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Selma Blair has hit out at her fellow Americans – insisting U.S. citizens are too obsessed with celebrity lifestyle.

The star insists people in her native country spend too much time idolising those in the public eye, such as actress Lindsay Lohan and her family.

Speaking about the forthcoming American version of the Australian TV show Kath & Kim – in which she plays spoilt daughter Kim Craig – Blair says, “You don’t think there are some deluded Americans? Hey, how about all of us! Everyone here is obsessed with tabloid celebrities and their lives and wanting to be like that, just like Kim. In America you have the people who watch the Lohans’ reality show and want to be like Dina and Ali Lohan and live in a house with a throne in it. Everywhere! They’re just everywhere!”

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Selma Blair felt sure she’d beaten Katie Holmes to the role of Joey Porter in teen TV show Dawson’s Creek – because the newcomer was too tall.

Blair and Holmes were battling it out with another young actress for the part – and the Hellboy star was confident she’d land it.

She says, “Holmes got it fair and square… (but) I remember seeing her walk into the (audition) room and thinking, ‘She is just the tallest girl. There’s no way they’ll give it to her. She won’t even fit on camera.’ Then I ate my words. She was adorable.”

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Selma Blair is regularly propositioned by lesbians because of her three on-screen girl-on-girl love scenes.

The 36-year-old, who split from her husband Ahmet Zappa in 2006, gained a massive gay following after locking lips with Sarah Michelle Gellar in 1999’s Cruel Intentions.

She subsequently went on to film lesbian kissing scenes for last year’s Feast of Love and for upcoming movie Driving Lessons.

And Blair is convinced that many women often confuse her for a real life lesbian, according to the New York Daily News.

She says, “I have done three girl-on-girl kisses on-screen. And, yet, I’ve never done any (lesbian experimentation) in my real life. When lesbian friends tell me they’re in love with me after our friendship has been cemented, it always shocks me.”

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Selma Blair is proud to be starring in the U.S. version of Australian TV comedy Kath & Kim – because she had to battle network bosses to land the role.

The Hellboy star has signed up to appear in the NBC adaptation of the hit Aussie show alongside funnywoman Molly Shannon.

It focuses on the dysfunctional relationship between a daughter and her mother.

And Blair had to fight hard to make TV executives believe she was the right candidate for the part – because no one wanted her to be involved in the project.

She explains, “We’re trying to do it on our own terms. But it’s a different show. This one has a little more heart than the Australian one. I really fought to do it. No one really wanted me, but it was great material. I really wanted to be on the show and stay put (in Hollywood) for a while. I think it will really work.”

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