Nick Lachey makes rare comment about Jessica Simpson on “Love Is Blind Boston” premiere
Nick Lachey makes rare comment about Jessica Simpson on “Love Is Blind Boston” premiere
Daysia TolentinoWed, October 14, 2026 at 6:08 PM UTC
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Nick Lachey; Jessica SimpsonCredit: Theo Wargo/Getty; Catherine Powell/GettyKey Points -
Nick Lachey made a comment about his marriage to Jessica Simpson during the Love Is Blind Boston premiere.
As the singles get ready to meet their prospective life partners, Lachey said a previous marriage could give a contestant a “leg up” in the experience.
Lachey has been married to Vanessa Lachey since 2011.
Nick Lachey just made a rare remark about his previous marriage to Jessica Simpson.
As Lachey and his wife, Vanessa Lachey, prepared the latest batch of prospective singles to find their life partners on Love Is BlindBoston, the 98 Degrees member bonded with one contestant, Erika, who had been previously married.
“Well as some of you may know, I was previously married before I met my incredible wife,” Nick said during the season premiere of the Netflix dating show. “I would make the very unique argument that it gives you a leg up because you know from that experience what it is you truly want.”
“We all have messy pasts,” Vanessa added. “All of us.”
Indeed, Nick was in a high-profile marriage to the The Dukes of Hazzard actress from 2002 to 2006. The two starred in a reality show, Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, about their relationship, which ran from 2003 to 2005. He went on to marry Vanessa in 2011.
The former couple recently ran into each other while on a flight to Hawaii, which was the first time they had seen each other in two decades. Nick, who was with Vanessa on the plane, detailed the moment during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live in May, saying that they had been “cordial” and “respectful.”
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“It was strangely okay,” he told host Andy Cohen. “It’s been 20 years since we’ve been [together] and we hadn’t seen each other in those 20 years, then spent six-and-a-half hours on a flight to Hawaii together.”
Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson for ‘Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica’ which ran from 2003 to 2005Credit: MTV / Courtesy: Everett
He shared that Simpson’s mother, Tina, as well as her estranged husband, Eric Johnson, from whom she separated in 2025, were also on the plane. While he and Simpson were flying first class, Nick claimed that her children were sitting with Johnson in coach.
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Simpson responded to that claim shortly after the Watch What Happens Live episode aired, saying she didn’t buy the plane tickets herself. If she had, she would have sat in coach with her kids.
“It was my mom’s treat for us to go to Hawaii,” Simpson told a photographer at LAX airport on May 20, per Page Six.
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