I love television, I really do. I love the way it provides us with insight into the lives of others, all the while entertaining and informing. What I love most about television, however, is that in its efforts to educate and entertain - all the while keeping those viewing figures up, up, up! - it manages to be unbelievably dumb. Not pissing on an electric fence dumb, but having sex with the fence before taking it home to meet the family dumb. Case in point? The Simple Life season 800 million five.
In the latest outing of the show, celebutards Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are going to be counsellors at a camp in Southern California, where they will be working with impressionable youths, ostensibly looking after their emotional development and well-being. Umm. Making matters worse, the word on the wire is that the girls won't be working as actual counsellors, as their refusal to take drug tests precluded them from the role. Double umm. Making matters so much worse as to make suicide an appealing option, one of the roles the girls will fill is that of fat camp counsellor, helping the youth of America get fit and lose weight. As long as they don't start promoting ADD drugs and and horse steroids I'm sure it'll be fine. After all, does America have a better, healthier, weight-loss role model than Nicole Richie?
