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Paris Hilton wants to you to know she’s not the ‘dumb blonde’ she played on The Simple Life with Nicole Richie. While Nicole was branded the troublemaker—Paris was asked to play the role of a ‘dumb blonde’ for the five years after The Simple Life aired. “I am a very hardworking businesswoman and entrepreneur, and that’s what I want to be known as now,” Paris said in a new interview with Access Hollywood.
Paris is rumored to be worth around $2 billion with her fragrances, stores, bag lines, shoes and beauty products and more. So how did she get pigeonholed well it started on The Simple Life. “They said ‘Nicole you play the trouble maker, Paris you play the ditzy airhead.’ We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into or what a huge success it would be and that I’d have to continue playing this character for five years. You kind of just get trapped in that character when you have to continue doing it on a TV show.” The show ran from 2003 to 2007 and was a huge hit despite looking like a caricature . “I don’t mind because I feel like I really parlayed it into a huge business and it was a lot of fun. I think if I was my serious self on the show it wouldn’t have been such a huge success.”
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