#CookingWithParis Step into my kitchen on Aug. 4 @Netflix #LovesItšš #ThatsHot pic.twitter.com/wQxxeyijIf
— Paris Hilton (@ParisHilton) July 12, 2021
Youād think Paris Hilton would be busy enough cajoling her reluctant fiancĆ© to appear in her still untitled wedding reality show. But no, she went and landed herself a cooking show, too. Yes, you read that correctly, a cooking show. Some mastermind at Netflix saw the Selena Gomez cooking series and said, āhey, you know what would make this better? Paris Hilton.ā At least on Selenaās show, they asked a chef to guide her. The write up by Variety makes it sound like Paris is just inviting her famous friends over as she tries to learn new skills. I donāt know how sheās learning without anyone who knows what they are doing present, but thatās what weāre working with. Apparently, this was all inspired by a something Paris introduced on her own YouTube channel called Cooking with Paris.
Paris Hilton is cooking up a new project: a new series with Netflix, āCooking With Paris,ā Variety has exclusively learned.
The amateur cooking show will feature the hotel heiress and business mogul learning her way around the kitchen with the help of her famous friends. The series will take a spin on the traditional cooking show, as Hilton is not a trained chef and doesnāt really know how to cook ā but she certainly knows how to entertain viewers at home.
āCooking With Parisā will launch globally on the streaming giant on Aug. 4 with six half-hour episodes.
In the series, Hilton will invite her celebrity friends into her kitchen, as she navigates new ingredients, new recipes and exotic kitchen appliances. Hilton will take viewers from the grocery store to the finished table spread. According to Netflix, Hilton will embrace her āvery newly domesticated side,ā while she ālearns to sautĆ©, sear and zest,ā and show off her āculinary expertise (or lack thereof), glam kitchen wardrobe and party-throwing skills with some of her fab celeb friends.ā
āCooking With Parisā is inspired by her YouTube video of the same name, which went viral in January 2020, when Hilton made lasagna at home. To date, the video has over 5 million views.
[From Variety via Just Jared]
I watched the first video Paris posted to YouTube in which she cooked lasagna. You can watch it here, itās not good enough to post and I dislike her lasagna recipe. The video is chaotic at best. The write up would have you believe that Paris canāt cook. She can. Sheās no master, but she has some basics down. In the video, she appears to be in her kitchen, but she kept saying sheās never cooked there before, so doesnāt know if she has the item sheās looking for. But she knew where to look for everything. She walked in holding her chihuahua and never washed her hands. Her three feet of hair dangled over her saucepans and she took a misting break before making the sauce. But she said it was gross when some meat fell on the counter from the pan. Then she opted to omit onions and garlic from her sauce, basically because she doesnāt want to chop them. She left the onions and garlic out of the lasagna! Plus, she cooked in $200 cookware on the stove, only to put the lasagna in a $3 foil tray from the grocery store. Itās far too thin for the number of layers she puts in it. It was stressful to watch her negotiate. And she keeps her signature fingerless gloves on the entire time, which looked gross with food prep. So watching that mess plus her vapid friends cheering her on from the sidelines? No thank you.
I know why Paris is doing this. Sheās getting married, we assume for real this time, and she wants to be a mother immediately. Weāre supposed to accept this āvery newly domesticated sideā of her, and this is how sheāll shove it down our throats. I suspect she thinks sheāll sit next to Martha Stewart in her own sparkly domestic diva throne. Fortunately, I know how to cook so I donāt have to suffer through Parisā trials and tribulations. And my motherās lasagna recipe is so many miles better than hers, it *almost* makes me feel sorry for her.
FINALLY a cooking show where the chef is totally grossed out by everything she's doing. Cooking is inherently disgusting and Paris is the only one telling the truth!! #cookingwithparis #chefparis #KnivesOut pic.twitter.com/n9LpgEG2Gw
— Caroline Mooreā· (@carolinemooore) January 14, 2020
#ChefParis cooking in style decked out in @MaisonValentino for @VogueMagazine. āØšš©š¼āš³ āØ pic.twitter.com/n5QdbWro4f
— Paris Hilton (@ParisHilton) January 12, 2021
The kitchen has always been one of my favorite rooms in the house. š¹š #ThatsHot š„ #ChefParisš©š¼āš³ #TheSimpleLife šÆāāļø #FlashbackFriday pic.twitter.com/mDpnSLiWTC
— Paris Hilton (@ParisHilton) July 9, 2021
Photo credit: Avalon Red and Twitter
Awww, they’re trying to make her happen again š. As if we didn’t get enough of her in the 00s.
She has been happening all alone. She has become a good dj and plays the best clubs all over the world. Her cooking showvideos on youtube are pretty entertaining.
I didn’t watch The Simple Life but this is in that vein, right? ‘Watch an incredibly rich person try to do common things – hilarious!’ I guess you can have a career doing this fish-out-of water stuff if you’re an heiress. And it will make people mad who actually do and try and do these things for a living, but it also allows people to snicker at her ineptitude, real or faked. I guess that’s good for a season or two. What the hell do I know?
I quite enjoyed the Simple Life back in day (what can I say? I was young and watched far too much TV…) but that was entirely down to Nicole Richie, who was a star and genuinely funny. Paris Hilton was always dull and vapid in comparison.
Yeah, I don’t know how much depth or content she has to her. She’s never seemed particularly engaging, but she is a household name and I do think people like fish-out-of-water stories, myself included. And to combine that with cooking could make for some funny moments? I doubt I will watch, but that being said, I’m not sure I’m the target demographic here.
She had a golden opportunity to grow, but instead, she went back to the narrative she created for her life in her 20s. That’s a shame, considering how only recently she was going on about how that persona isn’t the “real” Paris.
She’s so artificial that it’s really hard to feel strongly about her, which I think is important if you have a cooking show.
Agree.
well said.
Netflix needs more content, I guess.
The decisions that come out of Netflix feel like a two-pronged strategy. Throw out easy, low cost, low quality content cashing in on already established names (there was some other show I donāt remember but it was another vanity project for some celebrity that was filler crap). Funnel the revenue that comes from those films to their actual serious, progressive creations.
On the one hand, I really like the quality, progressive content they create. On the other hand, I dislike that theyāre willing to just give a show to a rich white girl who has demonstrated zero self growth since the release of her documentary thing where she talked about the abuse she endured at Provo Canyon. I mean, why not give it to a prominent WOC, who can have just as many f-ck ups in the kitchen as Paris and has just as many celebrity friends?
The problem reveals itself because I canāt immediately think of a name, and it would draw more scrutiny just becauseā WOC. Is she perpetuating stereotypes about food in communities of color, etc, etc. Whereas Paris is problematic, has a reputation for being problematic, so gets a pass for a lot of things and makes people feel superior to her in terms of intelligence/cooking skill/etc.
You know when weāll have real progress? When each famous BIPOC isnāt considered to be an ambassador of their community who has to think about how their behavior might help or harm progress towards opening doors in various fields. Hell, this applies every day to BIPOC, especially in a professional setting. None of what Iām saying is new. Iām justā¦ Paris is a great example of this very large, blank check of privilege because she gets to say and do sh-t and it doesnāt end up having far reaching consequences that subconsciously reinforce whatever people believed about XYZ community of color.
I donāt know if Iām making sense at this point. But yeah.
I agree with you completely but, of course, I’m just waiting for the Richards/Hilton family to be gone from TV already
Nope. On every level nope. Thank you Hecate for taking one for the team and sitting through this so we don’t have to. Even taking her out of the equation, this approach to cooking would just drive me crazy!
This sounds like a Paris-version of “Nailed it”… As Merricat said above, it would have been an opportunity for Paris to show growth, but if it is just similar to the Youtube video it will be a mess.
I read this entire article and my resounding and horrifying takeaway is simply the not putting onions or garlic into the lasagne. This is not ok.
Right? GARLIC!
I donāt like texture of onions or smell of garlic, so I rarely use either. With all the wonderful spices and cooking wines we have at our disposal, eliminating these basics is not the end of the world.
lol actually it is!
You can blend onions with an immersion blender. I do it with pho, also any purĆ©ed soup like carrot ginger soup for example will usually have the onions blended in. Iāve done it with pizza and pasta sauce too (with tomato paste) when I didnāt have enough fresh tomatoes.
Mina_Esq: I agree .I get bad indigestion from onions, so I don’t eat them either. I can still use other spices and flavourings to make my food tasty though.
White women can get away with almost anything and be forgiven huh?
Does anyone really believe this woman can cook? Doesn’t she have enough money? Her need for attention is so pathetic.
Bad move, Netflix.
Racist garbage- a pretty blonde woman with a famous family name always lands on her feet and is given additional chances.
She is still racist garbage.
I feel sorry for Paris (almost). She did Simple Life as the star with her buddy Nicole Richie as her sidekick but Nicole got famous from it because she was down to earth,kinda edgy and real and Paris was just the fluff head. Then her buddy Kim K went from being her closet styler to mega-fame doing what Paris started-being famous for being famous doing a āārealityāā show. Now she takes the insta cooking videos celebrities did a lot during Covid and tries to find success. But Jen garner and Flo Pugh are engaging, funny and are good cooks. She was none of that in the video I just watched. It all looked unsanitary and she should have started the video over when she realized she forgot to add the onions and garlic to the sauce.
Since The Simple Life ended, people have been trying to rebrand her as some sort of secret genius who is really smart but played dumb for the cameras. I don’t buy it, lol. I think she is probably a bit smarter than she made herself out to be, but not by much. How could she be when she never had to exercise any of her mental faculties?
So I was vacationing at the (then) new W in Bali in 2011 and so was she and her friends. I believe she was about 30 at the time. At one point she and her crew got into the pool next to me and they were going on and on to each other about āomg! Like, did you brush my VAGINA under water!! Haha! What?! You touched my VAGINA!!!!ā And on and on and on super immature and loud. I mean, I know Iāve been to bachelorette parties or whatever where everyone wasnāt at their ābestā but it wasnāt doing a lot to sell me on the whole āitās all an act for tvā
I donāt get the push to make her popular again. She tells one sob story and claims to be a victim of the specialized hype she helped to perpetuate and suddenly she has to be in our faces again. No thank you. I havenāt forgotten the racism, classicist attitudes, bullying (see comments she made about Lindsay Lohan), and rampant consumerism.
Not buying the PR push.
Me either.
I’m sorry for the abuse she suffered at that camp, I believe her, and there is no reason anyone should be subjected to that. That’s it. I don’t want to see her in anything else, and am puzzled as to why anyone is giving her a platform or paying attention to her.
And I’m sure Nicole Richie, who has gotten her sh!t together and is doing well, is not thrilled to have her image used to help sell this pointless show.
She is branching out. She recently became an ambassador for one of the low-value Crypto/blockchain projects. Origin Token (OGN) if anyone is interested.
No thank you.
Of course I empathize with her trauma. However, no one should be giving her a pass for her racism that she managed to sweep under the rug. Liberal and frequent use of the N word. Never apologized. Never addressed it beyond saying “I’m not racist.” Google her racism for articles and video evidence that haven’t been scrubbed. Those who claim to be anti racist, who didn’t know before, and either choose not to check, or still give her a pass get major side eye.
I donāt dislike her and I respect her telling the abuses storyā, Iām just never into any of her content. Iām super picky about podcasts and though I finished hers with Amy schumer I couldnāt listen to much else. Itās not just Paris itās many hosts (like the old host of goop did it too) but I really noticed how self centred she got in her podcast. Then, I donāt like reality tv. Never watched any reality on Netflix other than one short unremarkable British design contest show. But I guess there is a big appetite for reality on Netflix now. Iām really surprised Paris doesnāt want to take a breather as she is constantly putting out photos etc but they would be more valuable if she put out less. I hope itās not sexist but I feel if the guy is not also putting it out there he might not like it that much. (And vice versa but to a lesser extent as I think some women do like to be āsomethingā to show off.) anyways sheās probably fine but Iām like cringing and also worrying about her as it seems like sheās announced some other engagements before.
So, The Simple Life with more people. Gross.
Ugh sheās the worst. Do we really need to suffer through her comeback??
This is a no watch from me. Why would anyone want to watch this woman “cooking” in the kitchen? She has no personality at all…..
No. Stop. Enjoy your millions and stop begging us for attention. Weāre not interested in vapid, racist brats.
Who’s we?
This reeks of desperation, and shows how Hollywood will just recycle and churn out the same old trash.
Yeah, I’ll probably definitely watch this. I’ve warmed up to her a lot in the last few years.
I worry the fingerless gloves are to hide the injuries to her knuckles from bulimia. Is anyone helping this woman?
I don’t need help making a bowl of cereal.
Her recipes are actually good.
Nope. Not interested in anything about her. I do love Selena Gomez’s cooking show though. I know she’s had some issues (shitty taste in men for one) but watching her cook is adorable.
But wait…who are these famous friends?
Is anyone here into Electronica? She’s an awesome and relevant dj that plays the best venues! Ibiza loves her! Ithought everyone knew this!
Haha ok Paris
Or more likely Paris’s or person lol
If it is anything like Bert Kreischer – Something’s Burning, I’M IN.
GOOD FOR HER