Paris's Parents Get Reality Show

By Stephen M. Silverman

Tuesday April 27, 2004 01:00 AM EDT

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The Hiltons are jumping from hotel chain to reality-TV franchise. Paris Hilton's mother, Kathy Hilton, is about to follow in her daughter's footsteps and star in a new reality series, Variety reports.

With Paris already starring on FOX's The Simple Life, mom now plans to be at the center of NBC's The Good Life. Her mission: to teach 10 young women how to fit into high society. Eight episodes have been ordered.

Based out of New York's ritzy Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Park Avenue (which happens to be a Hilton holding), contestants will be taught different skills each week, with Mrs. Hilton eliminating one unskillful woman a week.

Kathy and her husband, Rick Hilton, are producing the show.

Whether Hilton will utter "You're fired!" to the losers is anybody's guess. (Wags are already calling the project The Apprentice meets My Fair Lady -- after the Broadway musical in which a stern professor of language teaches a common flower girl how to talk and act like a lady.) But the winner will receive a year's stay at the Waldorf, along with a suitable car, clothing and jewelry.

Hilton also will put her personal network to use to find the lucky woman a job.

The announcement follows last week's news that Paris and former boyfriend Rick Salomon's notorious sex tape, which was widely circulated on the Internet, is arriving on home video June 15.

The Los Angeles-based Red Light District Video announced it has acquired rights from Salomon, Hilton's ex-boyfriend, to distribute the 45-minute tape, which will be called One Night in Paris. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.