Paris doesnt appreciate her image being used on billboards in New Zealand.
You would have thought the media whore would like having her face all over billboards down the other end of the world.
Wonder why not?
Paris Hilton is not amused. The American hotel heiress is upset a photo of her is being used to advertise vacant billboard space in Auckland.
The photo, which shows Hilton partying, has the word “vacant” written in giant-sized lettering across it.
Hilton’s Los Angeles-based manager Jamie Freed said Wellington billboard company, Media5, had no permission to use Hilton’s image, and they could expect to hear from Hilton’s lawyers ….
… Adam McGregor from Media5 told the Sunday Star-Times the company, which had grown from having 35 to 70 advertising sites in Wellington and Auckland, was not using Hilton to endorse their billboards. They were “just having a bit of fun”.
“We wanted to draw some attention to some of our unsold display as we expanded, so we briefed a friend who runs his own boutique agency to work up a range of creative concepts. We liked the ones he came up with using high-profile public figures the best because they were fun.
“We were thinking about using Winston Peters, but Paris is much prettier and she has a proven ability to laugh at herself. We assume that the agency has taken care of the rights to the image of Paris, but we will ask the question,” McGregor said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/3042467/Paris-not-laughing-at-vacant-Kiwi-billboards