Nick Lachey has moved on in style after his high-profile divorce from ditsy singer Jessica Simpson. There are reports that he is engaged to his girlfriend, MTV’s Total Request Live hostess Vanessa Minnillo, and that the cute couple plans to tie the knot this April.

Speculation is that they’ll marry in Mexico, where they shared a romantic vacation together last June. There’s a quote from someone who’s supposedly close them who claims that Nick wants a low profile wedding, because he and Jessica had a huge ceremony and reception and that didn’t work out so well:

“They’re moving forward with plans for an April wedding,” a close friend told The Enquirer.

The engagement comes slightly more than a year after Nick, 33, and Jessica Simpson announced their split. Now Nick and Vanessa are mulling destinations for their wedding and honemoon, disclosed a friend.

“Since they both love Baja, Mexico, it will probably happen south of the border, where the first fell in love.”

[From The National Enquirer print edition, January 29, 2007]

The article says that Nick is urging 26 year-old Vanessa to design the kind of engagement ring she wants and says they’ve seen a jeweler who is working on it.

That’s good news for Nick and is sure to be depressing for Jessica. Nick’s ex doesn’t seem to be in a new relationship apart from a dalliance with John Mayer, who only seems to throw her a bone when he feels like it. There were rumors that Jessica was drunk dialing Nick last year and that she was prank-calling Kirsten Cavalleri back when Nick was dating her.

There’s a story that Jessica is taking secret cooking lessons and will attempt to make John Mayer a romantic dinner before he goes on tour around Valentine’s day. From what I remember of Newlyweds, she could use some help in the kitchen. This news seems to be based on an earlier report that Jessica received the cooking lessons as a gift from someone who worked for her, so if it’s true that she showed up for them, it’s not like it was her idea.

Still, maybe Jessica has some time left before her ex ties the knot again, and doesn’t have to be so eager to latch on to a new guy. Lachey said just a short while ago that he and Minnillo “are not dealing with marriage yet.”

Vanessa Minnillo made boyfriend Nick Lachey go get his hairy chest waxed at a Beverly Hills Spa. It hurt so bad that he screamed in pain and insisted that the esthetician stop right there. I wonder if he’s still got those landing strips on his chest:

In a scene that was sorta “40-Year-Old Virgin” meets “Fur,” NICK LACHEY’s sexy squeeze VANESSA MINNILLO – itching to control his chest hair, which sprouts like scratchy sawgrass, according to pals – dragged “Gorilla Guy” off to a BevHills spa to get his man-thatch wax-snatched! But after just two wax strips were ripped from his manly man-boobs, Nick emitted a nearly-girly shriek and yelled, “NO MORE!” With half his chest bare as a baby’s bottom – and the other half sorta bear-y – Nick hopped off the table and split for the changing room, ignoring Vanessa’s please to lie down and get waxed like a man!

That goes to show that men can’t hack what we women go through for the sake of beauty. I once took my husband to get a manicure with me and the ladies painted his nails with that clear nailtiques polish. I took it off for him when we got home, but he won’t get his nails done again. The nail technicians must have been laughing about it afterwards.

We weren’t holding our breath, but we were kind of hoping Nick and Jessica would get back together. Jessica wore her wedding ring around her neck for a while, and Nick told Rolling Stone that he still loved his wife of two years, but ultimately Jessica’s immaturity and Nick’s wild oats won out and now the two are officially divorced. The divorce was made final on June 30. No word yet as to the settlement amount. Jessica’s dad tried to low-ball Nick into accepting a $1.5 million settlement, while Nick is said to have asked for a more realistic $8 million that he lowered to $5 million.

Nick is dating MTV VJ Vanessa Minnillo while Jessica may be with her co-star in the upcoming film “Employee of the Month,” comedian Dane Cook. Cook was involved with someone else at the time of filming, but is now single and said to be getting cosy with Jessica.

This is sad news for Nick and Jessica fans, and should serve as a warning to all women who try to hold out before marriage and then get married young because they can’t wait.

Here is Jessica in NY on 6/28. She’s wearing the deadly long jeans/platform sandals combo that caused Britney’s near baby-drop. Nick Lachey is shown performing a private concert for Q-100 listeners on 6/29.

Nick Lachey hooked up with MTV VJ and former fling Vanessa Minnillo in Atlantic City after meeting up with her at a club on Sunday night. They left together and things must have heated up quickly for the pair, because they were then spotted in Mexico together according to PerezHilton:

It is difficult to tell whether they were in Mexico first and planned to meet up at the club, or if they met in Atlantic City and promptly jetted off to the vacation spot. Either way, it looks like they’re back together and that this means curtains for Nick’s relationship with stylist Kim Kardashian.

Kardashian, who was linked to Nick after a romantic movie date on May 24th, has been seen out shopping and attending events with Paris Hilton. Her friendship with the flightly self-centered heiress couldn’t have helped her relationship with Lachey, whose friends thought Kardshian’s status as an outsider from the usual Hollywood circle was part of what made her attractive to Lachey. Kardashian’s gorgeous looks couldn’t have hurt, either.

This is also bad news for poor Jessica Simpson. She seems to have come to terms with the fact that it’s over between her and Nick, because she may have approved of his relationship with Kardashian. Jessica reportedly sent her best friend and ex-assistant Cacee Cobb to check out Kardashian for her, and Cacee is said to have called Kim “nice.” Nick and Jessica’s divorce may be final on June 17th, and it looks like Nick is moving on with style.

Here is Lachey promoting his album at Lucky Strike lanes in Chicago on June 12th and at the Borgata Hotel Casino fight weekend after party on June 11th. He is shown with Tyson Beckford. The poor quality inset images are of Minnillo and Lachey in Cabo San Lucas.

The Maxim 100th issue party was held on April 8th at Club Tryst at the Wynn Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. While Christina Aguilera and Haylie Duff showed up, Paris and Nicky Hilton are noticeably absent from the arrival and inside pictures of the party. We know that they were at the Maxim weekend event as they attended the poker tournament the day before.

The sisters must have been too exhausted to party on Saturday night, because Perez Hilton reports that they were out quite late with a group the night before. Vanessa Minnillo had a cat fight! Paris also gave an impromptu performance of her entire CD at club Pure at 2:30 in the morning.

Oh no. The crap has just begun with Paris’ album. You can bet her singles are going to get more airplay and become stuck in a loop in your head worse that Madonna’s “Hung Up.”

Here are some of the more sober people at the Maxim party the next night, including Jordan Bratman and Christina Aguilera, Hayden Christensen, Shannon Elizabeth, Taye Diggs, Usher, Lucy Lawless, Vanessa Minnillo, Carey Hart (without his wife pink), Haylie Duff, Kristy Swanson and James Franco. Lil Jon, Ludacris and Usher performed.

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The poker tournament proved to be a popular event at Maxim’s 100th issue celebration in Las Vegas this weekend. Pictured guests include Paris and Nicky Hilton, Vanessa Minnillo, Dave Navarro, Shannon Elizabeth, Taye Diggs, Jamie Lynn-Sigler, Haylie Duff, Gabrielle Union, Kelly Monaco, Anne Heche, and Mekhi Phifer.

Paris must have a thing for female VJs because she posed seductively with Vanessa Minnilo on the red carpet. She was seen in nude photographs with another VJ, Eglantina Zingg, in pictures hacked from her sidekick last year.

Paris has said that she doesn’t think she looks like Mother Teresa, but we couldn’t find a quote that she turned down the role to play the saintly nun in an upcoming Bollywood feature despite news reports jumping to that conclusion.

Here is Paris and company posing at the poker tournament. The winner was a guy named Robert Badgley, who took home a check for $10,000. We couldn’t whether it went to charity or not through a half-assed google search.

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The c-listers were in Vegas this weekend for Maxim’s 100th issue celebration. Events included a poker tournament, golf tournament, and party. We will post pictures from the poker tournament and party shortly.

Maxim made headlines with a huge cover in the desert featuring Eva Longoria. Jossip points out that while the giant issue actually exists and is in the advertised spot, the Google Earth maps don’t show it – you have to view the image from the Maxim website.

Here are Tami Donaldson, Haylie Duff, Vanessa Minnillo, and Chop King of Cars at a Maxim covergirl signing on April 8th.

Chop King of Cars owns the highest selling car dealership in America, and was profiled in an unflattering article in Maxim. We were originally going to title this article “Which of these women doesn’t belong?” in an obvious dig at Duff, but with Chop King of Cars in the mix it just doesn’t work.