Last night’s first epside of the new season of “The Simple Life 4: We don’t speak to each other” premiered on the E! Network. While the ratings haven’t come out yet, we would assume it didn’t draw the same audience as the 13 million viewer peak of the series’ third season on Fox. (We thought “The Break Up” would tank too, so what do we know?)

“Simple Life 4” was originally going to have a “Bridezilla” theme as it followed the psuedo-celebrities as they planned their weddings to whomever they were engaged to at the time. When their relationships were discarded like last month’s four-figure handbags, producers settled on a “wife swap” plot that falls flat.

The show is said to royally suck. Paris and Nicole get up to their normal cringe-worthy scripted hijinx – except this time they do it separately and with less panache.

Here’s a preview of the fourth season. The announcer speaks Dutch. Don’t let that throw you, because the clip’s in English and how much can they say about this crap anyway?

Here is Nicole Richie at MTV’s “Spankin’ New Sounds” on June 1st with Christina Milian [via] and flying out of San Diego supposedly on June 2nd. [via] (She’s wearing the same dress so we would assume these pictures were taken on the same day.)