These days, Jessica Simpson is an uber-successful businesswoman, and sometimes it’s hard to recall that she was part of one of the first-ever reality shows, “Newlyweds,” with now ex-husband Nick Lachey. According to IMDb, the series aired from 2003 to 2005, which was just enough time for us all to learn what “chicken of the sea” was.
On an April episode of “The Real,” Simpson talked about her reality show past and how she wouldn’t change it. “No, I don’t regret that at all. I mean, if anything, it was great TV. It was very real, and Nick and I actually had a lot of fun,” she confessed. The fashion designer added that she and Lachey got to do many things because of the show, but she would have done without camping. “There were definitely, like, moments where it was like, ‘Put Jessica out here in the wilderness, and you’ll get good TV,'” she joked.
But just because she had a good experience with reality TV doesn’t mean she wants to go down that path again. “Reality’s set up so different now. Ours was actually very real and very, like, authentic,” she shared, adding it could have been that way “because it was one of the first.” However, Simpson still has pretty close ties to reality TV. The star told Us Weekly that her daughter Maxwell and Kim Kardashian’s daughter, North West, are BFFs. We all wish we could hang with them!
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