Paris Hilton Pleads for Celebrity Gossip Attention

The least talented of Hollywood's elite are getting desperate for attention.

Earlier this week, we reported that Lindsay Lohan has been reduced to selling her own brand of self-tanner.

Now, Paris Hilton - without a new movie, album, sex tape or skill of any kind - is in such need for relevance that she invited celebrity gossip photographers to join her... underwater!

We've already shown you photos of Paris and new boy toy Doug Reinhardt in Hawaii. Perhaps, in this case, the couple could pretend as though the paparazzi invaded its privacy by snapping shots of the pair's supposedly private embrace.

But a new round of pictures sheds light on just how this industry works: celebrities invite photographers into their lives, and are paid a fee for allowing them to take "candid" photos of them.

Either that, or some reporter got REALLY lucky that he happened to be scuba diving at the same time as Paris...

Please, readers. Don't ever let a celebrity fool you into thinking that life is tough because cameras follow him/her around. Most stars invite this attention at every turn.

Click on the pics below for more examples of Hilton and Reinhardt enjoying their vacation, as the paparazzi-fueled money rolls in:

[Photos: Splash News]