The Real Reason The Simple Life Ended After Season 5
Kevin Winter/Getty Images By Hope Ngo/Nov. 11, 2019 11:01 am EST
The premise of The Simple Life was, well, simple: two obscenely rich, ultra spoiled girls who have never had to work before are set loose in rural America to try and gain real-world skills by doing low-paying jobs. When The Simple Life debuted in 2003 with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, it was a hit — audiences were glued to the screens, waiting to see what (often ridiculous things) the two socialites would do next.
The show spawned a few iconic television moments — for example, when Paris couldn’t come up with a quarter to settle a $49,604.25 shopping bill; when the girls said they didn’t know how to do 99 percent of everyday household chores; when Nicole asked what a soup kitchen was… you get the idea (via MTV). So why did it come to an end?
The Real Reason The Simple Life Ended After Season 5
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By Hope Ngo/Nov. 11, 2019 11:01 am EST
The premise of The Simple Life was, well, simple: two obscenely rich, ultra spoiled girls who have never had to work before are set loose in rural America to try and gain real-world skills by doing low-paying jobs. When The Simple Life debuted in 2003 with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, it was a hit — audiences were glued to the screens, waiting to see what (often ridiculous things) the two socialites would do next.
The show spawned a few iconic television moments — for example, when Paris couldn’t come up with a quarter to settle a $49,604.25 shopping bill; when the girls said they didn’t know how to do 99 percent of everyday household chores; when Nicole asked what a soup kitchen was… you get the idea (via MTV). So why did it come to an end?
The show spawned a few iconic television moments — for example, when Paris couldn’t come up with a quarter to settle a $49,604.25 shopping bill; when the girls said they didn’t know how to do 99 percent of everyday household chores; when Nicole asked what a soup kitchen was… you get the idea (via MTV). So why did it come to an end?
Reality killed The Simple Life
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TV Series Finale quotes E! Networks as telling US Magazine, “We felt like the real life drama of their lives overshadowed anything happening on the show. 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.”
