Reporting by Amanda Becker
She's typically seen standing next to Nicole Richie, but hotel heiress Paris Hilton is abandoning her well-coiffed entourage this winter, and will instead star opposite a character more after-school special, and less celebrity sidekick.
"I didn't know what to expect going in quite frankly," admitted Hilton's "The Hottie and the Nottie" co-star Christine Lakin, when we caught up with her recently. "But I can't say enough about how much [Hilton] went out of her way to embrace both myself and my co-star [Joel Moore]; she was so lovely."
In the comedy, due out this February, Hilton refuses to marry her on-screen boyfriend (Moore) until he finds a suitable suitor for her fugly best friend, played by Lakin. "I truly look like a cavewoman in this film," laughed Lakin, who underwent two hours of makeup and prosthetics each day before shooting. "I had moles, acne and a unibrow! I was balding!" Read more...