IS JESSICA WEARING HER WEDDING RING AROUND HER NECK?

Here is a photo of Jessica Simpson leaving Orso restaurant yesterday wearing what appears to be her wedding ring on her necklace. If only she would have put the ring there whenever she took it off in the past, maybe she wouldn't have "accidentally" left it in the jewelry cleaner, or by her bed. Seriously though, maybe this is a sign that she still holds Nick close to her heart and wants to work it out. That, or it's going to be the next fashion trend. Photo credit: JJB
UPDATE: Upon further examination, the kids are thinking that she may just be wearing one of those fab circle charm necklaces. Plus, looking at it closer, it seems kinda big to be a ring (unless Jess has really fat fingers.)

In other Simpson/Lacheygate news, I think I nailed it on the head about Pappa Joe trying to make nice with US Weekly and releasing the Nick and Jessica separation statement to them. Access Hollywood's Billy Bush (who I love because he isn't afraid to tell it like it is) goes off in his blog on Pappa Joe Simpson, calling him out on his lies:

Joe said some demonizing things about US Weekly to me in an interview over a year ago ("never again" was his position on future collaborations) and again face to face in late October, over drinks at The Cheesecake Factory in Sherman Oaks, CA. While sipping margaritas, he swore his daughter and Nick were together to my face, claimed US Weekly West Coast editor, Ken Baker, had called him a 'liar', how he was miffed that Ken didn't believe that Nick and Jessica's Eurpoean trip was something other than a poorly planned distraction (neither did I...nobody did). Now, the day before Thanksgiving, he has faced the truth and immediately started looking forward. He has realized his kids NEED US Weekly and so does he....so now, he tucks tail, gives THEM the scoop (and thus the olive branch) and starts charting a new course, which will heavily involve US Weekly, make no mistake...and the main man in his daughter's life is back to being him.

LOVE the crack Bush makes about Pappa Joe and "the main man in his daughter's life is back to being him." OUCH! Keep talking Billy! Keep talking!