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Any word on the release of the Season 3 DVD? Is there really a market for it? How would they promote it?

I think seasons 2 and 3 are in a set together. I went to Target recently and they had the price slashed from $29.99 to $19.99, not a specific sale or something, but that was to be the new regular price - hee!

http://ny.metro.us/metro/blog/the_word/

Apparently she might have a bun in the oven...because gaining a few pounds on a thin, thin person means your pregnant...

They look so disingenuous posing for the cameras, because that's what they do, pose.

My friend just told me she read on usmagazine.com that they (Jess and Nick) have officially announced a separation. Hmmm....Expect a lot of traffic on the site itself. It was loading slow for me. I read the statement that was issued on a livejournal gossip site, and well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

You can take it with a grain of salt, though, because US Weekly tends to announce a separation every other week but this is the first time I've read a statement issued by Nick and Jess and not a rep.

From US Magazine via Reality Blurred:

“After three years of marriage, and careful thought and consideration, we have decided to part ways. … This is the mutual decision of two people with an enormous amount of respect and admiration for each other. We hope that you respect our privacy during this difficult time.”

So does this mean we get the newlyweds year 4:The Divorce? (TM someone many, many pages ago)

I feel like I have put in years waiting for this one - I especially want to watch the scene where they sit down with the lawyers and decide who gets the dogs.

LOL they broke in on E! with the news of the split.

Here's another source reporting the breakup ABC NEWS

Gee, nobody saw this coming.

I read something the other day where Nick was talking about how much he loved....DAISY! So yeah they'll probably go through custody for her.

Of course after hearing that Tom Cruise bought his own sonogram machine for Katie Holmes nothing would shock me anymore. Compared to that freak job the Simpson bunch is freaking normal!

I guess we will now be able to find the DVDs in the big time bargin bin at the Best Buy.
Empty those piggy banks folks!!!!!

Really? I always got the impression that he didn't like her. But in recent months anything probably seemed more loveable than his soon to be ex-wifey. Normally I would relish a public battle between the two. But considering Daisy's been living with them for almost her whole life, I think she deserves a little sympathy here. Run to Kristen Bell. She'll take care of you.
Hmm...this actually seems like a good marketing idea to raise the prices. So Nick and Jessica fans can remember the good old days. And announcing their break up right before the Day After Thanksgivings Sale. Perfect timing, much?

Not that I actually think they were planning this for sales. They're not TomKat. But recent spectulation leads me to believe they been apart for awhile so they chose this specific time for a reason. Maybe it's so that Thanksgiving weekend would overshadow it. Or some other reason. Whatever the reason I'm sure Papa Joe's behind it.

So after months of denying a separation, they finally admit to it?
Oh brother.

My friend who worships the very ground that Nick and Jessica walk on will be devastated to hear the news...(I can see my friend, gasping in disbelief at this very moment...and I'm being absolutely serious, I'm not joking) Me on the other, I can't wait to see Newlyweds No Longer: The breakup of Nick and Jessica. I wonder who gets the mansion, the cars, the dogs etc.
And to think, my friend thought they would last forever. I think she cheated on Nick with Bam Margera.

All I can say is that it's about damn time. Here's the article on MSN: Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey Officially Separate

Wonder what the official reason for the divorce will be? The ever-popular irreconcilable differences?

Am I the only one who thinks that maybe CPS finally realized that Jenifer Aniston is getting more publicity since her split than before and gave Jess the Ok to leave? Anyone?

Ok. Just me wasting my brain power on this.

This is really, truly, official? Oh frabjous day, caloo calay!

Just a couple of hours ago in the supermarket I saw the cover of Life & Style(?) magazine proclaiming their marraige was better than ever and they had a new house and were planning to adopt. Burn! I wonder if MTV will ever run the show again, now that it's purpose for existing is moot.

I foresee a flood of interviews that will all be how Jessica is bravely facing this great challenge. And now that she's no longer the perfect, pristine little virgin she'll go hog wild with the dating.

Great time to make the announcement- a long (US) holiday week-end! Less press coverage!

*puts on This I Swear mp3*

*cackles with delight*

Are they still under contract with MTV? A season of Notlyweds would be lovely.

The MSNBC article has links to previous articles. This was less than two weeks ago:

Denying right up to the last minute. I do wonder who finally stepped up and called it off. Was Nick finally fed up enough, or did PapaPerv convince her it was all Nick's fault and he was dragging her down?

I would love another season of this show. Hey, if it gets Papa Joe more money than necessary, he'll find someway to film it.

I have never once heard of the Montgomery Inn as upscale. This makes me giggle.

I figured once her publicist quite last week or the week before, it was only a matter of time for this to come out.

My money's on CPS pimping out her new reality show "Jessica: Getting over Nick."

You can't marry someone that you want to change.

This looks to me like they downloaded a copy of the statement Brad and Jen released and just did the quick copy and paste and put their names in where appropiate. Couldn't even do that themselves.
For those who think that Creepy Joe gave her the ok to leave now that Jennifer Anistons career is getting better post Brad as did Nicole Kidmans, I'm with you 100%. Please God let this be the end of Jessica on our tv screens and magazine covers.

Shocking news! Shocking! Who saw this coming? Oh yeah, everybody.



And after that a request to "respect our privacy." Because they've certainly never pimped their marriage or gave up their right to privacy a long time ago.

bahahahaha

Oh I'm the conductor of this train. Not only Joe but both her parents are complete whack jobs. I remember on Ashlee's show how Mama Hooch was freaking out over not yet a star but not yet embarrassed on national tv Ashlee getting a hair cut. She was like "oh my god you have NO hair back here. Get some extensions." Beacause yeah mom, everybody knows it's more important to be sexy than it is to have actualy talent. I actually feel quite sorry for the girls.
I would tell them to fuck off if I were them...but that's just me.

I was more upset about the Jen/Brad breakup than this one. Oh yeah and way to be original with your announcement idiots! You SO copied Jen and Brad's statement.

Here's some more info behind the break up from perezhilton.com. Looks like Papa Joe was behind the timing of the split. SHOCKING I know. Good call, everyone. Good call.

This is just the beginning of pictures of Jessica with any man she is seen out with in public. While the "Are they together or aren't they" stories were intolerable, I think the "Who is Jessica dating now?" stories are going to drive us all stark raving mad.

Hi, I am a new poster, and I love this website!
I have been reading the posts for the past 2 months or so, and I am just curious...now that it's a done deal that Nick and Jessica will split, is everyone here going to be HAPPY!? I mean I watched Newlyweds...bought the dvds, and while I don't like Jessica's music I thought they made a cute couple, and I always root for anyone's marriage, unless someone is getting their ass kicked of course.
Again, just curious (DON'T HURT ME!! :D ) why do most of you HATE her so much to the point that it looks like you were waiting...praying anticipating...hoping that they would divorce?? I just found that a bit odd, that's all.

Oh well, ...great site! Hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving!

Well, I skip Perez Hilton because his site is not original, it is just copied from somewhere else, even some fake sites, because he does not know the difference.

I think that Jessica and Nick would be better off not emulating Jennifer and Brad, because those people like actually have talent. Nick muight still be eye candy, but Jessica is morphing into a necromancer version of eyecandy with the skeltor smile.

ETA Why hate them so much - I think Papa Simpson has something to do with it, then there is too much fawning of the media over there talentless asses to the detriment of truly talented people, the constant hypocrisy and lies surrounding the relationship. Maybe some more reasons, but those are my main reasons.

ETAA Mollyanna, the behavior of Jessica and Ashlee acting entilted because they are so talented or the public exposure of Jessica's bad behavior going out with all kinds of guys while insisting there was no trouble in her marriage and the trashy way she has been acting (dare I say stoned behavior?), those are thethings that put my dislike directly on the girls. Oh, and the fact that Ashlee says she writes music when she steals the credit and part of the moeny from the people who actually do write the material does not make me like her any.

I don't hate Jessica or Nick. For me, it's her crazy ass parents, and especially her perverted dad. I actually feel sorry for Jessica and Nick. I'm not a proponent of divorce, I'd be thrilled to see ANY young hollywood couple make it. I think Jessica and Ashlee and anyone else under the control of Papa Joe should run like hell as far as they can away from him. I love my parents as much as anyone, but if I was famous and they acted like that? I wouldn't have anything to do with them at all, I wouldn't even give them my address or phone number.

I'm the loser who really really hoped things would work out. Alas, I blame Jessica solely for this, the girl treateed/talked to Nick horribly even in the first season of the show. She is a creature of her parents poor upbringing.
Anyhow, should there be a divorce, I hope Nick gets an obscene amount of alimony, and sells his story like there's no tomorrow. I hope he sticks it to Joe. He better be the Jennifer Aniston of this breakup. Poor guy.

To be quite honest I expect Nick Lachey to become Matt Leinart's boyfriend, considering how much Nick has played him up in the media lately.

Or it just could be that I'm a UCLA fan.

Its about time. It can't come soon enough. Now, hopefully both of their careers will just crash and burn just like their marriage. I guarantee that they didn't write their joint statements.

Personally I don't care if she's boning Nick, Johnny, Bam, or a braying donkey...it's more the fact that every time this girl cuts a fart her daddy makes it front page news that annoys me. When you whore out your marriage to the point where it's its own corporation you pretty much pave the way for personal disaster. If Nick and Jessica's greed had known some kind of boundaries and they had reigned it in after, say, season 1 -- and stopped mugging for the camera every five seconds and trying to create painful catch phrases and doing cutesy-poo TV specials that accentuated the strain between them, then I wouldn't find their separation announcement so amusing.

The show itself I found hilarious, but not for the reasons they wanted me to...it was like watching a ticking time bomb. Glue rhinestones and hair extensions to a ticking time bomb and have it tick in time to "Take My Breath Away"...it's still a ticking time bomb and perhaps someone should have worked to diffuse it instead of prettying it up, posing it for the paparazzi, and denying what is really going on.

I know that's assuming that they didn't work behind the scenes to diffuse it, but really, how much time could they possibly have devoted to their marriage while they were so incredibly busy exploiting the idea of it?

The father whored the marriage and he's sure as hell going to whore the divorce. Barbara Walters is on the phone right now working something out.

Word. And unfortunately, at the rate Papa Perv's been moving, my money's that Jessica will never go away. He's going to turn this into, "Who will she date next?" Her dad is such a shrewd person as well, and it's not that hard these days to be that calculated when it comes to dealing with the media. It's amazing how much he fucked up his own family in less than a 5-year span. I hope he'll see repercussions of this one day.

Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the schadenfreude of this, and telling my friends who thought I was full of shit, "I told you so."

intouchweekly.com

usmagazine.com

Great. Now In Touch is trying to take credit for this. Why are they trying to put a happy face on this?

I'll bet in a year's time Asslee and Jessica will be in a sister's pictorial in Playboy. And CPS will get wallet size pics to look at whenever his little ol' black heart desires.

Obviously I'm just about the only one here who feels sorry that Nick and Jess have separated. I thought they made a cute couple. I love watching Newlyweds. My husabnd and I are about the same ages as N & J and got married around the same time and it was good to see that they were going thru the same problems as us. THose of you who are saying you're happy bc now we wont hear about them, are wrong. It's only going to get crazier now. I do agree that Papa Joe is way too weird, but i don't think u can blame him. Jessica is an adult and can... or should, make her own decisions. I hope its just a separation and that they work things out before heading towards the 'big D'.

I'm waiting for the new series on VH1: "The fabulous divorce of..."

First episode: Nick and Jessica
Second episode: Britney and Kevin

On German MTV, there are constant reruns of "Newlyweds", so I get to watch it over and over again. Great fun.

OT that they also show reruns of "The Ashley Simpson Show" and "Britney and Kevin: Chaotic". It's like three different chapters of The Troika Chronicles of Desaster Unfolding. [/OT]

I wonder whether their marriage would have been better if they had officially been able to have sex before the wedding night.
And I wonder whether Nick kept talking about sex all the time because he wasn't getting any...

I feel sad... for Nick. Papa Perv had a big hand in this marriage falling apart, as well as Jessica's alleged infidelity and drug use. The show started off as a great idea, but the Simpson clan obviously lacked self-control whenever it came down to a lot of the things that come with fame as well. Nick has stayed pretty grounded and relatively the same, but the Simpsons have clearly turned into different, much scarier people. It still amazes me, being that they were a pretty religious family before this. But I guess fame was more important to them in the end. Sometimes in life you have to be careful what you wish for. It can come back and sabotage you in the end.



I knew the "had they had sex before marriage, then..." thing would come up a lot. It's pretty unfair to say that, since they (well, mainly Jessica) were very different people going into this marriage than what they turned out to be once their fame took off. Money can definitely change people, and add that with fame, partying, and getting wrapped up in bigger scenes than what you were normally a part of. Somewhere in that, unless you're really grounded, it's going to change you. Which is what's obviously happened to Jessica, and her parents (especially her father) had a big part in that, since she and her sister are their cash cows. Which is really, really sad in retrospect, when I think back to how they used to be about five years ago.

Nocturne - I don't wonder about that in a mean way, and I respect people's beliefs and moral compass. I also don't want to over-emphasise sex or give the impression that it's the most important thing in a marriage. It's just that physical harmony is a very important component in a relationship - as is figuring out whether you are compatible as "roommates". Being in love doesn't necessarily mean that you can stand being around the other person 24/7, or that you can accept the other one's quirks enough to live with them.
The most important thing about any relationship is acceptance and compromise. And I feel that Nick and Jessica have never been really able to work on that - or to enjoy their marriage - due to the constant media attention, her family hovering above them and their individual schedules. Being married - or in any relationship - is difficult enough for 'ordinary' people. But tossing the other components into the mix - I can't even imagine how they must have felt.

The separation is a shame if you only remember the first season of their show. They looked like they loved one another and had a sweet life. But because they were C list at best, they got to spend much more time together and were equally famous (or lack thereof).

It's weird that they have a video diary of their marraige being systematically destroyed. You can see it starting in Season 2 where the focus went to their fabulous separate career lives instead of them learning to be married (Season 1). It is so obvious in Season 3 that they didn't like each other anymore.

Queen C, no problem! I definitely understood that you didn't mean it in a mean way. My apologies for not being clear myself though (that's what happens when you're rushing out to work before typing something).

What I forgot to add was that I've heard/read people mention the whole "they should have had sex first" in a demeaning way and citing that as the problem. I'd say that no premarital relations had little or nothing to do with their separation. Either way, if those reports are true about her cheating on Nick, it doesn't mean that she would have been more or less likely to have done so had she not been a virgin before marriage. My thoughts are the huge escalation of fame and everything else that came with it. Nick seemed pretty grounded since day one, while the Simpson clan has been chasing fame since day one. And once you're that deep in, other things like sex and drugs come into play. And this was what allegedly happened to Jessica. Which is why, IMO, not having sex before marriage didn't have much to do with it.

This whole thing is a classic tale of a couple in which one or both parties become two different people over time and they grow apart. Only a lot of it could have been avoided had it not been for Jessica's father pimping her and Ashlee out and had they had self-control over this whole fame thing.

I know. That couple camping w/ Drew & Leah are so different than the Jessica & Nick we see now.I think Nick would have been perfectingly happy staying like that.If fucking CPS would have kept his ugly ass out of it.

[QUOTE]Obviously I'm just about the only one here who feels sorry that Nick and Jess have separated. I thought they made a cute couple. I love watching Newlyweds. My husabnd and I are about the same ages as N & J and got married around the same time and it was good to see that they were going thru the same problems as us. THose of you who are saying you're happy bc now we wont hear about them, are wrong. It's only going to get crazier now. I do agree that Papa Joe is way too weird, but i don't think u can blame him. Jessica is an adult and can... or should, make her own decisions. I hope its just a separation and that they work things out before heading towards the 'big D'.



FBee,

I'm one of the "weird" ones too that hopes they just need some time away from each other and will get back together!

He married a woman-child who he thought he could mold into a subservient wife. It would have never worked, even if Jessica was still just a 4th or 5th Britney clone.