Associated Press



March 19, 2004 | TAMPA, Fla. -- Paris Hilton was hospitalized Friday after being thrown from a horse during the taping of "The Simple Life 2," a reality show featuring the hotel heiress and a friend on a 30-day cross-country trip.

Hilton, 23, was first treated at the scene in rural Florida north of Tampa, then taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, said Chris Alexander, publicist for 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles.

Alexander did not know her specific injuries, but said she was walking around after the accident.

Camera crews were taping the socialite-turned-TV star when she was thrown, Alexander said.

The sequel to "The Simple Life" features Hilton and Nicole Richie on a monthlong cross-country trip with no money, credit cards, cell phones or boyfriends. The show is set to hit Fox in June.

Hilton, the leggy, blonde hotel heiress, and Richie, equally blonde daughter of singer Lionel Richie, helped make the first season of "The Simple Life" a huge success for Fox.

The young women appeared to break free from their sheltered upbringings, working odd jobs milking cows and hawking burgers at a fast-food restaurant while living with a family in ultra-rural Altus, Ark., population 817.


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now why is she famous again?

I'll nurse her back to health!

Tell her to eat some good ole southern cooking & put some meat on her bones.She looks like a strait up Dog Bone that all tha local dogs would line up round tha block to get a chance to bite on her toothpick legs.

I'm no fan of PH, but she lost her grandma a while ago. Now this accident. Poor girl.

Tell her I'm sorry.....

Tinkerbell!!!!!

have you ever seen a horses dilznick?

im surpised nobody has declared, "wow, whats a horse doing riding a horse?".

Stupid horse! Why didn't he trample her!!?

i'm waiting for the headline, "Paris Hilton thrown off Celebrities Uncensored, now she doesnt know what to do with herself"

"Horse" thrown from Paris Hilton -- Rick Solomon's next video opus?

Paris Hilton is worth 10 of you all!!!

2the9s said:

you like paris hilton? if she didn't have money she'd be trailer trash! and since she does have money i guess that makes her penthouse trash.

jessyMD32781 said:

I love Paris! She is the Macy Gray of socialite whores!!

2the9s said:

please don't insult macy gray. at leaast macy gray is..um..creative with herself.

sinisterpentatonic said:

jessyMD32781 said:

I think Macy needs some time off.

Cloudbuster said:

wha?