SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Heiress Paris Hilton rebuked for 'tacky' snap at the Bataclan theatre just one month after the massacre in the French capital

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton has learned the hard way that even the best intentions can be woefully misconstrued.

The daffy socialite and great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, founder of the hotel chain, made a sombre visit to France’s capital this week to pay her respects to the victims of last month’s terrorist attacks in Paris.

However, in an unexpected turn of events, the 34-year-old blonde received a bitter backlash online after she posted a picture of herself delivering white lilies outside the Bataclan theatre, where 90 people were murdered on November 13 by Islamist gunmen.

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton has learned the hard way that even the best intentions can be woefully misconstrued

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Sharing the solemn moment with her 5.2 million followers on Instagram, where she wore a black coat and big sunglasses, she wrote: ‘Lighting a candle at Le Bataclan Theatre for all the innocent people who lost their lives in Paris.

‘So heartbreaking. My thoughts & prayers go out to everyone affected by this horrible tragedy.’

But her sharp-tongued critics were quick to attack her for using the picture to make herself look good, rather than to mourn those who lost their lives.

‘Perfect photo op Paris,’ wrote one, while another claimed: ‘I personally think taking a picture by it isn’t appropriate.’

The barbs also included: ‘So disrespectful’; ‘You obviously needed to post a picture doing it’ and ‘How tacky’.

Sharing the solemn moment with her 5.2 million followers on Instagram, where she wore a black coat and big sunglasses, she wrote: ‘Lighting a candle at Le Bataclan Theatre for all the innocent people who lost their lives in Paris

At least Hilton, who once starred in a sex tape called 1 Night In Paris, was able to relax the night before, having informed her followers that she was staying in a luxury hotel — duly plugged of course — which had provided her with custom monogrammed robes.

‘Time for a bubble bath, relaxation & bed,’ she wrote. On her visit she also made time to pose in front of a sign reading: ‘I Love Paris.’

Socialite Noelle Reno

Om... Grieving Noelle turns to Buddha 

Socialite Noelle Reno, whose fiance Scot Young fell to his death on railings a year ago this week, has marked the anniversary by revealing she has converted to Buddhism.

‘What happened last year with Scot will always be a sadness in my life, but the way I live now is by focusing on the positive and looking ahead,’ Noelle, 32, tells me at the Kit And Ace store launch party on Regent Street.

‘Actually, it’s more a hybrid of Hinduism and Buddhism, but there’s no word for that and people always like to keep things simple. They’re both about the flow of energy, like karma.’

Speaking to me after sharing an old photo of her and Scot online, under which she refers to him as her ‘guardian angel’, she adds: ‘Buddhism has helped me take control of my life. When bad things happen, you can control how you respond. If you have an inner peace, you can get through anything.’ 

Full marks to actor Harvey Keitel for honesty. When the star of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Mean Streets is asked by a female journalist as part of a Q&A for the latest issue of Conde Nast Traveller: ‘What would your desert island paradise look like?’ the 76-year-old — who is about to appear in the film Youth — replies: ‘It would be you in a grass skirt massaging my feet and hands.’ 

Is the talent exodus from Newsnight, now facing competition from an extended BBC1 News At Ten, set to continue?

‘If you could add one newsreader/reporter to the Channel 4 team from any other news organisation, who would you pick?’ Jon Snow, Channel 4 News anchor, was asked in a Q&A.

‘I’d try to retrieve Katie Razzall from Newsnight. Because she’s someone I have worked with and whose work I admire,’ he replied.

Golly Goth! Jude's girl makes her debut as a model 

The future looks bright for the fledgling model Iris

Her father is Hollywood actor Jude Law and her mother former model Sadie Frost, so it was only a matter of time before 15-year-old Iris followed her parents into the spotlight.

As my picture shows, the teenager has made her modelling debut for Illustrated People, a London-based fashion label, in which she dons dark satin pyjamas while looking older than her years in gothic make-up and dark, plum lipstick.

The future looks bright for the fledgling model, who when she was only two was rushed to hospital after accidentally ingesting an ecstasy pill at a children’s party at Soho House in London.

Adding to the momentum, her designer and director mother Sadie, 50, has also cast Iris in one of her short fashion films.

‘Iris was sweet and nervous. She has always wanted to act so I eased her in gently,’ she says.

Petra and husband James Stunt 

Why did Petra snub £99million offer on Los Angeles pad? 

Good to know that Formula One heiress Petra Stunt’s extravagant behaviour is baffling Americans almost as much as us.

Last summer, Bernie Ecclestone’s youngest daughter, who is married to entrepreneur James Stunt (pictured with Petra, right), put her Los Angeles home, The Manor, up for sale for £99 million, which if realised would make it one of the most expensive homes ever sold in the States. After nearly 18 months, the property remained unsold.

This week, however, reports emerged in the U.S. that she’d finally received an offer of her asking price from an unnamed Chinese media magnate, which she turned down.

Petra, 26 — who also owns a £56 million townhouse in London — bought The Manor for around £60 million in 2011 from Dynasty creator Aaron Spelling. The property is the largest single home in Hollywood and has only nine fewer rooms than the White House.

At the time, she remarked breezily that the home was ‘quite cosy’, adding: ‘We got a good deal.’

Yesterday I brought you Pippa Middleton’s Christmas tips. Now David Cameron is giving her a run for her money with advice in the Spectator on how to enjoy Noel. ‘On Christmas morning, we all open Santa’s offerings together. So all three children and two adults are in bed together, opening our stockings. I would avoid family arguments. You’ve got to get outside at some stage on Christmas Day and go for a walk, which helps to defuse any tensions.’

Ruth Wilson as Alison and Dominic West as Noah

Affair star: Women are to blame for pay gap 

Banker's daughter Ruth Wilson, currently appearing opposite Dominic West in the tv series The Affair, is the latest star to bemoan the pay gap between male and female actors.

‘The difference is huge,’ she told an audience at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. 

‘Someone who’s just come out of drama school — a male, young star — will get paid more than I get paid, in an equivalent role.’

Wilson, 33, claimed part of the problem is that women do not help each other in the same way that men do, and are vilified for asking for more money.

‘There’s not even a male equivalent of “diva” — women are considered difficult if they stand up for themselves,’ she added.

‘Weirdly, you don’t argue it. You’re kind of sitting there thinking that’s just how it is.

‘There is not a community or a network among women. There is a male network, and there always has been — an old boys’ network. And women don’t support each other.’