What kind of cheese is Paris Hilton? Netflix’s Cooking With Paris star answers EW’s culinary questions
It’s not unusual for stars to try their hand at cooking for our televised entertainment, but Paris Hilton heading into the kitchen in full glam (and gloves!) for Netflix’s Cooking With Paris promises to make the culinary experience hot(ter than ever).
Across six episodes, The Simple Life star teams up with celebrity pals to sauté, slice, and sear as she masters “exotic kitchen appliances” (there’s a “sparkly Swarovski crystal-covered spatula thing” in the mix) in a very glamorous attempt to bring us new recipes, entertaining tips — and even new words.
Ahead of Cooking With Paris premiering on the streaming service on Aug. 4, we asked Hilton some highly important, burning culinary questions.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Pick your desert-island food.
PARIS HILTON: A potato, because you could do mashed potatoes, french fries, potato chips, or a baked potato. You can make a lot of things out of it. I’m obsessed with McDonald’s french fries, so I’d try and copy those.
What three fictional guests would you invite to a dinner party?
Barbie, Tinker Bell from Peter Pan, and Ariel from The Little Mermaid. I’d make them cupcakes and angel food cake.
If you could have dinner with any three real people, dead or alive, who would they be?
Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, and Madonna. I’d make them penne with pink sauce.
What’s your favorite pop culture food moment?
My Carl’s Jr. commercial. I love it.
If you were to identify as a type of coffee, which would it be?
A vanilla latte.
Name a cooking utensil you can’t live without.
There’s so much cute stuff in my kitchen, [ but I’d say my sparkly Swarovski crystal-covered spatula thing.
Your favorite music to cook to…
Me, “Stars Are Blind.”
If you were in a food fight, what would be your weapon of choice?
The spiciest peppers made into a salsa. I’d throw it in their eyes.
Who is your favorite celebrity chef?
Me. I’m kidding. Martha Stewart.
If you could be a kind of cheese, which would you be?
I guess cheddar, because it’s my favorite.
Name a fashion accessory you can’t cook without.
I’ve always loved gloves for everything. It’s my vibe. My trademark. I think they look great for cooking — it’s just part of the brand.
When you think back on your childhood, what’s the best meal your mom [Real Housewives of Beverly Hills newcomer Kathy Hilton] made?
The thing she taught me that I love making the most is lasagna, but of course I have to change it to “sliving” [one of Hilton’s signature words, meaning slaying + living] lasagna — put a little Paris wisdom into it.
Name a condiment you can’t live without.
Ketchup. I love ketchup on everything.
Cooking With Paris premieres Aug. 4 on Netflix.
Source: ew.com
Paris Hilton: ‘I invented this Barbie doll persona… It was like wearing a shield’
Mirrored disco balls, chandeliers you could swing from and a large neon Ernest Hemingway quote that reads, ‘I drink to make other people more interesting.’ I’m in ‘Club Paris’, the exclusive yet infamous party room that’s played host to hundreds of revellers over the past 15 years, at Paris Hilton’s multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills mansion, in a private gated community off Hollywood’s iconic Mulholland Drive.
I wish I could say I’m on the dance floor, tequila in hand. Instead, it’s 11.30am on a weekday morning and I’m waiting for the heiress (to the Hilton hotel chain) turned entrepreneur on a plush grey sofa, surrounded by black-and-white sequinned cushions of her face. Yes, Paris Hilton’s home furnishings are as extra as you might expect.
The 40-year-old former It girl shuffles into the room quietly 15 minutes later. In the early 2000s, she was as famous for partying as she was for carrying miniature dogs around in designer handbags and appearing on the hit US reality show The Simple Life. Over 13 million viewers tuned in to watch Paris and fellow socialite Nicole Richie leave behind their mobile phones, celebrity status and LA lifestyles to live with a family in Arkansas and fail to hold down manual, low-paying jobs like farming and working for a fast-food chain.
Yet today there is no grand entrance. She isn’t flanked by publicists or bodyguards. Neither is she top-to-toe in labels, monograms or Swarovski crystals (all of which she made popular back in the day). She’s wearing black sweatpants and a neon-striped Aviator Nation windbreaker jacket when she joins me on the sofa, and her once long, blonde Barbie-doll hair has been chopped into a chic bob.
But the biggest surprise is that ‘Club Paris’ is, in fact, no more. Her home, which she bought in 2008 (and was famously burgled by the Hollywood ‘Bling Ring’, about which Sofia Coppola made a film in 2013), recently underwent a two-year renovation. And what I’m seeing today are merely the remnants of the decadence and debauchery that once went on here.
‘I’m grown-up now, so now this room is a movie theatre,’ she says, reaching for a cashmere blanket to wrap herself up in. ‘I’m so over going to parties. I never thought I would say that. I used to live for the nightlife. Now I couldn’t care less. I love being at home watching Netflix and cooking with my love [her fiancé Carter Milliken Reum – more on him later] and our puppies [there are currently six, named Diamond Baby, Harajuku, Crypto, Ether, Slivington and Cutesie, and their breeds range from Pomeranian to Chihuahua]. It’s nice to be with someone where you don’t even want to go out because it’s more fun being at home together. I have lived 10 million lifetimes. I’m ready for the real simple life.’
Paris is so domesticated these days that she has a new TV show to prove it. Cooking With Paris, which launches on Netflix next month, follows her as she tries out new recipes in her kitchen – opulent (marble counters, gold taps) with a sprinkling of Paris (a pink food processor, coffee mugs branded with her catchphrase ‘Loves It’) – joined in each episode by a different celebrity friend. Before taking part in the show, the only thing she could cook was the lasagne recipe her mother, Kathy Hilton, taught her as a child. ‘She’s part Italian so she makes the best lasagne,’ Paris explains. ‘Growing up, I was always in the kitchen with her cutting things up like a little sous chef.’ I don’t think she’ll mind me saying she was approached by Netflix after she made the lasagne for her YouTube channel and got 5.1 million views, rather than as a result of her culinary talents.
The show is very Paris: boldly tongue-in-cheek with a ‘fun and playful’ vibe that will appeal to The Simple Life fans. Think Paris dressed in a hot-pink ballgown riffling through the fruit and veg section of a supermarket. ‘What do chives look like?’ she asks the grocer. ‘What do I do with them?’
In episode one, a friend joins Paris for breakfast in her kitchen, which ‘looks like if Barbie or a Disney Princess had a kitchen. It’s very fun and girly and cute,’ she says. They reminisce about their days of partying in Ibiza, while attempting to make French toast, frittata and blue marshmallows (inspired by Paris’s favourite American breakfast cereal – the marshmallow-laden Lucky Charms). The producer has to show Paris where her blender is.
Full article: telegraph.co.uk
Paris Hilton Lands Her Own Cooking Show at Netflix
Paris Hilton is cooking up a new project: a new series with Netflix, “Cooking With Paris,” Variety has exclusively learned.
The amateur cooking show will feature the hotel heiress and business mogul learning her way around the kitchen with the help of her famous friends. The series will take a spin on the traditional cooking show, as Hilton is not a trained chef and doesn’t really know how to cook — but she certainly knows how to entertain viewers at home.
“Cooking With Paris” will launch globally on the streaming giant on Aug. 4 with six half-hour episodes.
In the series, Hilton will invite her celebrity friends into her kitchen, as she navigates new ingredients, new recipes and exotic kitchen appliances. Hilton will take viewers from the grocery store to the finished table spread. According to Netflix, Hilton will embrace her “very newly domesticated side,” while she “learns to sauté, sear and zest,” and show off her “culinary expertise (or lack thereof), glam kitchen wardrobe and party-throwing skills with some of her fab celeb friends.”
“Cooking With Paris” is inspired by her YouTube video of the same name, which went viral in January 2020, when Hilton made lasagna at home. To date, the video has over 5 million views.
Hilton will serve as an executive producer, along with Aaron Saidman, Eli Holzman and Rebecca Hertz. The series hails from The Intellectual Property Corporation, an Industrial Media company.
“Cooking With Paris” is the latest project for Hilton, who has been keeping busy in the biz. Earlier this year, she launched her own production company, Slivington Manor Entertainment, and signed an overall deal at Warner Bros. She also has a wedding reality show coming up at Peacock, tentatively titled “Paris in Love,” which she will also executive produce. The series follows her as she prepares to get married to venture capitalist Carter Reum.
The heiress to Hilton hotels, the multi-hyphenate first rose to fame in the early 2000s as a socialite, whose life played out in the tabloids. Known as “the original influencer,” Hilton first got Hollywood’s attention with her hit reality show, “The Simple Life,” with Nicole Richie. Last year, Hilton released a YouTube documentary, “This Is Paris,” which explored her childhood trauma and received rave reviews, showing a very raw, different side of her life. The doc premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.
Source: variety.com
Paris Hilton says she no longer wants to be a billionaire: ‘I’m more interested in babies’
Paris Hilton is still “sliving” — even without billionaire status.
The socialite, who previously expressed her desire to make one billion dollars in her documentary “This is Paris,” revealed she no longer believes money is everything.
“That was such a goal of mine before, because I wasn’t happy in my personal life,” Hilton said on the “Just for Variety” podcast Tuesday.
“Also just going through what I went through, I always saw money as freedom and independence, and not being controlled. And I think that’s why I just had that as my focus in life.”
Instead, Hilton said she’s more invested in her personal life following her engagement to her boyfriend, Carter Reum, in February.
“Now that I am so incredibly happy and in love in my personal life, I’m not really interested in billions anymore,” she said. “I’m more interested in babies.”
Hilton acknowledged she has still maintained her work ethic, having “launched six different businesses,” but credited Reum for motivating her to work hard.
“I’ve never worked harder in my life, and I think also having a partner who is so business-minded is really such an inspiration to me. I’ve never been with someone who’s so brilliant and just really pushes me and makes me feel like I can be the best woman I can be,” she said, adding that she “just can’t wait for the next phase of my life.”
Hilton and Reum began dating in December 2019 and announced their engagement in February, in which he surprised her with a private island getaway trip to celebrate her 40th birthday.
Days after their engagement, Hilton opened up about her intentions to start a family with her husband-to-be during her podcast, “This is Paris.”
“It’s something that I’ve really been looking forward to and we’ve talked about a lot ever since we’ve been together, just having a family is going to be so exciting and how cute they’re going to be, and how fun it’s going to be,” Hilton said at the time. “First the wedding, then the babies.”
She also added that she plans to take Reum’s last name.
“I’m going to take it, but I feel like a hyphenated thing like Paris Hilton-Reum, because my name is just my name,” she explained. “I like it.”
Source: usatoday.com