Celeb life looks less peachy
MEDIA BITES: Mutually redundant cultural icons Paris and Peaches cosy up to each other
Sunday May 24 2009
Has friendship slut Paris finally found her soulmate in Cannes? Let's hope that Paris Hilton has been discussing her long-standing friendship commitment-phobia with a therapist.
Certainly, it's obvious that the girl has intimacy issues. When we witnessed the unfortunate collapse of her union with Nicole Richie, we wondered whether this was just the sad inevitability of one's first love running its course.
But then, Paris reeled through a string of best mates (Kimberly Stewart, Britney Spears and Kelly Osborne) with such rapid-fire bursts of amity that she would make a paparazzo with ADHD seem loyal. This was starting to look more and more like a troubling pathology.
Her chosen career doesn't help. The intense pressure placed on her relationship with Richie in The Simple Life would test any friendship. And then, instead of trying to help her work through her issues, those callous TV sharks just capitalised on her problem, setting her up in a filmed search to find a new best friend. Like all friendships with Paris, the bonds fostered through the touching medium of Paris Hilton's My New BFF, were tragically disposable. The friend was selected, feted, and then strategically dropped when it was time to start a new series. But now that Paris has been spotted cosying up to Peaches Geldof at Cannes parties, it's hard not to feel a little surge of hope. In the Geldof girl, could she finally have found the one? On paper, it looks like the perfect match. They have much in common. Blonde hair, big mouth, a vastly overblown sense of self-importance. So that's all the important things sorted. And with each other for company and solidarity, it can only make it that bit easier for them both to block out the rather inconvenient little fact of their mutual cultural redundancy. After all, what else are celebrity friends for?
Julia Molony
- Julia Molony
