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Paris Hilton – Rwanda No More
29 October, 2007
I should have posted a warning in the headline, as I really am afraid I will break your hearts with this, but this is life, and sometimes you do have to deliver bad news as well. But stay strong and brave – and trust the showbiz world, for it never disappoints. For all you Paris fans out there who were waiting, hands on your wallets, to start piling the money on Paris' Rwanda campaign, I bring bad news. The heiress will not be taking any photos alongside the unique mountain gorillas in the Virunga park, for the simple but heartbreaking reason that her East Africa trip has just been canceled. "Due to the restructuring of the Playing for Good Foundation, the philanthropic trip to Rwanda that the foundation had previously planned with Paris Hilton has been postponed," the organization said in a statement released yesterday to people magazine. Yes, well, this is just getting better and better...I mean, sadder and sadder. When I first read the news, I confess I thought war had broken out again, or that some monsoon or other natural calamity had struck Rwanda. But it turns out, the fault lies somewhere else.
I have a feeling Paris got cold feet at the last moment and asked the people at the Playing for Good Foundation to pass it off as an administrative decision. I mean, people may starve to death in Africa, but bureaucracy is still bureaucracy, right? It makes perfect sense. I do tend to think it would all have been slightly more believable if they had claimed that a terrorist group in Rwanda had threatened to put a one million dollar price on her head – but that's just proof that I watched Terminator one too many times. "Paris has been a loyal and gracious supporter of Playing For Good but the foundation has to regrettably reschedule this trip. Playing for Good would like to thank Ms. Hilton for her generosity and her continued support of this initiative and is looking forward to rescheduling the trip with her at a later time", the foundation in question also states. That's too bad – I was looking forward to hearing Paris' humanitarian appeals. That would have been something really special, don't you think? Posted by admin at 05:34 PM | View: (195) 
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