1.40, Fri Jun 29 2007
Paris Hilton has had some high profile bust-ups in her time - now the heiress seems to have earned herself yet another arch enemy.
A US news presenter has set tongues wagging by refusing to lead her bulletin with a top story on the socialite's recent release from jail.
In fact, Mika Brzezinski co-presenter of MSNBC's Morning Joe, went a few steps further when she grabbed the script, screwed it up, shredded it and then attempted to set it on fire live on air.
Ms Brzezinski argued on the show that stories about Iraq and the US government were far more important than an update on the celebrity.
A clip showing the presenter's stand has been viewed more than 250,000 times on the popular video sharing website YouTube.
It shows the newscaster repeatedly refusing to read the Hilton script and arguing with her co-presenters about its place as the lead item.
She told viewers: "I hate it and I don't think it should be our lead. "I just don't believe in covering that story, at least not as the lead story on the newscast, when we have a day like today."
Earlier Hilton, 26, had given her first interview after leaving prison to CNN's Larry King Live show telling him that she wanted to help her former inmates, do more work for charities, and said that partying would no longer be the "mainstay" of her life.
