Everyone is noting that Jamie Lynn Spears recently said that she doesn’t have a boyfriend and that “I kind of just keep my options open. I have a bunch of friends that I always hang out with, a bunch of guy friends.” I was thinking this might be the standard response she gives to questions about having a serious relationship, but the thing is that this interview was published on Monday of this week when she was being asked about the future of her character on her television show, Zoey 101. She said she didn’t know if her character hooked up with her friend Chase on the show and she wouldn’t say if she would return for a fourth season at that point.

She told OK! Magazine that the father of her baby is her 19-year-old live-in boyfriend Casey Aldridge, but is she even still with Casey? She did claim to be single, and Allie is Wired notes that Casey’s supposed MySpace says “ME AND JAMIE ARE OVER….. :(”

It’s likely that this is a fake MySpace, as his age is incorrectly listed at 17, not 19, and it’s set to private so there are no more details, but even if this MySpace is fake, it could be true that they’re no longer together. The girl knew by the time she was interviewed on Monday for the AP that she was pregnant. Why would she say that she was single if she knew that she was expecting a baby and there was about to be a big story in OK! Magazine about it? It’s possible that the OK! story wasn’t set up by the time she had that earlier interview, but the timing makes it seem like she knew what she was doing by denying that she had a boyfriend. She could have said “Oh, I don’t talk much about that, but I’m in a relationship with someone.” We’ll have to see what she says in OK! when it comes out.

Meanwhile TMZ reports that Jamie Lynn received $1 million for her OK! interview, but that it was a joint deal for photos of the baby once it’s born. Her dad Jamie is said to have condemned his former wife, Jamie Lynn’s mom Lynne, for brokering a deal for the first exclusive pregnancy interview and said that he would never profit from his kids like that.

Jamie Lynn is also thought to be further along than the 12 weeks she claims to be. That might explain the questionable outfit she wore to the Teen Vogue party at the end of September.

Update: Thanks to reader Kolby for noting that season four of Zoey101 has already been shot and will not be affected by Jamie Lynn’s pregnancy.

Jamie Lynn Spears is shown at the Nancy Drew premiere on 6/9/07, thanks to PRPhotos.