The Simple Life will no longer be aired on the E! Network, it’s second home since Fox canceled the played-out faux reality series featuring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie in 2005. There will be no sixth season, as least none that features Paris and Nicole. It is thought that their well known legal troubles (each was given jail time for separate DUI incidents) made the public sour on them and led the network to drop the series.

The Simple Life might return in some form, and producers have not said that it is over, but Nicole and Paris won’t be on it.

E! has opted not to renew The Simple Life, announcing Monday that the finale of the show’s latest season, The Simple Life Goes to Camp, will also mark the end of the shenanigan-laced series with the two celebutantes….

“The Simple Life has been a wonderful addition to the E! Schedule for two years and we will always be grateful to Paris and Nicole for their hard work and graciousness,” E! said in a statement.

The news comes as the longtime pals have faced their own legal woes…

While E! has pulled the plug on The Simple Life, series producer Twentieth Century Fox refuses to say the franchise is a goner. The company is apparently holding out hope another network may pick it up for another go-round, in the same way E! did in 2005 after Fox dropped the show. However, any new incarnation would not feature Hilton and Richie.

[From E! Online]

An article on US Weekly’s blog quotes “an insider” who says “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.”

Did anyone actually watch this show? I saw a few episodes of the first and second season and found it incredibly annoying. It was cringe-inducing in parts, particularly when Paris and Nicole would pull those dumb ass scripted stunts. They came off as deliberately cruel, lazy guests and day employees whose sole purpose was to pull idiotic pranks, like leprechauns with trust funds. At one point Paris made lasagna for a family and that was just about the only moment I found her likable. You can see how people would dislike them even more now.

Good riddance to The Simple Life. It’s not like many people were going to watch it anyway.