Insider: Paris Hilton Blames Network for Bad Ratings

By Rob Shuter Posted Jun 6th 2011 03:40PM

Paris Hilton's new reality show on Oxygen debuted to disastrous ratings last week, but rather than accept some blame, insiders tell me Paris is pointing her finger at the network.

"Paris is furious that the show didn't premiere at the time it was supposed to," an insider tells me when speaking about 'The World According to Paris.' "She worked her tail off doing promotion and publicity for the show and then because of a technical mistake, the show aired at a completely different time in a lot of markets."

A representative from the network denies that there were any glitches in her premiere episode.

"The show premiered at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, June 1 as was promoted," an Oxygen spokesperson told me in a statement. "There were no technical mistakes. We look forward to a very exciting run of the series."

This week's episode brings together Paris and Charlie Sheen's ex, Brooke Mueller, whose ongoing substance abuse struggles will be addressed. The rep said this week's episode with feature Brooke's "cry for help."

Her busy week of promotion also included a rough interview on 'The View,' where Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg grilled the socialite on the frivolity of her show. She reportedly flipped out backstage and got into a shouting match with a producer. In short, it was a disaster and she canceled events because of it.

"Paris' second season on that MTV show where she found a new friend was a disaster and she hasn't been able to sell a magazine cover since the Kardashians arrived," a TV insider tells me. "If the numbers remain less then the 400,000 that tuned in last week she could get pulled off the air."

By comparison, the March debut of singer Aubrey O'Day's show drew 724,000, and 1.7 million viewers tuned in for the premiere of the most recent installment of 'The Bad Girls Club.'

"This could be the last nail in the coffin," a senior marketing manager tells me. "She has been replaced by Teen Moms and Snooki. She would have been better off not doing a new reality show at all then doing one that proves no one cares."

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Monday 06 June

By Spaceman Eddie

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Don't worry. Another porn tape will surface. She'll find another cop to cuff her. Maybe she'll hop on Palin's bus and be photographed emerging pantiless. Paris will be OK.

By gilbert

I hope they cancel her show...she has enough money already...isn't she a Hilton heiress....any way she gets away with doing drugs and blaming it on someone else and gets away with alot of other things too....she is rude, crude, and socially unacceptable....oh and ugly too

By joblo

"She would have been better off not doing a new reality show at all then doing one that proves no one cares."

That should be "...THAN doing one...."

By Debbie

Yawn

By eric

hope the same thing happens to the kardashians and all of those Jersey idiots.......taek teh housewives with you all on the way too...... lets get back some REAL tv...like the old days please

By John Doe

She is a spoiled little brat used to getting her way! When it doesn't go her way she throws a tantrum! She is just as fake as her mother and has done more harm than good in raising her. No one is interested in watching a spoiled no talent air head princess now or ever!

Thursday 09 June

By Margarita

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America really overuses the term 'princess'. Since when did 'money' make you a princess? There are no princesses in the USA.

By Mega

I read somewhere that she was doing this show, so people would see "the real Paris Hilton" and not the Paris that the media portrays her to be, so that's why I decided to give the show a chance. I've got to say...before I watched it, I honestly thought that she was a rude, mean-spirited, spoiled little c*nt. Now that I've seen "the real Paris"...I realize that my original thoughts about her were right on point. The show should be canceled and no one should give her the time of day. She's just a nasty person and thinks that she's better than everyone else. She has fame and money-that's it. She's not a good person. She's immature, hateful and pretentious.

Oh, and might I add (again) that the acronym for 'The world according to Paris' is T.W.A.T.P.
It's very fitting.

By Mr. G

LOL...good one Deb!

By John G

I agree with "all of the above writers. IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE NO TALENT and she proves it.

By tallsandi

It tanked because we don't want to waste our time watching that useless bimbo.

By Bill

Maybe...just maybe her show is tanking because she sucks.

By ditz

It's the "air" that fuels the "airhead" that leads her to say something as ridiculous as this.

By jlwilliams22

Paris is nothing but a walking social disease.

Tuesday 07 June

By Dr. M

Maybe the reason it had bad ratings is because it stank.

Paris...stick to what you're good at! Oh that's right...you're not good at anything!

By NAUGHTY BUT NICE ROB

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OXGYEN INSIDERS TELL ME PARIS IS WRONG AND SHOW AIRED IN RIGHT SOT IN EVERY MARKET!!!! STRANGE

By SavannahNight

What's the use ... the networks will just march another sleazy, greasy, talentless skank out there with her own reality show until they stumble across enough vapid idiots who will watch it ... and the beat goes on ...

By Ingie

She's nohing without Nicole Richie, LOL.

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