Longtime best friends Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are back!
17 years after their iconic reality show in the 2000s A simple life ended, the duo reunited on screen in a three-part series, Paris & Nicole: Encore, which premiered on the Peacock on December 12.
Richie tells PEOPLE that they’ve had multiple requests for a reunion over the years, but now “was the right time.”
When they were planning what their return would look like, they knew that a traditional headquarters wouldn’t fit. “We wanted to throw ourselves into a world that is completely unknown to us as a bow A simple life”, says Richie. “We definitely wanted to be on our feet and we wanted to laugh.”
(L-R) Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton in Paris & Nicole: The Encore.
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Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie hilariously try to turn the iconic song ‘Sanasa’ into an opera in the new show: Watch the trailer!
In their new series Peacock, the two, both 43-year-old mothers of two, go far outside their comfort zones by staging an opera based on the nonsensical song “Sanasa,” which they invented as childhood friends.
Richie admits that the idea of turning “Sanasa” into an opera “started as a joke, and then it got very serious, very quickly.”
“We definitely had moments during filming where the clock was just ticking and we were doing everything we wanted to do on the show and going to Arkansas and going here and going there,” she explains. “But the clock was ticking and time was running out, and we definitely had some moments of really sitting down where we’d be on the phone at 9:00, 10:00 at night and ask, ‘How are we going to do this?'”
During the new series, the duo returns to Arkansas, where they lived during the episode A simple life which sent Los Angelenos to the Midwest to live on farms and try their hand at blue-collar work.
The experience turned out to be very useful.
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(L-R) Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie in The Simple Life 2.
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“It’s been so much fun just going on this adventure together again, going back to Arkansas and visiting the family we stayed with and just all the people we’ve done different jobs for,” Hilton shares. “It was really great to come back and see how much we touched that little town and how much it meant to them. It was really great to feel that energy. It was really nice.” Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Still A simple life aired on Fox (and later E!) from 2004 to 2007 for five seasons, the series still resonates with fans — and old and new — on social networks. This continued love and appreciation for the series did not go unnoticed by Hilton and Richie.
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“It’s so much fun just watching all the videos, especially on TikTok, of people recreating different scenes from the show and using different sounds from it,” says Hilton. “It’s always fun every Halloween to see everyone dress up as Nicole and me and their different looks.
“It was really special to be in touch with so many fans and on social media and hear from them how much A simple life what it meant to them, how it really shaped their personality and who they are, and how much they really love Nicole and my friendship,” she adds. “It’s been really, really great to connect with so many fans over that.”
All three episodes Paris & Nicole: Encore are now available to stream on Peacock.
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