Paris Hilton: Just call me Barbie

The hotel heiress, famed for her ditzy, blonde image, said that despite having her idols, she doesn’t try to be like anyone else.

She told V Magazine: 'I have always admired Marilyn Monroe, because the camera loved her. Audrey Hepburn, for being so classic, and Kate Moss. I'm very fun, and I'm very daring. I don't copy anybody. I'm like my own Barbie doll!'

And she admitted she made herself in to someone she wasn’t for The Simple Life because she was so timid.

'They told me to play a character; Green Acres meet Clueless,” she explained. I didn’t realise the show would go on for so many seasons and I’d have to continue doing that character. But you know what? It was comfortable, because I was shy and I could hide behind that persona.”

But she added that in her latest offering, The World According to Paris, viewers get to see the real her.

She added: 'I get to use my real voice. I love the show because it's showing more of the real me, as a businesswoman. I wanted to show what its like to be in my world.'