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Flirty Ashlee Simpson Rumors Wentz Too Far

Truth rating: 3

1:42 pm, October 1st, 2009

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Apparently, Star magazine isn’t satisfied with the romantic intrigue actually ON “Melrose Place,” because it’s fueling rumors of behind-the-scenes flirtations between co-stars Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Colin Egglesfield.

According to the tab’s piece titled, “Ashlee Crushing on Melrose Costar,” “an overly flirty” Simpson-Wentz “got touchy-feely with Colin between scenes on Sept. 23.” An ‘eyewitness’ tells Star the actress “kept grabbing Colin’s hand and hugging him repeatedly,” “giggled nonstop and did the whole hair-filp thing.”

Star then reports that husband Pete Wentz is aware of Ashlee’s “crush” and is very jealous. According to an ‘insider,’ “He recently caught Ashlee online Googling Colin and flipped,” and “they got into a huge fight over it and didn’t speak for days, and then he went on tour.” At which point, a different ‘insider’ tells Star, Ashlee invited Colin to join her for drinks after a day of filming.

We hate to “crush” this crush story, but a source close to Simpson-Wentz tells Gossip Cop, “It’s not true.”

  • Cleo

    Dear Gossipcop,

    What else WOULD a “source close to Simpson,” tell YOU – that ‘yes, she is crushing on Egglesfield?’

    Come on. I thought you were in the business of verifying when stories were not FACTUAL (i.e., if the Daily Mirror says Rob Pattinson gave them a new exclsuive interview, and he in reality has NEVER SPOKEN TO THEM – then we have Gossipcop to the rescue, saying Rob Pattinson never did an interview with them)

    However, there is absolutely no way to say that Simpson is NOT crushing on Egglesfield, did not flip her hair, did not giggle, did not hug him.

    So why even set about trying to disprove it. You only make readers tend to not take you (gossipcop) seriously, when you attempt to disprove what cannot really be disproved. You cannot disprove emotions and feelings of human beings.

    What can you do? If you really wanted to tackle this story? (Why I have no idea)

    Well, there is a way to verify that they never had drinks together after filming, that Wentz didn’t go on tour, and that other things the piece claims as factual didn’t happen.

    You chose not to do that.

    You opted instead for just saying ‘a source close to Simpson,’ said ‘the (whole) story is not true.’

    That makes the reader then go – well who is the source, and why would we care that a pal of Simpson’s is telling you she doesn’t have a crush – obviously they are biased. More than that – obviously, you may be getting played by Simpson’s OWN PR. I refuse to believe that you had a dearth of readers interested in Simpson, and the correction of this story.

    You need to realize when you are being played by PR agents and celebs themselves to generate a bit of scandal to drum up interest in their careers.

    Please gossipcop, stay above the fray and the temptation to get your palm greased by high powered PR agencies looking to generate interest in a celeb in their stable, or network shows wanting to generate interest in a TV show.

    That is OBVIOUSLY what this.

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