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LOS ANGELES - Nicole Richie irritated a local family during taping of "The Simple Life" by asking an 11-year-old boy, in graphic language, if she looked attractive. The boy was playing basketball Wednesday in the driveway of his home. Richie, pushing a baby carriage, approached and questioned the youth about how she looked, using a profane word. Two camera operators and another crew taped the exchange. The boy's father refused the crew's request that he sign a release giving them the right to use the clip with his son. Instead he complained to the show's production company. "The Simple Life,"...

DENNIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - Paris Hilton's reality show "The Simple Life" is disputing allegations that a deer was illegally killed so that it could be gutted by the socialite and her sidekick, Nicole Richie. State officials said the deer was killed Tuesday night and they believe it was to be gutted for the show. Investigators are looking into accounts the deer was shot by someone firing a gun from inside a car. Two men working for the Fox show could face fines of between $100 and $500 for permit violations and hunting out of season, said Elaine Makatura, spokeswoman...

In terms of brilliant television casting, it certainly would have trumped the addition of Don Knotts to "Three's Company" in 1979. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. Sen. Rick Santorum won't be joining Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie for a new season of the pair's Fox TV series "The Simple Life"... Fox contacted the offices of Santorum and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, of Illinois, to inquire about possible internships for the dynamically dim duo... In pitching the idea to Santorum's office, associate producer Ryan Crow suggested that Hilton and Richie could perform administrative tasks, help enact certain policy reforms or...