Now that Nicole Richie has gone and, selfishly, had a baby, Paris Hilton needs a new best friend. So, what’s a celebutante to do when she is looking for Miss Right to go clubbing with? Create a reality show, of course!

According to Usmagazine.com, Paris will star in a brand new reality show depicting her search for Nicole’s replacement. “The show is going to be about her searching for a new best friend,” a source said. “Paris is tired of the haters and she’s looking for someone new. She’s looking for someone new and cool who she can trust.”

Right, and what better way to find a trustworthy individual than to put out an open casting call.

This masterpiece is expected to be picked up by either MTV or VH1 and is “going to be full of good chick drama and you will see a side of Paris not seen on Simple Life.”

Dilemma: Paris Hilton is developing a new reality show in which she looks for a new best friend, and she’s also stepping out with her new boyfriend, Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden, who just split from his fiancee less than two weeks ago. Which item do we lead with? They just don’t teach you this in journalism school.

We’ll go with the one that lends itself better to cheap jokes. A source tells Us Weekly that the reality show will reveal a new side of “The Simple Life” star. Like the back of her left earlobe? Because we think we’ve seen Hilton from just about every other angle.

“Paris is tired of the haters, and she’s looking for someone new,” the source says. “She’s looking for someone new and cool who she can trust.” Yes, because reliability, stability and loyalty are hallmarks of reality show contestants. Us reports that the show, still untitled, is probably going to air on MTV or VH1.

Meanwhile, Hilton has been out and about with Madden, who is the twin of Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden, who also happens to be the baby daddy of Hilton’s onetime BFF and “Simple Life” co-star, Nicole Richie.

Paris Hilton celebrated her birthday by stripping down, posing in leather and lace and climbing in a giant champagne glass while dressed in lingerie.  Lindsay Lohan went completely bare and has posed nude for a photo shoot.  The two former friends appear to have picked the same holiday weekend to try and boost their careers by flashing their bodies in what will surely be called a desperate cry for attention.

Hilton was working the “Pussycat Doll” routine in Las Vegas for her twenty-seventh birthday.  She went for the whole S&M look for a bit before stripping down for her lingerie photo shoot.  The girls went to the trouble to sing “Happy Birthday” to the dog-toting socialite.

Lindsay made her attempt to look like Marilyn is what can easily be dubbed as a pathetic failure.  To make matters worse, according to celebrity website TMZ.Com, LiLo brought along her little sister Ali Lohan to look on and see what her life will be like if she follows in the footsteps of her older sister.  Where is White Oprah?”

Just over a year ago, Lindsay and Paris were together playing with Britney Spears and were captured by photographers after a rough night of partying all in the same car.  Fifteen months later all seem to be in free fall.  Can stripping solve their problems?

A Regent Releasing release of a Purple Pictures production. Produced by Victoria Nevinny, Neal Ramer, Myles Nestel, Hadeel Reda. Executive producers, Paris Hilton, Hans G. Syz. Co-producers, Grace M. Lee, Josh Lekach, Roger Crotti, Craig Chapman. Directed by Tom Putnam. Screenplay, Heidi Ferrer.

Cristabel Abbott - Paris Hilton
Nate Cooper - Joel David Moore
June Phigg - Christine Lakin
Johann Wutrich - Johann Urb
Cole Slawsen - Adam Kulbersh
Arno Blount - Greg Wilson Mrs. Blount - Marianne Muellerleile
Jane - Kathryn Fiore

 My day started yesterday at about 8 a.m.There was no time for breakfast, but I was able to down a quick cup of coffee before heading to the Kari Feinstein Style Lounge to interview Emily Blunt about her new movie Sunshine Cleaning. (The movie, costarring Amy Adams and about two sisters who open a crime-scene cleaning company, is one of the most buzzed about flicks of the festival). I’ll have more of my chat with Ms. Blunt later this week, but I must tell you that she revealed something quite, um, big about her singer boyfriend, Michael Bublé. When one of her posse handed her a box of size XL condoms from Proper Attire, she laughed, “These will be good for Michael.” I finally grabbed something to eat at the MySpace Café at the Lift, where Tom Arnold barreled in and quickly explained why he was so, well, wet. “I’m a sweater,” Arnold said while wiping his forehead with a napkin before taking off for a ski-lift interview with David Carr of the New York Times. “I sweated when I was on cocaine, and I’m still sweating when I’m off cocaine.”I walked across the street to the Reaction suite and In Touch café, where Colin Hanks was spotted sipping Divine Chocolate Hot Cocoa. Paris Hilton was in the night before when the space became the nightly Park City outpost of New York City nightclub Stereo. She actually showed up between the parties for the Woody Harrelson flick Transsiberian and the launch of An Amiga, a Facebook-like Website for dogs. Yes, dogs! “Paris just walked in and sat down,” an eyewitness told me. “There was no music, and the lights were fully on. She just waited for the party to start.” Hilton ended up partying till 6 a.m.  at the 5W Escape House. My fellow party hopper Cristina Gibsonand I both heard that she spent much of the time making out with Simon Rex. (Kim Kardashian was also at 5W, swapping spit with boyfriend Reggie Bush in the Lifestyles condoms booth.)