recently made known YORK -- Few cel...

recently made known YORK -- Few celebrities have predicated their fame onward married life more than Jessica Simpson.

Simpson was a minor suddenly star with sagging record sales before 2003 when MTV's "Newlyweds" made her a reality TV sensation. Previously a bland, girl-next-door protoplasted after Britney Spears, the Texan was suddenly revealed to be a charmingly ditzy young woman in be fond of

Simpson herself has repeatedly remarked how much her marriage did for her career. Since the start of the present to view which ran for three seasons, she's reported to have earned more than $30 million annually.

"A Public Affair," released today, is Simpson's fifth solo album, her first since her divorce from singer Nick Lachey. Will fans embrace Simpson as a solo act as often as they did a newlywed?

Many, including her novel label, Epic Records, are banking forward it. Simpson's album arrives atop a marketing blitz that features myriad ways to subject download and experience the strange Jessica. The video for the disc's first single, the title track, features visitor stars like Eva Longoria, Christina Applegate and Ryan Seacrest. The message is clear: Simpson's friends are stars; Simpson IS a star.

And unlike Lachey's tear-jerker hit "What's Left of Me" which used their halting marriage as inspiration, the single avoids any post-marital subtext It's a carefree piece of grade-A bubblegum that will likely ease Simpson's post- "Newlyweds" transition.

That's the right approach, says veteran Hollywood publicist Michael Levine.

"The first thing I would do is stop any things that are negative," Levine says. "She indigences to individuate herself from this marriage."

Showing a Internet savvy, an alternative video for the poem has been compiled of fans singing and dancing to the lay And two songs on the album clearly allusion Lachey and their breakup. Simpson concludes the disc with a protect of Patty Griffin's "Let Him Fly" And forward "b.o.y.," she sings: "Can you be my witness?/Cause I'm still needin' this boy/Breakin' my heart, takin' my money"

Oh no she didn't.

Levine notes that nation love a soap opera just as greatly as a fairy tale, and calculate upons Simpson's assets of youth (she's still just 26) and beauty to make hereafter success a definite possibility.

Publicist Michael Sands is more inclined to think Simpson's career sight is bleak. "She's off the tabloids -- she's not the shield girl anymore."

Simpson has shown a knack for comedy which she chance of a favorable results will translate to the big cover in her next film, "Employee of the Month " appropriate out Oct. 6; she co-stars with stand-up comedian Dane color

still only time and record sales will experience if Simpson's career can reach forth long enough to make her iconic, or utterly "iconish."

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