It feels like it’s been a while since Paris Hilton made any attention-grabbing headlines. Or any headlines, really. But not to fear, because she’s back on the radar (for now) and being just as controversial as ever. This time, her antics involve calling gay men “disgusting,” among other things. Click here to read the quote and let us know what you think!
Paris was riding in a cab with a friend, who was telling her about the gay hook-up site Grindr. Her response, which the cabbie recorded, was quite…intense:
Gay guys are the horniest people in the world. They’re disgusting. Dude, most of them probably have AIDS…I would be so scared if I was a gay guy. You’ll like, die of AIDS.
You can hear the full audio over at Radar. And while Paris’ statements were ridiculous, her rep’s response to the incident is almost laughably dumb:
Paris Hilton’s comments were to express that it is dangerous for anyone to have unprotected sex that could lead to a life threatening disease. The conversation became heated, after a close gayfriend told her in a cab ride, a story about a gay man who has AIDS and is knowingly having unprotected sex. He also discussed a website that encourages random sex by gay men with strangers. As she was being shown the website her comments were in reference to those people promoting themselves on the site. The cab driver who recorded this, only provided a portion of the conversation. It was not her intent to make any derogatory comments about all gays. Paris Hilton is a huge supporter of the gay community and would never purposefully make any negative statements about anyone’s sexual orientation.
Phew! That’s one serious attempt at damage control. Though, as Paris Hilton’s rep, you have to kind of feel sorry for him. But more importantly: can someone explain to me what a “gayfriend” is? [via Gawker]
What do you think of Hilton’s comments?
guest
Why did she get a rep to do damage control? Why couldn’t she herself say that? I think it would be more meaningful.
magnolia / 1028 posts
@Foodhog@xanga - Because all celebs have their reps talk on behalf of them for damage control… Even if it were the celebs, themselves, that spoke, their reps still told them what to say.
guest
She is entitled to her opinion, but I don’t expect anything smart to come out of her lips. Regardless of how intelligent, or politically correct her representative is, there is nothing anyone can say to undo the damage Paris has done.
guest
She’s pretty disgusting herself.
Spoiled dumbass… Now also a bigot? What a winner.
dahlia / 2382 posts
I know this empty headed, sex tape making (& lying about it after) talentless skank isnt talking about someone else? this proves how stupid & out of touch she is. Her family is so humiliated by her! Grandpa Hilton but his fortune in a trust because of her!! It’s a shame she’s such a blemish in her family. Her dad was a rich kid but he made his own fortune in real estate. Too bad Paris couldnt follow his good example.
@babybug329@xanga - I disagree. Keeping her out of public view would do plenty of damage control because we’d forget about her! XD!!
guest
Oh God. Reeeeeaally? She is such a moron.
Surely the rep can’t get away with calling gay people “gays” I thought that wasn’t PC…
guest
Since when did Paris Hilton’s opinion mean anything?
guest
Trying to get back some of that fifteen minutes of fame, Paris?
guest
And she wonders why people hate her? I just hope the same fate befalls the Kardashians because they are pretty Synonymous.
guest
What a fount of knowledge.
guest
If we are waiting for Paris Hilton to say anything smart, we might as well wait for humans to have flying butt monkey symbionts.
guest
while what she was was completely rude, ridiculous, and uncalled for, I don’t think its fair that what she said to a friend in the back of a cab is up for everyone to scrutinize.
guest
This would probably bother me if anybody else had said it but.. its Paris Hilton. I just can’t take her seriously. Stupid comment from a less than bright person.
guest
Yeah, I don’t think she is homophobic at all. While I can see what she meant, I think that her words are too blunt– she just need party less and find more introverted gay male friends, lol.
Regardless of sexual orientation, I hope everybody keeps themselves healthy and safe. :3
guest
She’s just getting desperate for some kind of attention since nobody gives a shit about her.
guest
I’m sorry, are we just gonna ignore that some cabbie recorded this? She didn’t go out and post this on twitter or shout it for the world to hear. It’s her opinion and I may not agree with it but damn people!
guest
That’s pretty insensitive, but at the same time… I’m not surprised at all by her comments.
guest
People…this is the same woman who once infamously quoted “What’s Wal-mart? Do they like, build walls or something?”
How is what she said shocking? She’s a bubble-headed girl living in a fantasy world, famous because she was lucky enough to be born into a wealthy ass family. No one takes what she says seriously, hopefully. Let her think gays are “disgusting” I am sure no matter what sexual orientation you are, you probably think SHE is disgusting, because lets face it — she is. She wins no points for her comment or her other idiotically phrased words.
She’ll be a Zombie Apocalypse survivor, simply because she has no brain. :]
guest
Gay men call Paris Hilton disgusting. And they right.
guest
She’s disgusting herself.
guest
I have to say, it’s one thing to be openly against people as someone in the public, and especially gay marriage, and another to find it icky and make an exaggerated remark in a situation were you think you aren’t heard.
I do think she’s comes across as a terrible person though.
The attempt of damage control makes it worse somehow. As if he wanted to say “well, she was sort of right”. I also wonder why she didn’t make a statement herself. To me it looks
like she doesn’t care and leans back while letting someone clean up the
mess.
guest
It’s kind of amusing how different the comments are on xanga vs the site linked. Everyone on the other site is like “What? She was just saying the truth”
guest
they just do everything you do, paris. suck dick, take it up the ass, rim jobs…
guest
Like, she totally, like, you know, like, oh my gawd, just does not, like, understand, you know, like ?
OK, you get the picture. Paris Hilton needs to understand that we are ALL human beings, we’re all on this great Sapphire Earth working together as a community. Any degree of discrimination, no matter how small always divides us – as a community. Φ ≡
orchid / 129 posts
I can relate as stupid as it sounds.
On a game message board, I discriminated LGBT by accident. How do you do that you ask? Lemme guide u through it.
I wrote a thread using the word segregation and LGBT because one person outed him/herself on the world chatboard. My reasoning was here’s a person that needs support within his or her own sex orientation group not a bunch of strangers so I suggested he/she in reality the whole sub-culture to join clubs if they want to talk about their orientation.
Well the cavalry not the best word more like infantry came and it got ugly. To this day I still get backlash from that game saying I am a disgrace and I think LGBT are disgusting when I didn’t spew a single hateful word towards them. They had the funny notion of comparing my club segregation idea to concentration camps. A club by definition that is exclusive, posh and open to dismissal to a concentration camp where people are trapped, tortured and killed…
Sigh, what can u do if u write stupid things Accept the just as stupid backlash. I don’t have a PR team to save me butt (or buts).
guest
I’m not overly concerned about her opinion. She is not a politician, she isn’t using her money or (ha) fame to promote hate against homosexuals. Whether she meant the comment her not, it doesn’t seem like it will effect the world in anyway. It’s not like everyone is going to start hating gay people because of Paris Hilton.
guest
I’m sorry but she was talking in a cab with her friend, and don’t act like you’ve never said anything along the lines of this about other groups that shouldn’t be made fun of. Her privacy was completely invaded. I say stupid shit to my best friend all the time. I don’t expect people to record it and expose it to the public. We can’t pretend Paris Hilton is the smartest person in the world. I think what the rep says makes total sense.
guest
People on this comment section are so stupid. Paris is looking for attention. But she was recorded by a cab driver, it’s not like she shouted it to the world. And gay isn’t PC? Ever heard of the LGBT community? Ever wonder what that G stands for?
guest
It’s her opinion. Why does every single anti-gay opinion have to hit the news….?
guest
It happens a lot where only parts of conversations are exposed and make people look like shit. So I am not bothered by this conversation nor would I be regardless. She can feel how she wants about anything! Is no one else repulsed by this cab driver recording her? Maybe he should be scrutinized too.