Paris: not so hot after all

So Paris Hilton has been jailed for 45 days after driving when her licence was suspended. Too bloody right.

And the best bit of all? She won't be allowed any special treatment. No access to her Blackberry, chihuahua or nail technicians. No gourmet meals and no designer togs. Paris will be a regular inmate just like every other offender in her jail.

But will this finally teach her a lesson? Probably not. And the reason for this? Her mother.

When Paris was sentenced to the wake-up call the rest of the world has been wanting to deliver since she copyrighted the vacant phrase "that's hot", Kathy Hilton laughed and snapped at the judge, "May I have your autograph?"

Oh, how witty you are, Kathy. That remarkably laughable (even for you) comment only exposed to greater effect how far your wilfully childish and spoilt daughter has been influenced by her parents.

Kathy went on to yell "You're pathetic!" at the judge who decided to - shock horror - make her daughter accountable for her actions.

Well, no wonder your daughter's behaving with such flagrant disregard for the law if that's the example you set her.

I've heard of parents who drag their deviant offspring to the police station in the desperate hope that a spell behind bars will scare them into improving their rebellious teenage behaviour.

Paris, on the other hand, has been encouraged to believe that she may do as she chooses and use her privileged background and bulging bank account to buy her way out of the consequences.

"I'm very sorry, and from now on I'm going to pay complete attention to everything. I'm sorry, and I did not do it on purpose at all," said Paris before her sentence was delivered.

Well, newsflash, Paris: You are an adult, not an underage teenager. It's your responsibility to make sure you pay complete attention to everything before you're pulled up in court for not doing so.

No one else gets a second or third chance. If I did what you did and said to the judge, "Oh, sorry, I wasn't listening that first time, give us another chance, eh?", I'd be quite rightly laughed out of the courtroom and into the nearest cell.

"To sentence Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail was to me uncalled for, inappropriate, and bordered on the ludicrous. I think she was singled out because she's who she is," said Hilton's attorney.

Indeed! How ludicrous it is to hold an adult accountable for their illegal actions! To make her live like a mere mortal for 45 days! Doesn't the judge know who she is? She's PARIS HILTON, for goodness' sake! She was born, by sheer fluke of the genetic lottery, into a family worth millions! Surely that entitles her to behave as she pleases without the threat of punishment?

Afraid not, guys. Maybe this will finally send a message to the souped up brats of Hollywood that just because you happen to be good at crying on camera for a profession that happens to make more money than others, you aren't a superior being and neither should you act like one. Somehow, though, I doubt it.