Paris Hilton has recently revealed the truth behind her dumb blonde image.
Many probably think that the way she acts on her TV series is the true her, but the star wants to set her fans straight.

"On The Simple Life, I'm playing a character and I make people laugh," she stated to Grazia magazine. "If I was serious it wouldn't be as funny. So I play it up and it's working. I've now got one of the biggest shows on US TV. So obviously I know what I'm doing."She also claims that her shrewd business sense is proof that the real Paris Hilton isn't stupid.

Two years ago she copyrighted her famous "that's hot!" catchphrase, she has recently launched what could possibly be a lucrative career in the perfume business, and she's moving forward in acting."They said I made press history when I got off the boat and faced all those photographers," she stated of her recent paparazzi mobbing at the Cannes Film Festival. "Not even Sophia Loren or Brigitte Bardot or anyone like that had that many."