February 2007 News Archive (Page 25)

Jessica Simpson says seeing Nick Lachey with another woman after their split was painful.

"Oh, it hurt me," Simpson tells Elle in its March issue. "Two or three weeks later? Yeah, I'd say it kind of hurt me."

(After their November 2005 separation, her ex was photographed with Laguna Beach star Kristin Cavallari. He's now dating MTV's Vanessa Minnillo.)

But Simpson, 26, says she's still in touch with Lachey, 33. "He's so much a part of my life, how could I not be? Any guy who's going to be with me from this day forward has to understand that."

She won't say whether that guy could be John Mayer, 29, with whom she's been linked off and on since the summer.

"I want to tell you everything, but I have to sew my lips together," she says. "It's hurt me in the past." (Still, a glimpse of her e-mail inbox reveals a block of about 10 e-mails from Mayer, including one with the subject line, "Texas girl.")

When the interviewer comments, "I feel that with this new privacy of yours, I'm going to wake up one morning, pick up the paper and read . . . " Simpson interjects: "That I'm married! Maybe."

Asked if she's "totally in love right now," Simpson grins and says, "I didn't say yes."

If she's taking pains to keep her love life low-profile, it's because of the tabloid firestorm set off by her split from Lachey after they'd revealed the inner workings of their marriage on Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica.

"I let people in on who I am and how I react to my husband," Simpson says. "That's a big deal. Celebrities don't do that.

So I think they brought me down just because I stopped talking and because I have not spoken â€" and will not speak â€" about my divorce. And I think people feel like I owe them my reality right now."

She will say, though, that she thought there was hope for her marriage up until a few days before she and Lachey announced their split. So what changed?

"I watched The Notebook on a plane home to Waco to be with my grandparents," she says. "It's a great love story."

The movie itself, she says, was "not what sealed it. I just figured out the statement. It was about that moment of desperation. I needed to breathe."

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Drew Barrymore has made her last romantic comedy, because they don't test her as an actress.

The former wild child is now looking for more challenging roles, after starring in Music And Lyrics with Hugh Grant. She explains,

"It is time to get it touch with a different side of myself - the one that is mature, adult and dramatic. "I do want to be a 'woman' woman rather than a young woman. And so it's time to say goodbye to the whole rom-com thing. Thank god."

The actress has appeared in a number of rom-coms in recent years including NEVER BEEN KISSED, 50 FIRST DATES and WEDDING SINGER.

Good luck.

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Everyone's talking about the hottest hookup in South Beach. Looks like Jessica Biel is out of the picture and Scarlett Johanson is back on with Justin Timberlake.

Last night Scarlett went out to the CAA party at Miami hot spot Mokai where she was spotted partying with Justin Timberlake's best friend Trace Ayala and his crew.

Kid Rock and Matt Leinart both tried picking up on Scarlett but she didn't seem the least bit interested. Although Justin was not at the party, the two eventually met up later on in the night.

Our Hollyscoop snoopers spotted Justin leaving Scarlett's bungalow at the Shoreclub hotel around 7am.

Word out of Queens is that Ciara and 50 Cent have been seeing a lot of each other since collaborating on a track from her recent album, "Ciara: The Evolution."The two were together Thursday night, looking like a couple trying not to look like a couple.

The rapper was spotted in his car in LeFrak City with "Ciara in the backseat, attempting not to be seen," said a source.

Another source describe the pair to us as "a new underground couple."

The two artists worked together on her song "Can't Leave ‘Em Alone."

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This came out like Friday. Still noteworthy.
On the Hollywood body type:

In this industry it's my job to look a certain way or whatnot-and it's weird for me too. But I'm much happier to represent this type of person. I'm not Nicole Richie. I'm not like a toothpick, and I never will be.

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