Despite Paris Hilton’s insistence that she get a new gal pal for the next round of “The Simple Life” next season, she’s finally come to understand that contracts will be contracts.

Former best pals Paris and Nicole Richie have been embroiled in a personal war with little public comment (“She knows what she did,” Paris has been endlessly quoted about the rift).

Yet, the duo will team again for the next cycle of the popular reality series, according to Fox entertainment president Peter Liguori.

So have they reconciled?

“Not to my knowledge,” Liguori says.

Life might not be so simple next time around.

He’s no “Angel”

David Boreanaz gets a little tired of talking about his years playing the vampire Angel on both “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel.”
So when he went in for a meeting with the producers of Fox’s new cop show “Bones,” he says he was ready to walk away when writer Hart Hanson started talking about how much he loved that character.

“I sat down with Barry Josephson and Hart and I didn’t like them at all,” Boreanaz bluntly says. “It was just a bad day. I woke up. My 3-year-old was running around, I was remembering eating some bad muffins…(I went into the meeting and) Hart started talking about my show ‘Angel’ and I really was not into talking about that. And I walked out of the room.”

What changed his mind was a phone call from Josephson telling him about all the advantages of doing this role, including the fact that he wouldn’t have to leave his family to go to Canada or Romania to shoot the series.

“I’d make a vampire joke, but…” deadpanned Hanson.

Just not funny

During the Fox session on “House,” reporters kept trying to get star Hugh Laurie to tell some funny anecdotes. Finally, he explained his lack of chuckle-worthy true tales.

“I’m very conscious of the world being divided into people to whom anecdotes happen and to whom anecdotes don’t happen,” the British Laurie says. “And I just belong to the non-anecdote part of the world. Anecdotes don’t happen to me. Some people go and fetch dry cleaning and they can get 20 minutes of stand-up out of it. It just doesn’t happen to me and I’m sorry about that.”