Nick Lachey is opening up about his Newlyweds historical past with Jessica Simpson.
Lachey, 51, is just not one to debate his former spouse or the hit MTV actuality present on which they starred throughout the early Aughts. However in a brand new interview with “Richer Lives,” the singer and Love Is Blind host made uncommon feedback about his time on the sequence.
“Newlyweds clearly turned an enormous actuality present,” Lachey mentioned. “The one one which had come out earlier than that was The Osbournes, which was additionally an enormous present. However that present was created as a car to advertise music.”
When deciding to star on Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, which ran from 2003 to 2005, Lachey and Simpson, now 44, took their singing careers into consideration.
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“You recognize, my ex-wife had an album popping out, [I] had an album popping out, I’ll perform a little six-episode factor to advertise the album,” Lachey defined of his considering on the time. “We had no concept it was going to tackle this different lifetime of being this actuality fly-on-the-wall sort of present. In order that was completely surprising.”
Newlyweds gave viewers an irresistible glimpse into the couple’s marriage, the place Lachey was the self-possessed straight man and Simpson the adorably ditzy comedienne.
“You get very used to [people watching you],” Lachey recalled. “I keep in mind at first they had been like, ‘Don’t discuss to the crew. They’re a fly on the wall!’ And I used to be like, ‘Guys, if that is ever going to work, that’s simply not how I’m wired. You’re not going to be in my home and watch my each transfer and we’re not going to speak to one another. We acquired to get previous that proper now.’ So I really got here to essentially love the crew. I keep in mind crying the day we shut down since you develop relationships with them. They actually turned [a] household.”
Lachey and Simpson divorced in 2006, one yr after MTV aired Newlyweds’ third and last season. Trying again, the 98 Levels frontman is grateful for the expertise of broadcasting his private life to the plenty.
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“The attractive factor about actuality TV is while you’re in a boy band, individuals simply know you as Nick from 98 Levels. It’s particularly a fairly feminine viewers,” Lachey mentioned. “What actuality TV did for me is it allowed me to introduce myself as Nick Lachey, the individual, to the world, and even guys round me [were like], ‘He’s sort of cool. I’d have a beer with that man.’ … It allowed me to develop into very comfy being myself.”
Lachey steered that he was paid nicely throughout the present’s run, noting: “I’ve no complaints.”
Following his cut up from Simpson, Lachey met spouse Vanessa Lachey (née Minnillo) in 2006 on the set of his music video “What’s Left of Me,” and the twosome married in 2011. The couple share sons Camden, 12, and Phoenix, 8, and daughter Brooklyn, 10, and likewise cohost the Netflix actuality reveals Love Is Blind and The Ultimatum.
“I believe the great thing about [Love Is Blind] is that you just don’t know who’s going to fall in love with who, since you don’t know who’s going to attach on that actually sort of natural degree that they do on the present,” Lachey completely advised Us Weekly earlier this month. “So there [have] been some surprises to me. I’m like, ‘Wow, I didn’t see that coming.’ And fortunately we’ve had an enormous success price. I believe we’ve solely had two divorces over the course of eight unbelievable seasons.”