E! pitches tent for fifth 'Simple Life'

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are friends again, and E! is celebrating that fact by reuniting the duo for another season of "The Simple Life."

After last season's twain-never-meeting setup, the show's producers will bring Richie and Hilton together once more for "The Simple Life Goes to Camp," in which the two roll out their sleeping bags for stints as counselors at Camp Shawnee in the mountains above Malibu, which E! assures us is remote and rugged and perfect for semi-scripted fish-out-of-water hijinks.

"The fact that Paris and Nicole are friends again and will have to survive without their luxuries at a family-run camp in the middle of nowhere, takes us back full circle to the original concept that makes this show so much fun," says Lisa Berger, who oversees original programming for E! Networks. "For this season, we are putting the girls into completely unfamiliar situations, sitting back, and watching them in action, which is what made this show a hit right out of the gate."

Hilton and Richie will work with people attending a wellness camp -- which, given Richie's recent treatment for her own eating issues, is at least a little ironic -- survival camp, pageant camp, drama camp and a couples camp. Susan "Stop the Madness" Powter will serve as their mentor at the wellness camp, with other experts guiding them through their respective tasks at the other camps.

And, of course, they'll have to eat camp food and get up early and all those things that are apparently so hard to do when you're a tabloid mainstay. "The Simple Life Goes to Camp" is scheduled to premiere in May.