POP star and aspiring actor Jessica Simpson has clinched the role of Daisy Duke in the upcoming film The Dukes of Hazzard.
"She is really excited," said Simpson's father and manager, Joe. "Daisy Duke is right down her alley."
The remake of the late-1970s-early 1980s cult TV show about the Duke cousins and their hotted-up Dodge Charger, called The General Lee, is set to begin production soon.
Simpson, who has had a chart hit with With You and is the star of the reality TV show Newlyweds, nabbed the role out from under the pert noses of a posse of hopefuls.
Fellow blonde pop starlet, Britney Spears, was among them, but Simpson's popularity on screen as well as off it appears to have won her the approval of the film's producers.
HUGH Jackman better get some acting lessons so he doesn't get shown-up by his next co-star – Ms Jessica Simpson.
X girl .... Jessica will co-star with Hugh
The most vacant star on television has miraculously landed a role in the third X-Men movie, taking on the challenging one-scene-wonder role of mutant superhero Dazzler alongside Hugh Jackman's Wolverine.
OMG Jessica Simpson in a movie...a real movie...OMG now she is going to make the movie go bad!!!!
I love Luke Schenscher! I miss David Greene! *Go Georgia Tech*
2-10-05~is a day that will forever live on in history as the day I saw, met and Ryan Cabrera gave me a high 5! The show was great and Ryan is the funniest man alive! I love u, Mr. Cabrera!
She's going to be in the remake of the Dukes of Hazard as well. I guess we just have to wait and see. I remember them showing her doing a skit for a comedy show as part of Newlyweds and she took a whole day to do a five minute scene. I am certainly glad I am not the diurector!
Simpson Puts Up Her 'Dukes' for First Feature Role
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Pop star Jessica Simpson has been cast as Daisy Duke in the big-screen remake of "The Dukes of Hazzard," a project that essentially marks her feature film debut.
Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville already had been cast as Bo and Luke Duke, respectively, in the Warner Bros. project. Jay Chandrasekhar is directing. A start date has not yet been set.
The series, which ran on CBS from 1979 to 1985, followed the weekly adventures of southern cousins Bo and Luke -- "just two good ol' boys, never meaning no harm," according to the Waylon Jennings theme song -- who raised hell driving their souped-up Dodge Charger, the General Lee, in fictional Hazzard County. They, along with their cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, staged running battles with the corrupt authorities, Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane.
Pop star Simpson shot to fame when her marital misadventures with fellow singer and husband, Nick Lachey, aired on MTV's "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica." She has played herself in countless TV appearances and had a guest starring run on "That '70s Show." On the big screen, she played herself in the 2002 feature "The Master of Disguise."
Jessica Simpson, Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville. It's going to be crap. I don't needd to see it or read a script, with those guys all in it together it's got to be a flop.
IT'S not all sweetness and light on the set of the new Dukes of Hazzard movie.
Blonde bombshell Jessica Simpson has fallen out with her leading men Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott. Jessica, who plays Daisy Duke in the latest Hollywood reworking of a TV show, is fed up with their constant teasing. 'Johnny and Seann have been saying her butt looks big compared to the original Daisy,' reported our insider on the set.
'They know she's sensitive about it. 'In one scene, Johnny and Seann are in the car as Bo and Luke talking to Daisy and then leap out. But in one take they leapt out naked from the waist down. Jessica freaked and told them to grow up.'
JESSICA SIMPSON SICK OF BEING THE BUTT OF ALL JOKES
Pop beauty Jessica Simpson is paranoid about the size of her bottom and gets enraged when it is mocked by her "Dukes of Hazzard" co-star Johnny Knoxville.
The singer, who beat Britney Spears for the coveted role of Daisy Duke in the big-screen remake, has reportedly had enough of other actors' jokey antics.
An insider says, "They have been saying her butt looks big compared to the original Daisy. They know she's sensitive about it."
Simpson allegedly snapped when "Jackass" star Knoxville and actor Sean William Scott jumped out of a car to surprise her -- naked from the waist down.
The source adds, "Jessica told them to grow up. She was freaked out."
I knew that Jessica Simpson was playing Daisy Duke, and I knew that meant she would be wearing short jean shorts, but I hadn't really prepared myself for just how wickedly hot she would look in them. I sort of recall that the original Daisy Duke wore a shirt or something, but if the producers of the new movie have decided to just go with a bikini, that's fine by me. Maybe they should just lose the whole jean shorts thing altogether and just throw Jessica Simpson in a thong. Sure it would be a slap in the face to the original series, but I think I'm okay with that.
Oh, and Jessica Simpson has huge breasts, I mean, thighs. It's like they took a hot blonde and implanted her onto some tree trunks. I'm not complaining or anything, I'm just saying. Saying that she has huge thighs that is! Wait, I just said that...
06-02-2004 08:37 AM
It's going to be crap. I don't needd to see it or read a script, with those guys all in it together it's got to be a flop.
If I looked like that I would die a happy girl 
She looks AMAZING!!!!!!!!
