Ashlee Simpson Is Not Trying To Be Like Her Sister

Where ‘Newlyweds’ plays like a sitcom because of Jessica Simpson’s ditzy persona, the six-episode ‘Ashlee’ series promises to be more of a teen drama, following the younger sister Ashlee Simpson on her path to becoming a music star as she signs with a record label and starts recording her debut album, ‘Autobiography’, due July 20th. “I started making my album about seven months ago,” Simpson tells MTV News, “and I was just signing to the label when my dad [Joe Simpson, executive producer of 'Newlyweds'] was like, ‘How would you like to do a reality show?’ And I was like, ‘Hell, no!’ And the reason I said that was my sister had her show and everything. But then he said, ‘What if it were about the making of the album?’ And I said, ‘All right, that’s more like it’.” Read more.