A fifth season of faux-reality series The Simple Life has been ordered by E! Entertainment Television, the show’s current home on cable.

But unlike the current fourth season, The Simple Life: ‘Til Death Do Us Part, stars Nicole Ritchie and Paris Hilton might not be filmed separately.

“I don’t have any control over whether they’ll be friends by next season,” E! Networks president and CEO Ted Harbert told People. “We need to talk about the best thing to do for the show, and I’m not sure shooting them separately again is the best thing for the show.”

Though the most recent season of the show has Hilton, 25, and Ritchie, 24, trying to run average families’ households, the two don’t actually appear together.

Despite the strange situation, the show has been a hit for E!. The June 6th premiere attracted three times as many viewers as the network’s average.






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