Ashlee Simpson’s coy dodging of nose job related questions has all been for naught – her mouthy father, Svengali Joe Simpson has confirmed to Fox News that Ashlee did in fact have a nose job last year. I know, pick yourself up off the floor, and we’ll carry on.

“After more than a year of coy answers from Ashlee Simpson regarding her May 2006 nose job, her father Joe has finally confirmed that his daughter went under the knife. In an interview with Fox News, Joe says he had no control over Ashlee’s decision to undergo rhinoplasty.

“‘Girls have their own ideas,’ he shrugged. ‘Anyway, there was a real problem with her breathing and that was cured.’”

[From UsWeekly]

Yes we girls do have our own ideas. The nerve! I love that it wasn’t “People have their own ideas” or “My children have their own ideas.” The problem is that girls have their own ideas, and it’s just so dang hard to tell them what to do anymore!

And if you’ve been sitting around wondering to yourself, “Why are Jessica and Ashely Simpson so much better than Paris and Britney and the other skanks? Well, Joe has an answer for that, too.

“Joe, who also serves as manager to Ashlee, 22, and her sister Jessica, 27, credits good parenting as the reason his daughters haven’t gone the way of Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears.

“‘We have a real family,’ he said. ‘You can’t just put these kids out in the world and they’re on their own. I can remember a time when Jessica was singing at Madison Square Garden and her outfit ripped before she went on. We were there for her.’

[From Us Weekly]

Why am I not surprised that Papa Joe was there for Jessica when her outfit ripped, exposing her bare, heaving bosoms? His accidentally uber-creepy remarks regarding Jessica’s boobs are legendary. Now he’s moving on to the nose. And what’s the excuse when Ashley was caught lipsyncing on Saturday Night Live, and then broke out into a jig?

“‘She’d lost her voice, and Jordan Schur [then the head of her record label] insisted she lip-synch,’ he said. ‘She’d never done it before. She didn’t want to do it. Anyway, she’ll never do it again. We just did a huge tour, and there was no lip-synching.’

“The former Baptist minister also denies claims that he’s a controlling father. ‘I don’t tell my girls who to date or marry or what to do.’

“He also has no hard feelings against former son-in-law Nick Lachey. ‘I have nothing against Nick,’ he told me. ‘But they got married very young. I told Jessica, “You’re going to hit an age when it’s all going to be clear to you — life that is — and you’ll know what you want to do.’” Joe added: ‘I do blame 50 percent of their break-up on the media.’”

[From Us Weekly]

Well that’s fair, because I remember this time when a bunch of reporters made Jessica say stupid things, and then made Nick get angry at her for being so stupid, even though he’s really vapid himself. So I could understand how the media contributed to their divorce in a really significant way. I’m putting Papa Joe on my list of people who should not talk.

Note by Jaybird: Here’s Ashley at the VMAs on September 9th, and post nose job. Images thanks to PR Photos.

I didn’t report on this yesterday because it sounds like the British newspapers are trying to stir up controversy about the Simpson family (not that they don’t create enough of it on their own), but Jessica is said to be grumpy and distraught at being in Ashlee’s shadow for once. She supposedly was in a mood at Ashlee’s “Chicago” opening after-party, said she didn’t want to be there and left in a huff. There was a quote from Joe Simpson in the ever-reliable Mirror that is particularly suspect.

Then the poor girl had a stomach problem and had to postpone a commercial shoot. I would say it’s in poor taste to discuss a celebrity’s, uh movements that way, but Jessica gleefully told everyone watching her reality show that she was going to drop her kids off at the pool, so she kind of deserves the scrutiny:

This sounds like an exaggeration. She probably feels a bit down because her ex has moved on and her sister is in the spotlight, but whether she actually left Ashlee’s party or not and what the circumstances were is hard to tell.

Oh, and The New York Post has redesigned. It’s prettier, but the usability is shitty and overall I think it’s a mess. Too many graphics and colors compete for your attention. They also ripped off Gawker’s Stalker maps.

Here is Jessica out at Mr. Chow in London on Tuesday night. She seems to realize that her dress is see through and tries to cover up with her big purse.

Thanks to SweetKisses.net for these pictures.

Here’s a video interview along with footage from Ashlee Simpson’s performance in Chicago. Commentors on Oh No They Didn’t, where we found the video, are divided. Some people think she’s great while other says she’s got no stage performance, is mediocre or just plain bad.

She strikes me a really dumb in her interview, but at least she’s enthusiastic and gracious. Personally I think she’s a good performer and can actually sing, even if it’s not amazing. Plus I’m kind of blown away with how gorgeous she looks on video now.

Joe Simpson is well know for talking about his daughters Jessica and Ashlee’s breasts, controlling their careers, and generally acting weird and incestual. Radar Online revealed that he’s now become the ultimate creepy controlling dad-manager by taking pictures of Jessica and Ashlee at events and selling them through an exclusive agreement with a photo agency. What’s more, he’s even taken psuedo-paparrazi shots of Jessica and Ashlee on vacation:

I don’t like Wireimage because unlike x17 and Splashnews, they don’t even allow bloggers to post watermarked images. Bitches sent me a cease and desist letter after I paid $10 a month to use their pictures and properly credited them every time. (It’s called the Internet, people, figure out a way to make it work to your advantage. Don’t be like the RIAA or you will alienate people and hurt your business.) It doesn’t surprise me that they would cut a deal with Simpson.

Jessica dismissed her dad in a verbal slip during her interview on “The View” two weeks ago. She said, “My mom does the whole clothing line with me. My dad just tries to control me and my sister… that was the wrong choice of words. Oops, sorry dad! I love you!”

It’s clear that no one really knows the extent to which Joe tries to control his daughters, and that must be paying off for him. He seems to be using every trick he can think of to milk them for every cent.

Lindsay Lohan should either keep her mouth shut or try to make sure that people stop making up fake quotes and attributing them to her, because she supposedly slammed Ashlee Simpson for getting plastic surgery. She said that the tabloids didn’t pay enough attention to Ashlee’s new nose, but that’s bullshit because it was all over the place and Ashlee was even forced to admit that she had rhinoplasty.

Lohan also repeated that lie that her boobs are real, saying she’s never done anything. Yeah, she didn’t do it, a plastic surgeon did. She’s pretty good at arguing the finer points of the truth. Maybe she should go to law school. Oh wait - she’d have to go to college first. (Yeah, I’m blasting the celebrities for lack of education today. It kind of amazes me how popular Lohan and Paris are when they didn’t even try to go to college.)

Here are both Ashlee and Lohan outside of club Hyde in Hollywood. They missed each other by a couple of nights and several fistfulls of martinis. Lohan was there on August 17th and Ashlee was there on August 20th. If you saw these pictures of Lohan last week I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t resist her drunken mug. Pictures [via] [via] and [via] Thanks to smart for the tip.