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Nick Lachey: Lachey and Simpson
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Both Lachey and Simpson had a series of failures in the music industry: Lachey faded off the map after 98 Degrees, and Simpson had low sales in both albums Irresistible and In This Skin. They needed some heavy promotion to push their careers further and Simpson's father, Joe Simpson, had the idea for a reality show that followed their newly married life together.
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There is no doubt that in the divorce drama of Lachey and Simpson, it is Simpson who is taking the bigger public-relations hit. The reporting -- covers of multiple magazines, week after week, month after month -- favors Lachey as the cuckolded underdog, the ever-elusive good man foolishly tossed aside. The preferential treatment is a double-edged sword.
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On Newlyweds, Lachey played the endearingly patient husband to Simpson's blundering blonde. Opening their marriage to TV viewers and tabloids alike, Lachey and Simpson were persistently nagged by breakup reports, and the day before Thanksgiving 2005, the couple announced their separation, eventually ending their three-year union.
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