Newlyweds

Newlyweds is a reality television show on MTV that follows the daily lives of recently-married music artist couple, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. The show first aired in August 2003 and has run for four seasons of ten episodes each. The last season started on January 26, 2005, and the fortieth and last episode aired on March 30, 2005. Simpson and Lachey were married in October 2002.

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Part of the show's gimmick is displaying Simpson's ignorance, playing on the popular stereotype of "dumb blondes". Perhaps the most famous example comes from the first episode, in which Simpson, confronted with a can of Chicken of the Sea tuna, asked Lachey "Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea'".

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Because cameramen are constantly following the couple, there have been several incidences during the production of the show that have caused tension between the couple. According to interviews with Nick and Jessica, the largest of these is the inability to be intimate with each other at certain times, or to have private conversations when they want to. There have also been cases where footage had to be destroyed because it had inadvertently captured partial nudity of Nick or Jessica.

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The opening of Newlyweds shows footage of the couple's wedding and plays Lachey's song "This I Swear".

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• The 2nd season premiere, which featured footage from Donald Trump`s now defunct casino in Atlantic City was taped at the same time as the 1st season finale of The Apprentice in which both Nick and Jessica will make a cameo with Jessica's father Joe Simpson.
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