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NEWS
Local pop princess returns to Dallas
Jessica Simpson promotes album at NorthPark Mall
By Clark Castle Staff Writer
October 30, 2003
Jokingly playing with a white plastic bottle cap in her mouth before spitting it out, Jessica Simpson is riding a personal high.
Simpson flashes her pearly whites as a last minute check before heading down the escalator in NorthPark Mall on Wednesday to greet fans during a promotional tour for her new album, In This Skin.
Once off the escalator and onstage, Simpson’s voice drowns out her perceived image of the dumb blonde as depicted on her and husband Nick Lachey’s surprise MTV hit, “Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica.”
On the show, Simpson has come across as ditzy. Most notoriously, she confused Chicken of the Sea tuna with actual chicken and thought Buffalo wings were made from buffalo meat rather than chicken. “Jessica has always spoken before she thinks,” said the entertainer’s mother Tina Simpson.
Simpson has said that she doesn’t mind when people think of her as a dumb blonde, and the incidents have sparked new vocabulary. Now, when someone has a blonde moment, it is referred to as “pulling a Jessica.”
Some fans even brought Chicken of the Sea tuna cans for Simpson to sign.
The Texas native was only signing and singing rather than speaking at the event.
The signing included a performance of Simpson’s latest single, “With You,” and the event drew more than 1,000 fans according to Foley’s special events coordinator Lisa Benitez.
Since the unexpected success of “Newlyweds,” life has gotten much crazier for Simpson, according to her road manager, Cacee Cobb.
“It’s surprising — it used to be young kids that would approach Jessica, but now it’s adults,” Cobb said. “Sixty-year-olds have come up to her in the airport thinking they know her.”
Simpson’s mother agrees. “People feel like they know Jessica intimately, and they do,” she said.
Simpson is currently promoting her third studio album throughout the United States, including a performance at her former high school Wednesday night.
“She’s ecstatic about this album,” her mother said. “She got to write most of the CD, and she has a lot to say and really wanted to put out positive music.”
Simpson was born in Waco, raised in Dallas and graduated from J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson. She got her first recording contract at age 17 when music mogul Tommy Mottola signed her to Columbia Records. She released her first album Sweet Kisses in 1999.
Although she’s found success at an early age, Simpson is “not different than a typical person her age,” Cobb said. “She’s most comfortable just lying on the couch with Nick.”
“She likes to shop, and she took me to the L.A. hot spots,” said Jessica Melker, Simpson’s friend of 12 years. “She makes sure her friends get to experience the things she is experiencing.”
With “Newlyweds” picked up for another season, Simpson will embark on a tour of Ivy League schools where she will perform and compete with students in a question-and-answer session. She will love her dumb blonde status all the way to the banks of the Mississippi, Missouri and Hudson rivers. Wait, those are banks right?
NEWS
Local pop princess returns to Dallas
Jessica Simpson promotes album at NorthPark Mall
By Clark Castle Staff Writer
October 30, 2003
Jokingly playing with a white plastic bottle cap in her mouth before spitting it out, Jessica Simpson is riding a personal high.
Simpson flashes her pearly whites as a last minute check before heading down the escalator in NorthPark Mall on Wednesday to greet fans during a promotional tour for her new album, In This Skin.
Once off the escalator and onstage, Simpson’s voice drowns out her perceived image of the dumb blonde as depicted on her and husband Nick Lachey’s surprise MTV hit, “Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica.”
On the show, Simpson has come across as ditzy. Most notoriously, she confused Chicken of the Sea tuna with actual chicken and thought Buffalo wings were made from buffalo meat rather than chicken. “Jessica has always spoken before she thinks,” said the entertainer’s mother Tina Simpson.
Simpson has said that she doesn’t mind when people think of her as a dumb blonde, and the incidents have sparked new vocabulary. Now, when someone has a blonde moment, it is referred to as “pulling a Jessica.”
Some fans even brought Chicken of the Sea tuna cans for Simpson to sign.
The Texas native was only signing and singing rather than speaking at the event.
The signing included a performance of Simpson’s latest single, “With You,” and the event drew more than 1,000 fans according to Foley’s special events coordinator Lisa Benitez.
Since the unexpected success of “Newlyweds,” life has gotten much crazier for Simpson, according to her road manager, Cacee Cobb.
“It’s surprising — it used to be young kids that would approach Jessica, but now it’s adults,” Cobb said. “Sixty-year-olds have come up to her in the airport thinking they know her.”
Simpson’s mother agrees. “People feel like they know Jessica intimately, and they do,” she said.
Simpson is currently promoting her third studio album throughout the United States, including a performance at her former high school Wednesday night.
“She’s ecstatic about this album,” her mother said. “She got to write most of the CD, and she has a lot to say and really wanted to put out positive music.”
Simpson was born in Waco, raised in Dallas and graduated from J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson. She got her first recording contract at age 17 when music mogul Tommy Mottola signed her to Columbia Records. She released her first album Sweet Kisses in 1999.
Although she’s found success at an early age, Simpson is “not different than a typical person her age,” Cobb said. “She’s most comfortable just lying on the couch with Nick.”
“She likes to shop, and she took me to the L.A. hot spots,” said Jessica Melker, Simpson’s friend of 12 years. “She makes sure her friends get to experience the things she is experiencing.”
With “Newlyweds” picked up for another season, Simpson will embark on a tour of Ivy League schools where she will perform and compete with students in a question-and-answer session. She will love her dumb blonde status all the way to the banks of the Mississippi, Missouri and Hudson rivers. Wait, those are banks right?