Nicole Richie seeks medical help for thinness
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-10-27 15:15
Postponement of the show came weeks after Richie and her "Simple
Life" co-star, hotel heiress Paris Hilton, ended a feud that had kept the
two on nonspeaking terms for over a year.
"We wish her a speedy recovery and fully expect the series will resume
production at some point, hopefully in the near future," said Chris Alexander, a
spokesman for 20th Century Fox Television.
Alexander said the upcoming fifth installment of "A Simple Life ,"
in which the pampered pair will be shown working as camp counselors, had been
slated to begin in early November and air sometime in 2007.
The show moved to the E! after ending a three-year run on the Fox broadcast
network, where it debuted as a hit in 2003 starring Hilton and Richie mixing
with common folk as they worked real jobs in America's heartland.
The show continued into a fourth season even after a highly publicized, but
unexplained, rift developed between the two stars.
The show's executive producer, John Murray, has said their reconciliation
earlier this month was inspired in part by a mutual dislike of the proposed
concept for the show's upcoming fifth season, which originally was to have been
shot on a desert island, Alexander said.
News of Richie's decision to seek medical help first surfaced on the cable
network that airs her show, E! Entertainment Television, and its Internet
outlet, E! Online.
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