I would agree with that, but it really was her platform at one time. The entire Simpson clan overdoes absolutely everything. They play whatever card seems to get them the farthest at that particular time.

Jessica is a Christian! Christian!Christian!Christian!

Now, Jessica is a virgin! Virgin!Virgin!Virgin!

Now, Jessica is stupid! Stupid!Stupid!Stupid!

Now, Jessica is slutty! Slutty!Slutty!Slutty!

It's almost sad that she doesn't even have her own identity any more. Like if someone asked her what she likes to do, the best she could come up with would be "shopping". Not that there isn't anything wrong with shopping, but her personality seems entirely wrapped up in who she thinks she's supposed to be at the time. For awhile it was “virgin conservative singer”, then it became “doting but dim wife”, now it’s "blonde, skinny, fake hair, orange, Daisy Duke washing a car in a pink bikini". She can't separate US Weekly Jessica from the real Jessica. Maybe there wasn't ever a real Jessica to begin with, I don't know. Neither of her parents seem likely to instill the necessary tools in their children to make them interesting, driven, and independent adults.

Given what I've see and read about her, she's incapable of having an adult conversation with anyone. Now it's either because A.) This "stupid is sooooo cute" act is a full-time persona or B.) She actually is that socially inept. Both are equally sad and pathetic.

I read an interview wherein she was answering questions. She was surprisingly articulate.....unless the writer was forced to translate baby-talk into something coherent...

I saw her in a televised interview when she was receiving an award for being a style icon -- hurl -- and she was not the least bit articulate. She was her usual idiotic self.

The Christian group should have done more research because she said in her last two Elle interviews that she has moved away from her Southern Baptist upbringing because it was too judgmental. Why not take her to task for that instead of some silly video.

I'm guessing most conservative evangelical Christians don't read Elle magazine; I know many don't watch MTV. Some of them reject a lot of media outlets because there's too much sex and violence. I have strict evangelical christian cousins in Texas and they don't watch television or read magazines because it they believe these things portray values. So I'm guessing Jessica's gotten away with changing her image without them noticing, so they still saw her as one of them. She's finally gotten to the point where even those who don't watch television can't escape her skankitude.

Interestingly, when I was looking on the internet for the groups that have denounced her, the primary one, Female First, is European. So it makes sense that it would take them longer to see her image change. There's also an old interview with Jessica on their site where she talks about how pop stars should become better role models. So apparently they embraced her because she talked a good game, and now they've realized what a hypocrit she is, and they're criticized her. Makes perfect sense to me.

It's fine if they have seperated themselves from their upbringing, but they shouldn't use it in interviews all the time to say how she's not really this way (a slut) she just plays one on tv because she was brought up to be a good Christian girl.

Also Katms, no birth control isn't a sin in all Christian faiths. The faithful Catholic do not believe in birth control but even now that is topic for debate in that sect. I am a Southern Baptist and while I don't use birth control because I'm trying to get pregnant, it isn't against my religion to use it.

Conservative Christians (even us pesky Southern Baptists) aren't all stodgy. I listen to all kinds of music, watch all sorts of television shows, read Stephen King novels (gasp) but I have certain morals and one isn't to pretend to be something I'm not for the sake of the almighty dollar. I am who I am, take me and love me or leave me. On Topic: That's my problem with Jessica. She wants to be this role model and this good girl yet she also wants to be seen as a sex kitten and it doesn't work. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Mandy Moore is a much better role model. She didn't forsake her principles for the almighty dollar and as such she is made fun of. Jessica did and still gets made fun of!

That's the sad truth, though...

Topic? Remember when Jessica was wearing that "Jesus is my homeboy" T-Shirt (or similar) and saying "oh my gah"? That wasn't too long ago. Her problem is that she lets everyone else decide what she should do- dad says be religious, handlers say abandon religion and be a whore. Follow, follow, follow.

She should have observed singers like india.arie, Lauryn Hill, etc. They've managed to incorporate their religion and spirituality in their music without annoying and offending everyone around them. Not that I ever felt like Jessica's spirituality was authentic- she's always parroting.

I can't wait until she's just GONE, but then again, I love snarking on her.

So in this week's US Weekly, they have some quotes from the upcoming Elle article. One of them is that the producers of Dukes of Hazard apparently hired an acting coach to help Jessica--and he quit after the first day, saying "she doesn't need it."

Yeah. I know they're trying to push this image of Jessica as a "natural" actress, but having had the unfortunate experience of watch her "act" her way through SNL skits, that VH1 show she filed where she couldn't read her script and her scripted dumb comments on her TV show, it is clear that that woman doesn't have an ounce of acting talent in her body.

Not to mention, how Simpson-esque is it not to use an acting coach. I mean real, legitimate artists such as Nicole Kidman, Joan Allen, Meryl Streep have taken acting lessons and continue to take them to help them shape their craft as they continue their career. Jessica and her family thinks that it is only about looking good in the Daisy Dukes. Ugh.

squirrleyQ, thanks for your comments. As a fellow Baptist, it's nice to see someone who can eloquently state our case.

Jessica and her dad are such hypocrites. That is really all there is to it. I was never brought up to believe a person could just "quit" being a minister, youth or otherwise. That's my main problem with him. They were religious while it suited them, and then when someone flashed a few dollars in front of them they decided they were no longer in need of their religion. I would hold that against anyone, be they Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc. No one should be that "wishy-washy".

If that is the Simpson take then I totally agree. There is no depth to Daisy Duke other than to look good in a pair of shorts. What would she need an acting coach for? All Jessica talks about is how she got in shape for this movie. That tells me that the producers are looking for eye candy. Kidman and the like would never attach themselves to that bullshit. If not Jessica then it would have been some other shallow actress/Maxim/FHM/Stuff covergirl like Carmen Electra to play her. I don't expect any of the actors in DOH to appear on Inside the Actors Studio anytime soon.

If she is serious about acting and playing roles other than a bimbo (I don't share the opinion that DD was anything other than that) in couchie cutters then she'll need more than an acting coach to help her. But if not then all she will need for her future roles is a personal trainer and who knows by that time Hollywood will have moved on to someone younger.

The really strange thing about both the movie and the video is that while she is undoubtedly in "shape" and has a good body, when I see her on my telly she just looks... dirty, for lack of a more eloquent term.

Butting in to OT and disagree...if you ever watched the real Dukes you would know that Daisy Duke was not stupid she was actually really smart. But the movie is a complete and total sham, and nothing like the show. Its appropriate though that since they made Daisy out to be a fucking idiot, that Jessica play her...no need for an acting coach to be yourself...

Even with a little camp, I'd prefer to see the Wilson Brothers and a brunette Laura Prepon cast as the Dukes. Country people watched the "Dukes of Hazzard" and laughed at it because it was funny and relatable; I fear that the current movie version will alienate this demographic, because the trailers seem to be making fun of the original target audience.

Topic: Even before the drug rumors started, my boyfriend and I were convinced that Jessica was playing in the snow while watching the last seasons of "Newlyweds." Something about the look in her eyes and the scattered speech. Coincidentally, I think she'd make an awesome Chrissy Snow if they ever made a movie version of "Three's Company."

That is why I don't intend to watch Dukes of Hazzard, I refuse to also watch Bewitched, and I didn't watch Starsky and Hutch. They may have been campy shows but all these movies do are make fun of them and the people who watched them and I just am not into that.

Now that, I would actually pay to see. I think it is because they would have made sure there was a half-way decent script before signing on, unlike the current cast.

I feel Jess & Nick's careers are already fading now that the show is over. They are just on gossip magazine covers now. If they don't really get divorced then people will stop caring because their music certainly isn't keeping anyone around. Soon, the money will stop rolling in, unless they whore themselves out for new reality shows called "Divorcees."

Amazon.com has video of Nick making a special DVD delivery to a fan. It's very cute- & no Jessucka in sight....bonus!

I too read the preview of the Elle article this weekend. Apparently (I know you're all shocked) her dad has a few quotes sprinkled in there too. I still don't understand why he shows up to everything and is included in her interviews. She's 24, surely she can handle things like this all by herself.

I know he's her manager and all, but I don't care what some middle-aged man has to say about what I should think of Jessica Simpson. Plenty of people are managed by their parents and we don't have to see or hear from them constantly. Certainly not once they turn 18. He's turned into quite the little famewhore himself. And someday when Nick and Jessica get divorced, I suspect ol' Joe will have played a very large role in making sure that happened.

How much longer before they offically admit it's over?

Who thought Jessica Simpleton would need help acting like a stupid bimbo? Really? Has the DoH movie gone straight to home video?

This is just a guess, but I think this is one of those situations where TPTB know that the movie sucks big time, so they're giving it a huge publicity push to try to get people into the theaters the first week before the reviews and word-of-mouth kills it. It's not scheduled to be released until August 5.

Here's an interesting article by the original Cooter. He's annoyed they took a family-friendly television show and trashed it up and made it sleazy. Hee. I always loved him as a Congressman. Go, ex-Cooter, dude.

As to Jessica not needing an acting coach, I can buy that she didn't need help acting like a sleazy dumbass, but she seriously needed someone to help her with her "southern accent." I know that Georgia and Texas accents are different, but she just sounds completely ridiculous.

And I just saw the video for the first time yesterday, and it made me weep for Nancy Sinatra and Willie Nelson. The song was barely recognizable. The dancing scenes were hilarious, because the editors worked their butts off to sort of show us Jessica dancing with the backup dancers and yet never really showing us Jessica dancing, because it's pretty well known she cannot dance.

I live in North Texas and I do NOT sound like Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind. For frig sake, Jessucka.

I know! I was raised half my life in Georgia and half here in Texas and I have never come across someone who sounds like her! Ugh, way to give the awesome southern accent a bad rep!

True or not True?

"Jessica Simpson and Johnny Knoxville are going public."

I just picked up the newest US Weekly and they got a totally different story about her birthday party. Apparently their source said it was all hugs and kisses. Nick got her some rims for her Mercedes that she really wanted and was there for the candle-blowing.
I prefer the bad version personally!

Isn't Us Weekly the magazine that had to back-track their story about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt adopting a child? lol

Wendy Williams reported the co-divorces as fact on her show today. (She also reported as fact that Beyonce's father stole $20M and blew it on crack and said all the tabloids would be reporting on it asap. That was three weeks ago.) But she never mentioned a source or where she got it from. Apparently an e-mail has been going around about it since this morning.

If it is true it sounds like a PR disaster. I doubt her fans are going to support what seems to be an already shaky movie if she announces that she is fucking Knoxville.

Brad and Angie didn't do it before their flick and they played love interests. Do Jess and Knoxville have an incestuous relationship in the movie?

It would not surprise me if they did, nique.

It's a shame they didn't dub in someone who could actually sing while they were at it.

I watched the video on my computer so I didn't get all of the sound since my speakers are blown. However, the dancing was funny, and the bikini scene? Totally ridiculous. I think that she looked better with more weight and less eye makeup.

Yeah. They are also responsible for the whole Britney faked her marriage story last year that also turned out to be false. Oh and according to US Liv Tyler had a baby girl.

Not to mention the fact that each week US has grammar and spelling errors!

I really think if they get divorced there will be a reality show based around single Jess.

I was watching the news yesterday and they had a story about fundamentalist christians who still go for arranged marraiges. The woman's first kiss (ever) is on her wedding day, after the prospective suitors have been okayed by dad and they properly court, not date. Anyway, they were contrasting this with today's hedonistic society and used MTV as an example. The video snippet they showed as illustration? Jessica's Boots. Yes folks, she's now officially the Anti-Christ!

Um, actually it's not a "topic for debate" in the Catholic Church. There are just many Catholics who either don't understand the theological basis for the rejection of artificial birth control or don't care to.

Anyway. Fundamentalist and non-denominational Christian churches vary (sometimes wildly) in their theologies. Some Churches reject birth control, others don't. Those who do seem to follow a pretty vague mandate that birth control is cosmically and indefinably evil and so should just be ignored. The catechesis in those churches tends to be extremely inadequate and so you end up with people like Jessica who get married young just so they can have sex or have pre-marital sex without birth control because they figure it's less bad.

And my rule of thumb on US Weekly is that it's complete fiction. Entertaining, but fiction.

nevermind

No, just Nancy Sinatra slitting her wrists.

I think Jess has Us Weekly wrapped around her finger, and they probably desperately want to stay on her good side so they can get exclusive interviews after the divorce announcement, and especially since Britney has denounced them. Oddly enough, I remember Jessica blasting Us Weekly back before she was really famous. Things have changed.

Agreed. They just worship her, good or bad. For a while back, three consecutive issues had Jessica and Nick's martial issues as the front; of course, either it was just Jessica on the front cover or her having the bigger picture. She doesn't need to do anything, and Us Weekly will still put it on the front cover -- Jessica's so fashionable! Jessica's getting skinnier for her movie! Jessica's in a bikini! Jessica's fighting with Lindsay Lohan! She's like a god to them.

InTouch Weekly as well seems stuck on her stupid ass. And that one used to be my favorite because it has much of the same stuff as the others but it's cheaper and I can't justify the $ I spend on tabloids so every little bit helps. But now it's all about Jessica and I'm sick of her and her husband and her movie and her marriage and her supposed cheating and her stupidity and her sister and most importantly HER PARENTS. I am not, however, sick of this thread! I love that you all hate her as well.

Well, at the very end of the video, when she looks up with her SexyEyesTM, cold chills go up my spine. Maybe that's just me, but if Want2Sleep is right, it was probably Nancy Sinatra's ghost telling me to destroy this video so that her spirit can rest in peace. Anything you say, Nancy.

Nancy Sinatra is not dead.

darn, you beat me to it!!

Rolling Stone rated the song one star. Personally, I only think it qualified for half a star.

OMG, I just saw the DOH commercial for the 1st time and agree with everyone on this board that Jessica sounds fucking mentally handicap in this movie. What a shitty actress. I could do a better job and I'm not even from the goddamn South. I don't have stumplegs either.

Jessica's invovled in Us Weekly's current main story again. It's about celebrity diets, and Jessica's one of the women featured. They're gushing over the fact she lost eight pounds for DOH and that she's keeping it off. Not to mention the fact that they have a story about her birthday party and her personal style. So they're not getting over her any time soon.

I find this completely horrifying, considering that she looks worse now, IMO.

I just checked out the pictures on wireimage of Jessica's birthday party. Randomest guest list ever--Eva Mendes, David Spade, and Jessica's grandparents. There are plenty of pictures of Jessica with her giant maw opened and looking idiotic--not too many of Jess and Nick, though. There is an absolutely hilarious picture of Tina Simpson clutching Mandy Moore, who is about a foot taller and looks the epitome of class next to that horrid woman, as well as plenty of "CaCee," who now is apparently is known by her first moniker only

Hell - a good trip to the bathroom and a hair cut can make you lose almost that much.

Hmmmm.... I just read in an article on msn that Jess is planning to adopt a baby from an orphanage. In my mind, no doubt a stunt to derail divorce rumours when her Oscar worthy movie comes out.

People and Us magazines can't quite get their stories straight about what kind of car Jess has that Nick bought her new rims for. Us says it's a Mercedes SUV and People says it's a Range Rover. Oh hell, maybe Jess doesn't know for sure.

People is reporting today that Joe Simpson says Nick and Jessica's marriage is "solid." What the hell - does he just go ahead and release a statement every couple of days just to keep their names in the news? Jesus.

Well Joe probably had nothing new to say about Jessica's boobs, so what is he going to talk about? The man is a famewhore in his own right.

I guess he is just trying to fill time until the movie is released.