Life isn't quite so simple anymore for Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie . The two socialites-turned-businesswomen, both 43, have separately created empires in fashion (Richie's House of Harlow brand), music (Hilton is a successful DJ with a new pop album, "Infinite Icon"), television (Richie's comedy series " Great News " and Hilton's reality turn on " Paris in Love ") and beyond. It's a far cry from the twentysomething OG nepo babies on one of the OG reality shows, " The Simple Life ," which transplanted them into rural American towns and revolutionized reality TV with their blonde ambition and antics.
Hilton and Richie reunite onscreen more than 20 years after their hit Fox show for the three-episode "Paris & Nicole: The Encore" (now streaming on Peacock ). "We were both just in a place of saying to ourselves, 'We really loved doing that show. Twenty years feels like a perfect time to celebrate it.
And let's do a reunion,'" Richie says, seated next to Hilton. They traded sunny Los Angeles for a floral greenroom backstage at " The Drew Barrymore Show " in New York, from where they call in. "Paris had sent me a photo of this little boy (who) was 3 when we shot with him in Arkansas, (who) is now 23," Richie says.
The two "got together and talked about how we felt about" the possibility of honoring the show's 20th anniversary. "We've been asked to do a 10-year reunion (and) we've been asked to do it all over again, which you simply can't do" in a smartphone, social-media era. Nee.
