Okay all you Paris Hilton fans… ready your TiVo’s for Wednesday night. According to the hotel heiress herself, that’s when she will appear live on CNN’s “Larry King Live” for her first post-jail interview.
CNN confirmed the socialite’s appearance and said that she will be on for the entire hour. The news comes less than 24 hours after both NBC (the network that had originally booked Hilton’s first post-jail interview) and ABC pulled out of talks with the incarcerated blonde. Both networks were reportedly embarrassed by reports that they were willing to pay the Hilton family for materials related to an interview. (ABC reportedly was set the pay the millionairess $100,000 to share her sob story with the world, while execs at NBC were reportedly agreed to pay the party princess a cool million to speak with the “Today” show’s Meredith Vieira.)
According to sheriff’s deputies, Hilton will be sprung from the slammer sometime on Tuesday. A day later she will appear with King to speak about how her time behind bars has changed her life for the better. And according to a still-jailed Hilton (who released a statement regarding the upcoming interview), she is “thrilled that Larry King has asked me to appear on his program to discuss my experience in jail, what I have learned and how I have grown and anything else he wants to talk about. Larry King is a true American Icon. It will be an honor to do his show.”
Gag me with a pitchfork!
I know that she has nothing better to do behind bars, but that statement has got to rank as one of the lamest penned attempts to cover the whirlwind of bad publicity that has surrounded her first post-jail interview… The fact is, NBC and ABC sought to distance themselves from Hilton and her family as soon as the New York Post, ran the headline story Friday: “So Crime DOES pay, Paris” referring to the gobs of money the networks promised to shell out to the princess of nightclubs.
According to executives at ABC News, the Hilton family originally offered the interview to Barbara Walters, but Walters turned it down on when the issue for money came up. NBC News then expressed interest in the interview, but later cancelled to avoid a public backlash over the idea that the wealthy hotel heiress would be making more money to speak on camera.
I have a feeling you couldn’t pay some people to watch Hilton speak about her time in the slammer so perhaps ABC and NBC did the right thing.
Will you watch Hilton gab with Larry King?
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