What I'm saying this on tape.

She hit me last night for no reason for me.

What's it great?

Who's movie bomb?

Firecrack's movie bomb.

I mean, it does make a question, what has wrong with the young holly?

Honest to God, what is the problem? Hello and welcome to the inaugural episode of my new podcast, Le Do You Remember This, where we look back on all the Hollywood stories of the early odds,

a time in history when America found out that with a trust fund, a sex tape, and a dream,

you too could become a star.

This is the first episode in a min-series about the blonde reality star who started it all.

Julie from Real World New Orleans.

From being a Mormon virgin to missing her American Airlines flight from Boston and thus sleeping through 9-11, and nothing in between.

Unfortunately, it turns out there wasn't a whole lot out there on Julie, so I had to move on to the other blonde reality star who started it all.

Paris Hilton.

In the first decade of the 21st century, Paris not only started at all, she was the center of it.

As Mark Ebner describes in his book, the Six Degrees of Paris Hilton, she is, quote, the celestial body around which all planets seem to revolve.

She is the you are here sign in the universal shopping mall that

is post-capitalism. I don't know, whatever. But what is the all that she started? For one,

between her sex tape and the success of her reality show The Simple Life, people became

fixated on the concept of being famous just for being famous.

This then made way for a litany of new reality show stars who were offered the same level

of exposure and platforms as people who had notoriety for actually accomplishing something.

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