Paris Hilton pleads guilty to drug charges

Paris Hilton has pleaded guilty to two charges stemming from her arrest for drug possession at a Las Vegas hotel-casino last month. Paris was arrested in August inside the Wynn resort, after police said a small plastic bag containing 0.8 of a gramme of cocaine spilled out of her purse. She will serve a year of probation and avoid a felony charge under the terms of a plea deal worked out with prosecutors. The 29-year-old celebrity heiress pleaded guilty to drug possession and obstructing an officer. Paris must complete a drug abuse program, pay a US$2,000 fine and serve 200 hours of community service. She faces a year in jail if she violates the probation and is arrested for anything other than a minor traffic violation.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.