Things couldn't be bleaker for Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie at the moment – one's been in prison, one's going to prison, neither has eaten a normal-sized meal since 1993, and now their TV show The Simple Life has been kicked into touch, too.
For four years The Simple Life has been used as the answer every time that someone asked Paris Hilton or Nicole Richie "What are you for?" But now they'll have to think up different answers like "I'm a failed pop star ex-con with several internet porn movies to my name" or "I'm dead skinny, me" because it's been announced that this season of The Simple Life will be the last. But forget Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie being unemployed, what will happen to the man who plays the confused-sounding upwards redneck fiddle noise every time Paris or Nicole screwed something up on The Simple Life? We're not sure he even has a union.
The Simple Life has been something of an institution for years now, being the only place to see Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie screwing up even the most rudimentary of tasks outside of every day in real life always. Want to see Paris Hilton fail to load luggage onto an aeroplane properly? Watch The Simple Life. Want to see Nicole Richie offer herself sexually to a schoolboy? Watch The Simple Life. Want to see Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie respectively fail to understand what the term 'suspended licence' means and not realise that you aren't allowed to drive into oncoming highway traffic on drugs? Watch The Simpl… oh, just watch the news, actually.
And anyway, you can't watch The Simple Life any more because this Sunday's episode will be the last ever, as USA Today reports:
The series finale will air Sunday on E!, the channel announced Monday…"In this last escapade, Paris and Nicole write their own play in tribute to their decades-long friendship, enlisting the help of celebrity counselor Sally Kirkland to lead the production," E! said in a release. Kirkland leads the pair and their campers through a "crash course in Acting 101" as they stage the play, which includes the actress playing the role of Richie's father, pop star Lionel Richie, E! said.
Of course, this isn't the first time that The Simple Life has died. Back in 2005 Fox cancelled The Simple Life partly because it was too busy showing American Idol at every second of every day and partly because Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie hated each other. But then E! brought The Simple Life back from the dead a month later, so there might be a chance that The Simple Life could return once again, right?
Well, no, probably not. After she was released from jail, the one semi-coherent thing that Paris Hilton told Larry King was that she wanted people to start taking her seriously, something that's difficult when you're the star of a TV show all about how you can't even milk a cow properly. And Nicole Richie will be a mother soon, and lord knows the last thing she'll want is for all kinds of stock sound effects denoting stupidity to be played in the background when she locks the baby in a car or drops it down a well or something. So really that's probably the lot as far as The Simple Life goes.
Fingers crossed, anyway.
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angie says
youo cant end THE SIMPLE LIFE thats like the best show ever please dont do that do another series please