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Nick Lachey is happily married to longtime wife Vanessa Lachey, and they share three children.
But more than twenty years ago the 51-year-old former boy bander’s life looked a lot different.
While appearing on the podcast Richer Lives this week, Lachey opened up about his first marriage to his ex-wife, 44-year-old singer-actress Jessica Simpson.
The two starred on MTV’s Newlyweds, which followed them as they settled into living together as husband and wife.
‘Newlyweds obviously became a huge reality show,’ Nick reflected. ‘The only one that had come out before that was The Osbournes, which was also a massive show. But that show was created as a vehicle to promote music.’
He said that the show’s success and three-season run was ‘totally unexpected.’
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Nick Lachey is happily married to longtime wife Vanessa Lachey, and they share three children. But more than twenty years ago the 51-year-old former boy bander’s life looked a lot different
While appearing on the podcast Richer Lives this week, Lachey opened up about his first marriage to his ex-wife, 44-year-old singer-actress Jessica Simpson
‘You know, my ex-wife had an album coming out, [I] had an album coming out, I’ll do a little six-episode thing to promote the album,’ he explained about what motivated them to sign on to the series.
‘We had no idea it was going to take on this other life of being this reality fly-on-the-wall type of show. So that was totally unexpected,’ the Ohio native shared.
The show lasted from 2003-2005, spawning three seasons during that time.
Nick and Jessica’s three-year marriage ended shortly after, in 2006.
Amid the breakdown of the marriage, the cameras briefly rolled again for Nick’s What’s Left of Me documentary special.
The Hollywood hunk also dished on the strict rule he and Jessica were given in regards to the camera crew.
‘I remember at first they were like, “Don’t talk to the crew. They’re a fly on the wall!” And I was like, “Guys, if this is ever going to work, that’s just not how I’m wired. You’re not going to be in my house and watch my every move and we’re not going to talk to each other. We got to get past that right now,”‘ he revealed.
‘So I actually came to really love the crew. I remember crying the day we shut down because you develop relationships with them. They really became family.’
The two starred on MTV’s Newlyweds, which followed them as they settled into living together as husband and wife. This week Lachey said that the show’s success and three-season run was ‘totally unexpected’
Nick pictured with wife Vanessa in 2020. The two tied the knot in 2011
To mark Mother’s Day earlier this month, Nick posted a rare photo of his wife and their three children
Following their divorce, Jessica went on to have high-profile romances with John Mayer and Tony Romo before eventually marrying former NFL star Eric Johnson.
They share three kids: daughters Maxwell, 13, and Birdie, six, and son Ace, 12 in June.
In January their split was announced after ten years of marriage, with Simpson saying in a public statement that they ‘had been living separately and navigating a painful situation’ in their relationship.
Meanwhile, Nick and Vanessa are going strong and star together as co-hosts of Netflix’s Love Is Blind and The Ultimatum.
On Richer Lives, Lachey spoke about balancing work and personal life with his wife.
‘I think the best thing you can do is not bring your work home with you, which is tricky when you work with your spouse,’ he offered. ‘I think we do a really good job of doing that, for the most part, but it’s not easy working with your spouse sometimes.’
He added, ‘Sometimes you show up for work and there’s an argument at home that you brought with you to work and you don’t want that to bleed over. And sometimes there’s arguments at work that bleed over,’ he explained.
The couple are parents to sons Camden, 12, and Phoenix, eight, and daughter Brooklyn, 10.
