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Paris Hilton and Benji Madden—Linkin Park Concert at Staples Center, Downtown L.A.

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Brandy: “Paris is with Benji Madden of the band Good Charlotte, who is Joel Madden’s twin brother. Joel Madden is the father of Nicole Ritchie’s baby, and Nicole was Paris’s friend and television co-star who became her rival and enemy. I find the Paris Hilton and Benji Madden relationship strange. Is Paris jealous of Nicole and trying to keep her from grabbing the spotlight? She is the queen of media manipulation, and she created this whole thing for a purpose. It does make you wonder if it's revenge on both their parts.

"Of course part of why people look at these pictures is that Benji Madden is not the traditional idea of the handsome boyfriend. He’s not what we would consider to be her type. Me being an out-of-touch 34 year old, I hate Good Charlotte. It’s pop-punk, which says it all. I was never into the whole punk thing, but you can’t betray punk. How gross.

"The way they are dressed is not L.A. style. It’s the style of the people who listen to Good Charlotte. What Paris is wearing here are the things that she wears at home when she's lying around on the couch. She would never wear them out until now. But she has no choice, because nothing else in her wardrobe fits in with Benji’s style. Here you have Paris Hilton, the old Hollywood pinup fantasy girl, wearing this style that girls wear because they don’t have good bodies and they’re trying to cover it up."

Regis: “Paris sees that Nicole is doing well, and that she has just sold the exclusive picture of her new baby to People magazine for $1.5 million. Paris doesn’t fit very well with Benji Madden, but she is going to try it for a little while. The Madden twins are really nice guys. They are really sweet. But of course the whole arrangement is simply calculated to catch the interest of the paparazzi.”

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