Billy Bush Says Jessica Simpson Is Making A Mistake

Billy Bush wrote on his ‘Access Hollywood’ blog Thursday (November 10): “I am aware of the impact the Jessica Simpson piece on our show made. It was the discussion on morning radio across the country. I woke up Wednesday morning in Chicago and it was in the Sun – Times. I get it…it was refreshing. We showed the infamous ‘handlers’ trying to ‘manhandle’ the media. The fact of the matter is, however, that Jessica Simpson is young and taking on the world. To shut everyone off to the main thing that made her famous, her open book approach, is a mistake. If she had said, ‘I really don’t want to talk about it,’ I would have related to her and honored her concern. To sit there while ‘handlers’ intervened shows the opposite of why we like her. Jessica is a great girl who has a lot of people in her ear. Her gut is what she should trust. She’ll realize this and grow.”