MSNBC: Jessica Simpson's "Operation MySpace" concert for troops in Kuwait is "isn't a charity show"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Jessica Simpson is headlining the Operation MySpace concert in Kuwait Monday, but industry insiders are wondering how Simpson is going to pull off making her performance look like a gift to the troops given how little time she’s spending with them and the exorbitant expense required to shuttle Simpson overseas and back to the U.S.

According to a source close to the Simpson camp, a private plane carrying Simpson and her entourage — which includes dad Joe, hairstylist Ken Paves, her personal assistant and a stylist — left L.A. and was due in Kuwait the evening of March 9. Total cost for the plane was approximately $150,000. (Reps for Simpson maintain that Simpson did not fly privately.)

Someone will be picking up the tab for accommodations as well, even though it’s been touted that Simpson will be forgoing her standard hotel suite to spend the night living like the troops in a bunk. The source close to Simpson predicts that any time spent in a bunk will last no longer than the time it takes for a photo.

“Jessica doesn’t sleep in tents or bunks the night before a concert. She needs to give a good performance — there’s no way Joe will want The Pussycat Dolls (who are also performing as part of the same show) to upstage his daughter. He’ll have her sleeping in a proper bed in the right environment.”

Other expenses include her stylist and makeup artist (who both charge approximately $6,000 per day), and Paves, whose day rate is a whopping $10,000, according to the Simpson source.

“This isn’t a charity show. The people around Jessica aren’t donating their time or cutting their rates as if this was Jess’s charity Operation Smile. Someone is picking up the tab, and it’s not going to be Jessica.”

When the concert is over, Simpson has about three hours for quality time with the troops before her plane takes off again. “Literally, she’s going to sing ‘These Boots Are Made for Walking,’ and she’s going to be walking herself right back onto that plane,” said the source.

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[LynneSin]

1. Seriously, when is this idiot going to disappear

I can't even tell you one song she's ever sung except when she made herself into a $5 whore humping the General Lee in Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots are Made for Walking"

Speaking of "whoring", her dad Joe is nothing more than Jessica's pimp. For a father who gave his daughter a chastity ring, he things nothing of treating his daughter like a hooker to be pimped out. Rumor has it those aren't her real breasts, bigger ones clearly help sell the package even better.

If the Simpsons can't donate their time to the troops then stay the hell home. My taxdollars have better things to be spent on.

[Mike Daniels]

2. I keep waiting for the bell to toll the 15th minute on her "career"

What exactly has she done recently outside of appear at Dallas Cowboy games?

Her last movie was a total flop and I don't recall her releasing any music unconnected to Dukes of Hazzard within the last few years.

I know celebrity magazines need to draw on "C" list performers from time to time to fill out the subscription pages but Simpson is fast descending towards Paris Hiltonesque "famous only for being famous" territory.

[joeybee12]

3. The first time I saw Joe Simpson on tv...I said...Is that a porn producer?

Then I found out he was Jessica's Dad and I realized I was right.

[Sock Puppet]

4. Um....

:o