• Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie's 'The Simple Life' to premiere on FOX on August 13th

  June 17, 2003
  FOX has announced that "The Simple Life," the new reality series that chronicles two affluent socialites as they make the transition from uptown to small town, will premiere Wednesday, August 13 (8:30-9:00 PM ET) on FOX.

• FOX's 'The Simple Life' wraps up shooting early, leaves bad blood behind

  June 6, 2003
  Shooting on Fox's controversial The Simple Life reality show, starring LA socialites-dilletantes Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, in Altus, Arkansas wrapped up a week early, apparently due to troubles between the "stars" and the crew, according to a RealityTVWorld.com poster from the area. According to this poster, Paris and Nicole threatened to quit the show after being reprimanded for spending four hours on the phone. Although the show still had planned to shoot for two more weeks, Paris and Nicole spent little time with the locals during the next week, and the production came to an unscheduled end that Friday.

• Locals dish dirt on Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie's FOX 'The Simple Life' production

  May 19, 2003
  It sounds like such an easy thing to do: take two pampered, spoiled, beautiful young women to rural America and film them living "The Simple Life." However, as Fox and Bunim-Murray Productions are learning, there is nothing simple about it ... and keeping it a secret isn't simple either. RealityTVWorld.com has been told some exclusive details of events during filming of the upcoming Fox reality TV show The Simple Life, starring the socialite team of 22-year-old hotel heiress Paris Hilton and 21-year-old music heiress Nicole RIchie.

• FOX 'The Simple Life' star Nicole Richie faces felony heroin charge

  May 9, 2003
  Most reality TV stars don't have their criminal behavior aired until their show stars. However, Nicole Richie, co-star of the upcoming Fox series The Simple Life, has managed to be "outed" by The Smoking Gun before her show has even finished filming.

• Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie "go out in style" before beginning 'The Simple Life'

  May 2, 2003
  Zap2It reports that Paris Hilton might be going to live the The Simple Life, but you can trust her to go out in style. According to Page Six, Before she left last Friday morning, she and her fellow show co-star Nicole Richie filmed a "going-away shopping spree" on Rodeo Drive. Hilton admiringly said, "Nicole is three days sober!" (Richie was caught with heroin earlier this year.)

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