Jessica Simpson’s first high-profile relationship was with Nick Lachey, who was best known as the lead singer of 98 Degrees. The two met in 1998 and quickly hit it off, collaborating on music and publicly gushing about one another. Notably, in 2001, they briefly hit pause on their romance. However, after the tragic events of 9/11, Simpson realized that she never wanted to be apart from Lachey, as she informed People, and the two reconciled.
The following year, Lachey proposed to Simpson, and the couple tied the knot just months later. Seizing an opportunity to share their married life with the public, they launched their reality TV show, “Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica,” which ran on MTV from 2003 to 2005. The singer still remembers the experience fondly nowadays. “It was very real, and Nick and I actually had a lot of fun,” Simpson clarified during a 2022 appearance on “The Real” talk show.
Despite their apparent marital happiness, Lachey and Simpson unexpectedly split in 2005, with media speculation suggesting that she’d had several affairs with her “Dukes of Hazzard” co-star Johnny Knoxville, musician Adam Levine, and possibly others. When speaking to GQ in 2005, the “Jackass” star claimed that he was just friends with Simpson. However, in a 2006 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Lachey admitted that he never expected to get divorced from Simpson, confessing that he still wasn’t sure whether she had cheated on him.
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