Jail changed me for the better: Hilton

LOS ANGELES: A chastened Paris Hilton said her three weeks behind bars had changed her life for the better, but insisted she should never have been sent to prison in the first place.

In her first televised interview since being release from prison on Tuesday, the iconic hotel heiress told CNN anchor Larry King that she now viewed her incarceration as a God-given opportunity to re-evaluate her life.

"I just felt this is like a new beginning for me, just sitting in jail I just used it as a journey to figure out myself and who I am and what I want to do," Hilton said. "There's just so much more to me than what people think."

Asked if the experience had changed her, Hilton replied: "Yeah definitely. I have a new outlook on life. It was a very traumatic experience but I feel like God makes everything happen for a reason.

"It gave me a time-out in life to really find out what is important and what I want to do, figure out who I am," she added. "And even though it was hard, I took that time just to get to know myself."

Hilton, 26, was released from the Century Regional Detention Facility in Los Angeles early Tuesday, the latest twist to a celebrity saga that made worldwide headlines since she was first slapped with a jail sentence last month.

Hilton's imprisonment and release into home detention after serving just three days of a 45-day prison sentence earlier this month led to allegations of "celebrity justice," before she was dragged sobbing and wailing back to court. Hilton said that while prison had been a blessing in disguise, she remained convinced she had been treated unfairly.

Asked if she thought she had received a raw deal, she replied: "Yeah I do. But even though I hated it, I'm glad it's happened in a way because it's made me stronger than ever."

Later, she added: "I think the crime did not fit the punishment. I don't feel like I deserved to go to jail."

The socialite acknowledged however the seriousness of an initial drink-driving conviction that led to her probation violation, when she was caught driving despite having a suspended license.

"This all started off with the DUI (Driving Under the Influence) charge," Hilton said. "I will never drink and drive again. Even though it was only one drink, I'll never make that mistake again."

Hilton described the strip search which was her first introduction to jail as the "most humiliating experience of my life."

"Doing that in front of someone ... It's pretty gross. Having to take your clothes off in front of someone you don't even know," she said.

Hilton said she was a wreck during the first days in prison, saying her claustrophobia was aggravated by confinement to a windowless 8ft x 12ft cell (2.4 meter x 3.6 meter) in the all-women facility.

"The whole idea of being in jail was very scary," Hilton said. "I hate to be alone, so that was really hard for me. I had nightmares that people would break into my cell and hurt me."

Hilton was also unimpressed with her prison diet "The only hot meal was this mystery, jail slop," she said. "It wasn't that tasty."

Hilton said a Father's Day visit from her parents was among her toughest moments inside. "In jail you can only talk through the glass," she said. "The first Father's Day when I couldn't give my dad a hug, that was really hard on me," she said, her voice faltering.

Fellow inmates had offered her their support during her jail-time however. "They were really nice, speaking through the vents to me," Hilton said.

Pamela Anderson's Finnish tongue

Pamela Anderson wants to learn to speak fluent Finnish.

The former 'Baywatch' star, whose grandfather hailed from Finland, was pleased she remembered so much of the language during a recent trip to the country, and now plans to increase her vocabulary.

Pammie said: "I'm surprised at how much of the language I retained from before I was 10 years old speaking with my grandfather. It came back quick. I'm going to learn more and more."

The 39-year-old actress is planning to build a house in Finland and return there every year during the long summer days.

Pammie said: "I will have a summer home there one day and plan on going back every summer to enjoy the midnight sun."


The blonde star - who recently introduced her father to shock jock Howard Stern - also says travelling to the Nordic country with her dad was a "dream".

She explained: "My dad was so thrilled to meet Howard Stern and more of my friends in NYC. He's a huge fan. Also bringing him to Finland finally was a lifelong dream."

Carmen Electra has double-jointed hips

Carmen Electra has apparently joined the league of people with freakish traits.

The former ‘Baywatch’ babe revealed that she has double-jointed hips at Ripley's Times Square Odditorium in New York.

The 35-year-old star also divulged that she found out about her abnormality during a dance class
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"I have double-jointed hips. I discovered that in dance class,” the New York Daily News quoted Electra, as saying.


Meanwhile Electra showed off her sexiest ever dance moves at a TV awards show recently.

Wearing a black bra and panties set, fishnet suspenders and knee-length leather boots, the 'I Want Candy' actress wowed a live Los Angeles studio audience with her racy performance for the first annual Spike TV Guys Choice awards ceremony.

Pamela to open a chain of Lapland Strip Clubs

It seems that Pamela Anderson has found an exceptional business idea to carry her legacy forward.

The former Baywatch babe, who is currently touring Finland with her dad, is considering opening a chain of strip clubs.

Anderson, whose great-grandfather was Finnish, is in Scandinavia to host an upcoming music festival near Helsinki and has come up with the idea of a chain of clubs called Lapland.

"Also I thought of a great way to celebrate my Finnish heritage at home. I'm going to look into opening a chain of strip clubs and I'll call them Lapland!" The Sun quoted her, as stating on her website.

While in Finland, the playboy pin-up also wrote an appeal to president Tarja Halonen, pleading with her to prohibit fur farms.

"There are hundreds of fur farms here. The demand is getting lower for fur coats and they breed foxes here just for fur. Sweden, Austria and England have banned fur farms. Let's hope Finland will too,” she wrote.

Mendes turned to booze for Steamy Sex Scene

Eva Mendes can’t help but cringe when it comes to filming steamy sex scenes, for she once wanted to be a nun.

The sexy Latina broke down in tears while filming an on-screen romp with Joaquin Phoenix in their new movie ‘We Own the Night’, and admits that her reaction has a lot to do with the fact that she almost entered the nunnery.

"I did very much want to be a nun when I was younger. I guess there is this little Catholic girl still inside me somewhere because otherwise I would probably have had no problem with that scene," Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.

However, she’s determined to get a hang on her behaviour, which is a bit bizarre in the industry she’s a part of.

"It's something I just have to deal with," she says.

And, Eva found the scene so difficult to film that she turned to booze to get through it.

"I'm very professional and I don't usually drink on the job, but that morning I had to have something," she said.

‘We Own The Night’ recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Lindsay Lohan's rehab stay

Lindsay Lohan is reportedly set to extend her stay in rehab.

The troubled actress - currently in residence at Malibu's Promises rehab centre - has decided to stay until she has fully recovered.

A source told the New York Post newspaper: "She is staying in Promises for longer than a month. We don't know how much longer because of her work schedule, but she is taking rehab very seriously this time and not messing around."

The 'Mean Girls' actress was initially set to leave Promises - which normally lets clients stay for a month - at the end of this week.

On Monday (18.06.07), Lindsay cancelled her 21st birthday party at Las Vegas' PURE nightclub.

PURE representative Kate Turner said: "We support Lindsay and wish her the best as she is taking care of personal matters at this time.

"Due to the unique circumstances Lindsay's birthday party at PURE Nightclub has been cancelled. We think the world of her and look forward to working with her in the future."

Lindsay, 20, entered rehab for the second time this year following her arrest for DUI (driving under the influence) last month.

Police found a "usable amount" of cocaine in the vehicle Lindsay has been driving.

Jessica Alba prefers one-night stands

Jessica Alba prefers a hot one-night stand to being in a relationship.

The actress, speaking to America’s Cosmopolitan magazine, admitted that she doesn’t think that one-night stands or women who sleep around are amoral.

She also admits that she has indulged in several one-night trysts.

"I just wanted to see what it was like to be with different people. I don't think a girl's a sl*t if she enjoys sex," Hollywoodrag.com quoted her, as telling the magazine.

"I could have a one-night stand, and I'm the kind of girl who looks over in the morning and is like, 'Do you really have to be here?' I don't need to cuddle and do all that stuff because I know what it is and I don't try to make it more," she added.

Jessica Alba recently admitted that her first kiss was definitely not what she was expecting it to be, for rather than the magical moment she expected it to be, it was a huge disappointment.

The star revealed that she was 12 years old when she got her first kiss. The only problem was that the guy giving it to her was not only ‘gross’, he also never brushed his teeth.

"I was 12 years old and had to kiss this guy who was gross and never brushed his teeth," the New York Post quotes her, as telling the July issue of Seventeen.

And, if her first kiss was bad, her second did nothing to improve her opinion of the embrace, almost turning her off kissing altogether.

"Then, at 14, I had to kiss a guy who was 32 or 33, and I was like, 'Ewww! I didn't want to do it,'" she says.

Thankfully for Alba, she’s now found the man who she admits done much to change her opinion – her boyfriend Cash Warren.

"(He) is the best kisser in the world," she gushes.

A day in court with Paris Hilton

My day in court with Paris Hilton, like so many legal proceedings involving celebrities, began with a jostle with other reporters to get into a packed hearing room.

It ended with a ringside seat on the hysterics of the 26-year-old hotel heiress as she was ordered back to jail. Ushered out by bailiffs, her cries of anguish reverberated behind her as she left the courtroom.

How far removed that moment was from the meticulously controlled interview I was granted in April with Hilton and fellow "celebutante" pal Nicole Richie to promote their collaboration on the reality TV show "The Simple Life."

The contrast between my stage-managed encounter with an immaculately groomed Hilton and her emotional day in court illustrated how thin the veneer of stardom can be.

It also reminded me of a fundamental truth of entertainment journalism -- that celebrities rarely open themselves to public scrutiny unless they have something to sell.

Like the judge who sent her back to jail, I had waited two hours for Hilton to show up for my interview.

When she did appear she was perfectly turned out, sitting opposite me in a bright yellow dress on the set of a Hollywood studio looking aloof and bored.

It was a far cry from the quivering, weeping bundle of raw emotion who pleaded to be allowed to remain under house arrest rather than be forced back to jail to complete her sentence for violating probation in a drunken-driving case.

Halle Berry regrets her Butt tattoo

Halle Berry admits that her biggest regret is getting her ex hubby’s name tattooed on her butt.

The Academy Award winning actress married first hubby, pro baseball player David Justice in 1992 and had his name tattooed on her posterior.

When the marriage ended in divorce in 1996, Berry had the tattooed turned into a sunflower for it represented.

However, Berry now admits to the UK edition of Cosmopolitan that she made a mistake in getting the etching, for she would have just preferred ‘clear skin’.

"I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate," Femalefirst quoted her, as telling the mag.

"But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better," she added.

Berry and Justice found it difficult to maintain their relationship while he was playing baseball and she was filming elsewhere.

She had earlier revealed that she left so despondent after the break-up that she considered taking her own life.

Katie Price poses nude with hubby!

Brit star Katie 'Jordan' Price, 29, and her husband Peter Andre were recently photographed with a nude Katie perched on Peter's lap. Katie, who's expecting their third child in the next few weeks, has had to cancel the remainder of her book signings due to exhaustion, but earlier this week had time to talk to Channel 4's Paul O'Grady about the pregnancy and her boys -- Harvey, 5, and Junior, 2 this month.

On her pregnancy: Katie said she 'can't wait to meet her little princess' and that she 'just wants her out now.' Katie made it sound like her due date had been Sunday, the 10th, but we had heard the first week of July.

On Harvey's mirror accident: Katie explains that the accident occurred when a new mirror, installed in the house four days prior, fell off the wall and onto Harvey, with no provocation from him. Harvey suffered a broken nose and a deep cut on his face that required four stitches.

JFK Jr. And Madonna's Sex Secret Exposed

A new bio of John F Kennedy Jr reveals that the only thing that kept him and superstar Madonna from hopping into bed with each other, was a lack of latex.

Rob Littell, one of Kennedy’s closest pals from Brown University, tells author C. David Heymann in "American Legacy" that the scion of the Kennedy family and Madonna had been indulging in a flirtation that they had finally decided to take to the next level during the summer of 1988.

At the time, Madge was still married to first hubby Sean Penn, and Kennedy had a steady girlfriend.

However, all plans for a passionate romp at a "cheap, dinky" Chicago hotel came to a grinding halt when the two realised that they were not carrying any condoms.

"They were working their way around the bases, and as they rounded third and headed for home, she asked him if he had any protection. He didn't, so now they began discussing how they were going to get a hold of a prophylactic," the New York Post quoted Littell, as telling Heymann in the book.

"She was still legally married to Sean Penn, and he had a steady girlfriend They were afraid of being busted. They couldn't very well just meander into a pharmacy and ask for a pack of Trojans. They were too well known"

And, with that one chance, it seems that JFK Jr also lost out on bedding the famous music icon.

"To John's great chagrin, the relationship was never completed," Littell adds.

The biography also claims that the charismatic JFK Jr was also as interested in men, as he was in women.

"He confided and I believed him - that he'd had several flings with men,” says French physical therapist Jean Christian Massard, who went clubbing with JFK Jr. in the late '80s.

"I know he was attracted to me because when we danced he played with my a and stuff. He kissed me on the dance floor, and I kissed him back," adds transsexual Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn, who met Kennedy at Studio 54.

Is Christina Aguilera Pregnant?

Christina Aguilera is rumoured to be expecting her first child after being spotted at a maternity hospital this week.

The pop star was apparently seen at the hospital with husband Jordan Bratman, and later seen "sporting a small bump" whilst shopping in New York.

A source tells the News Of The World, "Christina and Jordan adore each other and have tried for a baby for a while to complete the family."

Sarah Jessica Parker: Sex and the City movie is on!

Sarah Jessica Parker has said that a 'SEX AND THE CITY' movie is going to happen. A big-screen version of the popular New York City based TV show has been on the cards since the successful show ended back in 2004. But now, it looks like the wheels are being set into motion.

The star spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the proposed project:

"This is a very complicated puzzle to put back not for the reason that people speculate about because as far as I know all of the actresses want to be together again for this movie."

JESSICA added: "Somehow in my brain I think the timing is fortuitous because if we had done it years ago... we couldn't have done it now I'm hopeful and very excited about it."

Kim Cattrall also commented in a recent interview that the movie is also on it's just all about the money.

Paris Hilton's prison jumpsuit is on sale on eBay

Paris Hilton's prison jumpsuit is on sale on eBay.

The hotel heiress only entered jail on Sunday night (03.06.07) but a government-issue orange jumpsuit and matching pair of shorts she allegedly tried on, are now up for grabs on the internet auction site.

The seller's notes read: "Paris has been in jail for less than 1 day. "She has b****ed about everything!"

"She demanded a female medium and they didn't fit. These are the original pair of Paris Hilton orange jail shorts and jumpsuit! Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity!!!"

A representative for Paris dismissed the sale as "ridiculous".

Meanwhile, the 26-year-old hotel heiress is currently in solitary confinement for her own protection.

But if 'The Simple Life' star is allowed to mix with her fellow inmates, they may have trouble understanding her.

An old friend of Paris' told US DJ Howard Stern yesterday (04.06.07) that Paris has invented her own language which she sometimes uses to insult people.

Victoria Beckham's Glamour glory

Victoria Beckham was named Glamour magazine's Woman of the Year last night (05.06.07).

The former Spice Girl, who also won Entrepreneur of the Year, attended the London event dressed in a corset and pair of frilly knickers.

Glamour editor Jo Elvin said: "For the past ten years, Victoria Beckham has been a figure of fascination. She has successfully reinvented herself from pop star to devoted wife and mother, to successful designer and business mogul.

"She is indicative of the modern woman, successfully juggling the balance between work and home, and is a role model in terms of achieving it all."

After thanking Glamour magazine and its readers, Victoria said: "I don't feel the need to be famous any more but fame has given me the tools to do what I really love. Whether it's perfume, sunglasses, jeans - I enjoy them all."

Victoria caused a stir on the red carpet with her raunchy choice of outfit, showing off her slim legs in vintage-style tights and patent stilettos.

Pregnant Charlotte Church was named TV personality of the Year, while Sienna Miller picked up the Film Actress of the Year award and Girls Aloud were named Band of the Year.

Since quitting music, Victoria has launched her own fragrance line with husband David, her own jeans and sunglasses ranges and written two books - her autobiography 'Learning to Fly' and style guide, 'That Extra Half an Inch: Hair, Heels and Everything In Between'.

Victoria, who has three sons - Brooklyn, eight, Romeo, four, and Cruz, two, is currently decorating her new Beverly Hills home ahead of the family's US move this summer, and is working on her new reality TV show.

Glamour magazine awards 2007 full list of winners:

Woman of the Year - Victoria Beckham

Angelina's 'gamble' on Brad Pitt

Angelina Jolie has indicated she took a big gamble getting together with fellow Hollywood star Brad Pitt.

The couple, who met on the set of the film Mr and Mrs Smith, told Marie Claire that they entered their relationship "on a lot of faith".

Jolie, 32, already had two failed marriages behind her when she met Pitt, 43, who had just split from ex-wife Jennifer Aniston when the co-stars hit it off.

The Jolie-Pitt brood has also expanded since the pair became an item, with the couple now the parents of four children.

"Our family has grown very quickly, and we have a lot of responsibility together, and we acknowledge that we are lucky we turned out to be for each other everything we'd hoped," Jolie told Marie Claire.

"We could have been very wrong, but every challenge we hit has brought us closer," she added in an interview with the magazine.

Meanwhile the actress has admitted that she has to "schedule" time to spend alone with Pitt given the demands of family life.

"We don't go to parties. We hardly ever leave the house. We try to schedule time when we're alone," she tells Esquire magazine in a separate interview for its July issue.

But if rumours are to be believed, Pitt and Jolie are planning to expand their household even further by adopting another child.

The couple are already parents to five-year-old Maddox, adopted from Cambodia; three-year-old Pax Thien, adopted from Vietnam; two-year-old Zahara, adopted from Ethiopia and biological daughter Shiloh, who was born just over a year ago.

However The Sun newspaper has reported that Jolie has now fallen in love with a child in the Czech Republic after visiting an orphanage in the capital Prague, where she is currently filming her latest movie.

Jessica Alba's Fantastic $4K Shopping Spree

Who knew sexy Jessica Alba wore clothes?!

The "Fantastic Four" star went on a major shopping binge in Beverly Hills last week, stocking up on some hot summer gear. During her shopping extravaganza, Alba hit up trendy Harmony Lane boutique twice and charged up ten dresses and five tops in size XS. Betch! Jess also picked up some Insititute Liberal shrugs and a bunch of Vita bracelets and J.Rae necklaces. In total, the 26-year-old dropped over $4,300 -- and even came back to shop with her parents! Look what I bought, mommy!

We're told Alba was looking for outfits for her upcoming summer travel with boyfriend Cash Warren, aka the luckiest former production assistant in the world!

She may be stylin' with her latest finds, but hopefully Jess realizes all anyone really wants to see her wearing is -- absolutely nothing!