Not so long ago, it looked like everything was over for The Simple Life. But, like a giant blonde dim lazy-eyed skinny conjoined zombie, The Simple Life has returned from the dead.
Even though Fox cancelled The Simple Life last month, and the show’s stars Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie openly hate one another so much that one of them has stopped eating and the other one has had a car crash – possibly to spite each other, E! Entertainment Television has bought the rights to the show, and a new series will air in the spring.
Nobody was really sure what the deal was with The Simple Life (DVDs). It looked like curtains for the show when Fox pulled the plug in October. Paris Hilton went on-record as saying that there would definitely a new series of The Simple Life on one channel or another, but we weren’t so sure. After all, Paris Hilton says a lot of things. She might even have said that The House Of Wax was good at some point, and we all know what a bare-faced lie that was.
But Paris has proved us wrong. She and Nicole Richie will team up again for The Simple Life: Till Death Us Do Part on the E! Entertainment Television cable network, which has also acquired the rights to the old Simple Life shows. The new 10 episode series will apparently test the matrimonial skills of Paris and Nicole as they look after children, cook and clean for a series of American families.
But, hey, don’t Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie hate each other? Why, yes they do. But E! isn’t about to let a silly thing like two co-stars not talking to each other get in the way of solid gold entertainment like The Simple Life – they’ve said that the girls will "take turns" looking after families, with the families picking a winner. Paris and Nicole don’t even have to be in the same house at the same time, let alone the same bus making that screechy noise they both found so funny.
We’re not sure what The Simple Life: Till Death Us Do Part will actually be like – surely once the pair are separated, Nicole’s mischievous streak will turn into full-on malevolence and she’ll start putting shards of glass into the kids’ mashed potato, while Paris will just wander round aimlessly, slurring "Is it sexy?" and "Do you love it?" to herself like the old woman from Requiem For A Dream.
Still, it could have been worse. The mooted appearances by Kimberly Stewart seem to have been shelved, which at least gives her more time to work her way through the phone book getting engaged and then breaking up with every single man on the planet.
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The Simple Life Lives – E! Online
[story by Stuart Heritage]