Paris Hilton thrown
from horse

She was injured during a taping
of ‘Simple Life 2’

Bill Cooke / AP file

Paris Hilton, hotel heiress and star of the reality television show "The Simple Life," holds her pet chihuahua, Tinkerbell.

updated 9:38 p.m. ET 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. A hospital nursing supervisor said Hilton would be released Friday night.

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

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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.