Annoying on a Global Scale

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Jessica Simpson is the newest celebrity to pick up a travel show. It's about beauty, and she'll go to Japan to be made up like a geisha, and to a fattening hut in Uganda, where the women tell Jessica that people shouldn't be so mean about that time she wore unflattering, high-waisted jeans and everyone said she looked fat. Yes, this is genuinely a TV show where Jessica Simpson travels the world, tries different beauty routines, and tells people about how tough her life is. That's it, now we want a travel show, too. We'll get a camera crew and travel the world looking for celebrities filming travel shows, then we'll make fun of them. We'd be willing to go blond; let's make this happen. [Hollywood.com]