Paris Hilton's My New BFF | |
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Format | Competitive reality show |
Created by | Jed Elinoff (concept) Scott Thomas (concept) |
Developed by | Michael Hirschorn Stella Bulochnikov Stolper Paris Hilton |
Directed by | Peter Ney Jeanne Yugar |
Starring | Paris Hilton |
Opening theme | "My BFF" by Paris Hilton |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 10 (List of episodes) |
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Executive producer(s) | Michael Hirschorn Stella Bulochnikov Stolper Paris Hilton Jason Moore Chris Choun Douglas M. Wilson Tony DiSanto Liz Gateley |
Editor(s) | Ramin Mortazavi John Brookbank Asaf Eisenburg Chip Farnham Buzz Chatman |
Running time |
60 Minutes (including commercials) 42 minutes (not including commercials) |
Production company(s) | Ish Entertainment MTV |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | MTV |
Original run | September 30, 2008 | – December 2, 2008
Chronology | |
Followed by | Paris Hilton's British Best Friend |
Related shows | The Simple Life |
External links | |
Website |
The first season of Paris Hilton's My New BFF, also known simply as My New BFF and Paris Hilton's American Best Friend Forever internationally, premiered in the United States on September 30, 2008 and is the first incarnation of the My New BFF franchise. 16 women and 2 men competed in challenges in an attempt to become her new best friend.
Though Hilton was forbidden from revealing the winner before the show had fully aired, she had on two separate occasions accidentally referred to the winner as a "she," first on the September 25, 2008 airing of the Late Show with David Letterman, and again on the October 7, 2008 airing of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, thus inadvertently narrowing down the contestants.[1]
On December 2, 2008, it was revealed in the finale that Brittany Flickinger became Paris' BFF.
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Prior to production, a website was set up for potential contestants to submit their videos on why they should be Paris' BFF, and casting sessions were also set up. Initially, the 18 people with the highest votes from other users would go on the show. However, the 10 contestants with the most amount of votes went on while the other 8 were selected by the producers.
Contestants | Episodes | |||||||||
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1[a] | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5[b] | 6 | 7 | 8[c] | 9 | 10[d] | |
Brittany | SAFE | SAFE | PET | PET | LOW | WIN | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | BFF |
Vanessa | PET | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | PET | LOW | WIN | TTYS |
Shelley | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | TTYS | |
Corrie | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | LOW | PET | SAFE | LOW | LOW | TTYS | |
Lauren | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | TTYN | ||
Kayley | SAFE | PET | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | WIN | TTYS | |||
Kiki | LOW | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | TTYN | ||||
Natasha | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | TTYN | |||||
Zui | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | TTYN | |||||
Onch | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | TTYS | ||||||
Bryan | SAFE | SAFE | TTYN | |||||||
Sinsu | SAFE | SAFE | TTYN | |||||||
Baje | SAFE | TTYN | ||||||||
Michelle | TTYN | |||||||||
Athena | TTYN | |||||||||
Erin | TTYN | |||||||||
Francisca | TTYN | |||||||||
Trisha | TTYN |
Rank | Name | Eliminated | Reason for elimination | Episode eliminated | |
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1 | Brittany Flickinger |
on December 2, 2008. |
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2 | Vanessa Fontana |
on December 2, 2008. |
Specific reason not stated on air. Implication that Paris had a better connection with Brittany. | Episode 10 | |
3 | Corrie Loftin |
on November 25, 2008. |
Paris felt that she cared more about herself than friendship. | Episode 9 | |
4 | Shelley Burkett |
on November 25, 2008. |
Did not seem sad when she was "sent home" in the fake elimination challenge, thus making Paris feel like she would be happier back home. | ||
5 | Lauren Stone |
on November 18, 2008. |
Onch – who returned along with other eliminated BFF's for a special challenge – had told Paris that she was not cooperative during the challenge. The other BFF's, except Shelley, had bad attitudes toward her as well. | Episode 8 | |
6 | Kayley Gable |
on November 11, 2008. |
Paris felt that she would bring too much drama to her life.3 | Episode 7 | |
7 | Erica "Kiki" Duarte |
on November 4, 2008. |
Performed badly in the showgirl challenge, and Paris felt she didn't take it seriously. She had a bad attitude towards the other contestants, and she was disrespectful to Paris by smirking during elimination. | Episode 6 | |
8 | Natasha Komis |
on October 28, 2008. |
Had an ongoing attitude problem, and performed badly in the 7 Minutes in Heaven challenge. She also disrespected Paris by saying that the challenge was foolish. | Episode 5 (Part two) | |
9 | Zui Watts |
on October 28, 2008. |
Made physical threats towards Corrie earlier after Corrie made a racist remark.2 | Episode 5 (Part one) | |
10 | Nelson "Onch" Chung |
on October 21, 2008. |
Was voted the second fakest contestant (behind Corrie), and Paris thought he was playing a game and had "issues". | Episode 4 | |
11–12 | Bryan Gallagher |
on October 14, 2008. |
Was too shy, quiet and spoke a little bit. | Episode 3 | |
Sinsu Co | Drank and partied too heavily. | ||||
13 | Baje Fletcher |
on October 7, 2008. |
Performed badly in the 24-hour party challenge, was anti-social, did not get along well with other contestants and was disrespectful to Paris by laughing during elimination. | Episode 2 | |
14 | Michelle Kopasz |
on September 30, 2008. |
Did not trust Paris's makeover suggestion. | Episode 1 (Part two) | |
15–18 | Athena Georgiadias |
on September 30, 2008. |
Did not give a good first impression to Paris.1 | Episode 1 (Part one) | |
Erin Newberg | |||||
Francisca Ovalle | |||||
Trisha Hershberger |
Thus far, the only DVD release confirmed for the franchise is this season, in Australia, on September 29, 2010.[2]
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