Hotel heiress and TV
reality show star Paris Hilton poses at a media conference in
Shanghai on Thursday, November 22, 2007.
We nearly wet ourselves with excitement when we heard the news.
The Dirty Diva, the Bratty Princess, the bona fide Home Video Star
Paris Hilton herself is gracing these very streets for the MTV
Style Awards.
After all these months of glamorous mentions in these pages,
we're dying to meet her in the flesh. We've not been taking any
phone calls all day just in case she tries giving us a buzz to
arrange a tete-a-tete (meaning her PA of course; its so easy to
chip a nail on those things, darling) later on this evening. Can
you imagine how positively thrilled we are? The possibilities
abound - she might pout for the cameras, she might flash
photographers as she exits her vehicle, she might even pull a bloke
from the nightclubs, and in return, he might blab about it on the
Internet forums. It could even be us, if we weren't so out of shape
and geeky. But hey, it worked for Seth on "The O.C." Oooh, we can't
wait.
We really do hope we can meet her. We hear she's got great
hygiene and loves baths. Maybe we could impress her with our rubber
duckie? That silly Internet site said she's not staying at the
Hilton because it wasn't good enough for her but we all know that's
only because she wouldn't want to thrash her great grand-daddy's
hotel (again); it also wrongly claimed she was staying at the Grand
Hyatt but that's so 1999 sweetie. Paris is definitely a Bund Baby,
we can tell.
Our little birdie Ling from Attica whispered in our ear that the
champion of Indian elephants will be showing up for Vanity tonight.
If that's true we are so going; sorry Ling but if we had to choose
between Hilton and you, we'd rather make it one night in Paris.
Look at us, going all ga-ga over a babe just because she's
blond. The little vixen Ling was so nice to us over the weekend,
getting a table ready for us to rest our weary bon-bons during the
one-year anniversary party. We can't believe the place has been
open for a year already; it seems like we've been going there
forever. Maybe our sense of time is warped because we never
remember leaving.
That was not all we did last week, mind you. We were just as
impressed to meet Jean-Georges Vongerichten himself last Friday as
he presented a cooking demo and again the next day for that
interview. The Frenchman is a rare example of kitchen maestro and
business guru, and his success thus far is well-deserved. He told
us he was invited to a super-exclusive party on Monday night - a
gathering of the top chefs from around the world for the launch of
the Michelin guide in Japan. There were 191 stars in total, phwoar.
He also mentioned that the local edition (Beijing, Shanghai, Hong
Kong) is shooting for a November 2008 release, so his trusty
sidekicks Eric and Jason will certainly be on their toes over the
coming months.
With the awards taking place tomorrow night, there's no telling
who we might run into over the weekend. Rest assured, however, if
we come across an extremely drunk Paris slumped in a VIP booth
somewhere in Shanghai, we'll be sure to take a snap. After all,
digital pictures are the autograph of the 21st century.
Paris in
Shanghai
(Shanghai Daily November 22, 2007)
