Paris Hilton likes monkeying around

Paris Hilton has found a replacement for men: her pet monkey.

The partying heiress — who recently declared a moratorium from dating guys — says that her new in-bed companion is her baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

“I don’t do that [have sex] unless I’m in a relationship. I’m old-fashioned when it comes to that. I really am!” Hilton told Australian Cosmopolitan.  “Yes, I’ve kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that’s it. I don’t go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.”

When asked how she would describe herself to someone who had never heard of her, the super-slim Hilton told the mag: “I’m blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I’m sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I’m nice — and I like to eat.”

DiCaprio takes dip with the dolphins
While Hilton is sleeping with a monkey, Leonardo DiCaprio has been swimming with the dolphins.

The “Blood Diamond” star — a staunch environmentalist — spent a day in the pool at Las Vegas’s Mirage, paddling around in the water with new girlfriend Bar Refaeli, and then took in an evening performance of Cirque du Soleil’s “Love,” according to a tipster.

DiCaprio’s rep wasn’t available for comment.

Notes from all over
Kevin Federline actually turned down a chance to appear on a television series. K-Fed was among the celebs who nixed offers to appear on the U.K. version of reality show “Big Brother,” according to reports.  Whitney Houston and Lil Kim were said to have been also asked to appear,but reportedly, talks fell apart over money. But the star that the producers were really eager to get was former “Knight Rider” star David Hasselhoff, who is said to have declined due to “diary clashes.”  . . .Lindsay Lohan was been practicing on the stripper pole for an upcoming movie wearing her Kabbalah bracelet.  . . . Cate Blanchett says she doesn’t understand why a woman would date a younger man. In “Notes On a Scandal,” the 37-year-old plays a teacher who has an affair with a 15-year-old student. “I blushed my way through the entire movie,” she told the Scottish Daily Record. “I just don’t understand women who go out with younger men. Even women who date men only five years younger than them, I can’t relate to it. . . .I would understand sleeping with a 60-year-old more,”

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