitches!"
Ms Hilton then signs off the ad by declaring that she is considering pop singer Rihanna as her vice-presidential running mate.
"I'll see you at the White House," Ms Hilton says. "Oh, and I might paint it pink. Bye.”
In just four hours since the spoof video was broadcast on the website, it had already been viewed by almost 600,000 people.
Funnyordie.com contributors Adam McKay and Chris Henchy pitched the idea of the video to Ms Hilton after the McCain ads were debated around the world.
"She got it that the McCain thing was a low blow," McKay told AFP. "And she felt she didn't want to return it with angry fire, and that this was the best way to respond. It's a playful jab."
Mr Henchy and Mr McKay both believe Ms Hilton is more intelligent than her tabloid persona lets on.
Barack just another Britney?
Analysis: an advert for misjudgment
"She's a lot smarter than people give her credit for," Mr Henchy said.
McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds said Ms Hilton appears to support his candidate's energy solution.
“Paris Hilton might not be as big a celebrity as Barack Obama, but she obviously has a better energy plan,” Mr Bounds said.
This week Ms Hilton's mother Kathy, who with her husband donated $4,600 to McCain's campaign earlier in the year, said the McCain 'celebrity' ad is: “a complete waste of the country's time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs”.
Ms Hilton is the great-grand daughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of the eponymous hotel chain.
She came to fame in 2003 when an ex-boyfriend leaked a sex tape onto the internet and has since starred in critically panned films, released an album and made millions from merchandise including a perfume range.
A perennial favourite of the paparazzi, Hilton was jailed last year for 23 days for violating probation over an alcohol-related reckless driving conviction. Her arrest, imprisonment and subsequent release made headlines around the world.
Upon her release the world’s most famous socialite turned to religion, vowed to change her ways and “leave a mark on the world”. This week she is in Denmark promoting her latest handbag range, aptly named ‘Confidence’.
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This auberge with Art Deco-style interiors is 10 minutes' airing from the Champs-Élysées and is home to a accepted bar overlooking the Rue de Courcelles.
Relax with an indulgent spa treatment, plan out in the exercise allowance or airing through the Andalusian patio garden. Dine alfresco at Le Safran or adore drinks in the Art Deco-style Purple bar.
The auberge is 20 minutes' drive from the Eurostar terminal at Gare du Nord.
General
Parking, Restaurant, Pets Allowed, Bar, 24-Hour Front Desk, Newspapers, Garden, Terrace, Non-Smoking Rooms, Rooms/Facilities for Disabled Guests, Elevator, Express Check-In/Check-Out, Safety Drop Box, Valet Parking, Soundproofed Rooms, Design Hotel, Luggage Storage, Airconditioning.
Activities
Sauna, Fitness Centre, Spa & Wellness Centre.
Services
Room Service, Meeting/Banquet Facilities, Business Centre, Babysitting/Child Services, Laundry, Dry Cleaning, Breakfast in the Room, Ironing Service, Internet Services, Currency Exchange, Shoe Shine, Car Rental, Fax/Photocopying, Wi-Fi/Wireless LAN.
Room information
The Art Deco-style apartment admeasurement 30m² and accept accelerated internet access. The ablaze and aerial apartment accept large, aperture windows. Wrap up in a creamy bathrobe and slippers to adore on-demand movies and video games, or bolt up on plan at the desk.
Food & beverage
Velvet armchairs and a atramentous granite adornment complete the Art Deco appearance of this Paris restaurant with 3 terraces. Adore all-embracing cuisine with an Asian twist, and the restaurant's own baptize and wine label.
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Travel information
By Car:
Take the artery A1, A6, A10, A11, A13, A14 administration Paris
Exit at Porte de la Chapelle, d’ Orleans, de Bercy
West Peripherique
Exit at Porte Maillot to Arch de Triumph
Take a appropriate at Courcelles Street
By Train:
From Montparnasse Train Station: Metro 13 Montparnasse – Bienvenue to St. Lazare et Metro 3 St. Lazare to Pereire.
From St. Lazare Train Station: Metro 3 St. Lazare to Pereire.
From North Train Station: RER E Magenta to St. Lazare and Metro 3 St. Lazare to Pereire
From East Train Station: RER E Magenta to St. Lazare and Metro 3 St. Lazare to Pereire
From Lyon Train Station: Metro 14 Gare de Lyon to St. Lazare and Metro 3 St. Lazare to Pereire.
From Austerlitz Train Station: RER C Gare d’Austerlitz to Pereire
By Metro:
Line 3 - Pereire Station
By Plane:
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport : Artery A1 to Porte de la Chapelle, Peripherique West to Porte Maillot, up to Arc du Triomphe, down Avenue Hoche, accomplish a appropriate on Courcelles. Auberge is 100m on the right.
Paris Orly Airport:
Highway A6 to Porte d'Orleans, Peripherique West to Porte Maillot, up to Arc du Triomphe, down Avenue Courcelles, Auberge is 100m on the right.
Hotel Policies
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14:00 hours
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Cancellation Policy: If annulled or adapted up to 1 day afore the date of arrival, no fee will be charged.
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Children and Added Bed Policy: All accouchement are welcome.
All accouchement beneath 12 years break chargeless of allegation if application absolute bedding.
All accouchement beneath 2 years break chargeless of allegation for cots.
There is no accommodation for added beds in the room.
Maximum accommodation of babycots in a allowance is 1.
Deposit Policy: No drop will be charged.
VAT and city/tourist taxes: VAT is included.
Service allegation is included.
City/tourist tax is included.
Internet: Wired internet is accessible in the auberge apartment and costs EUR 9.00 per hour.
Wireless internet is accessible in the absolute auberge and accuse are applicable.
Meal Plan: Continental breakfast costs EUR 22.00 per person.
Buffet breakfast costs EUR 33.00 per person.
Parking: Private parking is accessible on website and costs EUR 35.00 per day.
Pets: Pets are accustomed on request. No added charges.
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Paris Hilton is accepted for her actualization on the television alternation The Simple Life, her several accessory blur roles (most conspicuously her role in the abhorrence blur Abode of Wax in 2005), her 2004 tongue-in-cheek autobiography, her 2006 anthology Paris, her plan in modeling, and her actualization in a sex band in 2003. As a aftereffect of several acknowledged incidents, Hilton aswell served a broadly publicized book in a Los Angeles County bastille ability in 2007.
Early activity and background
Born in New York City, Hilton is the oldest of four accouchement of Richard and Kathy Hilton (née Avanzino). She has a sister, Nicky, and brothers, Barron and Conrad.
On the affectionate ancillary of her family, she is a niece of two adolescent stars of the 1970s, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards. Hilton was accompanying by alliance to Nicole Richie's godmother, Nancy Davis, if Nancy's brother, Greg, was affiliated to Kim Richards.
Hilton's benevolent grandparents are auberge administrator Barron Hilton, and his wife, the above Marilyn Hawley; Barron Hilton's parents were Hilton Hotels architect Conrad Hilton and his aboriginal wife, Mary Barron.
Hilton confused amid several absolute homes in her youth, including a apartment in the Waldorf-Astoria Auberge in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. She abounding her apprentice year of top academy at the Marywood-Palm Valley Academy in Rancho Mirage, California and again the Dwight Academy in New York for her green and inferior years. She was again transferred to the Canterbury School, in New Milford, Connecticut area she was a affiliate of the hockey team. However, in aboriginal 1999, she was expelled for actionable the academy rules.
In December 2007, Hilton's grandfathering Barron Hilton apprenticed 97 percent of his acreage to a accommodating alignment founded by his father, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. An actual agreement of $1.2 billion was made, with a added $1.1 billion due afterwards his death. He cited his father's accomplishments as the action for his pledge. According to reports, the abeyant bequest of his grandchildren is acutely diminished.
Career
Hilton has formed as a model, actress, musician, and affianced in ancient business pursuits. According to Forbes Magazine, she becoming about $2 actor in 2003–2004, $6.5 actor in 2004–2005, and $7 actor in 2005–2006.
As a model
Hilton began clay as a child, initially at alms events. If she was 19, she active with Donald Trump's clay agency, T Management. Hilton has aswell formed with Ford Models in New York, Models 1 Bureau in London, Nous Archetypal Management in Los Angeles, and Premier Archetypal Management in London. She has appeared in abundant commercial campaigns, including Iceberg Vodka, GUESS, Tommy Hilfiger, Christian Dior, and Marciano. In 2001, Hilton began to beforehand a acceptability as a socialite, getting articular as "New York's arch It Girl" whose acclaim was alpha to "extend above the New York tabloids". She has appeared in several magazines, including the April 2004 affair of Maxim.
As an actress
Film
Hilton has fabricated adornment appearances in several films, conspicuously Zoolander (2001), Wonderland (2003), and The Cat In The Hat (2003). She landed accessory and acknowledging roles in the affection films Nine Lives (2002), Raising Helen (2004), The Hillz (2004), and Abode of Wax (2005). Her role as Paige Edwards in Abode of Wax won the Teen Choice Award for "Best Scream" and becoming her a choice for "Choice Breakout Performance – Female". (It aswell won her the 2005 Razzie for "Worst Acknowledging Actress" at the 2005 Golden Raspberry Awards.) She aswell becoming a choice for "Best Frightened Performance" at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards. She landed her aboriginal beforehand roles in 2006 with the straight-to-DVD releases National Lampoon's Agreement This! and Bottoms Up. She plays the Hottie in a adventurous ball alleged The Hottie and the Nottie, appear in 2008. As of August 2007, Hilton is allotment of the casting of Repo! the Genetic Opera, which began filming in September 2007.
Television
Hilton co-starred with Nicole Richie in the Fox absoluteness alternation The Simple Life, which premiered on December 2, 2003. The Simple Activity ran for three seasons on Fox. The appearance was annulled by Fox afterwards a altercation amid Hilton and Richie, but it was afterwards aired by E! Entertainment Television for the fourth and fifth seasons. Despite talks of a sixth season, the alternation accomplished its run at the end of the fifth season. In March 2008, it was appear that Hilton would brilliant in a new MTV absoluteness alternation tentatively blue-blooded "Paris Hilton's My New BFF", about her searching for a new best friend. The alternation is to run for ten episodes from October to December, 2008.
Hilton has aswell guest-starred in episodes of The O.C., The George Lopez Show, Las Vegas, American Dreams and Veronica Mars. Furthermore, she appeared in several music videos, including "It Girl" by John Oates and "Just Lose It" by Eminem. Planning is underway for an eponymous animation alternation afterward the activated activity of Hilton, her sister Nicky, and her dog Tinkerbell. , which began filming in September 2007. In April 2008, she bedfellow starred on the My Name is Earl adventure I Won't Die with a Little Help from My Friends.
As a recording artist
Further information: Almsman Records and Paris (Paris Hilton album)
Hilton founded Almsman Records, a sub-label of Warner Bros. Records, in 2004 and appear her self-titled admission album, Paris, beneath that characterization on August 22, 2006. Although the anthology accomplished amount six on the Billboard 200 for a week, its absolute sales aggregate has been low. Allmusic commented that the anthology was "more fun than annihilation appear by Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson, and a lot fresher, too." On the whole, analytical accession was mixed. On July 16, 2007 Hilton accepted that she was alive on a new anthology with ambassador Scott Storch. In a contempo account with MTV, Hilton absitively that her additional anthology is traveling to be a ball album. She declared that she "loves Bob Sinclair" and wants to actualize dance-music vibe. Hilton has installed a able recording flat in her abode to plan on the album. At a accommodated and accost in Montreal, Hilton declared that her anthology is to be appear ancient in 2008.
As an author
Further information: Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose and Your Almsman Diary: Confess It All to Me
In the autumn of 2004, Hilton appear an autobiographical book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, co-written by Merle Ginsberg, which includes abounding blush photographs of her and her admonition on activity as an heiress. Hilton reportedly accustomed a $100,000 beforehand transaction for this book. Some in the media panned the autograph as amateurish, and the book was parodied by Robert Mundell on The Late Appearance with David Letterman. The book became a New York Times bestseller. Hilton followed it up with a artist diary, aswell with Ginsberg, alleged Your Almsman Diary: Confess It All to Me.
Activism
In 2007, afterwards watching a clear video about animals aloft for their fur, Hilton appear her abutment of vegetarianism and her action to cutting fur. Hilton said:
“ From that point [after witnessing the video apparent by Heather Mills], I've never beat fur and I never will. I aswell haven't eaten any meat since....I was grossed out. It was disgusting. ”
2008 McCain attack parody
Video: Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad:
Paris Hilton mocks John McCain presidential adOn August 6, 2008, Paris appeared in a 1 minute 50 additional continued viral video, "Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad", directed by Adam McKay and acquaint on the Funny or Die website.
The video featured Paris in a apology advertisement, and was fabricated in acknowledgment to a television attack advert "Celeb", advertisement in 11 US states by the 2008 John McCain presidential campaign. In Celeb, McCain briefly compared his battling Barack Obama to that of celebrities such as Paris and Britney Spears, and goes on to catechism his address to advance and criticise his activity policy.
The Funny or Die video
In what The Washington Post opined "might just be her best acting role yet," Hilton appears cutting a bobcat book swimsuit. She starts out by suggesting that her claimed acknowledgment by McCain agency that she have to now be a applicant in the presidential race, and goes on to apish McCain, and appraisal the accepted qualities and affairs of a celebity in allegory to that of a US president. In a 30 additional segment, in the appearance of an bookish speaker, Paris compares and contrasts the behavior of McCain and Obama for analytic the US activity crisis, and goes on to adduce a 'compromise solution' accumulation elements of both.
The video accustomed 7 actor angle in two canicule accumulation common columnist coverage, and drew both accounting and exact media acknowledgment from both campaigns. The claim and drawbacks of the 'Paris accommodation solution' with attention to activity policy, as able-bodied as its adverse to the adversarial political campaigns, generated assorted comments from US political commentators, as able-bodied as Apostle of the House Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Michael Burgess.
New Video Oct 2008
Paris Hilton Gets Presidential with Martin SheenParis seeks the admonition of the a lot of admired affected admiral of our generation.
Paris Hilton has thrown her hat into the presidential ring, promising to take on that old "wrinkly, white-haired guy" and paint the White House pink if elected.
In a spoof campaign ad featured on the Web site Funny Or Die, Hilton delivered a tart response to John McCain's recent attack ad, in which he dismissed Obama as just another vapid celebrity like Paris Hilton.
The ad calls McCain "the oldest celebrity in the world, like super-old. Old enough to remember when dancing was a sin and beer was served in a bucket."
While reclining on a chair in a skimpy bathing costume and gold stilettos, the 27-year-old celebutante announced her presidential ambitions:
"Hey America, I'm Paris Hilton and I'm a celebrity, too. Only I'm not from the olden days and I'm not promising change like that other guy. I'm just hot. But then that wrinkly, white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means I'm running for president. So thanks for the endorsement white-haired dude.
"I want America to know that I'm, like, totally ready to lead," she says. (Watch Paris Hilton's campaign video)
She then went on to detail her plan to solve the energy crisis:
"We could do limited offshore drilling with strict environmental oversight, while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars," Hilton says. "That way the offshore drilling carries us until new technologies kick in which will then create new jobs and energy independence.
"Energy crisis solved! I'll see you at the debates, bitches!"
She signed off by saying she was considering tapping singer-songwriter Rihanna as her vice president.
"I'll see you at the White House," Hilton adds. "Oh, and I might paint it pink. Bye!" (Watch Hilton's campaign video)
Here's how the McCain campaign responded: "It sounds like Paris Hilton supports John McCain's 'all of the above' approach to America’s energy crisis -- including both alternatives and drilling. Paris Hilton might not be as big a celebrity as Barack Obama, but she obviously has a better energy plan."
And the Obama campaign's official response: "Whatever."
Paris Hilton is following advice from sister Nicky by looking for a boyfriend with a “normal job”.
Nicky told Hollyscoop that Paris needs to find a boyfriend “who is normal and has a normal job. Who does not want the spotlight”. “That’s what she needs,” she said.
Paris posted Nicky’s words on Twitter and wrote: “I agree.”
The sisters are apparently planning to get out of the Los Angeles scene to spend some time relaxing at their place in the Hamptons.
Sources: Hollyscoop & AP
