Jessica Simpson Sticks to the Script

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Jessica Simpson won't talk about Nick

Want to know the latest about the marriage between Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson? How about her recent confession to seeing a therapist? How about her recent trip to Africa? How about the price of tea in China? Evidently pretty much everything is off limits when you interview Simpson these days unless you want to ask about her latest money-making venture: her line of clothes.

The article gives a pretty good blow by blow of how things are really done in Hollywood with publicists, agents and other handlers tightly scripting "interviews" with celebrities. I'm not really trying to single out Jessica here, I just think it's a good inside look at what happens when you try to get real answers to the day's events from "the horse's mouth" as it were...