The Simple Life 

Paris and Nicole accept various internships along the east coast. Hilarity ensues as the girls leave their limos behind, and travel by Greyhound Bus.

Stars:

Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Mark Thompson

3 wins & 6 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Paris Hilton	...	Herself (56 episodes, 2003-2007)
Nicole Richie	...	Herself (56 episodes, 2003-2007)

Storyline

Hotel Heiress Paris Hilton, and notorious party girl Nicole Richie drop their money and pick up some working gear in this one of a kind reality series. The girls are asked to give up their money, credit cards, and cell phones to live what they call "The Simple Life." However, they later discover that things are not so simple once they arrive at a farm in Arkansas for the first season of the show. In the second installment to the show the girls travel from Florida to Beverly Hills and along the way they take numerous jobs in exchange for money. The third season of the show brings the girls to a bus where they travel in upper Manhattan and take on jobs as interns. Wives of America were quite alarmed when they heard that for the fourth season that the girls would be taken on the task of house wives/moms. It was also known by now that Paris and Nicole hated each other and were no longer friends. In the final and fifth season, Paris and Nicole made up and were also Camp Councilors for the ...

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Plot Keywords:

internship | greyhound bus | farm | heiress | female protagonist | 

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Taglines:

From the creators of "The Real World"

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Genres:

Comedy | Reality-TV

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 December 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

Simple Life Goes to Camp

Filming Locations:

Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$1,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

By George Productions (II), 20th Century Fox Television, Bunim-Murray Productions (BMP)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min (56 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One episode was originally supposed to feature Hilton and Richie working in a school, however, due to complaints from parents, the episode was never made.

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Quotes

[repeated line]
Nicole Richie: Do you love it?

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Crazy Credits

Season three of the series shows an extra scene from the episode while the credits roll.

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Connections

Featured in De wereld draait door: Episode #4.10 (2008)

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Soundtracks

Ms. Hilton
Written by Luke Tierney

User Reviews

My alternative view of "The Simple Life"

Although I, largely, agree with most of the basic criticisms offered by other reviewers, I could not help but feel a certain sympathy for Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and having some sense that, beneath their often obnoxious, misguided, and generally uninformed behavior; both ladies were fundamentally warm hearted and WANTED to be decent, if only they knew HOW to be so. Perhaps that is a naive assessment, on my part, given that they (and the residents of Altus) had to play to the cameras, to a certain extent, and that may have distorted everyone's more natural behavior. Still, (unless I was COMPLETELY deceived), the series looked like a cautionary tale of what often befalls clueless children of inherited wealth. The girls seemed to have been imprisoned in a cocoon of insular ignorance that crippled their capacity to function in a world structured more on self reliance and, perhaps, their parents owe them an apology for not teaching them the way Warren Buffett taught HIS children?