AP caption via Yahoo!: Operation Smile International Youth Ambassador Jessica Simpson, center, listens to Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., during an Operation Smile news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, March 16, 2006. Operation Smile has treated more than 98,000 children and young adults suffering with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities around the world. Simpson’s haridresser Ken Paves looks on at right. The singer was on hand to tell lawmakers of the charity’s work and to recount her own Operation Smile mission to help children in Nakuru, Kenya, in October 2005.(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Ok, I’ll start with the obvious:

“Who am I? Why am I here? And who is he? And why is he here?”

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Flashback: Simpson slammed for safari

Newlyweds star Jessica Simpson is facing a barrage of criticism from humanitarian agencies after she allegedly interrupted a 10-day charity visit to Kenya with a GBP835 safari, despite insisting she was too ill to visit local children.

The singer reportedly spent just two days with Operation Smile – a charity repairing facial deformities in children – before embarking on a recreational trip of the same length in the Masai Mara National Reserve earlier this month.

A representative for the charity says, “Jessica got sick, like people do, and couldn’t get out of bed.”

But the excuse has been challenged by a hotel insider who alleges, “Simpson was not ill, no doctor was called out to see her.”

Referring to the safari, an Operation Smile spokesperson says, “It was scheduled downtime.”

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