Modern Day Honeymooners: Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey

Written by Dawn Olsen
Published January 23, 2004

Truly, if they were any cuter we would have to eat them.

I can't tell you why (though I will try), but I find the public display of new love between poptart Jessica Simpson, and her boyband singing husband (formerly of 98 Degrees) Nick Lachey both deeply amusing and inexplicably sweet.

The MTV generated TV show, The Newlyweds: Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey is designed to chronicle the ups and downs of being a newly married couple, fabulously beautiful, moderately famous, comfortably rich and struggling for even greater success in entertainment industry.

Surprisingly, it works. But the reason it works is because of the nature of the relationship between the 30 year-old Lachey, and the 24 year-old Simpson. The two have known each other over four years and dated exclusively (except for five months while Jessica sowed some oats) for over three years. Hey, that's a lifetime in Hollywood. Their love is sweet, honest, natural and REALLY quite hilarious at times. They manage this all in front of a camera crew.

Nick Lachey is a nice wholesome boy from Kentucky, and Jessica is a down home girl from Texas. Jessica is Lucy and Nick is Desi. Always the straight man to her comical "ignorance" he somehow manages to make her seem even dumber than she actually is. But in a nice sweet way.

Their on camera chemistry makes you feel comfortable with her foibles because you just KNOW he loves her in spite of her clearly challenged knowledge of how the world works. Only a man who loved someone beyond their looks could get over this hurdle and for that I applaud him.

For all the attention Jessica gets for being "dumb" she is also lots of really great things. She is a dutiful wife, who really loves her husband and tells him often and shows it in a normal and pleasant way, you know, by showing up at video shoots where scantily clad women will be present, just to make sure he feels really uncomfortable and behaves himself. Her breasts, which are stunning, are also real. LISTEN UP BRITNEY AND CHRISTINA. She is genuinely sweet and thoughtful and most often her first thoughts (which she hasn't quite managed to filter) are good-hearted and full of naive kindness.

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Dawn Olsen is a veteran blogger who proudly supports the guy who publishes this awesome site. She's also an avid reader of high quality tabloid fare, enjoys gardening and scatological skywriting.
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Published: January 23, 2004
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#1 — January 23, 2004 @ 13:50PM — Eric Olsen

Good job - I have to admit after seeing the bits I saw when you were watching the marathon, and especially after seeing them on SNL, I kind of like them, which I mentioned here, unlke say, Bennifer, now extinct.

#2 — March 5, 2004 @ 15:02PM — Stephanie Faulkner

I am stephanie and i need help i write songs and wanted nick lachey and jessica simpson to help me to become a singer plz!! e-mail me at angel_babe_188@hotmail.com plz thxs....

#3 — June 17, 2004 @ 21:29PM — Blake

nick and jessica,
i am very involved in my school chior and we do shows throughout the year where we perform the most recent pop music.(one of my friends performed "with you") anyway i just wanted to know how you guys got started and how you got to be where you are today. thanx guys
~Blake

#4 — July 2, 2004 @ 00:34AM — Terrin

my name is Terrin Ashton and I'm a big newlyweds fan but i'm not gone to lie i never really watched Newlyweds until one day my sister was watching it then I sat down with her and ever since then thats all I watch i don't understand why people say Jessica act like a bimbo she doesn't to me she just asks stupid questions and thats about it and also i'm really bummed because i missed this weeks episode of newlyweds because I had to clean up chores are a bummer and also Jessica congrats on winning that special on the top ten bodys

#5 — July 23, 2004 @ 16:49PM — Bradley

hey it's me agin did you get what i sent you hey maby i could see you some time
ps.is fun being a sleb?

#6 — July 23, 2004 @ 16:54PM — bradley [URL]

how can i get a hold of you onlin each time it's somthing like this please gust talk to me...

#7 — November 1, 2004 @ 17:00PM — Jeni

how do we send fan mail to let Jess and Nick know how much we support them?

#8 — February 19, 2005 @ 13:59PM — siera hernandez aka jennifer simpson-lachey

hi Nick and Jess i am a big fan of both of ya'll and i one day wanted to be ur kid i am looking for parnets. and my mom said it was ok if i lived with ya'll if ya'll take me. we went to go see jessica at the big E and they were going to send me with her but u nick was not there. so e-mail me back to let me know if you are going to take me

Ricanmamiangel@aol.com
love siera hernandez

and i want to be a singer i am about to make a demo

#9 — October 5, 2005 @ 13:26PM — Heather

Just an FYI...Nick Lachey is from Cincinnati Ohio, not Kentucky.

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