It’s come to this: Paris Hilton is finding it so difficult to make new friends that the poor girl is going to star in a new reality television show dedicated to this specific goal: finding herself a best friend.

Poor little rich girl? Hotel heiress Paris Hilton needs a friend and what better way to find true friendship than through television?

The 27-year-old is reportedly thrilled about the project. “I’m really excited about this concept - I’m going to meet a lot of great girlfriends,” Paris, 27, told In Touch magazine. “I never got to go to college and this will be my chance to be in a sorority and have that experience.”

Paris has had reality TV experience before, most notably with “The Simple Life,” where she and on and off best friend Nicole Richie tried their hand at milking cows, sweeping the floor and other such exotic activities.

This time around, we can probably expect… a lot of compliments and gifts from Paris’ “suitors”? Intimate tête-à-têtes about the meaning of life and finding Mr. Right and the difficulties of spotting that first gray hair?... One wonders.

The new reality series for MTV will have Paris and a group of girls share a house in Los Angeles. The young participants are to compete amongst themselves to be chosen as the blue-eyed blonde’s new best friend.

“Of course, my real best friend will always be Nicole,” Paris told the magazine. “She’s like my sister - but now she’s busy with her daughter, Harlow.”

She added, apparently not minding much about sounding like a teenybopper: “It’ll be great to meet a girl who’s not too Hollywood, who I can get along with and hang out with when the show is done,” she says. “It’s really exciting!”

What is also exciting and she doesn’t add is that she and her “real best friend” could become real sister in law. The socialite has been seen and photographed lately in the company of Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden who, coincidentally, is the twin brother of Joel Madden, boyfriend to Nicole Richie and father of her 2-month-old baby.