Season 3
The Simple Life throws two young, wealthy urban socialites, Paris Hilton, heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, and her friend Nicole Richie, daughter of singer Lionel Richie, into the deep end with "normal" people and gives them the opportunity to experience the values of varied environments.
The third season of The Simple Life, began shooting October 27th, 2004 and the first episode premiered January 26th, 2005.
The third season, subtitled Interns, would see Paris and Nicole take various internships with companies along the East Coast of the United States. The girls traveled around the northeast United States via the Greyhound Bus company's publicly available bus routes. But unlike season 2, this time around the girls did not have a swanky home on wheels and instead were travelling around the northeast in a regular Greyhound bus that was also ferrying normal members of the public that are travelling to the same destination.
The season featured one memorable encounter with twin baby orangutans from Parrot Jungle Island in Miami, Florida.
Nicole Richie's fiance DJ Adam Goldstein also appeared in this season when he surprised Nicole and took her on a date. There were episodes where they were given little or no money while interning, or their internships were shortened because instead of doing their work, they would do something like have manicures, read magazines, play with chairs, tell jokes to people, and go to mini-marts (in a police cruiser).
In the last episode of the season, there was no party shown with friends or family. Instead, they were hounded by paparazzi, one of the final times the two were seen together on good terms.
The DVD of this season was released in U.S.A on March 14th, 2006.