{"id":407048,"date":"2026-01-13T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407048\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:49:08","slug":"jessica-simpson-says-she-has-options-for-men-to-date-shuts-down-idea-of-doing-the-bachelorette-im-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407048\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Simpson Says She Has &#8216;Options&#8217; for Men to Date, Shuts Down Idea of Doing \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d: &#8216;I&#8217;m Good&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jessica Simpson spoke to TMZ on Monday, Jan. 12<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She shut down the idea of going on The Bachelorette<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I have options,&#8221; said Simpson of her dating prospects<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Don&#8217;t expect to see <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/jessica-simpson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jessica Simpson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jessica Simpson<\/a> on The Bachelorette anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Nashville Canyon singer, 45, spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/12\/jessica-simpson-rejects-the-bachelorette\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TMZ;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TMZ<\/a> on Monday, Jan. 12 and shut down the idea of going on the hit ABC dating competition series following her divorce from ex-husband <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/jessica-simpson-eric-johnson-relationship-timeline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eric Johnson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eric Johnson<\/a>, with whom she <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/parents\/all-about-jessica-simpson-kids\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shares three children;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shares three children<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following a question about whether she&#8217;d ever do The Bachelorette, Simpson expressed not needing help in order to find a date. &#8220;I have options,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Kevin Mazur\/Getty Jessica Simpson in December 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ee34144d659af9a2e155e18bb13f38b5.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Mazur\/Getty<\/p>\n<p> Jessica Simpson in December 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The TMZ reporter noted Simpson joining the show could be good for its ratings, but that didn&#8217;t make a difference for the &#8220;With You&#8221; artist. &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t care about that,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Simpson confirmed to PEOPLE in January 2025 that she and Johnson were going their separate ways. The two share children\u00a0Maxwell &#8220;Maxi&#8221; Drew, 13, Ace Knute, 12, and\u00a0Birdie Mae, 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jessica-simpson-absolutely-never-thought-shed-be-single-mom-exclusive-11832828\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:October 2025 interview with PEOPLE;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">October 2025 interview with PEOPLE<\/a> pegged to her new Mystic Canyon fragrance, Simpson spoke about why she&#8217;s not focused on age at this time in her life. &#8220;I feel like we get caught up in numbers,&#8221; she said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Like, &#8216;Oh, at 45, would I think that I would be single again as a mom of three?&#8217; Absolutely not. That was not how I planned it,&#8221; added Simpson. &#8220;But it&#8217;s just a part of what destiny holds for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She also explained how the fragrance reflected a period of &#8220;self-discovery&#8221; for her. &#8220;This time in my life, I was meant to be independent in my self-discovery without anybody else&#8217;s critiques, judgments or opinions,&#8221; said the All&#8217;s Fair actress.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Amy Sussman\/Getty Jessica Simpson in October 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ffd7d37a9baf9c0f817eda03c3ab775f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amy Sussman\/Getty<\/p>\n<p> Jessica Simpson in October 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It was really about coming home to myself, being proud of that person, coming from a place of being just very honest and very vulnerable, and putting that into melodic form, but also using it in the brand,&#8221; continued the businesswoman. &#8220;It has been really empowering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MLveITYKuV0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:an interview with\u00a0Extra;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">an interview with\u00a0Extra<\/a> the same month, Simpson gave a little more insight into her dating life. \u201cI think I&#8217;m into younger men at the moment. When you&#8217;re newly separated&#8230; I feel like younger guys kinda like the confidence of an older women, I&#8217;m discovering,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m having fun!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jessica-simpson-has-options-for-men-to-date-wont-do-the-bachelorette-11884350\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Jessica Simpson spoke to TMZ on Monday, Jan. 12 She shut down the idea of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,171556,66289,72743,12279],"class_list":["post-407048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-eric-johnson","tag-jessica-simpson","tag-the-bachelorette","tag-tmz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}