
NEW YORK — The Barbie-and-Ken couple who invited America to watch them struggle through their first year of marriage on national television are apparently a couple no more, according to a celebrity magazine.
After months of rumors that their relationship was on the rocks, JESSICA SIMPSON and Nick Lachey are breaking up, Us Weekly reports in its current issue, with the headline “Split!”
News of the forthcoming story prompted reps for Simpson, 25, and Lachey, 31, to do what they’ve come to do best these days: deny it.
“Nick and Jessica have not separated,” said a joint statement on behalf of the couple released Wednesday. “Rumors to the contrary are simply not true.”
“They have not separated,” Simpson rep Brad Cafarelli said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
Alex Dudley, a spokesman for Us Weekly, said the magazine was standing by its story.
The pair catapulted from nominally well-known singers to superstars with the MTV reality show “Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica” (search), which followed them through the trials and tribulations of their new life together as husband and wife.
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