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11/08/2007: "Stilettos + Steel = Surprise!"

What with the Home Office being right in Hollywood's backyard, we tend to get and ear - and eye - full of celebrities on a regular basis. We understand that their job is to project an image for the public, and to assume that the public persona we see represents how those individuals really are is folly.

But every once in a while, a celebrity pops up who seems to be exactly what they seem to be. We first met Jessica Simpson a few years back when she and then-husband Nick Lachey starred in their own MTV reality show. From the start, we knew that Jess wasn't a bright bulb (remember when she thought Chicken of the Sea really was chicken?), but you couldn't help but wonder how much of it was an act.

Time has demonstrated that she really isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Despite the efforts of her manager-father, she just wasn't sharp enough to capitalize on the "fame" that her 15 minutes brought her. Now she's reduced to showing up in the celebrity blogs only when she does something dumb - like this: walking on a steel grate in stiletto heels. Clearly from the look on her face, she didn't realize what was coming, but can you say the same thing about those around her? I think not. Her friends and handlers had a pretty good idea what would happen when they said. "This way, Jess - right across the grate".

Thank God she has the body, 'cuz she'll never make it on the brain ...