Paris wins Harvard’s ‘Hastiest Pudding’ award

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updated 3:09 p.m. ET Jan. 15, 2008

NEW YORK - Paris Hilton is heading to Harvard.

The 26-year-old actress-socialite has been named Harvard Lampoon’s “Hastiest Pudding of the Lampoon Award,” the comedy magazine said Tuesday.

She will visit Harvard on Feb. 6 to accept her award, said Regent Releasing, the company that’s distributing her new comedy, “The Hottie & the Nottie.”

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Hilton, whose body of work includes “House of Wax” and TV’s “The Simple Life,” stars as the attractive best friend to an ugly duckling in the new comedy, slated for release Feb. 8.

She also co-stars in the upcoming horror musical “Repo! The Genetic Opera!” which she began filming in Canada after serving a 23-day jail sentence in Los Angeles last June for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.