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The Simple Life, the show that unleashed Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie upon the world at large, has been canceled because the real-life behavior of the two stars is too reprehensible.
No more reality checks for Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. Usmagazine.com has confirmed that their reality series The Simple Life will not be picked up next season by the E! network.
A source at E! tells Us that overexposure is to blame for the show’s cancellation.
“We felt like the real life drama of their lives overshadowed anything happening on the show,” says the insider. “Viewers would see Paris all day long on the news about her going to jail, so they didn’t care about seeing her camping with kids. It just was too played out.”
The source adds that Richie became increasingly difficult to work with last season.
“Paris carried the show. She was the one willing to do anything,” says the source. “Nicole was the diva.”
According to The Insider, the show could get a second chance at life if another network decides to pick up the series (the show’s first season debuted on the Fox network before later being picked up by E!).
On Friday, Richie, 25, was sentenced to four days in jail after pleading guilty to driving under the influence, her second DUI conviction since 2003.
Hilton, 26, served 23 days in jail last June for violating her probation on a reckless driving conviction.
What kind of a weird bizarro world do we live in when Paris Hilton is the one carrying the workload for anyone? I don’t know how Nicole Richie even lives with herself under those circumstances. You could put Paris in a movie with three long-dead corpses, a field of poppies and a bathroom sink, and the sink would win Best Actor simply by virtue of the comparison.
I’m actually surprised that E! pulled the plug, though. A quick perusal of their listings show that they play 17 Dr. 90210’s a day, and some show about tanning. They’re about two steps away from being public access.