Jessica Simpson Gets A Reality Show…Again

Reality shows have become Hollywood’s version of charity.  Washed up celebrity with a struggling career?  Here, have a reality show.  Feeling like no one loves you enough anymore and need more attention?  Reality show.  Just plain nuts and can’t hold a normal job?  PLEASE take a reality show!

Jessica Simpson probably fits all of those categories and then some.  After her failed marriage to Nick Lachey (not that he’s doing much better these days), being called fat repeatedly, and a few failed pop and country albums, Jessica is whoring herself back to reality TV to “redeem” herself.

The concept of the show sounds like it has the potential to be interesting.  It’s called “The Price of Beauty,” and a source told US Weekly about the premise: “She and a friend set off on a road trip around the world in search of what people find beautiful and why.”  A nice change from just seeing what America thinks is beautiful.  To go to other cultures and find out their interpretations of beauty is something that most people aren’t able to experience, and to document it might be a good idea.  Of course, then comes the rest of the description, where my warning signs start going off: “(Jessica will try) shocking things that women do to make themselves beautiful.  Picture ‘Fear Factor’.”

I’m imagining Jessica Simpson in Africa getting her face pierced with a stick, or having those rings put around her neck.  Hmm, maybe the show doesn’t sound too bad after all…

My biggest worry is how badly Jessica is going to offend each culture she visits.  She has been known to say some pretty stupid things, like calling tuna “chicken.”  It’s one thing when you’re offending a fish, but when she starts calling Spanish people Mexicans, we’re going to have a problem.  Which is all part of the reason that I’m going to tune in.