# The Hilton Sisters: Why the Fuck are they famous? And why should I care? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 24, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030 "2003-06-24T14:39:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Muldoon\_s\_Squishiness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Muldoon\_s\_Squishiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muldoon_s_Squishiness)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/1 "2003-06-24T14:39:01Z")
'Cause I don’t. Not in the least. They both look like professional skanks, who didn’t spend any time at the amateur level. They aren’t actresses. They aren’t models, super or otherwise. They aren’t musicians/singers. So why do they suddenly have all of this media attention? Because they are heiresses??!! You have got to be kidding me. They make Kato Kalen look like Einstein intellectually, but they are maybe 1/12 of a step above him on the celebrity scale for this reason: Kato is a celebrity simply because he is a hanger-on for someone who got away with two murders. Would someone please explain the appeal of the Hilton sisters, 'cause I can’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![Qazzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@Qazzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qazzz)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/2 "2003-06-24T14:43:45Z")
Are you talking about the conjoined twins? There’s a wonderful musical about them called “Side Show.” That’s all I know. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/3 "2003-06-24T14:53:00Z")
Conjoined? No… more like coined. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/4 "2003-06-24T14:59:25Z")
I’ve wondered that myself, actually. Then again, I’ve wondered that about a lot of people who actually _are_ actors, singers, athletes, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/5 "2003-06-24T15:04:38Z")
All I can think is that they must’ve had a three-way with someone big at E!. They’ve been all over that channel lately, for no apparent reason. They’re both a bit…strange looking. I _almost_ thought Paris was attractive, but once she opened her mouth it destroyed all possibility of interest from me. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/6 "2003-06-24T15:12:23Z")
So we all know who we’re talking about here: [Pic](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=granitz&group=1802&photo=Events/1802/NickyHilto_Mazur_835468_400.jpg&path=pgallery&path_key=Hilton,%20Paris) I think it’s Nicky on the left and Paris on the right. Pash ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/7 "2003-06-24T15:21:08Z")
While I have nothing against giddy blonde socialites, I’m with **Qazzz** in preferring [these](http://phreeque.tripod.com/hilton_sisters.html) Hilton Sisters. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/8 "2003-06-24T15:22:48Z")
Yeah, I saw them on the “E exclamation mark” channel on Sunday for the first time. After some “research” they have done a spread in FHM. They’re not grotesque but I don’t think they’re going to get kicked out of beds. It is odd that the first place I saw them was on the “E exclamation mark” channel. I thought you had to be famous _first_. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/9 "2003-06-24T15:38:19Z")
Isn’t one of them on some new “reality” show? I think one of them plus Lionel Richie’s daughter get sent out to live on a farm and do chores. I assume this is why the media gives a flying fuck about them lately. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/10 "2003-06-24T15:58:37Z")
Paris Hilton looks like a Latino drag queen. She always has such a smug expression I get annoyed just looking at her picture. Nicky is okay, although lookswise she wouldn’t have stood out even in my high school. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*While I have nothing against giddy blonde socialites, I’m with **Qazzz** in preferring [these](http://phreeque.tripod.com/hilton_sisters.html) Hilton Sisters. \*\* Good God! how on Earth did their mother pass these two? Or did she die during their birth? ---
**Author:** ![macabresoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@macabresoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/macabresoul)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/11 "2003-06-24T16:02:58Z")
Worth a billion dollars, dress like sluts. what more could you want? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/12 "2003-06-24T16:06:59Z")
The New Hilton Sisters are very pretty, I think. They got famous the same way Ivanna Trump got famous. Or George Hamilton. Beautiful people with lots of money. And they travel together at all times, from what I hear. Double the gossip. I don’t think they’re real big in the brains department, otherwise we would have heard, don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/13 "2003-06-24T16:46:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by macabresoul \* > \*\*Worth a billion dollars, dress like sluts. > > what more could you want? \*\* Accidentally kissing while playfighting would be the Triple Crown, methinks.😃 ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/14 "2003-06-24T16:48:03Z")
They’re professional party girls. They go to Ibiza, Cancun, Paris, New York, all the time because they are filthy rich and will never have to work. I’ll be enjoying the day they turn 30 and realize that they have no marketable skills and aren’t pretty anymore from all the excessive “beauty treatments”. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/15 "2003-06-24T16:53:50Z")
I think there’s a lot of attention being aimed towards them now due to that reality show as well. Has it even started yet? I had never even heard of them before all the hoopla on E! Recently. I just assumed it was because of the show. Some of you have heard them _talk_? I thought they were mute. I actually watched some of their “True Hollywood Story” (it was really boring and I turned it off a little less than halfway through) and their family was going on and on about how they were teased in school because they were so rich and beautiful. Poor babies. :rolleyes: Another strange thing: all of their relatives that were interviewed were, how should I say this, a great deal _less_ attractive than the twins. I mean, a _GREAT_ deal less attractive. Girls sure lucked out… ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/16 "2003-06-24T16:54:22Z")
> [@](#): > > They’re professional party girls. They go to Ibiza, Cancun, Paris, New York, all the time because they are filthy rich and will never have to work. I’ll be enjoying the day they turn 30 and realize that they have no marketable skills and aren’t pretty anymore from all the excessive “beauty treatments”. If they are filthy rich and will never have to work, why does it matter that they have no marketable skills? And, hon, I hate to break it to you, but people can still be beautiful at 30 and beyond. Gobear, 42 in August and still a handsome sumbitch ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/17 "2003-06-24T16:55:10Z")
What difference would that make **red\_dragon**? They’d still be heiresses, even if they were ugly and had no marketable skills. They could take up tennis or something. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/18 "2003-06-24T17:03:48Z")
Who is it who’s suing their relatives with claims that their trust fund was “looted”? This was in the news not that long ago but I can’t recall the name of the family now. Wealth and beauty won’t necessarily last forever. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/19 "2003-06-24T17:18:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ferret Herder \* > \*\*Who is it who’s suing their relatives with claims that their trust fund was “looted”? This was in the news not that long ago but I can’t recall the name of the family now. > > Wealth and beauty won’t necessarily last forever. \*\* I’m thinking that was [Liesel Matthews](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Matthews,%20Liesel) of the Hyatt hotels. All I remember is she played Harrison Ford’s daughter in _Air Force One._ ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030/20 "2003-06-24T17:22:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\*If they are filthy rich and will never have to work, why does it matter that they have no marketable skills? And, hon, I hate to break it to you, but people can still be beautiful at 30 and beyond. > > Gobear, 42 in August and still a handsome sumbitch \*\* No kidding. I just turned 38 and I’m in better shape than when I turned 30. Quitting smoking (or not starting, kiddies) and working out is a great anti-aging recipe. I can military 150 over my head now. I know for some guys that’s not a lot. But for a fairly slender guy in his 30s, that ain’t bad. The Hilton sisters look wonderful, BTW. It’s nice that they keep the poor designers, jet makers, boat builders, and vinyards in business. Someone has to do it. :mad: :smack: ☹ :o If you obsess over the richest people and their insane spending habits, that makes you covetously insane by proxy, or something. I prefer to remember that I don’t ever go hungry or want for necessities. So, yes, the media attention is all out of proportion to anything those two plutocratic misfits are worth. Let’s hear about working people who volunteer time at the homeless shelter or whatever. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hilton-sisters-why-the-fuck-are-they-famous-and-why-should-i-care/184030.md?page=2)