Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Where is Pat O'Brien when you need him...
probably getting some coke and hookers.
Sometime early this afternoon, E! Online (infotainment or trash) tried to get the jump on all the other "entertainment news" outlets and reported that Jessica Simpson had filed for divorce. E! Online was forced to retract the statement less than 30 minutes later.
STATEMENT
E! deeply regrets that a draft report from E! Online, which contained some false information regarding the Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson marriage, was accidentally disseminated. The couple has not filed for divorce. E! apologizes to Nick, Jessica, their families and their fans for any distress this may have caused.
Not to be outdone US weekly reveled in their competitor’s misery. EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS: JESSICA SIMPSON DENIES DIVORCE RUMORS Jessica Simpson exclusively tells Us Weekly that a news report claiming she had filed for divorce from husband Nick Lachey on May 24 is untrue. An E! online report that leaked onto the Web Tuesday afternoon had sent celebrity watchers worldwide abuzz with talk of the reality TV couple's apparent split.
'It is completely false and we would sue them if they hadn't taken it down,' a defiant Simpson tells Us. An E! spokesperson couldn't be reached for comment. Simpson's message to those spreading false rumors? She tells Us: 'Karma, baby!' Read the latest on Simpson's marriage -- and her bikini body secrets (thankful for US readers this mystery will be revealed) -- in the next issue of Us.
Where there is smoke there is fire and a boy can dream.
Sometime early this afternoon, E! Online (infotainment or trash) tried to get the jump on all the other "entertainment news" outlets and reported that Jessica Simpson had filed for divorce. E! Online was forced to retract the statement less than 30 minutes later.
STATEMENT
E! deeply regrets that a draft report from E! Online, which contained some false information regarding the Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson marriage, was accidentally disseminated. The couple has not filed for divorce. E! apologizes to Nick, Jessica, their families and their fans for any distress this may have caused.
Not to be outdone US weekly reveled in their competitor’s misery. EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS: JESSICA SIMPSON DENIES DIVORCE RUMORS Jessica Simpson exclusively tells Us Weekly that a news report claiming she had filed for divorce from husband Nick Lachey on May 24 is untrue. An E! online report that leaked onto the Web Tuesday afternoon had sent celebrity watchers worldwide abuzz with talk of the reality TV couple's apparent split.
'It is completely false and we would sue them if they hadn't taken it down,' a defiant Simpson tells Us. An E! spokesperson couldn't be reached for comment. Simpson's message to those spreading false rumors? She tells Us: 'Karma, baby!' Read the latest on Simpson's marriage -- and her bikini body secrets (thankful for US readers this mystery will be revealed) -- in the next issue of Us.
Where there is smoke there is fire and a boy can dream.
# posted by Shaky @ 11:15 p.m. 
