Paris Goes... Not To Paris.
Blog by Sean Gehon, Monday, May 07, 2007
They say there isn’t any justice left in the world. On a daily basis, people on the planet we call home are battling cancer, dying of AIDS, and fighting a seemingly endless war in Iraq. For millions of people around the world the trials and tribulations of celebrity culture are meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Saving lives, living to see another day, and being able to help your fellow man truly out shines the meaningless party antics of our favourite trouble causing socialite, but for Paris Hilton, spending forty-five days in jail for breaking the law, is a more important cause.
After a brief battle in court, Paris Hilton has been sentenced to spend forty-five days in jail for violating her probation. Last year, Paris was arrested and convicted of driving under the influence and had her her driver’s license suspended. Paris made the decision to drive under the influence, and then again with an invalid driver’s license (twice), yet in a typical "I’m pretty, blonde, and stupid" fashion, she blamed it on her publicist. Whoever is to blame for Paris driving and getting caught, pretty soon all she’ll be complaining about is her five minute showers, prison food, and being some biker woman’s bitch.
Apparently Paris won’t be getting the worst treatment possible in prison. It looks as though Paris is going to have her own cell separated from the other inmates due to a group of women who could pose a physical threat to the heiress. I wonder if this is how Paris pictured her summer vacation? A room with a lovely view, some decorative bars on the windows, some beautiful orange polyester jump suits, and some back breaking intensive labour, sounds like every socialite's dream vacation. Maybe The Simple Life wasn’t such a bad experience after all.
In typical spoiled rich kid syndrome, Paris is crying out about her unfair treatment. Did anybody really expect Paris to get thrown in jail? I thought Paris was going to be slapped on the wrist, told to do some community service, and sent on her merry partying way. Unfortunately, Paris didn’t get so lucky. Paris appears to be one of those girls who has been handed everything her entire life, taught that she can get away with anything, and is suddenly learning a very harsh lesson. Maybe the judge reacted this harshly because he doesn’t like Paris, maybe he is being unfair, but the fact remains, Paris broke the law and the law demands that she spend forty-five days in the big house.
Picture it, Paris Hilton wearing a tacky orange jumpsuit, scrubbing toilets, and eating prison food, which I can only imagine is worse than airline food. For every kid that was picked on, made fun of, or looked down upon by someone of ‘wealth and status’, this has to be some fantastic retribution. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Miss Hilton, and I can’t really say anything bad about her. During our encounter she was very polite, sweet, and friendly, someone I would absolutely love to see again. But fair is fair, and Paris needs to learn a lesson.
Young Hollywood, or at least the socially inclined party goers, really need a lesson in better behaviour. Rumours of drug use, hard partying, heavy drinking, and an ever changing landscape of friendships, relationships and feuds, who can keep it straight anymore? Will Paris’ unfortunate situation teach these celebrities that, sometimes, there are more important things in life than going out to the clubs? I’m certainly not holding my breath that Lindsay Lohan will suddenly become an angel of the morning. These girls have created their images and celebrity status on being bad girls and behaving rashly during their escapades, so they probably won’t turn it around any time soon.
Without Paris causing a stir on the gossip blogs, it’s going to be an interesting forty-five days ahead. Will she learn her lesson? Probably not, but at least we can all take a lesson from her experience. Life isn’t easy, and you can’t always get what you want. Even the rich and famous get what’s coming to them… sometimes.
Sean ( Maybe she’ll come out with her own version of The Apprentice now…)
