The first season of Paris Hilton's My New BFF, also known simply as My New BFF and Paris Hilton's American Best Friend Forever internationally, premiered in the United States on September 30, 2008 and is the first incarnation of the My New BFF

Paris Hilton's My New BFF

Paris Hilton's My New BFF, also known simply as My New BFF and other alternate titles, is a competitive reality television show in which Paris Hilton searches for her new BFF . Following the success of the original US version, another US season and two international spin-offs followed...

franchise. 16 women and 2 men competed in challenges in an attempt to become her new best friend.

Though Hilton was forbidden from revealing the winner before the show had fully aired, she had on two separate occasions accidentally referred to the winner as a "she," first on the September 25, 2008 airing of the Late Show with David Letterman

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, and again on the October 7, 2008 airing of The Ellen DeGeneres Show

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, thus inadvertently narrowing down the contestants.

On December 2, 2008, it was revealed in the finale that Brittany Flickinger became Paris' BFF.

Contestant Selections

Prior to production, a website was set up for potential contestants to submit their videos on why they should be Paris' BFF, and casting sessions were also set up. Initially, the 18 people with the highest votes from other users would go on the show. However, the 10 contestants with the most amount of votes went on while the other 8 were selected by the producers.

Elimination Table

During the first elimination in episode 1, there was no discussion. Athena, Erin, Francisca, and Trisha were eliminated outside of panel.

During the first elimination in episode 5, everyone was up for discussion. The contestants shaded in blue and red were up for discussion in the second elimination.

Beginning in episode 8, every contestant would be up for elimination.

In episode 10, during elimination Paris left the rooftop where panel was held. Brittany and Vanessa were drove to two different places. Vanessa arrived at a hotel room. There was a note that said she was eliminated.

Key

The contestant is a female.

The contestant is a male.

The contestant became Paris' new BFF.

The contestant won the episode's challenge and was safe from elimination.

The contestant won the challenge, was safe from elimination, and was made the pet.

The contestant was made the pet and was safe from elimination.

The contestant was made the pet by another contestant.

The contestant won the challenge, was in the bottom and safe, and was made a pet.

The contestant was not eliminated in that episode.

The contestant was in the bottom, replaced with someone else, and therefore was safe.

The contestant was up for elimination, but was safe.

The contestant was eliminated by another contestant.

The contestant was eliminated.

The contestant was eliminated outside of panel.

The contestant won the episode's challenge and was up for elimination.

TTYN – Talk To You Never, the goodbye message for eliminated contestants. Paris never said "TTYN" to Shelley, Corrie or Vanessa when they were eliminated. She said "TTYS" (Talk To You Soon) to Vanessa after her elimination. And finally, she said "Sayonara!" after Bryan and Sinsu were eliminated, as they were in Japan along with Brittany and Natasha.

BFF – Best Friend Forever, what Paris was looking for through the show.

Contestants

Rank	Name	Eliminated	Reason for elimination	Episode eliminated
1	Brittany Flickinger	Winner on December 2, 2008.
2	Vanessa Fontana	Runner-Up on December 2, 2008.	Specific reason not stated on air. Implication that Paris had a better connection with Brittany.	Episode 10
3	Corrie Loftin	Eliminated 16th on November 25, 2008.	Paris felt that she cared more about herself than friendship.	Episode 9
4	Shelley Burkett	Eliminated 15th on November 25, 2008.	Did not seem sad when she was "sent home" in the fake elimination challenge, thus making Paris feel like she would be happier back home.
5	Lauren Stone	Eliminated 14th on November 18, 2008.	Onch – who returned along with other eliminated BFF's for a special challenge – had told Paris that she was not cooperative during the challenge. The other BFF's, except Shelley, had bad attitudes toward her as well.	Episode 8
6	Kayley Gable	Eliminated 13th on November 11, 2008.	Paris felt that she would bring too much drama to her life.	Episode 7
7	Erica "Kiki" Duarte	Eliminated 12th on November 4, 2008.	Performed badly in the showgirl challenge, and Paris felt she didn't take it seriously. She had a bad attitude towards the other contestants, and she was disrespectful to Paris by smirking during elimination.	Episode 6
8	Natasha Komis	Eliminated 11th on October 28, 2008.	Had an ongoing attitude problem, and performed badly in the 7 Minutes in Heaven challenge. She also disrespected Paris by saying that the challenge was foolish.	Episode 5 (Part two)
9	Zui Watts	Eliminated 10th on October 28, 2008.	Made physical threats towards Corrie earlier after Corrie made a racist remark.	Episode 5 (Part one)
10	Nelson "Onch" Chung	Eliminated 9th on October 21, 2008.	Was voted the second fakest contestant (behind Corrie), and Paris thought he was playing a game and had "issues".	Episode 4
11–12	Bryan Gallagher	Eliminated 7th/ 8th on October 14, 2008.	Was too shy, quiet and spoke a little bit.	Episode 3
	Sinsu Co		Drank and partied too heavily.
13	Baje Fletcher	Eliminated 6th on October 7, 2008.	Performed badly in the 24-hour party challenge, was anti-social, did not get along well with other contestants and was disrespectful to Paris by laughing during elimination.	Episode 2
14	Michelle Kopasz	Eliminated 5th on September 30, 2008.	Did not trust Paris's makeover suggestion.	Episode 1 (Part two)
15–18	Athena Georgiadias	Eliminated 1st/ 4th on September 30, 2008.	Did not give a good first impression to Paris.	Episode 1 (Part one)
	Erin Newberg
	Francisca Ovalle
	Trisha Hershberger

1. They was eliminated outside of panel.
2. She was eliminated by Corrie, who was instructed by Paris to choose a contestant to leave.
3. She was initially not up for discussion. Shelley and Corrie were, but Paris felt that Shelley – who was picked for elimination by Vanessa – did not deserve to be up for elimination. She was then asked to switch spots with Kayley.

DVD Releases

Thus far, the only DVD release confirmed for the franchise is this season, in Australia, on September 29, 2010.

External links

• Paris Hilton's My New BFF Official Website
• Paris Hilton's My New BFF Casting Website
• Paris Hilton Fansite with show coverage & updates
• Paris Hilton's Official Myspace Page