Paris Hilton appears to have responded to charges that she photoshopped Britney Spears into one of a series of new images she posted to celebrate a friend’s birthday.
On Friday, the socialite and DJ shared a photo carousel in honour of her friend Cade Hudson’s birthday.
The talent agent is a mutual friend of Britney Spears, having worked for and with the pop diva at Creative Artists Agency for years, so it’s natural that the Hold Me Closer singer would appear in the photos.
‘Happy Birthday @CadeHudson22! 🎂 Sending you so much love on your special day!🎈So many fun memories together over the years!🥳 We always have the best time!’ she wrote in the caption for the photo dump, which included a picture of Britney posed in the middle of a selfie taken by Cade of them and Paris, with her hand placed around the back of the agent’s neck.
However, the 41-year-old’s followers seemed unconvinced of the image’s genuineness, with some claiming she looked ‘AI’.
‘100 percent shady picture of Britney…,’ wrote one fan while another simply added: ‘That is not Britney.’
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‘Is that an AI Britney?? Look at her fingers!!! WTF Paris? You’re becoming more and more shady to me and I used to love you dude. How dare you participate in whatever is going on with Brit? This won’t end well for you!’ shared another.
Paris, on the other hand, entered the comments on Saturday night, ostensibly to put the charges to rest, slamming the ‘totally ludicrous’ conspiracy theories.
‘To all of those asking. Some of these photos were taken on an iPhone so they ended up being blurry. So they used this app called Remini to make it look unblurry and sometimes the Ai distorts images,’ she explained.
Paris then added: ‘Didn’t want to even dignify this with a response. But some of these conspiracy theories are absolutely ridiculous🤦🏼♀️’
Other photos in her slideshow showed her and Cade hanging out with Drew Barrymore and Emma Roberts.
She and Britney have been friends for years, with Paris once passing up the opportunity to DJ for US President Joe Biden in order to attend a friend’s wedding.
Britney’s admirers had previously speculated that the actress, who married new husband Sam Asghari last year, seven months after her 13-year tumultuous conservatorship was finally ended by the courts, was not running her own social media accounts.
This followed a December birthday tweet in which she gushed about her estranged sister Jamie Lynn Spears.
However, Sam also dismissed the rumours, telling TMZ when questioned about it: ‘I don’t even control what we have for dinner.’
He continued: ‘In the past, there has been a lot of stuff going on so I understand where [some fans are] coming from. They’re just being protective. If anything they’re being good fans.’