Paris Hilton Walks Off ABC News Interview When Told She’s Irrelevant

July 21, 2011 by Hollywoodite

Someone at ABC News is going to be sent a basket of mini-muffins by every person who watched this interview and was tickled by how it turned out. Paris Hilton was on the news show to promote the season finale of her flop reality show. She’d been doing promotion every Tuesday/ Wednesday for the duration of the show, starting before its airing in those weird shots of her wandering around Hollywood clinging onto the arm of Brooke Mueller. It’s all been half-hearted and, after the ladies of The View also failed to kiss her butt, she abandoned her mother on the promotional trail and went at least one week of doing no promotion. It’s basically been the spoiled brat tour. And it’s done nothing for her ratings.

Hilton’s ratings are a flop, her relationship with Cy Waits failed according to Hilton because watching back The World According To Paris made her realise they had no on-screen chemistry – yes, really, that was her reason for dumping a dude after a year. She’s never really snapped by paparazzi agencies; in favour of the Kardashians and even other reality stars like the too-old for those kind shenanigans Jersey Shore cast. She’s pretty much not popular or relevant and she never sold covers the way the Kardashians have. Hilton’s now seen hanging off the arm of her sister in awkwardly-staged paparazzi photos, as though she knows her stock’s waned and all she has left is hedging her bets.

All the ABC News interviewer did was point this out, in the politest of terms. One or two too many times for Hilton’s liking, evidently. She wasn’t happy at the line of questioning and you can practically see her tense up and purse her lips in disapproval. “Do you worry at times that people who have followed in your footsteps like Kim Kardashian are over shadowing you?” asked Dan Harris. “Do you worry about your moment having passed?” Hilton gave a terse “No,” to each question before someone started talking to her off-screen. Asked if she wanted to end it, she rose and walked off seconds later.

It’s a gas, best interview of the year. It’s minutes on end of genuine puzzlement at someone who’s not impressed by her very presence. The entitlement of the reaction is the best thing, right? As though she’s never sat in the company of someone who didn’t aggressively stroke her ego.