Celebrity Paris Hilton flew all the way to to Manila to reportedly promote a new project by Century Property… Columnist Jojo Robles opines: “as Hilton herself once wrote, apropos of looking good: “People remember how you look when you leave as much as they remember how you looked when you arrived.”
By: Jojo Robles
Excuse me for living, but it must be a really slow news day when an entire nation—or at least all of its media—goes gaga just because socialite Paris Hilton has blown into town. Really.
It’s not as if Hilton, a true celebrity in the sense that she’s famous simply for being famous, was bringing with her the cure for dengue or something important like that. But Rep. Manny Pacquiao (who met her before in the US) wants her to visit the House of Representatives and she’s also going to eyeball the forever-looking-for-love President Noynoy Aquino.
Of course, Hilton’s five-day visit has little to do with anything that most Filipinos are concerned with, assuming most Filipinos know who the hotel heiress and international jet-setter is. Those who have heard of Hilton in these parts often are only aware about her starring role in some amateur sex videos made by a boyfriend of hers some years back.
But Hilton is officially in town to open a luxury-goods store at a mall and to promote a real estate development in Parañaque. (This explains why one over-eager salesperson has been importuning me to buy a piece of property in exchange for a chance to meet Hilton —as if I had the money and the inclination to purchase something just so I can claim to have met a real living, breathing regular on the tabloid-TMZ circuit.)
That said, we wish Paris Hilton well during her stay here and success in her efforts to convince the celebrity-struck locals to buy expensive stuff from her. Then, we wish she’d go away immediately after and leave us to our problem of making enough money every day just to keep body and soul together.
As Hilton herself once wrote, apropos of looking good: “People remember how you look when you leave as much as they remember how you looked when you arrived.” Some of us, dear Paris, will just be glad when you’ve gone off to shill somewhere else.
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