Celebrity Feuds
If Jessica Didn't Fire Rob, Who Did?

Jessica Simpson, through Rob Shuter, issued the following statement to TMZ. "I did not fire Rob Shuter, he is a great publicist and a great friend." Shuter would not say, however, if it was untrue that he had gotten the ax.

As TMZ first reported yesterday, Shuter was apparently fired by the Simpson camp after stories intimating Simpson was involved with singer John Mayer surfaced last week. Simpson later refuted that story on "The View" and Mayer was reportedly upset that his name was used in conjunction with Jessica.

Shuter would not say whether or not he still represents the pop singer and would not comment any further.





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31. Who cares who fired this guy? And... Who cares that he was fired at all? So the guy lost a client. I'm sure he'll find another one.

Posted at 11:34AM on Sep 9th 2006 by toni

32. Jessica needs to fire her creepy daddy.

Posted at 1:35PM on Sep 9th 2006 by Lulu

33. Jessica's father is a sick pervert. Gawking over his daughter's breasts! Shame on him for that and for polluting the music scence with his two untalented daughters!

Posted at 4:42PM on Sep 9th 2006 by Not today

34. Ew. Her neck!

Posted at 5:51PM on Sep 9th 2006 by Giselle

35. GO BACK TO TEXAS AND TAKE YOUR INBRED FAMILY WITH YOU. YOUR 15 MINTUES WERE OVER 14 MINTUES AGO. SKIP THE POND AND PICK UP THE IDIOT YOU CALL A YOUNGER SISTER.

Posted at 6:30PM on Sep 9th 2006 by happyass

36. WTF is wrong with the whole Simpson Clan? They are all too inbred or something. Hoessica is such an attention whore - she'll fire her publicist for air time! Biatch your 15 mintes were over 14 minutes ago - go pretend you're something back in Texas.

Posted at 6:30PM on Sep 9th 2006 by happyass

37. The Simpson's only look at their fans for the $. Ashlee's tour cancelled or change sites 25% of the time because Joe didn't see enough sales and use the sick excuse. These girls always have some throat problem. Too much tonsil hockey?

Posted at 7:51PM on Sep 9th 2006 by Jon Petersen

38. Leave her Dad alone... he helped her get to where she is today by investing his time and caring how she got there. Yes, her own voice got her there but he helped get her to additions and stood behind her to encourage and develop her talent. He helps manage her. He isn't just riding on her coat tails; he has put a lot of work in her career as well. I don't care who she dates. She use to be a role model for girls...I wish she would think more about that again and use her voice as her talent and not act like she did in that recent video where she is at skating rink. There are enough artists that only use sex as their way to get noticed instead of their actual talent and voice. I am tired of seeing successful people especially with such a God given talent act all humble at first then spoiled and awful later....the stars throwing tatrums....they wanted to be out there as celebrities...we need to show respect but at same time they want alot of the attention plus having the money they do and how they act...they should be ashamed. I am not just directing this towards her...I actually like her but I rather her be more like she use to be instead of trying to prove something and just want attention.

Posted at 3:48PM on Sep 10th 2006 by Pam

39. I think Jessica's only entertainment value was in being married to a good looking guy and living in a nice house. We put up with a lot from her back then, when she was kind of cute, and we kind of envied her. Wow, she really screwed it up big.

GO AWAY JESSICA. GIVE US A REST. JUST, GO AWAY.

Posted at 3:59PM on Sep 10th 2006 by Common Sense

40. when jessica fired her dad than maybe she will get respect until then
go away

Posted at 5:15PM on Sep 10th 2006 by Melissa

41. I can't stand her (or any of the Simpsons) but I think it is funny because she surely must have the last laugh all the way to the bank, making untold millions a year, she and her pimp-paw, sometimes the only real talent they have is for keppin' you people talkin' about them, bitchin' bout them, writin' bout them, their talent is for stirring up chaos, interest, disgust etc, but it all makes them money, positive or negative it keeps their star alive for just a little longer. Just face it... lots of people are famous too easily these days, famous and nobody really knows why, is pathetic, Jessica's should be 15 minutes of shame, or 15 minutes of LAME!

Posted at 5:47PM on Sep 10th 2006 by Todd

42. Gosh, the comments on here are always so nasty. Doesn't anyone have anything nice to say? None of us really know what went wrong in the marriage. It's easy to speculate and say that Jessica screwed up. But, who really knows? Newlyweds was a TV show created for ratings. I don't think it is accurate to make a judgment about their marriage based on what we saw on that show.
Personally, I think Jessica is very beautiful and a cool girl. I think she's probably a genuinely nice person. I can't believe how many people are picking her apart on here, especially based on her appearance. I think she looks better now then she looked in the Dukes. She was way too thin for her build then.

Posted at 7:33PM on Sep 10th 2006 by Mandy

43. It had to have been Joe Simpson who fired Rob Shuter. Joe has this complete control over everybody, even his daughter Jessica. And why AGAIN is Joe beside Jessica at the MTV Video Music Awards? He should have been in the regular audience, not anywhere near the celebrities. And I saw Joe's name AGAIN on the album credits of Jessica's new album for her management. I thought Jessica had gone with someone else to manage her career. Or is Joe trying to look like hunky Nick Lachey or something? He's coming dangerously close to it with his recent appearances and having his hair so spiked up like Nick's.

Posted at 7:54PM on Sep 10th 2006 by Preston

44. Why can't Jessica Simpson do the right thing and fire her dad as manager? She should go with The Firm, Irving Azoff, Roger Davies or other management to handle her music career. Joe sounds so overcontrolling! He came up with the reality show on MTV and it's been repeated over 15,000 times on the network on weekends. Jessica sounds so silly with the Chicken of the Sea rants when they repeat it over and over again. I'd rather hear her music instead. I even listened to the funky "With You" on the New Jersey Turnpike on July 30 (on a road trip to New York) instead of some of her overproduced, bombastic ballads. But maybe Jessica doesn't want to listen to me or any ranting fans that want her dump Joe and get more experienced management to handle her career.

Posted at 8:09PM on Sep 10th 2006 by Preston

45. honestly, the girl has to BREAK UP finally with her demented, overpossessive father, anyone can see that he's the real reason for the failed marriage, and the bad PR all the time. I feel for John Mayer, I wouldn't want to be associated with a Joe-zombie- bimbo like her anyway, if they did hook up, I hope he at least got a blow job out of it, she seems desperate enough anymore moaning about wanting to be loved.....if she does want a real man, she has to grow up first and she should talk to Beyonce to learn how to grow some balls and tell her Dad to get his own life. (But then he'll leech onto Ashley, maybe Jess is just trying to protect her little sis from preditor Dad!!!) Don't worry TMZ, if someone tries to threaten you with a lawsuit it won't hold. The proof is in the pictures...every court in the land would prove Papa Joe as an unfit father hell bent on overexposing his daughters for financial gain. Period.

Posted at 8:36PM on Sep 10th 2006 by heather

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