Gossip Cop Curbs Silly Jessica Simpson Dog Tale

Daisy Daisygate Janet Charlton Janet Charlton's Hollywood Jessica Simpson

6:38 pm, September 18th, 2009

Call it Daisy-gate.

Janet Charlton’s Hollywood, which last gave us the ridiculous story about John Mayer and Kristin Cavallari secretly hooking up in The Hollywood Hills, now has this tail, er, tale about a cover-up involving Jessica Simpson’s dog Daisy, who was taken by a coyote.

“The truth is, Daisy was in the care of Jessica’s mother Tina Simpson when Daisy was snatched by that coyote. Jessica has been protecting her mother,” the site claims.

Charlton goes on to say that while Simpson was out of the country filming her new reality show, “The Price of Beauty,” Daisy was in her mother Tina’s care. And on Labor Day the pooch chased after a squirrel and was then snatched by a coyote near the Simpson’s home in Encino, Ca. “The family searched the neighborhood and decided not to break the news to Jessica until she returned,” Charlton writes. “They didn’t want her to have a meltdown far from home. Every day Jessica would call and ask about Daisy and they’d say she was fine.” Well, claims the blog, when Simpson returned six days later, “her tearful family was together and told Jessica that Daisy had been taken by a coyote earlier that day.”

Eventually, it seems, they told her what happened, and “Jessica knew her mother felt awful and didn’t want her to take the blame her (sic) so she was deliberately vague about releasing the details of the tragedy… and although Jessica is beyond heartbroken, she is covering up for her mother.”

Wow. Quite a story. Gossip Cop has yet to hear back from the star’s rep, but reached out to multiple Simpson sources who laughed off talk of a cover-up.

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