Media circus awaits Paris’ release

LOS ANGELES – Sick and tired of hearing about Paris Hilton? Then pack your suitcase and head for a desert island because America’s most famous celebrity inmate is about to be a free woman again.

After a brief lull in headlines following her early release and dramatic re-imprisonment on June 8, the media circus that surrounds Hilton will hurtle into overdrive once more when inmate 9818783 is released today. Hilton, a one-woman pop culture phenomenon, said in an interview from behind bars at the Los Angeles Century Regional Detention Facility this week that she will emerge from incarceration a changed woman.”I just can’t wait to see my family and have a nice meal and be in my own bed and appreciate all the things I took for granted and never really thought much about,” she told the E! News entertainment television show.”In a way, I’m really glad this happened because it changed my life forever,” said Hilton, who was jailed for violating probation in an alcohol-related driving offence.”I just realise that the media used me to make fun of and be mean about.Frankly, I’m sick of it.I want to use my fame in a good way.”But whether Hilton’s desire for a more simple life will lead to fewer appearances in the media spotlight remains doubtful, experts say.”If you want to not hear about Paris Hilton then you should try and find the island where those people on the television show ‘Lost’ are trapped,” said Robert Thompson, a professor in pop culture at the University of Syracuse CNN television confirmed Saturday that its veteran newsman Larry King had won the race to secure the first Hilton post-prison interview.Nampa-AFPHilton, a one-woman pop culture phenomenon, said in an interview from behind bars at the Los Angeles Century Regional Detention Facility this week that she will emerge from incarceration a changed woman.”I just can’t wait to see my family and have a nice meal and be in my own bed and appreciate all the things I took for granted and never really thought much about,” she told the E! News entertainment television show.”In a way, I’m really glad this happened because it changed my life forever,” said Hilton, who was jailed for violating probation in an alcohol-related driving offence.”I just realise that the media used me to make fun of and be mean about.Frankly, I’m sick of it.I want to use my fame in a good way.”But whether Hilton’s desire for a more simple life will lead to fewer appearances in the media spotlight remains doubtful, experts say.”If you want to not hear about Paris Hilton then you should try and find the island where those people on the television show ‘Lost’ are trapped,” said Robert Thompson, a professor in pop culture at the University of Syracuse CNN television confirmed Saturday that its veteran newsman Larry King had won the race to secure the first Hilton post-prison interview.Nampa-AFP