Nick and Jessica became stars after their reality TV series on MTV, The Newlyweds, catapulted the couple to fame - a fame that they might not otherwise have known. The intrusiveness of the show and the world into the fledgling marriage, endless tabloid speculation, and ultimately, the puppeteering of father/manager Joe Simpson clearly contributed to the disintegration of the three-year marriage. Joe Simpson, mastermind of The Newlyweds, is also owner and founder of Papa Joe records, securely nestled under the Geffen label.
Joe Simpson takes the role of stage mom to a whole new level. Managing both daughters, Jessica and Ashlee's, singing/media careers seems to have given the former Baptist youth minister a G*d complex of a different kind. Manically spinning the media to conform to his will, Simpson has managed to create, destroy and resurrect both daughters' careers with the skill of one who has sold his soul to the devil.
After successfully pitching Jessica and Nick's love and young marriage to execs at MTV, Joe was emboldened to pimp Ashlee's burgeoning music career into another reality show, The Ashlee Simpson Show. Fans got to watch Ashlee's phoenix impression as she crashed, burned, then miraculously arose from the ashes of a lip-sync scandal stemming from her appearance on SNL. The 360 degree transformation is legendary, and further proves her father's alliance with hell. Despite a popular site petitioning for her removal from the music scene, and ostensibly the universe, she has reemerged with a successful follow up album.
According to Billboard, "Simpson staved off a slew of Billboard 200 chart veterans...notching her second chart-topper with "I Am Me." With sales of 220,000 copies in the U.S... it duplicates the chart-topping success of her 2004 debut, "Autobiography" ... in just six weeks, the new album's first single, "Boyfriend," is a top 25 track on the Billboard Hot 100."
Coincidentally, the album was released at approximately the same time leaks about the Nick/Jessica split were reported in the tabloids. That Joe is a savvy marketing genius - and probably a devil worshipper.
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
excellent job on this Dawn! Very glad to see things are working out for Nick, who seems like a good guy
2 - DJRadiohead
Dawn, we have our topic. Damn, I'm going to enjoy the shit out of this.
3 - Dawn
DJR - I look forward to it. Hopefully the barfing disease that hasn't shrouded the Olsen household doesn't get me before then.
See what happens when you cross Joe Simpson, you puts a plague upon your house.
4 - DJRadiohead
Joe Simpson is a terrible and powerful man. From their line, the antiChrist may well spawn.
5 - Michael J. West
The article was excellent, but the title was transcendent.
6 - Guppusmaximus
LOL... This stuff is good. It's a Soap Opera with a Soundtrack. I should've given up on integrity in music and pawned my soul to the devil...F*CK!
Looks like I will only have the good stuff to listen to when I'm old and grey.
7 - Dawn
That should read "has shrouded" - I think I am succumbing to the plague. Curse you Joe Simpson, or should I say, the Dark One.
8 - Eric Olsen
he clearly has unnatural influence over time and space
9 - Eric Berlin
I'm waiting patiently for The Newly Divorced -- it's got to be coming soon.
It does look like this is a case where Nick deserves and is winning the PR battle.
10 - Chelsea Snyder
WHAT?! NICK AND JESSICA GOT MARRIED?
11 - Nancy Glass
I would love to be able to get a message to Jessica. I feel very deeply that this divorce.. either about to happen or already in the past is such a HUGE HORRIBLE mistake. Nick is head over heals and he loves her to death. I don't think that it will give her more fame, and if it does only for a short time, and then just sadness, and unhappiness. I was married the exact same day... October 26, 2002; and I do understand. I would earge her to put away pride which can be the death of any marriage, and try to salvage what is left with councelling, books, and whatnot. I just think shes going to be extreemly disappointed ten years from now when she realizes that no other man loved her the way Nick did, and life didn't quite work out the way she expected.
12 - Blackpearl 88
uhuhuhu.. im soOOoo sad of the break up.. nick and jess make a perfect couple together but what happened...?? uhuhuhu i love you nIck one day the right girl for you will come too.. you've been good and damn handsOme.. to hell with the girls who betrayed you..!!! they are unreasonable.. oneday you'll find the the one who will love you sincerely and truly... lOve you nick!.. to jessica,though i love your pairing and the chemistry you had, after what you've done to nick, i wish you luck in finding hapiness..no man would love you as nick did to you.. realize that!! it's your lost... you had hurted him already and i HATE you for that..! nick, keep up the good work...