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Isn’t it amazing that where the world gathers, Paris Hilton has to be her tacky best?

The Times in South Africa reports to-day that socialite Paris Hilton has claimed to have spotted a tiger while on safari during her World Cup sojourn in South Africa.

“So many amazing animals here - Elephants, Tigers, Zebras, Cheetahs, Rhinos, Hippos, etc. So awesome!” she said on Twitter on Thursday afternoon.

In an endeavor to make sure that she was seen and to take up a few column centimtres and seconds in the world media, Hilton was briefly arrested on suspicion of smoking dagga during a World Cup match in Port Elizabeth last week, also wrote in separate tweets: “Giraffes are Hot”, “Ella the Elaphant (sic)”, “A Huge Cute Elaphant”, and “So amazing, sitting outside eating lunch and there are a family of 5 Elaphants only feet away from us. So incredible!”

While elephant (the correct spelling), zebra, cheetah, rhino and hippo are indigenous to South Africa, the tiger isn’t - its home is in Asia.

Amazingly for someone who was probably being paid for going to a game lodge andreporting on it, Hilton did not say where she had spotted these animals, although clearly wasn’t a local zoo.

Hilton later corrected herself: “I meant leapards (sic)”. And again: “I meant leopards not tigers. : p oops”

Does the world really need Paris Hilton?

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