Whenever Jessica Simpson does something especially mature or intelligent, I think it’s worth noting. We have to praise her when she does good, people. How else will she know? Anyway, when Nick Lachey announced his engagement, you knew (I knew) that the tabloids would be eating Jessica alive, and that there would be lots of stories about “Poor Jessica” and “Angry Jessica” and “Bitter Jessica”. PopEater immediately had a piece about Jessica being “deeply saddened” about the news of her ex-husband. OK! Magazine had Jess “obsessing” over Nick. Even Us Weekly, in their print edition, had a story about Jessica complaining about Nick buying Vanessa a ring with Jessica’s money. Anyway, Jessica sees your tabloid rumors, and she raises you some grace:
A source tells the new Us Weekly (out now) that Jessica Simpson is “flipping out” after UsMagazine.com broke the news that her ex, Nick Lachey, is engaged.
But the singer, 30, sang a different tune on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show when asked for her reaction.
“I am extremely, extremely happy for him,” she said in the interview, released Thursday morning. “I don’t know where all those rumors came from. My mom actually called me and said that everyone was saying that I was ‘saddened.’ I was just in complete shock. I couldn’t be more happy for Nick.
“Our relationship was over a really long time ago, and it would be nice if everyone could move on with us and really just celebrate the love between him and Vanessa [Minnillo],” she went on. “I do, and I really wish them nothing but the best.”
Simpson says she’s content with her beau, former NFL star Eric Johnson.
They’ll celebrate Thanksgiving this year in NYC: She’s doing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
“My first New York Thanksgiving!” she says.”I know his family’s going to be with us on the float at the Macy’s Day Parade, and my family will be there.”
She says she’ll likely return to her home state of Texas for Christmas. Says the singer, “Having a boyfriend through the holidays, we’re going to see how all that splits up.”
[From Us Weekly]
Wow! Isn’t that nice of Jessica? I really what she said – basically, “This isn’t about me, I’ve moved on, so should you, let them celebrate their love.” Coming from Dumbass Farty McBarfsAlot (her full name), this is wonderful progress. Well done, Jessica!
Wow, she wears some unflattering dresses.
I didn’t think for a second Jessica gave a damn about him marrying a nobody much like himself. I am sorry but what has Nick done since the divorce? Nothing. How many women sweat and feel saddened over a complete loser they dumped, who you make more money than?
It’s probably the truth. Who cares if an ex husband gets married?? Um, that’s why he’s an ex. Moving on…
this was extremely classy. props to jess!
this woman has no identity outside of “having a boyfriend”.
Good job, Jessica, welcome to adulthood.
she is such a texas girl
I believe she regrets going to Cocksville with Johnnie Knoxville every day of her life. At #2 I agree with your statement. Probably the same as Billy Bob feels about Angelina.
I’m focused on the last part where she is talking about having a boyfriend for the holidays.
SHe sounds so middle school, like a girl who’s never had a boyfriend before.
well played…cuz it’s not likely she’s going to admit that this is driving her a little insane. that can only come from ‘inside sources’.
expecting a rapid weight loss from her @ the first of the year.
Good job, Jess. Good job.
Well, Love Angelina lets see:
1. Nick has gotten engaged
2. he’s had a hit album
3. He’s part owner of a baseball team
4. he’s hosted a TV show
I bet deep down inside Jessica wishes she would not have divorced Nick.
I think to this day she still regrets it.
I don’t believe for one second that she’s over him like she says she is.
It just took several days for her people to write her response.
Now she knows what she feels.
I knew the stories were crap.
Jessica
1. Yea he is engaged to a nobody.
2. What HIT Album? I didn’t see Nick LaChy win NOTHING at any of the music awards this past season or last.
3. What Baseball team? The “we win nothing league” because I have never heard of them and I am not really a sports buff.
4. Yes a low rated reality show where people do something he USED to have a career in.
Jessica could care less about Nick. Jessica has a great career and is making a sh*t ton of money. At the end of the day Jess isn’t broke and she can travel and she is gonna have a great career. Her love life will fall into place but nobody needs that crap to be fulfilled.
Look she was just “catty” the other night at a resteraunt about “her money” so why would him getting married bother her?? She won’t have to pay that money anymore! YEAAAAH JESS! Love your shoes bb!
Yes I’m sure she’s SO happy post Nick…..
Yo Yo diets
Her ever revolving door of men
her music career has gone nowhere
her film career has gone nowhere
her creepy pervert father whom she has yet to get rid of. etc.
I would not want to be in in a MILLION years.
I doubt she’s very happy at all
Awww look she said her lines just like her PR people and Daddy instructed.
Here are the next steps in the Jessica Simpleton PR plan:
1. Start working out/extreme dieting again.
2. Appear on the cover of Shape Magazine with her ‘fab new body’.
3. Appear on the Today show proclaiming that she is finally happy with herself and her life.
4. Continue her ‘crusade of female empowerment’ by appearing on a tabloid cover telling women to be happy and content with themselves no matter their weight/size (while sporting her fab new slim body)and true love will just come to them.
5. Eric will propose on New Years Day in front of all of their family. It will be a COMPLETE surprise to her. 🙄
6. People Magazine will feature the proposal on the cover as an exclusive.
7. She and Eric will wed the weekend of Valentine’s Day 2011.
8. People magazine will feature their wedding on the cover as an exclusive.
9. The tabloid speculation and bumpwatch commences.
10. Jessica finally gets a stylist to dress her fab new body; gotta look perfect for the tabloids!
They don’t call him Pimpa Joe for nothing y’all!!
LOL@Dumbass Farty McBarfsAlot.
Nice 1 Kaiser, you summed her up perefectly lol.
I think he received a “settlement” and is not getting “alimony” so a marriage will not affect his past settlement at all.
Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t remember hearing he gets alimony.
I was good with the statement until she had to add in the stuff about having a boyfriend though the holidays. Oh Jess…so close. I hope she really does feel that way towards her ex, but I kind of doubt it.
Feel compelled to point out she’s not exactly knocking it out of the park career wise either. Her music has flopped, her “reality” show was heavily criticized (don’t know if anyone actually watched it) and her attempt at acting really ended with a thud. Her clothing lines and wigs or whatever probably do alright, but let’s be honest, she is not the star she (and her dad) wanted to be. The only thing keeping her in the headlines is the string of jerks she dated after her divorce.
I seriously love her, I know others don’t but I relate to her and think she is very real.
Nick is part owner of the Tacoma Rainers, which is the AAA farm team for the Seattle Mariners.
Because I’m an M’s fan – RIP Dave Niehaus 🙁
God, LA, did Nick Lachey poop in your wheatina? Such bitterness for someone you don’t even know.
Her doing the skinny model one shoulder hunch forward high fashion pose with all the extra neck and shoulder fat is like caricature.
Spray tans, Miss Piggy wig hair, false eyelashes, collagen lips and fillers, and booze weight are not working.
Jess makes 30 the new 50.
Regardless how she really feels – She took the high road in the interview and you have to give her credit for that.
Im sure she is thrilled they are engaged because once he remarries she wont have to pay him alimony anymore-hahaha!
Nick never got any “alimony”
According to California law, Nick was entitled to 1/2 of all assets gained during the marriage. He took considerably less than that and no spousal support. And when they married, HE was the bigger star and SHE refused to sign a prenup. If that refusal bit her in the ass down the road, oh well. Nick has hardly been unsuccessful. His album, “What’s Left of Me” did fairly well, and he did a couple of television shows. Along with the Rainers, he also co-owns an ABA team, the Hollywood Fame. I would hazard a guess that he has a nice life. And Jessica has a nice life, too. Her comments were very gracious. (I have a friend who knows Nick, hence the availability of the info).
It always amazes me in threads about Jessica or Jen Aniston how many people seem to think you can’t be happy without a man or marriage. As if she must be unhappy and regret the divorce because she isn’t married. It boggles the mind.
It IS possible that she really doesn’t care.
@Whatever: word! Any single woman over 25 years old must be crying into her pillow every night over her spinster status, whereas every single male is a stud and not to be pitied in the least.
She may have recited the the lines her publicist wrote for her, but she let the tabloid world know how she really felt when she whined to them as a “simpson insider” a few days ago about being sad.
Now is the time for the unemployed football player/paid companion/con artist to make his move.
In her desperation to beat Nick to the altar, she’ll waive Creepy Joe’s requirement for a prenup. When the marriage ends in divorce, you can bet the unemployed football player/con artist won’t settle for considerably less than California law says he’s entitled to the way Nick did. He’ll take her for everything she’s worth.
And Creepy Joe will have to go back to being Creepy Pastor Joe at a church in Tiny Town, Texas. Jessica can be his receptionist.
It would be possible she didn’t care if she didn’t openly and frequently give away in interviews that she is the type to care. She’s constantly giving interviews about each of her conquests stating how they fulfill her, how each guy is the one, and how she changes to suit their needs. You can’t fault people for assuming she is exactly the type they have pegged her as.