Nick And Jessica Deny Us Weekly Split Claim

Us Weekly’s Caroline Schaeffer tells ‘Extra’ that Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson have not been together for close to two months. “Now we know the reason they are not wearing their rings,” Schaeffer said. “I think for a long time people have said this is a marriage of convenience for business reasons. It wasn’t the right time to split, so for a long time they have been having separate lives, but staying together in public.” Lachey’s publicist responded by issuing the following statement on behalf of both of the ‘Newlyweds’: “Nick and Jessica have not separated. Rumors to the contrary are simply not true.”