Get your head out of the gutter, I’m talking intellectually.

Paris Hilton says she gets a bad rap because she isn’t the ditsy airhead the tabloids make her out to be.

She says that she’s “a strong person” who just plays stupid for attention laughs.

The heiress adds that she came up with the persona while appearing on her first reality show, “A Simple Life” with Nicole Richie.

“For five seasons I was stuck doing this character. It was kind of hard always having to play that character when it’s not who I am. I just say jokes but they think I’m serious, which I think is funny, and I think I kind of play up the image sometimes because – whatever – it’s just entertainment.”

Hilton is currently filming another reality series, British Best Friend, a spin-off of her American series, My BFF.

She told the London tabloids that making friends isn’t always easy when you’re Paris Hilton.

“It’s difficult because you never know what people’s intentions are, and I think a lot of girls have become my friend for the wrong reasons and used me. I didn’t realize it but now, throughout the years, I’m realizing who those kind of people are.”

And certainly none of those sorts of people can be found on a reality show. Smart blonde, indeed.

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Jillian Barbarie Reynolds recently spoke one-on-one with Steppin’ Out’s Chaunce Hayden and dished on what led up to her firing by 20th Century Fox for Debbie Matenopoulos.

Let’s just say she is still bitter.

Jillian also talks about Playboy opportunities come and gone, Howard Stern’s wedding to Beth Ostrovsky and of being dissed by ABCs Dancing with the Stars.

On being replaced by Debbie Matenopoulos:

Getting fired from my nationally syndicated television show was behind disappointing! We had done the show locally for ten years on Fox. Then the big Fox came in, 20th Century, and said, we want to take the show nationally. So I did it for three years. Then one day they told me their going in another direction and let me go. I got fired but still kept my local show. So I would do my local show from 7 to 9am and then get up and let Debbie Matenopoulos come and sit in my chair from 9 to 10 and do it nationally. It was so f**king hurtful and brutal to me! But f**k them. They gave me no explanation why they fired me. They just fired me. But the great thing for me was that the ratings went down 33 percent after I was fired. I was harboring some pretty nasty feelings for a while. If you get fired from a gig you’re usually fu**ing gone! I had to go to f**king work every day! It was awful dude! I just wish they gave me a reason why they fired me. I still don’t know why.

On doing Playboy:

Playboy approached me four years in a row. That was back before TMZ and the Kim Kardashian’s of the world where you get a career for just having a sex tape. But I thought, “I have a journalism degree. This probably isn’t for me.” And they were offering a nice chunk of change. I was just so nervous about losing my career as the morning show person. It’s my bread and butter. But by the fourth time they asked me I was questioning my decision more. Then Playboy just stopped asking. But posing nude in Playboy has made so many careers. It made Pam Anderson and Carmen Electra. If I was asked again I would definitely consider it. My husband would be very supportive!

On not Dancing with the Stars:

I was pitched to them. My name came up and they turned me down! They weren’t interested in me. But I would love to do it! Brooke Burke is a friend of mine and she did so amazing. I’ve had other friends who have been asked and turned it down. But what’s the downside? It’s a great show and it’s wonderful exposure. Brooke was the mom of four and look at her! I just love it. But they passed on me.

On Howard Stern’s celebrity wedding:

I’m sure Howard Stern had a real wedding besides the celebrity packed wedding. I mean, none of his family was at the celebrity party. None of Beth’s family was at the wedding either! I know for a fact that they attended a special private ceremony. The other thing was just something for the public. But it was still very beautiful.

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I know you love hairy backs, bitches! – DL

Jessica Biel with greasy hair, going to workout – BST

Mischa Barton upskirt shot – DSF

Perez poopypants Hilton gets called out – DCV

Mischa Barton pouts better than you – HM

Remember those red wax lips? – UMC

Ashley Scott opts for a see-thru dress – DLY

Kelly Clarkson, My Life Would Suck video – PB

Whoopi Goldberg reenacts the banned PETA ad – BB

Everyone still hates Carlos Mencia – WB

Neil Patrick Harris recently had an embarrassing moment at a TV academy event after unknowingly leaving his microphone on as he paid a visit to the bathroom.

The How I Met Your Mother star was recently accompanied by co-stars Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders and Josh Radnor who were all on stage during a Q&A session when it all played out.

In the middle of questioning, Harris made a quick trip to the restroom, not realizing he had left his mic on.

The crowd listened as he did his duty. As an extra added bonus they got to hear him pepping himself up by saying, “Wake up!” before his publicist rushed in telling him the news.

Heh.

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(Above: Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott took their kids, son Liam and baby daughter Stella, to the park at Venice Beach while filming ‘Tori & Dean: Sweet Home Hollywood’.)

I actually just finished reading Tori’s book, sTORI TELLING, last night and I loved it!

It’s been out for awhile, but hey, sometimes I’m slow to getting around to things.

I’ll just say that if you read the book you will see Tori in a whole new light. And her mother, worse than you even thought! I was captivated with the book from the prologue, and the very first thing I learned about Tori stuck with me throughout the rest of the book.

Let me just quote the first page of the prologue..

“When you’re a kid, you don’t worry about what anyone thinks. You go around saying whatever pops into your head or picking your teeth, and it never occurs to you that someone might think you’re gross, awkward, or ridiculous. That was me – picking my nose, snorting when I laughed, wearing white after Labor Day – I just was who I was. That all changed one day at the tender age of twelve when I was getting ready for a family photo. We were having a formal family portrait taken with our dogs (doesn’t everyone do that?), and I was getting frustrated with my bangs. I couldn’t get them to do whatever a twelve-year-old in 1985 wanted bangs to do. So I went into my parents’ bedroom, all dressed up, with my hair done as best I could manage, and asked my mother, “Am I pretty?” She looked at me and said, “You will be when you get your nose done.”

Nice mom, huh? Well, sadly for Tori it never really got much better.

This book is fabulous if you like to read gossip blogs and tabloids. Her life is definitely not boring, and she is, surprisingly, a very grounded person with a fun loving and sometimes crude sense of humor.

And yes, she can laugh at herself. She pokes fun at her insecurities, her facial features (she knows that bloggers call her ‘horseface’), her career, she understands what society’s image of her is. The book shows Tori as you have never seen her. A shy, non-confrontational, caring, funny, genuine person. Not the daddy’s girl, spoiled rich bitch you have come to know through the media.

The book also dishes on various Hollywood stars including the cast of Aaron Spelling’s 90210. (Of course there are some great stories about Shannen Doherty and the self created drama surrounding her!)

And as for Tori and Dean leaving their spouses for one another? It’s 100% true, and Tori tells the story as it happened.

Head over to Amazon.com or your local book store or library and pick up this brutally honest, entertaining and fun book – I promise you’ll enjoy it.

[Photographs: Nathanael Jones, PacificCoastNews.com]

Just in time for Valentine’s Day Netflix is bringing you the Greatest Kiss Challenge!

Do you think you can recreate a famous kissing scene in a video? You can use yourself, your friends, your dog or even puppets. Get creative!

Winner gets plane tickets to Las Vegas, a two night stay at the Mandalay Bay (it’s NICE trust me!), romantic dinners for two and world class entertainment. Oh yeah, Vegas style, baby.

Three finalists will be chosen February 9th, and will fly to NYC on January 12th to reenact the kiss in front of a panel of judges on January 13th. One winner will be selected to win the grand prize!

Head over to NetflixGreatestkKiss.com for all the details and to enter!

(Spicy Scoop: I hear there are ONLY 40 entries to this so far folks. Your odds are F-A-B! Good luck!)

“Call me crazy, but when I saw the picture, I was like, ‘Oh my God, Jessica looks hot!’ I love curves. Being super skinny just isn’t attractive to me. When I saw that picture, I knew everyone was going to say something. And I thought, ‘You know what? Leave Jessica alone!’ She’s fabulous, she’s a really sweet girl, and I admire her for putting up with it. I get that she does look curvier, but to me, there’s nothing wrong with it.”

- Kim Kardashian on the media being harsh about Jessica Simpson’s recent weight gain.

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Despite rumors that super hottie Megan Fox is considering the role of Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft, her spokesperson says don’t count on it.

“Megan is not involved in this movie,” she said, adamantly denying reports that Fox will fill Jolie’s shoes in the upcoming film.

Many fans feel that the role of Croft, made famous by Angelina Jolie, would suit Megan just fine. But she feels that the comparisons between Brad Pitt’s wife and herself are already too great.

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Senior Sculptor Colin Jackson works on a clay head mold of First Lady Michelle Obama at Merlin Studios in London.

The clay molds are a crucial step in the up to six month-long figure creation process. The full wax figure will be unveiled at Madame Tussauds Washington D.C. in March.

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