Jun 21 2007Paris Hilton getting $1 million for interview

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NBC has agreed to pay Paris Hilton $1 million for her first after-jail interview which will appear on the "Today" show. Paris agreed to the interview, but said she'd only speak with Meredith Vieira because of "disparaging" remarks her co-host Matt Lauer made about her. ABC execs are pissed at the news because they were expecting Paris' first interview to go to Barbara Walters.

Although the real loser in all this is America. Paris Hilton is basically getting paid $1 million for 23 days of jail time. Man, I really should have tried harder to secure this Paris Hilton interview. Wait, what do you call it when you repeatedly hit somebody with a bat? Interview, right? Isn't that called an interview?

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Right. Because what Paris really needs right now is more money. This world makes me puke sometimes.

UNFUCKINBELIEVABLE. Who gives a shit about what she has to say?!?!?!?!?!??!

So let's see.. 1 million bucks divided by 23 days..

That's $43,478.26 a day.

cha-CHING!

and the sick part is.. she doesn't need the money.

Nice “Pippi Longstocking meets Harry Carey” picture.

In the name of everything that does not suck, please... for the love of everything... please don't watch this. And tell your friends and family not to watch. Tell complete strangers on the street not to watch. If Paris can do just one thing in the world that's positive, it's to completely ignore Paris Hilton. It's not world peace, but it's a start.

Please, God, let her be ass-raped in prison....please...please....

Wow.

What insights into the prison system could Paris Hilton impart? LOLOL! I can't stop laughing. The joke is on NBC for forking over 1 million dollars. They could put the money in a paper shredder and get the same results.

And that's why NBC is #1 in the ratings!!!


oh wait....

Well, I know it's sick, but I must admit that I am curious to see if she's skinner than Nicole after her "no food 'cause I don't want to poo" food strike.

I heard she was gonna change her name to Staidina. Cool...

haha Barbwa! You've been punk'd!!

sometimes it sucks to live in this country

Good LORD. So much for justice. What the fuck.

oh she sucks so hard. at this moment i vow to never watch NBC Today ever again. who is going to start the grassroots boycott. the sad thing is the only way we can get away from paris is when she is locked up. i bet you Meredith will ask some insightful questions like, "paris, were you lonely?" ugh, i need a shot of whiskey to relieve the pain.

What the fuck could she possible say that is worth $1 million dollars? The dumb cunt was locking in her cell for 23 hours a day by herself. Is she going to being all of her dot to dot books and show all of the pretty pictues she did?

People, are you all still trying to compare Paris Hilton with yourself-nobody, how pathetic of you. She's a CELEBRITY and I hope you realize by now that even if she just sits there and picking up her nose, she still gets paid for it. Those people live in a different parallel world with us, stop wasting your time judging her. She don't give a shit for anything you got to say.

NOTHING THAT COMES OUT OF HER MOUTH IS WORTH $1 MILLION. HELL IF I COULD PUT ANYTHING IN HER MOUTH I WON'T PAY $1 MILLION!

She should have to give that money to charity or something. I can't believe people actually care about what she has to say. The media is trash.

I was worried that Paris wasnt making enough money while in jail. Im so happy to see everything is working out for her, yet again. Im sure she'll put the money to good use though. http://www.hiltonbehindbars.com

That sucks.
to hahahah: get a life, go to jail, whatever u feel like but just stop being such a cunt.
she might be famous but only for bad reasons,
let her get her million dollar, and all the money she wants, that's all she will ever get in her entire life: bucks bucks and nothing else. she aint worth anything else, and really poor is the one who thinks that your wealth is what make u worthwise.
I def wont watch that interview, no one should! except on youtube, just dont give her the ratings.

what a joke... definetly gonna boykott that. what a fucked up world.

Must be nice. I went to jail and all I got was shanked.

I'll interview her with a hatchet.

Why is NBC ignoring all of the other "celebrities" who have been in jail and/or prison? This smacks strongly of discrimation, people... Somebody should start a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all those neglected celebrities who've done time but never got a million bucks for their tell-all interview describing the journey through terror, pain, depression, self-anger, acceptance, and finally redemption and self-discovery through imprisonment. Come on, Al & Jessie-- where are you on this one?!?

#25: Why? She's already got a nasty gash!

Usually, you meet some pretty interesting people in stir, but now, I gotta really rethink going back in at all... I mean, what if I got stuck in the same cell as Pete Doherty? Man, that's scary...

and guess who's gonna find the insurance...that's right...all the hard cases...

the sad thing is that most people are going to watch this despite hating her skank ass

paris 1. america -19

Boycott NBC. Boycott the sponsors of their shows.
Is there not a law about profiting from your crime down there ?
(Ummm... I beginning to get a bit worried about the neighbors )

~Lets be honest, we all knew something like this would happen...Damn the Media!!!!!!!!!

If that's jail and it's consequences of being in one, Lets all go out and DUI!

Sad world...

Boycott NBC

She sucks at spelling, but I tell you one thing! She's smart enough to get that money! Cudo's to that Paris Hilton, for being smart enough, to make those duckies!

I just vomited on myself.

omg! 1 million dollars. she's getting paid half as much more for this one interview than lindsay was paid for mean girls. go PARIS!
who doesn't want a million extra dollars in their account though, seriously?

...Michael.

Put out a $1 million contract on Paris!
And have a show where she is followed about as she hides and tries to avoid being killed. I'd watch that. Especially the series finale...

1 mil... pft that's chump change. She could spend that in a weekend of partying

She looks like a fucking retard in that picture...
I hate this cunt more than I previously believed to be possible. I wish I had a million dollars so I could hire someone to kill her by setting her on fire. Wouldn't that be cool?!?

Must be a slow day. We've only got two stories and (surprise, surprise) they're about the wonder twins, Paris and Britney.
*yawn*

Paris Hilton wins again! America is such a douchbag. Pathetic

Here's a awesome game where you try to free Paris from jail by catapulting her from Prison to Rodeo Drive:

Free Paris Game

Enjoy

(my high score is 557)

To protest this:

http://www.nbc.com/Footer/Contact_Us/

Go to the select a show drop box and choose "Other". It will turn into an email form where you can tell them they suck and you won't be watching. If you so choose.

Can't wait~ .. literally. So I can see who is sponsoring the interview....I want to know the products that I'm no longer going to purchase..

I keep waiting for the punchline.

Sorry, the link is:

href=http://freeparisgame.com

Thanks.

With or without a Moron to English interpreter?

Hey 18....who in the fuck asked ya?

Paris knows the word "disparaging?" I don't believe it.

@36 GREAT BOOBS TODAY BERN! YOU OUT-DO YOURSELF DAILY! LOVE YOUR BLOG!

I don't blame Paris. I don't blame the networks.

Blame the viewers, because no matter how much we may not care and are disgusted by it, people WILL tune in to it. That's the sad truth.

Yet another reason to be disappointed by this country.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let Good Morning America score an interview on the same day with Osama Bin Ladin in which he admits he used to do gay porn, sold his kidney for Crack money, and that 911 was all done to impress Gary Coleman who he's been obsessed with since Different Strokes...PLEASE! Anything to keep that vaculous bitch from giving high ratings to the TODAY show.

One more time:

http://freeparisgame.com

So many fukin dumbasses everywhere, this is the apocalypse no doubt.

Actually -- they should be paying her more.


hee hee (Walks away snickering)

who cares? she is still a skank and no amount of money will ever erase that.....

This is just ignorant. Our society is paying a moron (who's already a millionaire) to spend half an hour on TV talking about how burnt the prison toast was.

I'm going to turn Christian tomorrow and start prayer circles to ask God to give her face cancer.

She can't possibly say anything interesting in this.

send me to jail for six months for a million dolars...she is already so fucking rich, made money from porn, from jailtime, from redneck life, what the fuck if she farts people pay her.

Just another example of why this nation is rotting from the inside. It is dying...

Paris Hilton is amazing - she turns a sex tape into superstardom, and 23 days in jail into $1 million and whatever she gets for the rumored book deal. I'm actually kind of impressed ...

pathetic.. this chick needs to disappear.. news of this cunt is making me sick..

I think this is great...she is a true golden girl and everything she touches turns to gold, plus (and this is the best part) she drives the loser/bashers nuts...Gotta love it..
Good move NBC...

Great here we fucking go. The profiting begins. God I hate celebrities and their constant bullshit. She will come out of that jail not having learnt a fucking thing, she'll get an assload of pity from retards with no concept of the real world (like her parents) and her career will go into full swing. Yes full swing. So the shit we saw before was nothing. Prepare yourselves people this is like a RED Terror Alert. She will be more in love with herself, more spoiled and snobby, have a lot of whoring to catch up on and worst of all she’ll be BIGGER THAN EVER. This woman has no fucking soul and like others commented this says a lot about the world we live in. Yet people wonder why their little girls are growing up to be stupid sluts. Hmmmm I wonder why? I mean look what gets celebrated in today's world; a brainless slutty whore bitch whose day to day slut shenanigans are bigger news than 9 firefighters loosing their lives. BTW add the YEARLY salaries of those 9 heroes and you'd still get just a fraction of what this whore makes an HOUR. I guess she really is the most successful prostitute of all time. They locked her up but she’ll be back out turning her tricks in no time. This world is a shit hole.

The only people more disgusting than this herpes covered twat are the pathetic losers who worship her diseased ass.

My impression of Paris during her detention time is,she has totally changed her life.Somehow she has suddenly seen The Light what made her religious and she started learning to read and write.The next logically step in this line of thought is,she's going to donate this million bucks to a charity.Most likely to a program of rehabilitation of prisoners.

zince America
hatez thiz bitch
zo bad...then don't
watch her interviewz
or anything that zhez
on....good luck on that!

She has seen The Light whut?!I'm the master of Light and Darkness!I've also scientific proof for this statement,i'm switching this lightswitch on/off at the moment.

Jeez, this girl just can't catch a break can she?

p.s. I am being sarcastic, just in case you didn't notice

"This is more than rediculous" She should do the interview for free and advocate for vitims of drunk drivers

She is not a role model and does not deserve the life she has

I hope she chokes on her dinner

There are some choice words here about the interview and what Paris should do:

http://www.unboundedition.com/content/view/1021/50/

RE laws about profiting from crime: I think maybe one state has such a law on the books (not sure which state) and it might apply only to serious felony crimes (murder, rape, etc.).

Paris has such integrity. She won't talk to Matt Lauer, but she will talk to Meredith Viera, so NBC gets the interview and Matt Lauer won't have to pretend he gives a shit about anything Paris has to say. That'll teach him...

NBC may not be the highest rated network, but The Today Show is its most profitable program by far. And I believe it still beats GMA's ratings, which is probably why Paris got over her fear and loathing of Lauer and consented to appear. She's such a trouper.

And as for NBC's integrity: well, clearly it is nonexistent. But if it pisses Barbara Walters off even a little that her bestest buddy Paris is going to NBC first, good. Maybe Barbara will drop dead of a stroke. That'd be awesome. And then maybe Paris will get hit by a taxi while she's in NYC. Everybody wins.

You knew Paris was gonna do the big post-prison interview, it was just a matter of who was going to cut the biggest check. She's not the stupid one. Anybody who gives her money is. Be mad all you want, it won't do any good.

(69)Your Highness Lord Sauron,as always your wisdom is endless and you're totally right.The only light she has seen was the flashlight of the prisonguard.Shining into her pupils for a bodyreaction after she refused to eat and drink.after she refused also to go to the toilet,her bodyreaction was probably a big fart.

The issue is not Paris, but your country. The US is just nuts, and I don't see why we have to deal with its daily lunacy and lack of common sense. By the way, love the new Rufus W. single: "I'm so tired of America...".

$1 million in cash to the first person that commits to hitting her in the head with those stupid elton john sunglasses.


unbelievable. as if there aren't more important things that parent company GE could be putting their money towards.... but i guess their real cash-cow isn't TV, now is it-- war, ahem.

Oh great the freakin media just ruins everything..yea, just what she needs - more money!! i mean my GOD its just a few weeks in Jail?! big deal!!

Boils down to a $1 million reward for breaking and then flouting the law. So fucking sick.

1 million for going to jail. Awesome. Bitch.

I usually think boycotts are a waste of time, but I urge everyone to e-mail NBC and threaten to never, ever watch anything on that network again if they go through with this. What a f'n disgrace.

Why do people even give a damn about her in the first place?

If she has any respect for the herself and has learnt anything she will donate her interview fee to charity! Unlikely she will however!!! Becasue we all kno that she is a greedy self involved money grabbing media whore! LOL

http://www.nbc.com/Footer/Contact_Us/

Click the drop down box for "Select Show", select "Other", and tell NBC what you think of this BS.

They might as well have flushed the money down paris' jail cell toilet, she's apparently not using it.

Haters. Your jealousy is a disgrace. Good for her!!!She got an unfair sentence that no American who wasn't a celebrity would ever get. You're jealous because she is beautiful and rich and you can't stand it even more how intrigued by her you are - if you weren't, you wouldn't have take the 30 seconds to write a comment. haha. Jokes on you.....She does her stuff for the media, its all an act. She's smart. Look what her antics have got her. More $$$. Take a tip from your girl, Paris...!!! I bet you watch the Simple life too. Losers

the best thing you can do to stop people like paris from being famous is not to pay attention to them.

don't watch her shows or movies, don't watch this interview, and don't buy tabloids. aside from all the 12-year-old girls who genuinely like paris and find her glamorous and exciting, i'd venture to say a great deal of the attention thrown her way is by people like us--people who like to laugh at moronic celebrities.

paris doesn't give a shit if you're reading blogs like this to read what cleverly disgusting description of her vagina the writers have penned this week or if you read perezhilton as part of your daily idol worship session--she gets the fame and fortune either way.

bitch all you want about her being famous, but paris and her ilk wouldn't be nearly as big as they are if we weren't drawn to them like an injury wreck on the 405 in rush hour.

Wait, i was only offered $4.00 by the media, why am I so boring compared to Paris Hilton. This is terrible.

She stated that she is also going to stop her dumb act. That alone should win her an Oscar.

Perhaps, she'll donate the 1M to the Battered Women's Shelter since it's only enough for just one dress.

My fave was when Lauer dressed up as the skank for Halloween.

http://offtherack.people.com/2006/10/23/celeb-halloween/

Not quite skanky enough, but at least he's not afraid to let the world know he doesn't take the slut seriously.

It's just like that stupid Alien vs. Predator movie. No matter who wins... we lose.

Ugh.

Sooo unfair and not right...

hey kt....yeah #85....fuck you. youre probably one of those fat chicks who sits in front of the TV stuffing her face while he boyfriend jacks off to paris in the other room, while you're trying to convince yourself its "okay."

WTF IS THIS WORLD COMING TO? EVERYBODY ASKS, "WHAT IS SHE FAMOUS FOR?" BUT YET WE STILL PAY AN ALREADY RICH BITCH WHO HAS DONE NOTHING A MILLION DOLLARS TO SAY "IT WAS JUST TERRIBLE! I EVEN HAD TO WASH MY OWN SOCKS! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT???"

Sorry about the big font but I am really pissed off.

The sad thing is that taxpayers are already footing her prison bill and now this bitch is gonna walk away with a million dollars just for being stupid. I hope she gets hit by a drunk driver the day she is released.

Oh United States of America.

You're paying her to commit crimes. Something seriously needs to be done about your celebrity obsession over there.

EAT A BAG OF DICKS, PARIS HILTON!!! UNTALENTED COCK SUCKER BAG OF SHIT!!!

Email Today@NBC.com to write an angry letter. I did:

The internet is buzzing that "Today" will interview Paris about her jail experience for $1 million. If this is true, how can you possibly let this happen? What do you think will come out of her mouth that's worth $1 million? Paris Hilton is a horrible role model for anyone; is famous for having sex with someone (who is not famous himself) and for her drunken, high misadventures; and banks on the world somehow caring about what she does so she can continue her antics. Think about it - you are rewarding her for illegal and irresponsible behavior. Do you think listeners will get some benefit from watching her talk about a measly 23 days (that's $43,478.26 a day, you'd be paying her) of getting special treatment in jail?

You should take that money and give it to charity if you're so inclined to do a public service.

Any show I want to watch on NBC, I am now downloading.

I don't hate Paris Hilton because of her drunken driving or her sex tape or her uselessness or her money she doesn't deserve or her anorexic braindead friends or her partying.

I hate Paris because she is directly responsible for getting women to wear big ass "Elton John" sunglasses again. You know the kind that you see 9,000 year old fossilized grannys wear just getting back from the eye doctor and shit. The glasses that old chain smoking grannys wear in Las Vegas while gambling away their social security check.

I fucking hate that shit and would seriously punch Paris Hilton right in her eye with her fucking ridiculous goggles on if I ever saw her.

Someone please throw away the key to her cell! She's a disgrace to the human species. Bless her parents who made her into a complete waste of space, obnoxious retard of a whore.

I hope everyone realizes that Paris Hilton is in the news A.
because she's interesting to look at, and B. she serves a purpose for the establishment in dumbing down and distracting the populace. The best way to remedy this problem is to take her out of the picture. The only thing to do is not to boycott the network, but contact their advertisers and boycott anyone who advertises during this interview, and anything else that these foul enablers broadcast. This country is in a war and faces economic armageddon, and Paris is here because the powers that be find her most useful. Who better to be famous than an idiot? We dont want anyone with talent to be famous, because that talent is in fact just an obstacle to purely
manipulated faux entertainment news.

Being aware of that is important in understanding that ridding ourselves of her is a complicated project, and possible only through intelligent action, not just wondering why people care. because people dont care. Dealing with her entire family would not be a bad idea either. Until the American people give lessons to their masters, we will remain but slaves.

She should be shot. Or at least become jail bait.

i dont know who's more stupid: NBC or her.

If Paris were a good girl (what she is not), she would send that money to poor people, children institution, or something like that..
She doesn't need that money. MY GOD.

Kiss Kiss*

P.S.- Probably the money will go to Chanel, Balenciaga, MiuMiu, Louis Vuitton, .. -.-

I think I just lost whatever respect I had left for NBC, which wasn't much.

How truly pathetic. The Today show used to be a news show worth watching. They must be really desperate now that Katie's gone..oh wait! She was over paid, too!Must need to do something with all the extra cash! 23 days..a cool million...wonder what Charles Manson is worth? He's been in jail since 1969.

honestly im not jumping for joy that the (w)ho is getting out of jail..man who really cares..NBC must been soooo desperate to do this.a million dollars? i feel bad for merideth viera if its true she will do the interview..man.. intelligence and class talking to the dumbest celeb wanna be paris skank hilton anyways whateva!! GO AWAY shooo PARIS skank make another sex tape and maybe ppl. will pay attention again.

NBC, I thought U really
fucked up when U sold
"Pazzionz" out for the
4th. hour of the Today
Zhow, but fuck, your now
wasting money on Pariz
Zlut from Hell bitch Herpez!
I will never watch that fuckin
channel again, nor will my
friendz. Thankz for taking the
only soap opera that teenz
watch and giving it to Direct
fuckin TV..really appreciated
that fuckin jezter, bitchez.

krazihottkelli, I'm pretty sure I want to hit you with a shovel as hard as I want to hit Paris.

Yes, the real underlying issue here isn't the debasement of our media and our failing social pride, it's whether or not you can watch a teen-oriented soap opera.

Why do they keep letting you idiots breed?

Just saw a headline today that NBC News is denying the entire story, saying that they never pay for interviews. Apparently ABC leaked the rumor to the NY Post who ran with it.
Making news up when there is no news ... that's what they do best.

Unbelievable...the money should be donated to charity, shame on NBC! As far as Paris and her parents are concerned, they still have not accepted the fact that she is a CRIMINAL. I have heard nothing but how it is unfair and unjust and she shouldn't be treated this way. She is the WORST KIND OF CRIMINAL, the kind that doesn't give a hoot and I really doubt that she got the message because I have yet to hear her say she screwed up and could have killed someone. She has no respect for ANYONE. Not even her parents because she has single-handidly force the name HILTON into the gutter.

Looks like Paris Hilton will have the last laugh. We've been foiled again, world! Arg!

NBC may get the first interview, but which of Paris' boyfriends will get the first, well... you know. Check out the Paris Hilton Boyfriend Archive here:

http://www.listafterlist.com/ListAfterListcomListsAbout/tabid/57/ListID/7522/Default.aspx

I agree with #18, no matter who dislikes Paris it doesn't matter, she is still not an average person, she's a celebrity, and she makes that money because people pay it. Same to #62 and #64, total agreement. To #48, ANYONE can write their own opinion, that is what this here little comment box at the bottom is for, dumbass. To all the others that are so angry, if your life is SO HORRIBLE because of Paris, maybe you should: a. stop reading about her, no one forces you to. b. stop talking about her, if she upsets you so much why makes yourself miserable. c. freeze your body and wake up in a time period when she is no longer around, because she is not going away whether you like it or not. Deal with it.

I heard on the news that NBC is not going to do the interview after all. Yay!

I pray the Lord Jesus will have His Blessings upon your Soul...
Upon leaving the place where you are today, remember how you are talking about Jesus today... for your life in the future, don't let Him down.... Amen!!!

Damn Paris is gangsta i need to hook up with that bitch

Haha please 'interview' ellen pompeo

#108=Worldmaker:
If your want to hit me with
a shovel, then imagine how
uz teenz feel about our soap
"Passionz" being ripped away
after eight fuckin yearz.
You muzt work for NBC, unlezz
your one of theze skankz on
here. Either way, fuck U>

I just posted a Paris Hilton parody on my blog. stop by and check it out:

http://rickrockhill.blogspot.com/2007/06/dr-sidney-wang-contacts-paris-hilton-in.html

es una puta de mierda

Are you kidding me? What important thing could she possibly have to say? This is lunacy.

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