Paris Hilton, who went for a spin in her brand new car Bentley convertible, apparently forgot a rather crucial element of automotive mechanics - that cars need petrol to run.

Fresh from a date at her favourite hair salon, Paris was left helpless behind the wheel of her Bentley after running out of gas in Beverly Hills.

The damsel in distress didn’t know what to do, so she just sat there flipping through a scrapbook of her and her current flame, Stavros Niarchos, until one of her kind-hearted paparazzi pals offered to help, reports the New York Post.