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Paris Hilton would’ve been in Toronto for the Collision conference this week, but like many large events these days, it went virtual because of the coronavirus.
COVID-19 has also meant that Hilton, the world’s highest-paid female DJ, hasn’t been able to play in front of the huge crowds that she’s used to.
She spoke to Yahoo Finance Canada’s Jessy Bains about how she’s been able to keep the music going, and entrepreneurship during the pandemic.
Chef Paris is ready to make her return.
The world fell in love with Paris Hilton’s cooking skills when she unveiled the first episode of her YouTube show “Cooking with Paris” back in January, and since then she’s been busy crafting up some delectable dishes for the series.
The reality star tells PEOPLE that she’s been filming a number of episodes over the past few months. “There’s going to be more coming out very soon,” she says. “The last one I just did was with my sister [Nicky Hilton Rothschild] — we cooked different party hors d’oeuvres like Jell-O shots and nachos.”
And for those of you who would prefer a hardcopy of her recipes — like the “famous lasagna” from the first episode of “Cooking with Paris” — well, you’re in luck. Hilton revealed that she’s also working on her own cookbook. “People will see in the next couple months,” she teases.
In the meantime, fans can try Hilton’s latest masterpiece right on Uber Eats. The heiress dreamed up the “Princess Paris Sliving Burger” with Hunter Pritchett, chef at Atrium restaurant in Los Angeles, for Uber Eats & Off the Menu’s Burger Showdown.
Hilton is one of more than 60 celebrities (including Matthew McConaughey, Shay Mitchell, and Max Greenfield) participating in the virtual celebrity burger competition going on May 28 through May 31. Each star was paired with a restaurant in one of 10 cities to craft up their own custom burger — and whoever’s burger has the most likes and orders will have a donation made in their name to Frontline Foods’ Covid-19 Relief Fund.
Hilton’s Sliving burger, named after her signature slang for slaying and living your best life, is made with Wagyu beef “which makes it taste insane,” she says. It’s topped with melted cheddar cheese, butter lettuce, star-shaped dill pickles, onion rings, a special pink sauce, and honey. Yes, honey.
“There’s just so many different elements to it — it’s just like the perfect burger,” she adds.
For Hilton, putting honey on this burger was a no brainer. “I like honey on most things, actually,” she says. “I make these really amazing turkey sandwiches and I always put honey on the toasted sourdough – that with the mustard makes it taste sweet and sour. It’s just good, so I thought it would be great on the burger, and it’s different than what other people are making.”
Source: people.com
So far, 2020 has made a mockery of our best laid plans, but one activity that will thankfully never be cancelled is binge-watching TV from the privacy of our own homes. Personally, I’ve been reaching back into the archives to knock the classics I’ve never seen off my shameful secret list (*ahem* The Sopranos), or watching nostalgic favourites that will slap till the end of time.
One such masterpiece is The Simple Life, the reality show—which propelled Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie into superstardom—that saw the BFFs holed up in small-town America, working a series of average-Joe jobs for five seasons. During its run from 2003–2007, The Simple Life depicted Hilton and Richie doing a variety of extremely un-socialite-like tasks, from milking cows to working drive-thrus—all the while making us cry-laugh with iconic catchphrases like: “That’s hot” and “Loves it.”
Over a decade after it went off the air, Hilton is still masterminding expressions, her latest being “Sliving”—a mix of “slaying” and “living your best life”—which, incidentally, is a worthy lens to see life under lockdown through. “Sliving is not just going out,” Hilton tells me over the phone from her boyfriend’s house in Malibu. “You can be sliving your best life by just being creative at home.”
Here, the heiress talks all things quarantine, Juicy Couture and more.
How have you been keeping yourself busy over the last few weeks?
I’ve been at home, enjoying time with my boyfriend [Hilton is dating businessman Carter Reum] and my pets, doing a lot of cooking and baking and making art and listening to music. I’ve just been using all this time because I’m so used to travelling and being on planes. I’m never in L.A., I’m never at home so I’ve just been trying to look at the positive of this and being able to be at home and not travel, it’s been nice.
Is the first time you’ve slowed down for a while?
Yes, I have not stopped since I was a teenager.
Have you ever re-watched The Simple Life?
Actually, my boyfriend and I watch it all the time. I love that show, it’s so hilarious. I’ve watched every season like a couple times each. It’s just there’s no reality show like it, it’s so hilarious [and] it’s so fun to watch.
Does the show’s legacy and the fact that it’s still so popular surprise you at all? It’s such a big reference point for so many people.
It makes me feel so happy because I feel like that show [was] the first of its kind and so original. I love that people dress up as Nicole and I for Halloween; and now that [the show’s] streaming, people can easily enjoy it. It just makes me so proud.
It’s such a perfect encapsulation of the time. How did you guys work out the gags? Whose idea was it for you guys to milk cows and work at Sonic [a burger restaurant]?
It was a very small town, so the producers asked the family we were staying with what jobs were available. We’d do whatever job or task we could do; so if the job would entail, you know, working with the cows, that was just part of the job. We’d always make it funny somehow and do something to get in trouble.
So, all that shit-disturbing was straight from the source?
Yes. We were doing our jobs like they told us to but, you know, kind of not doing the job as well. We knew what we were doing, we wanted to make people laugh, we wanted to entertain people.
Full interview: flare.com
Paris Hilton opens up about her life in YouTube doc This Is Paris – a far cry from the “character” that the hotel heiress has been playing for over 15 years in shows such as The Simple Life.
Hilton was at the Winter TCA press tour to discuss the film and it was a relatively frank conversation, one in which she didn’t use her ‘That’s Hot’ catchphrase once.
She told Deadline that it was an “emotional” and “raw” experience. “I’ve never done anything like this in my life,” she said. “In this film I discuss things I’ve never discussed before. I hope that people are going to see who I truly am.”
“It follows me in my real life, everything I’ve done before was me playing a character. I was talking about things that are very hard to talk about. It was an amazing experience but it was very scary. I was freaking out,” she added.
Neither Hilton, nor director Alexandra Dean, who previously directed Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, originally wanted to either be in or direct the doc. Hilton said she was initially very “reluctant” to take the meeting but that it’s a “real film”, handing full control to the filmmakers.
Dean, similarly, didn’t want to follow up her Lamarr film with the story of Paris Hilton. “When I first got the call, I said no. I had grown up in the UK and looking at Paris on the cover of every magazine and I thought she was that original influencer who had brought that influencer world upon us,” she said.
Dean drew comparisons between Lamarr, who was best known for being one of Hollywood’s leading ladies in the 1940s, but was actually an incredibly successful inventor, essentially responsible for the technology that lead to Bluetooth, and Hilton. “I completely did a 180,” she added.
Despite Hilton’s admission that the producers of Fox and E! reality series The Simple Life – it was produced by Bunim/Murray – would engineer that series to show Hilton and Nicole Richie as fish out water, she said it wasn’t a mistake. “I was in on the joke,” she said. “Sometimes it is annoying people assuming I am the blonde airhead that I played on the show, but I like proving people wrong.”
The doc, which is produced by Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman via Industrial Media’s Intellectual Property Corporation banner, launches on YouTube in May.
Source: deadline.com
You could easily label this the decade of the influencer, those YouTube and Instagram stars who make money by selling FaceTuned versions of themselves while hawking face creams, fashion collaborations, protein powder and how-to-improve-your-life seminars. Through their social media posts, they convince thousands or millions of fans and admirers to like what they like and want what they want.
But is all that glitters on the ‘Gram and elsewhere really gold? For answers, I turn to the woman who will likely go down in history for putting the “i” in influencer, and that would be Paris Hilton, the eldest daughter of real estate broker-developer Richard Hilton, and his socialite wife, Kathy.
I visit Hilton at her Beverly Hills home on a quiet, unassuming street last month. Despite having been robbed by the Bling Ring thieves and enduring years of public scrutiny, Hilton, I notice, has left the modern home’s bronze wrought-iron gate wide open, welcoming a revolving door of guests that include a photographer, publicist and large film crew.
Although she was born into the wealthy family behind the Hilton Hotel empire, the 38-year-old became a household name about 15 years ago thanks to her role on one of TV’s first reality shows, “The Simple Life.”
Seated on a metallic couch in her home theater, Hilton is wearing her signature look — one fans have come to know well: a pink velour Juicy Couture jumpsuit with Nike sneakers. Inside the room, there’s a decorative pillow with the words “In Fashion We Trust” and another one that has cherubs covered in sunglasses and tattoos.
Otherwise, the space is barren. It has an emptiness to it. Perhaps that’s because Hilton only spends a handful of days per year in Los Angeles. Or maybe she’s more likely to entertain in her two-story home’s living room, which feels like the lobby of an upscale hotel complete with an image of Marilyn Monroe blowing a bubble by artist Michael Moebius; a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk; large-scale photographs of Hilton; a neon sign that reads: “Life is Beautiful”; and a lineup of colorful gnomes sticking up their middle fingers.
When she’s in town — “which is hardly ever,” she tells me — Hilton mostly stays indoors watching television with her five dogs and two cats. She cooks, paints and creates music in her home recording studio. “Being an Aquarius, I’m creative,” says Hilton, who became known in the 2000s for her sparkly, innately girly fashion — the result of retail therapy, not an image architect.
“I was my own stylist,” she says, explaining she was in the spotlight before the rise of the celebrity stylist and “The Rachel Zoe Project,” which debuted in 2008.
Although Hilton says her “favorite and most iconic pieces” were stolen by the Bling Ring, as depicted in director Sofia Coppola’s 2013 film, she keeps the remainder of her designer goods locked away in storage. “I save a lot of pieces for when I have daughters one day,” she says. “I know that they’ll love them. So I have this whole area for my daughters — where all of that is waiting.”
During our chat, her teacup Chihuahua, Diamond Baby, is perched on her lap. This pint-sized pup fills the void left after Hilton’s beloved dog, Tinkerbell, died in 2015. Tinkerbell was often seen with Hilton and appeared on “The Simple Life.” That show, which arrived long before “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” or any of “The Real Housewives” series, is how millions of viewers got to know Hilton — well, the version of herself that she says she created for the cameras.
Full interview: latimes.com
