Paris Hilton had no less than 85,000 wannabes try out to be her new lap dog/sidekick/best friend. What do you have to do to win a place on the reality show? Have a hair color that flatters Paris?
About 85,000 people are seeking a chance to become Paris Hilton’s new sidekick on the hotel heiress’s new reality television show, I Wanna Be Paris’ New Best Friend, People magazine reported today.
Only 20 people out of the 85,000 will make it as finalists on the MTV show after being chosen by web surfers on the site ParisBFF.com.
The contestants will have to overcome a series of tests before Hilton decides who deserves to be the 27-year-old starlet’s new BFF, or “best friend forever.”
I kind of doubt that Paris will stay friends with the unfortunate girl (or boy) for long, because she doesn’t seem to understand why they want to be her friend. It’s for the fame and glory! Paris has this to say about how hard it is for her to meet genuine people.
“It is hard meeting new people. Most of my friends I’ve had my entire life, like obviously my sister and Nicole Richie have been with me forever. So when I meet new people, I’m always a little wary of the reason they may want to become my friend. I can usually just tell by when we’re out in public and there’s paparazzi around, I see, you know, who gets a little bit too excited or whatever. I can tell how those people are.”
Paris, who apparently puts on her dumb blond persona for entertainment, says that she doesn’t want a friend who is only with her for the publicity, but is auditioning friends to be on a television show with her. How long do you think it will take for her to boot her new sidekick to the curb? I give it about 45 minutes after filming.
Picture note by Celebitchy: Paris Hilton and Benji Madden are shown outside a medical center on Friday. Please don’t let her be pregnant! Thanks to WENN.
Never a terrorist with a bomb strapped to his chest when you REALLY need one, is there?
*LOL* you are so right Sasha!
So what happened to the piece of news that you guys at CB had a few weeks back, where only 40 or so people showed up at that sad audition? I think 85,000 is a little much. MTV added 3 zeroes to that number if you ask me.
Every week, I promise myself I won’t comment or read a Paris post again and almost every week, I am foresworn. She is just so mesmerizingly stupid and vapid, I just can’t help but point that out, again and again and again, even though we all already know it. I can’t wait for her to become old and uglier.
While I’m glad that Dick Cheney won the Root of All Evil battle against Paris, she does make a very very close second… 👿
Every tom, dick and harry modeling and talent agent sent their little wannabe to that audition. That’s the only way you go from 40 people to 65,000.
Being friends with Hilton, not so appealing. 😯
Getting your big break by giving some skanky, bird beaked, wonky eyed, yeti pawed heiress a black eye?
Where do I sign up??? 😆 😆 😆
LOL is right. If MTV advertised for applicants for a reality show on walking dogs, 850,000 people (10 times the number that applied for Hilton’s stupid show), would apply just for the MTV exposure — probably a lot more. Those 40 “finalists” were pretty sorry examples of humanity. Doesn’t say much for Hilton, but then again, what does?
And all 40 of them could be housed in just one of her shoes…
I read that headline as “$85,000 auditions…” and thought, “It hasn’t got a chance in hell. Paris would never be friends with anything less than $2 million.”
yep, when you can’t meet genuine down-to-earth people who just like the real you and not the fame and glory and riches that are you, televize a reality show on your search for a true friend, that’ll really draw the genuine down-to-earth-non-fame-whores. as if. 🙄