Paris Hilton got more than what she bargained for during her last UAE adventure.
The fashion icon and sometime DJ fell victim to notorious Egyptian prankster Ramez Galal, as part of his popular MBC show Ramez in Control.
In a segment that recently aired, Hilton and her entourage took a flight over Dubai for a spot of sight seeing.
The flight started to go awry after Hilton picked up a strange smell wafting through the cabin. Suddenly, the plane begins making wild turns which triggered a shrill alarm.
As well as dropping a few obscenities, a clearly distressed Hilton — who was seated beside the suited Galal — inquired “what’s going on, is this normal?”
The terror really began after plane launched into a nose dive, eliciting loud shrieks from the passengers. Amongst the mayhem, two people grabbed a pair of sky-diving backpacks (courtesy of Sky Dive Dubai) and suddenly open cabin door and jump out of the plane.
Horrified at this moment, Hilton screamed: “I don’t wanna jump! I’m not jumping!”
After a few more queasy turns, the plane eventually landed where, once back on solid ground, a teary Hilton is told of the prank by an ecstatic Galal.
“I am an Egyptian actor. This is a prank show,” he said.
“I’m a bad guy, I’m a naughty.”
Taking the news surprisingly well — other victims have violently lashed out at Galal in the past — Hilton proceeded to praise the intricacy of the prank.
“This was taking it to the next level,” she said.
“I have seen Punk’ed but you have taken me on a plane and nearly killed me.”
This was music to Galal’s ears who shouted: “yes, we have succeeded.”
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