To be clear, while this rumour makes Jessica Simpson look like a cat lady desperate to keep a boyfriend of six months, this story is regarding $100,000 more than any of the hecklerspray gang have. That includes our pocket money, paper rounds, and the weekly tin of beans we get paid to entertain you good folks.
Jessica became engaged to her boyfriend-since-May, Eric Johnson, on Thursday of last week. She confirmed the news on Sunday. It had been six days since ex-husband Nick Lachey proposed to his girlfriend-of-four-years, Vanessa Minnillo.
Jessica insisted the timing of her engagement was a coincidence, caused by nothing more than withholding sex until she got her own way (we’re guessing that last bit). Either that, or engagement was just an option that didn’t require stretch trousers and dirty nappies; moreover, there’s no ‘Take backsies!’ on a baby, and no one gives you jewellery.
It is being reported that Jessica’s boyfriend isn’t the greatest catch; he’s basically unemployed and broke. He used to be an NFL player, but he’s supposedly broke from his September divorce.
Oh, he was still technically married for the bulk of their relationship-to-date. We forgot to mention that bit, didn’t we?
Our bad.
Since Eric doesn’t have anything except two actual beans to rub together, Jessica has had to buy her own ring. She’s being made fun of for this fact, a lot, today. It’s a bit of a Britney Spears/ Kevin Federline mis-matched wealth thing, where the guy’s screwed no matter what he does.
He probably couldn’t afford the $100,000 Neil Lane yellow gold, diamond and ruby ring. As such, it’s being speculated that part of Jessica settling for this dude means paying for everything herself.
From Pop Eater:
?No way could Eric, who doesn't have a job at the moment, afford to purchase such an expensive ring,? a friend of Jessica?s tells [Pop Eater]. ?Yes, he made a little bit of money in the NFL and is from a wealthy family, but unless his parents helped him out, Jessica must have paid for it herself.?
This was a guest post by Amy Grindhouse, so hooray for that.