She’s been queen of the toy box for nearly 50 years, but now sales of Barbie are taking a bashing. The culprit? The bling-bling Bratz dolls. Margaret Talbot wonders whether we should be worried. Continue reading ›
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Paris Hilton is desperate for a baby - and is convinced she will be a good parent because she owns so many animals. Continue reading ›
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Paris Hilton found herself somewhere she never thought she’d be: Harvard. “Harvard is hot!” exclaimed the 26-year-old celebrity heiress Wednesday as she picked up the Harvard Lampoon humor magazine’s “Woman of the Year” award in front of the Lampoon castle.
“Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine standing here, standing on the steps of the Harvard Lampoon. It’s really exciting and I’ve had such a great time,” said Hilton, who stars as an attractive best friend to an ugly duckling in the film “The Hottie & the Nottie,” which opens Friday. Continue reading ›
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Paris Hilton’s grandfather will hand over 97 per cent of his $2.3 billion fortune to charities when he dies.
Barron Hilton has overlooked his 23 grandchildren - including Paris and sister Nicky - and bequeathed 97 per cent of his estimated $2.3 billion fortune to his father’s charity – the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
In a statement released on Wednesday (26.12.07), the charity’s chief executive officer Steven Hilton commented: “This generous donation means that the work of the foundation will continue and expand for many years to come.”
Barron made an immediate donation of $1.2 billion to the foundation, and the other £1.1 billion will follow upon his death. Some of the money will come from the sale of the Hilton Hotels group - which was founded by Conrad Hilton when he bought a small hotel in Texas in 1919 - to a private equity firm, the Blackstone Group.
According to one recent book about the Hilton family, Barron Hilton has been embarrassed by the behaviour of his socialite granddaughter, who gained notoriety through a homemade sex video and has since served time in prison for violating probation on a driving ban.
Paris, 23, has so far refused to comment on her grandfather’s decision. She is currently enjoying a short break in Hawaii. Meanwhile, Paris has revealed she only has one wish for 2008 – a new man in her life.
Paris – who recently split from pizza delivery boy Alex Vaggo amid claims he was “too shy” – told reporters she wanted “a new boyfriend” when asked about her New Year’s resolutions. - Guardian
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“She arrived in our store at about noon. She was dressed in a black sweatsuit and looked nothing like a celebrity. I thought she was just a typical foreign tourist. But I knew something was going on because there was a guy like a bodyguard walking behind her with a transceiver cord sticking in his ear. Then I realized … that’s Paris Hilton! Her sister, Nikki, was there, too,” a female store clerk who helped with Hilton’s shopping tells Shukan Gendai.
Earlier this month, Paris made her first trip to Japan in two years, accompanied by her younger sister, on the invitation of a Japanese fashion label.
During her spare time, Paris wound up at the Shinjuku outlet of Daikokuya, a pawnshop chain that also sells secondhand luxury items and designer label goods at discount prices. Why the incredibly wealthy Hilton heiress was shopping at the discount pawnshop remains something of a mystery, but she appeared to have enjoyed herself.
“Nikki left pretty quickly, but Paris sauntered round the shop for over an hour and a half, looking really closely at a lot of stuff, picking up bags and looking at herself in the mirror,” the clerk says. “She bought 28 items, apparently taking a fancy to bags from Louis Vuitton and Chanel, but also picking up accessories like earrings.”
Paris’s shopping bill came to about 1.8 million yen, including a 5 percent deduction for consumption tax that she didn’t have to pay as a tourist. After showing Paris the sum, the filthy rich heiress began muttering something to one of her handlers, who appeared to be taking care of her expenses.
“Through an interpreter, the handler told us that Paris really liked our store, that she wanted to buy everything she had selected and that she would come back again the next time she was in Japan if we agreed to give her a discount,” the clerk says.
Haggling is not an accepted Japanese business practice, and store employees were surprised to see a woman with an estimated annual income of 7 million dollars begging for a price cut.
“We told her we’d give her another 5 percent off, as well as the tax reduction we’d already made. I figured I wouldn’t always get a chance to get this close, so I asked her for an autograph.
American socialite Paris Hilton checked out Shanghai fashions, cuddled stuffed pandas and sauntered along the famous Bund waterfront on Thursday while visiting China’s most style-conscious city for the MTV Style awards.
“Shanghai looks like the future!” Hilton said in a news conference at the Hyatt on the waterfront, one of the newest landmarks in a city teeming with new skyscrapers.
The celebrity heiress, author, singer, perfume designer and reality TV star was spending two days touring China’s commercial capital before Friday night’s gala awards for Chinese style and fashion trendsetters.
A visit to the city’s jam-packed Yu Yuan Garden gave her an authentic taste of Shanghai’s juicy steam buns and flower tea and the crowding common in the city of more than 20 million.
But Hilton, unfazed by the throngs of onlookers, carried on with her shopping, pausing to hug an elderly lady and to pose in several dresses by Chinese designer Lu Kun, one of the city’s hottest new fashion stars. - Yahoo UK
Britain’s News Of The World newspaper, have stated Britney, 25, confided to pals that she’s in the final stages of talks with an adoption agency and plans to go ahead with the adoption very soon.
The news of Brits planned adoption comes after Spears former husband, Kevin Federline was awarded full custody of their two sons.
A photographer snapped the Gimme More singer - who still has access to the two boys, enjoying some time with Jayden and Sean at her home in LA on Friday.
Friends of the singer reckon that Britney has elected to adopt the two six-year-old children from China in a frantic bid to fill the void left by losing her sons to K-Fed.
Britney was also banned from driving with the kids in the car after she ran a red light in Hollywood.
And, according to further reports, Britney has also spent $50,000 on arranging her own funeral!
Spears allegedly splashed the cash arranging her funeral because she fears her spiralling lifestyle may lead to an early grave.
Brit’s bizarre purchase has left her friends and family worried that she is becoming increasingly depressed and that her unhealthy lifestyle is taking its toll.
A source close to Britney said: “It doesn’t seem that Britney has thought this through completely. Adoption and a funeral? The two don’t exactly go hand-in-hand.
“Paying for a funeral is a sensible thing to do but not when youre only 25!
“It’s a case of too much, too soon with Britney.
“Not a week goes by without something strange happening to her now. She’s doing herself no favours. - The Sun
