Who Will Be the Next Paris Hilton?

June 12, 2007 — -- It has been a very sad and public divorce between the media and some of its favorite fodder. America's "it girls" Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Nicole Richie say they're hanging up their party shoes, leaving tabloids at a loss for their latest headlines. But never fear, the next Paris Hilton could be right around the corner -- she will just have some very large (size 11 to be exact) shoes to fill.

A recent series of unfortunate events has put what the world came to know as the "Brit Pack" out of commission. Lindsay Lohan's drunken Memorial Day escapades sent her back to rehab while Britney Spears continues to lay low after a very public head-shaving incident. But the ringleader, Paris Hilton, has made the most public disappearance -- and from her jail cell vows she'll change her wild ways.

"I have become much more spiritual. God has given me a new chance," said Hilton in a collect phone call from jail to ABC's Barbara Walters.

"My spirit or soul did not like the way I was being seen, and that is why I was sent to jail," she told Walters.

Hilton isn't the only "it girl" who said she's checked out of the party scene. US Weekly's Ken Baker said it seems as if all of America's sweethearts-turned-bad-girls have disappeared.

It's a good question. Not too long ago, when Hilton was at the height of her fame, she captivated American and international audiences with her, well, ability to be herself. Who will step into the vacancy that's left behind now that she's fallen from grace?

Hilton has become synonymous with Hollywood, but fame was made on the East Coast. The heiress's first public debut was on the pages of New York's, not Los Angeles' tabloids.

"Paris was a creature of Page Six for a long time, and there was a time where magazines like US Weekly wouldn't write about her because she was a local socialite," said Baker.