Ashlee Simpson appeared on the July cover of Marie Claire magazine extolling the virtues of appreciating one’s body as it is — then she had a nose job.

Marie Claire readers erupted in fury at what they said was Ms. Simpson’s hypocrisy and the magazine’s “cluelessness.” They wrote 1,000 letters in protest to the magazine, according to Joanna Coles, the new editor of the magazine. And she agreed with them.
In the first issue (due Aug. 15) over which she exercises full editorial control, Ms. Coles gives expanded space in the letters column to readers to vent against Ms. Simpson. Ms. Coles adds in a note: “We’re dazed and confused — and disappointed — by her choice, too!”

Rare is the day when the editor of a women’s magazine will openly criticize a celebrity. But Ms. Coles is planting a flag: A new Marie Claire is in town and it is making a clean break with its past. No girly goo, no teeny-bopper covers, no blind obedience to the traditional rules of the road.

Umm, so this begs the question: What would Joe do?

[Source: NY Times]

These two dimwits are so clueless their collective stupidity could move mountains:

What better Fashion Week kickoff than a nasty catfight between Jessica and Ashlee Simpson and legendary photographer David LaChapelle?

The 37-year-old LaChapelle spewed flames of hatred for the sisters Simpson at Tuesday night’s benefit for the Brazilian charity Voice of the Streets at Churrascaria Plataforma Tribeca.

“They’re everything that’s wrong with music,” LaChapelle seethed to Lowdown. “Out of everything combined, they’re everything wrong with culture, and everything wrong with art, and what we think of as art and musical culture - in one family!”

LaChapelle, who not only shoots covers for Vanity Fair and Italian Vogue and makes music videos but also directed the critically acclaimed documentary “Rize,” was just getting warmed up.

“They’re nothing. They have nothing. They hold no interest whatsoever for anybody,” he sniffed. “They’re reality-red-carpet, lip-synching television stars. I don’t know what they are beyond that. I don’t think they offer anything.”

So what did these innocent young ladies ever to do to him?

According to a source in the Simpson camp, LaChapelle is bitter that Jessica and Ashlee recently refused to pose for him for a Rolling Stone cover.

“When you do a cover with your sister, you both want to look like who you are,” says the source. “David doesn’t have that skill. The girls were looking for a photographer who wasn’t a one-trick pony. He’s good at what he does, but that’s it.”

Is it me or is the “source” Pimp Daddy Simpson?

I mean, who other than Joe would complain about a “one-trick pony” (“one-trick pony” my ass) while peddling two inept wannabe starlets?