There's no denying that Paris Hilton is a pop culture icon.
She's been posing for the paparazzi and giving us iconic catchphrases since the early 2000s and she's not showing any signs of slowing down yet. Her latest show, Paris & Nicole: The Encore, takes her back to her roots alongside Nicole Richie who starred alongside her on The Simple Life, but this hotel heiress has had quite a reality TV career over the years.
From cooking to competition, Paris Hilton has starred in a wide variety of reality TV shows -- some of which even her most dedicated fans may have forgotten about.
Every reality show Paris Hilton has ever starred on
- The Simple Life
- Paris Hilton's My New BFF
- The World According to Paris
- Cooking with Paris
- Paris in Love
- Paris & Nicole: The Encore
1. The Simple Life
Even though Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie each came from famous families, it was definitely The Simple Life that catapulted the two of them into stardom. From 2003 through 2007, the show aired on Fox and eventually moved to E! and had the besties going to small towns to live "normal" lives and followed the pair from being best friends to having a major public feud back to being friends again.
2. Paris Hilton's My New BFF
A year after the end of The Simple Life, Paris Hilton had her own competition series in order to find her new best friend. A group of people -- 16 women and three men and 13 women to three men in the second season -- competed through various tasks to try to land the role of Paris Hilton's new best friend forever. The show had two seasons on MTV and got two spin-offs, one focused on the UK and one in Dubai.
3. The World According to Paris
In 2011, Paris Hilton got a show that didn't have the same formatted concept as her previous two shows. Unlike The Simple Life where Paris Hilton had a co-star or Paris Hilton's My New BFF where she was just hosting a competition show, this series followed her day-to-day life and documented her relationship at the time, like a 2011 precursor to Paris In Love.
4. Cooking with Paris
In the 2020s, Paris Hilton had a serious pop culture resurgence and on her YouTube channel, she started making videos of herself showing off her skills in the kitchen which lead to a Netflix special series in which she invited celebrities over to chat and cook together. The special had six episode in 2021 and featured famous faces like Kim Kardashian, Kathy Hilton, and Demi Lovato. Her iconic cooking YouTube videos and Netflix series even lead to her releasing a line of pink, heart-shaped cookware at Walmart. That's hot.
5. Paris in Love
In 2021, Paris Hilton started starring in Paris in Love, a Peacock exclusive reality series that follows her day-to-day life and her relationship with now-husband Carter Reum, the birth of her children, and more glimpses into her life now. Season 2 of the series aired on the streaming service in 2023 and Paris Hilton has stated that a third season that follows the behind-the-scenes of her tour and new album, but no release date has been set for it as of now.
6. Paris & Nicole: The Encore
Paris Hilton's latest reality show brings her back to her roots alongside her Nicole Richie. The two of them felt like 20 years was the perfect time for a reunion special, but unfortunately, in the age of smartphones and Instagram stories, it would be impossible to make the same show again. Instead, the two of of them decided to re-visit the small Arkansas town featured in the original series in order to try to produce an opera based around their iconic catchphrase, "sanasa." Paris & Nicole: The Encore is streaming exclusively on Peacock now.