Things got downright uncomfortable during Paris Hilton's interview with ABC’s Dan Harris Wednesday, when the journalist asked the socialite if her pop culture spotlight has dimmed with the rise of other reality personalities.

"The celebutante marketplace has become rather crowded since Paris Hilton burst onto the scene in the late 1990s," Harris says in the piece. "People like Hilton’s former protégé and sometimes 'frenemy' Kim Kardashian have been eating up a lot of the oxygen, with hit reality shows and a mountain of magazine covers."

The wait(s) is over: Paris Hilton is once again single.

The sexy socialite appeared on Tuesday's edition of Lopez Tonight, confirming suspicions she'd broken up with her boyfriend of more than a year, Las Vegas club promoter Cy Waits.

"We're not together anymore," Hilton said to thunderous applause from the studio audience. "I love him, and we remain really good friends ... I just feel like the relationship ran its' course."

Paris Hilton cancelled a slew of media appearances following a contentious stint on The View where the hosts criticized her intentions for doing her new show, The World According to Paris, but her assistant (who appears on the show), Lexie Dreyfus, is coming to her defense.

“She was being real,” Lexie explained to RadarOnline.com. “That is who she is. She’s being real. Don’t bust her butt for really being real. Wouldn’t you say it sucked if you had to do community service at 8 in the morning? Even if you had to do it if you did something wrong?”

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Lexie, a family friend of the Hilton’s who sandwiched managing Paris’ busy schedule between a career writing adult entertainment screenplays and recording an album she says sounds like “Adele meets Amy Winehouse,” gushed about her experience with P (her affectionate nickname for her boss), explaining what a fan she is of the socialite.

All the oxygen was sucked out of the studio Wednesday when Barbara Walters grilled Paris Hilton during an interview on The View.

The reality star and her mother, Kathy Hilton, were on the ABC chat show to promote her show series, The World According to Paris.

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But neither Walters or her co-host Whoopi Goldberg thought Paris came across well in the premiere episode.

Walters, in particular, took Paris to task for only being shown shopping, clubbing, drinking, and complaining about doing her court-ordered community service.  The newswoman even reminded Paris that in the past she'd talked about wanting to help women prisoners and engage in extensive charity work -- none of which was seen on the first episode of her new show.

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"Why not present that side of yourself, if indeed it exists," Walters challenged Paris.  Ouch!

After the segment, Paris and her father Rick, who'd been backstage, railed at producers for the tone of the interview, The New York Post. A rep for The View confirmed the verbal altercation.

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The premiere episode of The World According to Paris didn't set the world on fire. Only 400,000 viewers tuned into the Oxygen network to watch it.

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Paris Hilton never disappoints her audience.

The hotel heiress bared it all for a bubble bath in her new reality show, The World According to Paris, which premiered Wednesday night.

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Paris showed off her flawless 30-year-old body as she soaped-up and washed her hair in the bath, baring the back of her nude body.

On CNN’s Piers Morgan show Tuesday Paris said that her 2003 sex tape was the “most humiliating and embarrassing” thing that had ever happened to her, and she continued her anti-porn stance on her reality show when she found out her assistant has a second job writing scripts for porn movies.

Charlie Sheen's troubled ex-wife Brooke Mueller lovingly hugs one of her 2-year-old twin boys Tuesday in Los Angeles, a day before a new reality TV show, which prominantly features her, premieres on Oxygen.

Brooke -- who's fought a very public battle with addiction -- will be featured on Paris Hilton's new reality show, The World According To Paris.

On the show, viewers will get an inside look at Brooke's struggles to stay sober.

Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan have officially buried the hatchet, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

The hotel heiress made a joke about Lindsay on her upcoming reality show, The World According To Paris.  In the preview clip, Paris gave a homeless woman a pair of earrings, and the woman thought Paris was Lindsay. Paris told the lady, "If I were Lindsay, I'd be stealing the earrings, and not giving them away."

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Thursday was the day from hell for Brooke Mueller, sitcom star Charlie Sheen’s soon-to-be-ex-wife.

It started with frantic calls to friends for drug-free urine, continued with a failed attempt to hock an expensive watch in a sleazy Inglewood pawn shop -- and it ended with friends believing Mueller is hitting rock bottom.

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