Paris Hilton says she isn’t dumb—she’s just playing a character. Got that? Paris is an artist expressing herself through the medium of reality television, crappy music, and a hair extension line. Oh, and perfume. Paris recently told reporters she thought the prime minister of Great Britain was television personality Gordon Ramsey and that she had no idea what a “pint” was -”is that alcohol,” she asked?

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She told Heat magazine via Fametastic that, alas, she’s just trapped in her self-created heir-head character.

“I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I’m a ’spoilt airhead’. But I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole Richie and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things. [In real life] I’m a lot more serious and shy…and if I’m not out, having to be, you know, ‘on’, I’m at home just chilling and wearing sweat pants.”

I’m embarrased to admit how many interviews I’ve read of Paris Hilton, and she always talks about sitting at home in sweat pants. Why doens’t she try it sometime? I feel like every morning there’s a fresh Paris party pic just gleaming from my laptop.

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