Posted Sep 27th 2009 12:30AM by TMZ Staff
A few uninvited vermin had Whitney Port running for the door of her own apartment -- and no, we're not talking about a visit from Speidi.
TMZ has learned "The City" star put herself up in two different swanky NYC hotels this week after she and BFF Joanna Scapa found an unwelcome party of mice creepin' around her pad.
We're told the gals didn't even bother to change out of their PJs -- immediately booking it to the Cooper Square Hotel while still in their jammies.
Whitney's been waiting it out there and at the nearby Bowery Hotel ever since.
She'll return home once exterminators finish doing their thing.
Filed under: TV, The Hills, Exclusives
Tags: cooper square hotel, CooperSquareHotel, joanna scapa, JoannaScapa, mice, mouse, new york, NewYork, rodents, the bowery hotel, the city, the hills, TheBoweryHotel, TheCity, TheHills, whitney port, WhitneyPort
Posted Nov 9th 2007 11:37AM by TMZ Staff
Paris has the power to reduce the pain in mice. She might not be curing world hunger, but hey, it's a start.
McGill University neuroscientists have discovered that a "Simple Life" cardboard cutout of the heiress has proven to reduce pain in male mice. Exposure to Paris' likeness actually lowered the expression of a gene called c-fos, which transmits pain signals to the brain.
This suggests that there is reduced neural activity in the mice, not unlike the reduced activity in the brain of Hilton herself.
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Paris Hilton
Tags: mice, pain, paris hilton, ParisHilton, stress
