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Paris Hilton's mugshot from a cocaine possession charge - Source: Getty Images -
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Did she honestly get cocaine muddled up with chewing gum? Did she really stash the Class As in, shall we say, a private place?
Who cares - one thing we know for certain is that Paris Hilton has perfected the fine art of the celebrity mugshot. Check out Paris's posing progress here - I mean, she's never looked better! Is she just doing all this criminal stuff to get the nice souvenir shots for her mantlepiece?
Although we've got to hand it to Paris: even at her first down-the-station photoshoot back in 2006 she knew how to pull a face. Chin down, eyes up, Mona-Lisa smile. It's the "foxy victim of circumstance" look originally patented by Princess Diana. Don't be modest, Paris, we know you've been practising in the mirror...
When it comes to our favourite celebrity mugshots of all time, though, oooh, where to start? You can't beat Hugh Grant's 1995 post-lewd-act effort for sheer sullen discomfort, but Steve McQueen gets top marks for bravado and panache after his 1976 arrest for drunk driving. Not so into work today? There are a whopping 75 images to flick through...
When celebrities get thin
Can we make a prediction? Currently the British and US media are
trumpeting
Kelly Osbourne's dramatic
weight-loss as if she's just won the Nobel Peace Prize, the
Daily Mail gleefully recounting how she "celebrated her slim new
figure in raunchy performance with the Pussycat Dolls" (personally
we prefer to celebrate any weight loss with a massive slice of
chocolate cake, but whatever...).
However, we suspect the congatulatory tone is about to be tossed in the bin, and replaced by faux-concern for Kelly's wellbeing. We're betting that these same publications will soon be lamenting her "shocking weight loss" amidst references to "gaunt Kelly" or the "painfully thin star", which is just another excuse to print pictures of famous people's thighs. Watch this space.
Say it with Twitter
If Lipgoss were a Hollywood publicist (not that we'd want to be -
ugh) we'd be pretty worried about our jobs right now. Twitter is
swiftly replacing publicists as the preferable means of announcing
a new movie role, trumpeting your charity work or responding to
tabloid claims that you've been groping someone other than your
wife.
Ashton Kutcher took to Twitter to rubbish Star magazine's scoop that he'd been playing away. Star quotes a witness as saying, "Ashton had this gorgeous girl pinned against the wall, and he was totally making out with her. I was shocked to see him sucking face with a girl who obviously wasn't Demi."
Ashton swiftly tweeted, "I think Star magazine calling me a 'cheater' qualifies as defamation of character. I hope my lawyer agrees."
Then Demi threw her two-cents into the argument, posting some foxy pics of herself to her Twitter account . Because, in Hollywoodland, nothing says, "everything's okay here, folks!" better than a pic of you looking thin in a bikini.
