Paris Hilton won’t be going on her humanitarian mission to Rwanda this month after all because Playing for Good, the Spanish charity that was sponsoring her trip, has postponed it indefinitely.
The plan was to film Paris as she toured clinics and schools throughout the country with the intention of creating a reality show called “The Philanthropist.” Reneging on the publicity was an apparent deal-breaker for the socialite, who hasn’t announced any plans to, for example, pay her own way and go forward with the trip. Instead, so far this month she’s been to Tokyo to judge a beauty contest and South Korea to party.
If an heiress volunteers in the woods and no one films it, does it make a sound?
In November, The Atlantic will ask whether the “outing” of Madonna as an eco-hypocrite bodes ill for celebrities with future public sins to hide. Was Madonna’s act at Live Earth just a bit of “drive-by do-gooderism?” Memo to Madge Kabbalah Ciccone Ritchie: If you can’t walk the walk, don’t talk the talk. We’re all watching you.
And Madonna’s carbon footprint was hardly the most embarrassing anecdote to emerge from Live Earth. R-n-B pop tart Joss Stone, reports The Scotsman, “asked staff to keep her car engine running while she did interviews at Live Earth Johannesburg.”
All in all, adds Canadian columnist John Martin, Live Earth was a flop because “the notion of jet-flying, limousine-riding, 20-room-mansion-owning rock ‘n’ rollers spreading the message we need to simplify and consume less was just a touch over the top.”
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