Leave Jess Simpson Alone!

It seems these days that picking on celebs is the next best thing to liking them. On page 34 of this weeks Us Weekly the gossip magazine shows Jessica Simpson in a hard to find pose comparing her to Courtney Love. The comparison is ridiculous and stupid making me wonder if they need their vision checked. In the past 6 months I have noticed that the magazine has taken a lot of time to write nasty articles about the actress/singer.

My impression is that some silly syncophant that's s-y-n-c-h-o-p-h-a-n-t, of Nick Lachey's has been driving the agenda. Well get over it, Nick Lachey is moderately talented and not interesting in the slightest. I was personally hoping he would quit showbiz and go back to Ohio. He was cute-8 years ago when he was in 98 degrees and that was still in a beefcake-who probably would get lost in a large parking lot sense-.

What mystifies me is the backlash against her when he is so obviously the player and less likeable person-sympathy for his divorce must play a part. He acted like a bonehead on the show Newlyweds and his personality was carved into the more steady and house hubby character that was needed to balance Jess' obvious driving of the show with her personality.

Most important, I don't feel sorry for someone who cheats on their wife early in a marriage and wonders why it didn't work out. YEP, that's right. Go look at the early shows, he repeatedly went out and talked to other women about their marriage problems. And any crack psychologist can tell you that a man who discusses his problems openly with other women is not going to stay married and faithful. Try the early episodes with all his female dancers where he complains to them about her. 'Oh poor Nick, rich and married to a hot woman! Let me help you out of that dreadful marriage!!'

And now he is happily bonking Vanessa Minnilo an MTV VJ, and singing songs about heartbreak. Excuse me if I don't feel sorry for him or believe he is heartbroken at this date. And it's annoying to watch him dance across the country doing promos for the now old release while smugly smiling at the camera. It's like you can hear him thinking 'Now I'm finally getting the attention Jessica got!' Aaah, poor Nick, there's a reason she gets more attention than you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Lachey

If you look at this posting it says that neither Jess or Nick would have a career without the machinations of Joe Simpson and the show Newlyweds-and this could be true. But Joe Simpson his dadager skills, their marriage and Jessica Simpson are another post and an entirely different blog. The point is Nick Lachey owes his current career success to his marriage and divorce of Jessica Simpson at this point. (Ouch, that hurts!)

Time could prove me wrong, but he faded in the late 90's next to the other boy bands of the time-that being N'Sync and Backstreet Boys- not a good sign for him, and I don't see him turning this current renaissance into anything long lasting. In fact the last two Us Weeklys don't even mention the Lanillo couple and it's a good thing because seeing them together makes him look bad and far from the pitiful image he put out to promote the album. Call me cold but seeing someone rich and out with a former Miss Teen USA doesn't bring pangs of sympathy to my heart.

There is some entertainment in covering the slings and errors of fate for celebs (duh!). But the ribbing of Simpson for her failed relationships, bad clothing choices(they picked on her for wearing sweaters last week!), and flub at the MTV VMA's are dumb and not entertaining-think lighter and less jealous girl nasty US. I can honestly say the jealous petty female attitude is not fun and if it doesn't work for Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie- and it doesn't work for you.

At the same time some publicity is better than no publicity for Jess and she is in every issue of US Weekly as she should be at this time. Time will tell which part of this fallen couple will survive and thrive in the entertainment world. My money is on Jess Simpson especially with the new film 'Employee of the Month' opening this week. It promises to be entertaining and fun-love DANE COOK.

So it would be prudent for Us Weekly and other gossip mags to go easy on the charasmatic JS and back off LANILLO coverage which just makes Nick Lachey look bad. I mean it's just good business....