The Simple Life Gets Racist
Matt Richenthal at .Paris Hilton is off to jail. So she may have larger issues at the moment than future accusations of racism.
But TMZ has learned that an upcoming episode of the Paris and Nicole Richie's reality show features actress/fashionista Sally Kirkland playing the socialites' Camp Shawnee acting coach - and was made to look like Nicole's father, Lionel Richie - in full on blackface and an afro!
Obviously a winning idea.
Sources say it was Richie who somehow talked Kirkland into donning the controversial getup after the two got into a shouting match when Nicole wouldn't perform Shakespeare. TMZ spies say the taping was simultaneously "frightening and hysterically funny."
A rep for The Simple Life had no comment. The Simple Life Goes to Camp premieres May 28 on E!
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