Jessica Simpson sure knows how to thrill. And give a good performance. Did anyone see the legendary Blonde Ambition? Straight to DVD is the way to go. No one knows how to do it up classy like Jessica. Which is why she met boyfriend Tony Romo’s parents at the swankiest joint in town: Olive Garden. Apparently free bread sticks lure even the fanciest of celebs.

Jessica Simpson, 27, met beau Tony Romo’s parents on June 27, when all of them had dinner at an Olive Garden in Janesville, Wisc. Romo, 28, who grew up in nearby Burlington, was home to play in a golf tournament.

But making a reservation at the Olive Garden surprised even the restaurant’s general manager. “We thought it was a big joke,” said Doug Belfanz. “Jessica Simpson’s not going to the Olive Garden in Janesville, Wisconsin!”

Yep, actually, she did. Simpson, wearing a casual blouse and blue jeans, walked in holding hands with Romo, who wore a T-shirt and baseball cap. Simpson had wine with her three-cheese ziti, but seemed more interested in Romo. “She scooted up next to him during the meal,” says Belfanz. “They were acting like a couple.”

After dinner, they posed for a photo with the staff and signed autographs. Sneaking out through the kitchen, Simpson complimented the chefs on the meal. “They were laughing,” Belfanz says. “It was just a big family being out.”

[From People]

When even the restaurant’s manager thinks you’re a moron for eating there, it’s probably a better idea to just go home and microwave some Hot Pockets for everyone. I’m sure that’d be equally impressive to the Romos.

I’m not certain who’s ahead in the competition between Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson. Nick is stuck in a relationship with the only woman on earth who seems more vapid and dull than Jessica. But Jessica is taking her potential future in-laws to Olive Garden. It’s kind of a six of one, half dozen of the other situation.

Here’s Jessica and Tony on their way to church in Dallas on June 8th. Images thanks to Splash.

Right before a non-confirmed but much-reported rumor that Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo broke up for a week or so, Jessica was on the cover of Glamour magazine with a gushing accompanying article in which she called the quarterback her “future husband.” When Tony split up with Jessica, her stupid overshare along with her father’s meddling ways were said to be to blame.

The two reunited just in time to attend her sister’s goth wedding together, enabling her family to cash in on the photos. Now Simpson is talking yet again about what a great guy Tony is and how much she loves him. She says she’s been with him for seven months and while there are no “wedding bells yet” she sure loves the guy.

Jessica also says she’ll return to the stands when he goes back to play for the Dallas Cowboys this season. Many fans vilified her after her presence at a game happened to coincide with Romo’s worst performance of his career. When the Cowboys lost at the playoffs, it was easy to point the finger at little blabbermouth Jessica Simpson:

JESSICA SIMPSON has blasted rumours she has split up with boyfriend TONY ROMO,insisting they are still very much in love.

The pop star is baffled by recent claims their seven-month relationship is over - but admits wedding rumours are still a little premature.

She says of the American football star, “We have been together for seven months now. I don’t know about wedding bells, but I still love him and I’m still with him.”

And Simpson reveals she will be back in the stands when Romo’s team the Dallas Cowboys kick off the American football season in September (08) - despite a hostile reception from his fans, who claimed she jinxed his performances last time around.

She adds, “When the season comes around, I’m definitely going to be at the games.”

[From WENN via Hollywood.tv]

I wish her well and all, but she should really keep her mouth shut about how long they’ve been together and how much she loves him. She should also stay well away from his games. It wasn’t fair to blame her for the Cowboy’s poor season or for Tony’s bad performance when she was in the stands, but that doesn’t mean she should start going to the games again. She’ll only continue to make her boyfriend - and herself - easy targets.

Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo are shown arriving at her sister Ashlee’s wedding on 5/17/08, thanks to Splash News.

Is Jessica Simpson delusional enough to think that she’s more talented than American Idol alum and current country chart-topper Carrie Underwood? Carrie is the top selling ‘Idol’ winner of all time, with both of her CDs going multi-platinum and earning three Grammy wins in the last two years. Meanwhile, Jessica’s “A Public Affair” album flopped, her movie career tanked, and she made a country album as a last resort. She’s even dating Carrie’s leftovers in the form of Dallas Cowboy Tony Romo. So when Jessica was photographed wearing a T-shirt that read “Real Girls Eat Meat”– it was perceived as an obvious dig at Underwood, who was just voted GoVeg.com’s “Sexiest Vegetarian.”

As you can see, Jessica Simpson was recently caught wearing a “Real Girls Eat Meat” T-shirt. Puhleeze!

For a gal who’s best known for her less-than-stellar brains (Chicken of the Sea, anyone?) and her ability to proportionately fill out daisy dukes, I’m gonna go on record saying that if anyone had to wear a ridiculous shirt like this, I’m glad it was Jessica—as people are more likely to follow the opposite of her lead … ya know, since she’s so well respected and all (yes, that was difficult to type without tossing in a hefty LOL). Maybe the meat-eaters of the world will be embarrassed to be categorized in the same field as Jessica Simpson.

[From the PETA Blog]

In Touch says that the rift between the two blond singers goes a little deeper. Apparently, Tony Romo was still e-mailing and texting Carrie even after he started seeing Jessica- and Simpson is still pissed about it.

“Jessica is worried that Tony still has feelings for Carrie,” an insider says. “She doesn’t want them talking.”

It also doesn’t help that the American Idol winner is her rival in the music business. “Carrie has the career that Jessica wants,” her pal explains.

But from the way things looked at the CMA Music Festival, Carrie, 25, is not a big fan of Jessica’s either. During the festival, which took place June 5-8, the two women seemed to avoid each other - even though event organizers were intent on getting them together. “They wanted Jess to introduce Carrie, or have them attend a charity event together, or maybe even do a duet to put the rumors to rest about the feud,” a CMA insider explains. “But everything that was thrown out there was rebuffed.”

[From In Touch Weekly print version, June 23, 2008]

I think it comes down to this: Jessica Simpson is a desperate fame whore who will do anything to stay relevant, even abandon her pop career and try country if she thinks people will pay attention to her. An artist like Carrie, who has been performing country music her entire life, even when appearing on the very mainstream pop ‘Idol,’ probably sees Jessica’s foray into country as an insult. As for the Tony Romo thing, any problems Jessica has in that relationship, she can thank her dad for- not Carrie Underwood. And finally, it always seems like Jessica is feuding with another girl who has the career she wants- remember how she ragged on Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera? Instead of taking digs at girls who have a better career, maybe Jessica should focus on her own sorry ass.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Jessica Simpson is shown in NY on 6/10/08 and at the CMA Music Festival on 6/6/08, thanks to WENN. You can see her in the asinine “Real Girls Eat Meat” shirt on Bauer Griffin Online.

US Magazine has a new interview with Jessica Simpson’s dad, Joe, in which he indirectly responds to accusations that he’s mainly responsible for his daughter Jessica’s brief split with her boyfriend, quarterback Tony Romo. His answers are telling in that he seems to bemoan the fact that he doesn’t control his daughters’ Jessica and Ashlee as much as the media claims. He also uses the curious phrase “love to death” when describing both of his daughter’s mates. He doesn’t just accept and admire his daughters’ partners, he loves them both so much he could kill them:

“The media says that I try to plan everything - If I had half of the power they give me…They [Ashlee and Jessica] don’t call me and ask me. They call me and tell me.”

He adds that Jessica “… is as happy as I’ve seen her in years.” and gushes about the Dallas Cowboys quarterback, “He’s a great guy. I love Tony to death….He’s just a good kid….”

Us reports in the current issue that Joe asked Romo, 28, to let him help represent him. As tension grew, the Dallas Cowboys quarterback gave Jessica an ultimatum: Tell dad to back off!

Joe tells Extra that the public has many misconceptions about him as his daughters’ manager. “For all those people thinking I’m sipping Piña Coladas on the beach and enjoying millions of dollars and having this great life – Bull..I work seven days a week, 24/7.”

Simpson, who officiated daughter Ashlee’s wedding to Pete Wentz, says, “I love Pete to death…He has a patient spirit and a kind heart…I’m honored to have Pete as my son-in-law.”

[From US Weekly]

Pete seems pretty chill and like he can handle his father in law’s strong arm ways, while Tony wasn’t about to let Jessica’s dad take over his career or tell him what to do. US Weekly reports in the print edition this week that Joe called Tony many times after he broke up with her ahead of Ashlee’s wedding, and that he begged him to take his daughter back. Although Tony did got out to lunch with Jessica the Friday before the wedding, he is said to have let Joe know that his meddling would in no way be tolerated. He also brought a friend with him to Ashlee’s wedding, according to an insider quoted in the June 2 edition of Star. It was a “college pal named Nick” who acted “as a buffer.”

Tony and Jessica have since been spotted together several times, and seem to have reconciled. If Joe wants Jess to have a chance in this relationship he better back off. Given how defensive Joe sounds in these latest quotes he’s not about to stop interfering and it’s up to Tony and Jessica how they’re going to handle it. Maybe they could just refuse to take his calls for a while.

Jessica may about to make another major mistake in her relationship without her father’s help, though. OK! Magazine reports that she wants Tony to appear in the video for her country single Move On Over, and that he thinks it would be a good idea. All I can picture now is Affleck rubbing J.Lo’s ass.

Joe Simpson is shown with Jessica at the Kennedy Center Awards on 12/3/06. Jessica Simpson is shown signing autographs at the CMA Music Festival on 6/6/08, thanks to WENN.

Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo have tentatively reunited, with unconfirmed reports that Jessica’s father’s meddling ways drove her multi-millionaire quarterback beau away. US Weekly claims to have more details behind the cause of the split in their upcoming issue. Their story claims that not only did Jessica’s dad Joe ask Tony to turn his entire career over to him, telling him to fire his agent and let him run the show, he also advised Tony that a proposal and eventual marriage to Jessica could be brokered for maximum payment from the tabloids. Of course Romo put Simpson and her whole wacky family at arm’s length, but his love for the buxom country singer won out and they’re now giving it another try. He’s not taking shit from Jessica’s dad though, and told him to back off or he’s out of there for good.

Joe Simpson defended himself when questioned about it.

In its new issue, Us Weekly reports that Jessica Simpson’s controlling father Joe has brought her relationship with Tony Romo to the brink and was the main source behind their split in May.

A source tells Us Joe asked Romo, 28, to drop his agent so he could take over his NFL career and $67.5 million contract.

He even offered to broker a deal to sell his engagement and wedding to a magazine should Romo and Jessica, 27, get engaged. “‘If you guys have a marriage, I can do the same [sell it] that I did with Ashlee,’” a source quotes Joe as saying.

As tension grew, the Dallas Cowboys quarterback gave Jessica an ultimatum: Tell dad to back off!

When asked for comment by Us, Joe defended himself, telling Us, “It’s unfair to criticize me for what every manager does for his or her clients. And in this business, where people can quickly turn on you, who better than a parent to be working for his children?”

[From US Weekly]

Conclusion by guest writer Mike: If the drama seems too much right now, wait until the football season starts. If Joe continues his meddling ways come August, expect a firestorm of controversy from the nationwide network of AM radio sports-talk, perhaps the only “journalists” bitchier than celebrity gossip columnists. If Joe is seen by the sports writers as meddling in Romo’s life there will be new problems for the couple. Cowboys fans, already wary of Simpson’s influence on their star quarterback, will revolt after the team’s first loss or a poor performance, whether or not Jessica or Joe is to blame.

Jessica Simpson is shown at the Palms Place Hotel and Spa Grand Opening on 5/31/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

Jessica Simpson has a new country single out, and while I’m not an expert in the genre it sounds ok. It’s kind of decent and is a little better than that bland forgettable shit she last put out as a pop singer. She doesn’t have anything on Carrie Underwood, but she can definitely sing and crank out these country pop songs.

Jessica and Tony Romo are back together after their much-talked about but unconfirmed split. The two were seen dining out in Dallas over Memorial Day weekend. A lot of people wondered if Tony attended Jessica’s sister Ashlee’s wedding in order to help Jessica save face, but it sounds like he was also willing to reconcile with her. The supposed insider scoop from The Chicago Sun Times has Tony in a standoff with the needy singer over her meddling dad:

”He did agree to go to [sister Ashlee’s] wedding — keeping his promise to Jessica,” Romo’s Eastern Illinois alum chum told me. ”But he made it super-clear that if they were to give it another go, her dad had to seriously back off.”

My source says Romo has told Jessica their renewed relationship is ”a trial thing,” dependent on Daddy Joe ”leaving them alone” and stifling his tendency to tell Romo how to run his life, career and endorsement deals.

[From The Chicago Sun Times via TMZ]

Maybe Tony’s ultimatum will help Jessica break away from her father. In an appearance on “The View” way back in September, 2006, Jessica joked about her manager dad saying “My dad just tries to control me and my sister… that was the wrong choice of words. Oops, sorry dad! I love you!” She also denied dating John Mayer at that time, saying they were “just friends,” and it’s possible that was true when she said it, although I doubt it.

Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo out in NY in early March, thanks to WENN
Just when you were hoping that the only reason Tony Romo showed up at Ashlee Simpson’s wedding was due to extensive cajoling or a hefting bribe from Joe Simpson, it looks like he’s willing to hang out with Jessica when there’s not a lot of cash and public interest at stake. The Dallas Cowboys quarterback was spotted having dinner with his maybe-estranged girlfriend, Jessica Simpson, on Saturday.

After watching Papa Joe Simpson marry little sister Ashlee to bassist Pete Wentz, Tony headed back to Texas for the Colonial golf tourney while Jessica went to Cabo San Lucas with her parents.

But abstinence makes the heart grow fonder.

Saturday night, Tony and Jessica shared a corner booth for two at N9NE Steakhouse in downtown Dallas’ Victory Park. The couple said hello to Cowboys receiver-kick returner Isaiah Stanback, who was dining at N9NE with his parents.

[From Dallas Morning News via US Weekly]

Good for them I guess. Jessica starred in a television show about her doomed marriage, she called Romo her “future husband” in a recent interview, and she admits that she loves seeing pictures of herself in the tabloids. It’s not like she’s going to wise up enough to realize that she needs to keep her relationship under wraps if she wants to preserve it. Maybe her dad is the one who leaked the news of their dinner to the Dallas Morning News. It would be very much in character for him to make sure it’s known that her daughter isn’t the sad sap the press is making her out to be.

As for the story reported by the National Enquirer that Jessica cheated on Tony with Jared Leto and Zach Braff, Leto’s rep has said that “There is no truth whatsoever to the article.” The National Enquirer is not Star, and I bet they had at least one source. That doesn’t mean that I think it’s true, just that I wouldn’t put it past her.

When Tony Romo went to lunch at a paparazzi hot spot with Jessica Simpson on the Friday before her sister’s wedding, I assumed he was trying to help her save face after the news broke that he dumped her. Then when Romo went to Jessica’s sister Ashlee’s wedding as Jessica’s date, again it seemed like he felt sorry for Jessica and wanted to soften the blow of the breakup. Maybe they have an on-off thing, but the insider reports of their breakup were reported in the Chicago Sun Times and seemed true.

So why would Tony make a public reconciliation with Jessica Simpson before her sister’s wedding other than feeling sorry for her? Maybe because if he stayed away from the wedding, it would have cost Jessica’s family $1.4 million. TMZ reports that People Magazine’s contract with Joe Simpson for exclusive rights to Ashlee Simpson’s wedding photos included the stipulation that Tony Romo had to be at the wedding with Ashlee’s older sister Jessica:

Our moles tell us, when People cut a $1.4 deal for Ashlee’s wedding pics, there was a g-string attached — that Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo would be there.

It’s kinda what we were thinking. Who’d pay that for Ashlee Simpson alone. That’s why People wanted to put a pic of Jessica and Tony as an inset on the cover — they sell, Ashlee doesn’t.

Of course, the problem. Jessica and Tony split before the wedding. So you getting the picture why Tony showed? $$$$

[From TMZ]

Maybe that explains why People claimed ahead of the wedding to have a “source” that Tony Romo would attend. There must have been a lot of pressure on that guy to show up, and he swallowed his pride and did a nice thing for Jessica’s family. I guess that explains why he didn’t go on vacation with Jessica and her family afterwards.

But isn’t it a little sad for Ashlee, that - as commenter Elisha points out - she had “to have her wedding cover of People ruined with a huge picture of her sister freak dancing on it”?

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are shown out in NY after the Caribbean honeymoon on 5/23/08, thanks to WENN.

Tony Romo had a bunch of reasons to dump Jessica Simpson: her dad was supposedly interfering in his football career, his career was rumored to be suffering from all the media attention, and she gave way too much information about their relationship in a recent interview with Glamour magazine, calling him her “future husband.” Tony and Jessica seem to have reunited for now, though, because he accompanied her to her sister’s wedding over the weekend.

But the main reason Tony should have dumped Jessica is because she’s said to have been cheating on him behind his back with two different guys. The National Enquirer has a new exclusive claiming that she’s been with both mock-worthy emo rocker Jared Leto, and actor Zach Braff since getting together with Tony.

[Jessica Simpson’s] fling with Zach Braff began after a recent party hosted by Diddy, when the mogul received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“They spent that night together and several others,” the source said.

“Then she turned to Jared [Leto] for several more romantic trysts! And this was happening right under Tony Romo’s nose!”

At one point she was juggling all three guys, according to the source.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, June 2, 2008]

Jessica Simpson is rumored to have cheated on her ex-husband, Nick Lachey, with several guys including Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, her Dukes of Hazzard co-star Johnny Knoxville, and his friend, Bam Margera. So if this is true it’s not out of character for her. It’s possible her relationship with Tony has had it’s share of splits that have been kept from the public and that if she did hook up with these guys it was at a time when she was estranged from the quarterback.

Simpson just returned from a vacation in Los Cabos, Mexico with her mom, dad, and some girlfriends. Her maybe-boyfriend, Tony Romo, did not go. Thanks to Splash for these photos from yesterday.

People Magazine has posted the cover of their upcoming issue with the super expensive photos of Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson’s “Fantasy Wedding!” and it’s not the interesting. Ashlee and Pete have their fringed-banged heads together and are smiling like any pose you would see of the two of them on the red carpet. Ashlee wears a simple white veil and pearl drop earrings and Pete has on a tux with a white bow tie and a black rose corsage.

The best part of the photo isn’t newlyweds Ashlee and Pete, but the embarrassed-looking bulldog wearing a flouncy neck piece adorned with black beads. Jessica Simpson and her maybe ex-boyfriend, Tony Romo, are shown in an inset photo dancing at the reception, with Jessica pulling a wide-mouthed face while Tony laughs.

People reports that the reception was “the ultimate rocker event” and included 10,000 “black magic” roses, chandeliers and red and black decorations.

Ashlee wore “an ivory lace Monique Lhuillier gown and a cathedral-length veil” and People notes that the “nondenominational ceremony [was] officiated by her father, Joe Simpson.”

The event was attended by 150 guests, but you get to see it in People for the price of the magazine. It’s doubtful this issue will sell well enough to justify the reported $1 million that the photos were said to have cost. There’s not a lot of interest in these two, but we’re sure to see more of them as Ashlee’s pregnancy starts to show and they sell the inevitable first baby photos for an even steeper price.

Thanks to People for the header image.