On the first morning of filming their seminal reality television show The Simple Life, a distraught 22-year-old Paris Hilton wanted to go home. Then the hotel heiress struck a deal with producers, agreeing to stay in the show’s rural Arkansas setting after they gave her and her best friend turned costar, Nicole Richie, the adoptive daughter of Lionel Richie, a rolling rack and mirror.
“They were like, ‘Don’t bring any tennis shoes; don’t bring jeans.’ They literally told us to…

