Heidi Montag

Heidi

Heidi Montag

      Heidi Montag

Heidi Blair Pratt (née Montag; born September 15, 1986) is an American former television personality, singer, fashion designer, and author. Born and raised in Crested Butte, Colorado, she befriended Lauren Conrad in 2005. In 2006, Montag came to prominence after being cast in the MTV reality television series The Hills, which chronicled the personal and professional lives of Conrad, Montag, and friends Audrina Patridge and Whitney Port. During its production, she briefly attended the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and was employed by event planning company Bolthouse Productions. As the series progressed, Montag began dating fellow cast member Spencer Pratt, which ultimately ended her friendship with Conrad. Their ensuing feud became the central focus of the series, and was carried through each subsequent season.

Heidi

The couple, collectively nicknamed "Speidi", married in April 2009. Later that year, they made controversial appearances on the second season of the American version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. In January 2010, Montag released her debut studio album Superficial; it was critically panned and commercially unsuccessful, failing to earn back the money she spent making it. She also received widespread criticism after undergoing ten cosmetic surgery procedures in one day. In 2011, Montag was featured on the television series Famous Food, where she and several celebrities competed for a restaurant partnership. Two years later, she and Pratt competed as a single entity on the eleventh series of the British version of Celebrity Big Brother, eventually becoming the
runners-up.

Heidi Blair Montag was born on September 15, 1986 in Crested Butte, Colorado to parents Darlene and Bill Montag. After divorcing, Darlene married Tim Egelhoff; they owned The Timberline restaurant for twenty-one years until its closing in 2010. Montag has an older sister Holly, also a reality television personality, and a younger brother Sky. Their father later married Terri O'Hara; their step-brother Eric O'Hara died in 2008 after an accidental fall from an icy roof.

After graduating high school, Montag moved to California and attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for one semester. During freshman orientation, she befriended Lauren Conrad, who at the time was a primary cast member of the MTV reality television series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. After both transferred to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Irvine, California, Montag was subsequently featured in four episodes during the series' second season. However, after failing to find the school "challenging", she dropped out and received employment from Bolthouse Productions as an assistant. Within two years, she was promoted as an event planner.

2006–10: The Hills and Superficial[edit]
After moving to Los Angeles in 2006, the spin-off series The Hills was developed to chronicle the lives of now-housemates Conrad and Montag and friends Audrina Patridge and Whitney Port. That year, she began a short-lived relationship with Jordan Eubanks; she described its end as "the best decision of [her] life".By the second season, Montag and Conrad's friendship had deteriorated after the former began dating and later moved in with Spencer Pratt. During the third season, Conrad ended her friendship with Montag after she suspected that Pratt was responsible for rumors of a sex tape involving her and her former boyfriend Jason Wahler; the ensuing feud carried through each subsequent season.

In May 2007, Montag and Pratt announced their engagement. In August, she entered the music industry and began recording her debut studio album. Later that month, the song "Body Language" was leaked on the internet, and featured an uncredited rap verse from Pratt. The following month, she confirmed to Us Weekly that she had undergone a breast augmentation and rhinoplasty five months prior. Montag's first promotional single and its accompanying music video "Higher" were released in February 2008 to an overwhelmingly negative response. Later that month, she appeared on the cover of Maxim. Montag collaborated with Anchor Blue to launch her first clothing line "Heidiwood" in April. Her contract was not renewed the following year after the company decided against featuring celebrity endorsements in future advertising.

During the fourth season of The Hills, Montag and Pratt eloped in Mexico on November 20, 2008. As the couple decides to officially marry in the fifth season, Conrad made her final appearance on the series during the mid-season finale, where she attended the wedding after much deliberation and made peace with Montag. The ceremony was held on April 25, 2009 in Pasadena, California. Subsequently, Conrad was replaced by her former Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County cast member Kristin Cavallari, who had previously introduced Montag and Pratt.

After several additional unauthorized leaks, Montag enlisted songwriter Cathy Dennis to continue work on her album.[25] She released her first two extended plays Wherever I Am and Here She Is... in 2009.[26][27] The former included the song "More Is More"; debuting at number 50 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart, it became her first and only song to chart in the country.[28] Later that year, she and Pratt appeared on the second season of the American version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in support of the "Feed the Children" foundation.[29] They quit after Montag was hospitalized with a gastric ulcer[30] and later created controversy after alleging that they were subject to torture during production.[31] After leaving the series, Montag and Pratt became notorious for their antics and antagonistic roles, notably during an interview with Al Roker of Today,[32] and were described as "everything that's wrong with America".[33] In August, she performed her first official single, the finished version of "Body Language", at the Miss Universe 2009; her appearance was met with a negative critical response, who criticized its overall production.[34][35] The following month, she appeared on the cover of Playboy.[36] In November, Montag and Pratt released the book "How to Be Famous: Our Guide to Looking the Part, Playing the Press, and Becoming a Tabloid Fixture".[37]

In January 2010, Montag revealed to People that she had undergone ten cosmetic surgery procedures in a single day two months prior, performed by Frank Ryan. Among the procedures were brow-lifts, ear-pinnings, a chin reduction, as well as a second rhinoplasty and second breast augmentation. She commented that she almost died from too much Demerol, reducing her breath rate to five breaths per minute.[38] Her debut studio album Superficial was digitally released later that month to an overwhelmingly negative critical response from critics.[39] The self-funded record cost nearly $2 million and sold approximately 1,000 copies in first-week downloads, failing to earn back the money spent making it.[40] In May, she and Pratt made their final appearance on The Hills halfway through the sixth and final season; Pratt was to return after completing anger management classes after threatening to kill a series producer, but both were completely removed from the cast after his behavior worsened.[41] Afterwards, Montag filed charges against series creator Adam DiVello, claiming sexual harassment,[42] though the charges were later dropped.[43] In December 2013, Montag stated that she and Conrad have "talked a few times" since the series' conclusion, elaborating that "it's unfortunate things happened the way that it did, but we're both different people now, older and more mature."[44]

2010–present: Famous Food, Celebrity Big Brother and other projects[edit]
After her exit from The Hills, Montag auditioned for the replacement of Megan Fox in the third installment of the Transformers series, but was ultimately not featured in the film.[45] In June 2010, she and producer Steve Morales commenced work on her second studio album.[46] The following month, Montag filed for divorce from Pratt, citing irreconcilable differences in the petition.[47] However, they called it off in September after confessing that the action was intended to boost Montag's ailing career.[48] In November, they renewed their vows in Carpinteria, California.[49] In February 2011, Montag made her feature film debut as Kimberly in Just Go with It.[50] Later that year, she appeared on the VH1 reality television series Famous Food, where she competed against other celebrities for a partnership stake in a restaurant in which they worked to open.[51] In October, Montag began writing a memoir.[52] The following year, she released her third extended play Dreams Come True.[53][54]

In January 2013, Montag and Pratt (as a single entity) competed as housemates on the eleventh series of the British version of Celebrity Big Brother,[55] where they notably developed a minor feud with singer and television personality Rylan Clark.[56] They were named the runner-ups, losing to Clark.[57] On February 18, Channel 5 aired a one-off television special discussing Montag and Pratt's rise to prominence, titled Speidi: Scandal, Secrets & Surgery!.[58] Later that year, they launched the Speidi Show, which was initially assumed to be a web series in which the couple used a different reality television format for each installment. However, the project was later revealed to be an example of networked improv narrative, where Montag and Pratt collaborated with Mark Marino and Rob Wittig to create a Twitter game in which players Live Tweet an imaginary show.[59] In October 2013, Montag revealed that her original F-cup breast implants resulted in severe health issues, and underwent a breast reduction surgery to replace them with D-cup implants.[60] She and Pratt appeared in the television special After Shock: Heidi & Spencer, which premiered on December 9, 2013, on E!.HERO DYD

Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone

 Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model.

Stone first achieved international recognition for her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct by Paul Verhoeven. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her performance in Casino. She received further acclaim and Golden Globe Award nominations for her roles in The Mighty and The Muse. In 2004, Stone won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in The Practice. She has also appeared in such movies as Alpha Dog, Bobby and, most recently, Lovelace.

Sharon

Stone

Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The second of four children, including older brother Mike Stone, she is the daughter of Dorothy (née Lawson), an accountant and homemaker, and Joseph William Stone II, a tool and die manufacturer and factory worker.  Stone was considered academically gifted as a child and entered the second grade when she was five years old.  She graduated from Saegertown High School in Saegertown, Pennsylvania in 1975.  While attending Edinboro University, Stone won the title of Miss Crawford County in Meadville, and was a candidate for Miss Pennsylvania.  One of the pageant judges told her to quit school and move to New York City to become a fashion model.  In 1977, Stone left Meadville, moving in with an aunt in New Jersey. Within four days of her arrival in New Jersey, she was signed by Ford Modeling Agency in New York.
Career
Early work
While living in Europe, she decided to quit modeling and become an actress. "So I packed my bags, moved back to New York, and stood in line to be an extra in a Woody Allen movie," she later recalled.[citation needed] Stone was cast for a brief role in
Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) , and then had a speaking part a year later in the horror film Deadly Blessing (1981). French director Claude Lelouch cast her in Les Uns et les Autres (1982), starring James Caan.[citation needed] She was on screen for two minutes and did not appear in the credits. Her next film role was in Irreconcilable Differences (1984), starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, and a young Drew Barrymore. Stone played a starlet who breaks up the marriage of a successful director and his screenwriter wife. In 1984, she appeared in a two-part episode of Magnum, P.I., titled "Echoes of the Mind", where she played identical twins, one a love interest of Tom Selleck's character. Through the rest of the 1980s, she had roles in other films such as King Solomon's Mines (1985) and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987), and played Steven Seagal's wife in Above the Law (1988). Also in 1988, Stone took over the role of Janice Henry for the filming of the miniseries War and Remembrance.

Mainstream recognition


Stone in France, 1991
Her appearance in Dutch film director Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall (1990) with Arnold Schwarzenegger gave Stone's career a boost.  To coincide with the film's release, she posed nude for Playboy, showing off the muscles she developed in preparation for the film (she lifted weights and learned taekwondo). In 1999, she was rated among the 25 sexiest stars of the century by Playboy.  In another Verhoeven film was the role that made her a star, playing Catherine Tramell, a brilliant, bisexual, alleged serial killer, in Basic Instinct (1992).  Several actresses at the time turned down the role, mostly because of the nudity required.[citation needed] In the film's most notorious scene, Tramell is being questioned by the police, and she crosses and uncrosses her legs, exposing her genitalia, which are not covered by underwear.  According to Stone, she agreed to film the flashing scene with no underwear, and although she and Verhoeven had discussed the scene from the beginning of production, she was unaware just how explicit the infamous shot would be:
"I knew that we were going to do this leg-crossing thing and I knew that we were going to allude to the concept that I was nude, but I did not think that you would see my vagina in the scene. Later, when I saw it in the screening I was shocked. I think seeing it in a room full of strangers was so disrespectful and so shocking, so I went into the booth and slapped him and left."
Stone claimed in an earlier interview, however, that "it was so fun" watching the film for the first time with strangers.[7] Verhoeven has denied all claims of trickery and said, "As much as I love her, I hate her, too, especially after the lies she told the press about the shot between her legs, which was a straight lie".[10] Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, who later befriended the actress, also claimed in his memoir, Hollywood Animal, that the actress was fully aware of the level of nudity involved.
Stone at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival
Following Basic Instinct, she was listed by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.[11] In 1992, photographer George Hurrell took a series of photographs of Stone, Sherilyn Fenn, Julian Sands, Raquel Welch, Eric Roberts, and Sean Penn. In November 1995, Stone received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6925 Hollywood Blvd. That same year, Empire chose her as one of the 100 sexiest stars in film history. In October 1997, she was ranked among the top 100 film stars of all time by Empire. In 1995, she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Dramatic Motion Picture for her role as Ginger in Martin Scorsese's Casino, in which she starred opposite Robert De Niro.[3] She also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the role.[3] The same year, she starred opposite Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Leonardo DiCaprio in the Sam Raimi western The Quick And The Dead. Also in 1995, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award.[12] Stone starred opposite Ellen DeGeneres in the 2000 HBO film If These Walls Could Talk 2, in which she played a lesbian trying to start a family. For her work on 'Walls', she was again recognized by Women in Film, this time with the Lucy Award.[12] In 2001, Stone was linked to a biopic of the German film director Leni Riefenstahl. The prospective director, Paul Verhoeven, and Riefenstahl herself, favoured Stone to portray Riefenstahl in the film. According to Verhoeven, he discussed the project with Stone and she was very interested. Subsequently, Verhoeven pulled out of the project as he wanted to hire a more expensive screenwriter than the producers did.[13][14] Stone was hospitalized on September 29, 2001 for a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which was diagnosed as a vertebral artery dissection rather than the more common ruptured aneurysm, and treated with an endovascular coil embolization.[15]

Later work[edit]


Stone in 2005
In 2003, she appeared in three episodes from the eighth season of The Practice. For her performances, she received an Emmy Award[16] for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Also in 2003, she appeared in a James Woods-directed American Stroke Association television commercial to raise awareness of the symptoms of stroke. This commercial was also shown in Canada courtesy of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.[17] Stone attempted a return to the mainstream with roles in the films Cold Creek Manor (2003) with Dennis Quaid and Catwoman (2004) with Halle Berry; however, both films were critical and commercial flops.

After years of litigation, Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction was released on March 31, 2006. A reason for a long delay in releasing the film was reportedly Stone's dispute with the filmmakers over the nudity in the film; she wanted more, while they wanted less. A group sex scene was cut in order to achieve an R rating from the MPAA for the U.S. release; the controversial scene remained in the U.K. version of the London-based film. Stone told an interviewer, "We are in a time of odd repression and if a popcorn movie allows us to create a platform for discussion, wouldn't that be great?"[18] Despite an estimated budget of $70 million, it placed only 10th in gross on its debut weekend with a meager $3,200,000, and was subsequently declared a bomb.[19] It ultimately ran in theaters for only 17 days and finished with a total domestic gross of under $6 million. Despite the failure of Basic Instinct 2, Stone has said that she would love to direct and act in a third Basic Instinct film.



Stone at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011
She appeared in the 2006 drama film Alpha Dog opposite Bruce Willis, playing Olivia Mazursky, the mother of a real-life murder victim. Stone wore a fatsuit for the role.[20] In February 2007, Stone found her role as a clinically depressed woman in her latest film, When a Man Falls in the Forest, uplifting, as it challenged what she called "Prozac society." "It was a watershed experience," she said. "I think that we live in a... Prozac society where we're always told we're supposed to have this kind of equilibrium of emotion. We have all these assignments about how we're supposed to feel about something."[21]

In December 2006, she co hosted the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway together with Anjelica Huston. The concert was in honor of the Nobel Peace Prize winners Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank.[22] Also in that year, she appeared in the last episode of the Turkish TV series Kurtlar Vadisi (Valley of the Wolves) along with Andy Garcia.[citation needed] On January 5, 2010, Entertainment Weekly reported Stone's impending appearance in four episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in April,[23] and then included in a review on the 29th of that April such descriptions of Stone's performance as a "great presence," and having "had to revive her best ... tone to sell hokey lines" in a series it described as "mawkish and overwrought."[24] Stone portrayed Jo Marlowe, a former cop turned prosecutor.

In 2014, Stone was cast in Agent X, a television action-drama series to air on the TNT channel. She will star as Natalie Maccabee, America's first female Vice President who takes the office after the death of her Senator husband. Her first priority is to protect the Constitution with the help of a secret operative designated "Agent X".[25]

Criticism[edit]
Tanzania[edit]
On January 28, 2005, Stone helped solicit pledges for $1 million in five minutes for mosquito nets in Tanzania,[26] turning a panel on African poverty into an impromptu fund-raiser at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Many observers, including UNICEF, criticized her actions by claiming that Stone had reacted instinctively to the words of Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, because she had not done her research on the causes, consequences and methods of preventing malaria.[27]

Of the $1 million pledged, only $250,000 was actually raised. In order to fulfill the promise to send $1 million worth of bed nets to Tanzania, UNICEF contributed $750,000.[28] This diverted funds from other UNICEF projects.[28] According to prominent economist Xavier Sala-i-Martín, officials are largely unaware of what happened with the bed nets. Some were delivered to the local airport.[28] These reportedly were stolen and later resurfaced as wedding dresses on the local black market.[27][28]

Chinese earthquake[edit]
Stone sparked a storm of criticism with her comments in an exchange on the red carpet with Hong Kong's Cable Entertainment News during the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2008. When asked about the 2008 Sichuan earthquake she remarked:

Well you know it was very interesting because at first, you know, I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so I have been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that because I don't like that. And I had been this, you know, concerned about, oh how should we deal with the Olympics because they are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine. And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that Karma? When you're not nice then the bad things happen to you? [29]

one of China's biggest cinema chains reacted to Stone's comments by declaring it would not show her films in its theaters.[30] The founder of the UME Cineplex chain and the chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, Ng See-Yuen, called Stone's comments "inappropriate," and said the UME Cineplex chain would be presenting her films no further.[30] Christian Dior advertisements featuring Stone's image were dropped from all ads in China amid the public uproar.[31] Stone was removed from the 2008 Shanghai International Film Festival guest list, and the event's organizers considered banning the actress permanently.[32]

Dior China had originally posted an apology in Stone's name, but Stone later denied making the apology during an interview with the New York Times, saying "I'm not going to apologize. I'm certainly not going to apologize for something that isn't real and true – not for face creams," although she does admit she had "sounded like an idiot."[33] However, after the interview, Stone released a statement entitled "In my own words by Sharon Stone" in which she said "I could not be more regretful of that mistake. It was unintentional. I apologize. Those words were never meant to be hurtful to anyone."[34] While Stone cited the Dalai Lama as her "good friend" when she made the remark at the Cannes film festival, the Dalai Lama has reportedly distanced himself by saying of her only, "yes, I've met that lady".[35][36]

Mensa[edit]
For many years, Stone maintained that she had an IQ of 148[37] and was a member of Mensa,[38][39] but in April 2002, she admitted she was not, and had never been, a member of that society.[38][40] Jim Blackmore of Mensa said, "It's delightful to finally see Ms. Stone admit that she's not and never has been a member of our society." Blackmore admits Stone may be as clever as many like to think. He says, "My gut feeling is that she would definitely qualify. But that's just based on what we've been told by other individuals."[40]

Peace promotion[edit]
In March 2006, Stone traveled to Israel to promote peace in the Middle East through a press conference with Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres. In 2013, she referred to Peres as her "mentor." On October 23, 2013, Stone received the Peace Summit Award for her work with HIV/AIDS sufferers.

Personal life[edit]
Stone currently lives in Beverly Hills, California and owns a ranch in New Zealand. She married television producer Michael Greenburg in 1984 on the set of The Vegas Strip War, a television film he produced and she starred in. The couple separated three years later, and their divorce was finalized in 1990.[45] In 1993, Stone met William J. MacDonald (aka Bill MacDonald) on the set of the film Sliver, which he co-produced. MacDonald left his wife Naomi Baca for Stone and became engaged to her. They separated one year later in 1994.[46] While working on the film The Quick and the Dead in 1995, Stone met Bob Wagner (a second assistant director) and they became engaged. After they separated, Stone returned the engagement ring via FedEx.[47]

On February 14, 1998, Stone married Phil Bronstein, executive editor of the San Francisco Examiner and later San Francisco Chronicle.[48] They adopted a baby son, Roan Joseph Bronstein, in 2000.[49] Bronstein filed for divorce in 2003, citing irreconcilable differences.[50] The divorce became final in 2004,[51] with a judge ruling that Roan should remain primarily with Bronstein, with Stone receiving visitation.[50][52] Stone adopted her second son, Laird Vonne Stone, in 2005,[53] and her third son, Quinn Kelly Stone, in 2006.[45][54]

In 2005, when asked during a television interview for her film Basic Instinct 2 about "life imitating art" (referring to her character's bisexuality), Stone said, "Why not? Middle age is an open-minded period".[55] In 2011, Stone stated on Piers Morgan Tonight that she was never married to George Howe Englund, Jr., despite contrary internet rumors.[56]

It was announced on January 30, 2013 that Stone had split with her boyfriend Martin Mica after dating for eight months.[57]

Stone is a convert to Tibetan Buddhism.[58] She believes in God and is religious by self-description.[59] She is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church.HERO DYD

The Hilton Sisters

Paris & Nicky

Hilton sister's

Paris and Nicky Hilton pretty much set the standard for young, filthy-rich socialites, what with their billion-dollar disposable income and striking good looks.

But while being sexy, rich and famous is one thing, the girls are also known for their hard-to-get-along with attitudes, and while I'd be loathe to side with this ultra-rich blonde duo, much of this negative light is due to the media's representation of the girls.

Paris and Nicky Hiton

Heiresses to the Hilton millions (a hotel chain), both Paris and Nicky are well-known socialites and celebrity figures in the über chic New York social scene. They rub shoulders with the rich and famous every week, from fashion designers, to Hollywood heart-throbs to race car drivers and sometimes even the odd Royal Prince.

P & N Hilton

Paris is the elder of the two sisters, born on February 17, 1981, while Nicky was born on October 5, 1983. The girls' parents, Rick and Kathy, are currently in control of the worldwide Hilton Hotel name, which was started by the girls' great-grandfather, Conrad Hilton.

Conrad Hilton Jr, the girls' grandfather, brought a little notoriety to the family name when he married Elizabeth Taylor - her first husband - and also set the scene the for the way the Hilton's would ultimately live their lives: in the spotlight.

Paris and Nicky Hilton grew up in the super-affluent New York dwelling, the Waldorf-Astoria, and
also spent time at the other family properties located in Beverly Hills and the Hamptons.

The sisters were good students, performing well in their school studies, but when elder sibling Paris had finished school, university was far from her mind. Which isn't really surprising considering her privileged background.

As such, Paris's snub of higher education proved to be quite beneficial, as she discovered that no work and no school meant there was plenty of spare time to party like its 1999, or something like that...

Apart from gaining a reputation as one of New York's newest and most popular socialites, seen getting cosy with such stars as Leo DiCaprio and Edward Furlong, both Paris and Nicky have delved into the world of fashion, along with an endless list of males underpants.

Thanks to her AAA contact list, she started modeling for designers like Marc Bouwer and Catherine Malandrino and even starred in an ad campaign for Italiano label 'Iceberg', modeling the latest Ice jeans.

Meanwhile, younger sister Nicky was spending a lot of time with a just-out of school Paris, which meant much underage partygoing. Together, the sisters' social status climbed, but at one stage it was for all the wrong reasons...

The girls would attend party after party acting as if they were royalty (which they are sometimes aptly referred to in America), with one story suggesting Paris forcibly pushed her way ahead of others in queue for the toilets. When quizzed as to her rude behaviour, she replied nonchalantly that she wanted to look at herself in the mirror.

They have also been spotted dancing on top of bars, bearing their boobs simply for the attention and could be seen sporting confronting tiny-tee designs, with slogans like "Got Blow?".

But despite their increasingly trashy image, they always made the tabloid headlines, and before long the likes of GQ, FHM and Vanity Fair magazine were clamouring for the Hilton girls to work with them - which they did.

But before Nicky was introduced to the world of celebrity, fame and bitchy back-stabbing, like her elder sister she was a model student. She also has good business acumen, and after following in her sisters footsteps by doing a spot of modeling, she started to study design in the hopes of becoming a fashion designer.

More recently, she has in fact designed a range of handbags for Tokyo-based Samantha Thavasa, which have proved popular, with such dignitaries as Britney Spears and Pamela Anderson seen toting them about. In early 2006, Nicky also unveiled another line of clothing called Nicky Hilton Beverly Hills, which follows the 2004 debut of Nicky Hilton's Chick, aimed at the under 20 demographic. The new Nicky Hilton Beverly Hills line is aimed at a slightly older audience, with Nicky saying that her current creations are "clothes my friends and I could wear," and that they wouldn't be super expensive.This ain't Prada," she added at the label's launch in a Las Vegas nightclub in February 2006.

Getting back to her higher profile sister, Paris, it seems that ruling the social world is not enough to slake the thirst of celebrity, and so a steadily growing list of television appearances was needed, including Las Vegas, Veronica Mars and a humorous cameo on the hit show The O.C. which stars one of Hilton's latest party chums Mischa Barton.

However, her most notable foray into TV is the hit reality series The Simple Life, which until recently, co-starred fellow socialite Nicole Ritchie. The two had a rather public spat, which has led to numerous and brutal slanging matches between the two former best friends.

Ritchie was then replaced by Rod Stewart's daughter, Kimberly on the series, and then it switched back to Richie after the pair appeared to have kissed and made up. The TV show itself is apparently struggling for ratings and a network willing to air the show, however.

But it doesn't end there. Paris' film career seems to be going from strength to strength. In a recent interview it was suggested that Paris felt she would very soon be auditioning for the same parts as Oscar Winner Charlize Theron. And how can she not? Most people will agree that Charlize' performances in Monster and North Country are easily on par with the film unlucky to be snubbed at this years Oscars - One Night In Paris. On a more serious note, she has had cameo appearances in Ben Stiller's amusing Zoolander, Cat in the Hat, and even scored starring roles in House of Wax and the upcoming Pledge This!

However, starring in a sometimes-popular TV show and looking at a burgeoning film career seem to have done little for her attempts at starting a modeling agency and makeup range which appear to have died a most grisly death (not unlike her performance in House of Wax).

More recently elder sibling Paris appears to be falling out of grace with not only her friends, but the public too. In addition to being dumped by her boyfriend Stavros Niarchos Jr, Jr, (or Stav III as he prefers) and being denied access to the best apres-Oscars party in Hollywood - hosted by Vanity Fair - Paris has also had an unusual three year restraining order successfully pinned on her.

Brian Quintana, an events manager/producer, and the very same individual who introduced Paris Hilton to Stavros Niarchos III (also a young billionaire inheritee), won a court case against Hilton, which resulted in her having to stay at lest 90 metres away from him for three years - which is more than a thousand days. The reason? Quintana urged Stav III to stop dating Paris, after which he did, and obviously pissed at such advice, Paris allegedly began harassing and threatening Quintana. Youch...

At the end of the day, both Hilton sisters still love the party life, attending many of the big ticketed, red carpeted and sequin studded events that the world has to offer, with small dogs in handbags in tow. They stand to inherit a terrifying amount of money and will probably continue to offer good stories for all the glossy magazines for decades to come.

But the question remains: Are they demanding, spoilt brats with no talents or lucky girls with extravagant ambition? We'll let you be the judge.HERO DYD

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