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Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie: Queens of the 2000’s (FBF)
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The Simple Life: The Original Pitch and Going to Arkansas
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The Simple Life's origin is almost absurdly thin as a pitch: give us your phones, your money, and your credit cards, and we'll take you somewhere. That was it. No destination, no format, no job descriptions — Paris and Nicole didn't even know they were going to Arkansas until they touched down. [1] — Nicole Richie "Nicole Richie used her parents' divorce as cover to sneak to Vegas at age 11. She and Paris would sneak into the Starlight Express musical …" 16:57 Filming began at the goodbye party the night before departure. When Alex asks if either had ever worked a real job before, both say no simultaneously — with one exception. Paris was a skating school instructor, and she was, she says, very good. The honesty makes the premise of The Simple Life even funnier in retrospect: two people with virtually zero vocational experience being sent to do manual labor in rural America.
Paris Hilton's only real job prior to The Simple Life was as a skating school instructor, and she says she was very good at it.
Paris and Nicole's Season 4 rift was blown into a cultural event by tabloids hungry for a celebrity feud. In reality, their families stayed connected and they were quietly friends again long before the public knew. What broke them apart was bad communication in their 20s plus a media machine designed to pit women against each other.
