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Wednesday, January 11, 2006  

Nice work if you can get it.


This bit of unimportant celebrity news confused me enough to catch my eye: Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey are moving on. And that leaves the door open for a Malcolm in the Middle star to move in.
Just days after the soon-to-be-divorced couple listed their Calabasas, California, home, the setting for much of their Newlyweds hijinks, it was snapped up by Justin Berfield, who plays Malcolm's bullying older brother Reese on the Fox sitcom.

The sale was confirmed Tuesday by Berfield's publicist.

Simpson and Lachey were asking $3.75 million for the Mediterranean-style house, which includes a screening room and a music studio, but Berfield's rep declined to say how much the actor spent for the digs.

Berfield, 19, did have an in, though, so he might have gotten a discount. He and Jessica's father, Joe Simpson, partnered to produce the E! reality show Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive last year. Berfield has been friends with the Simpson brood for several years.

To help finance the move, the Malcolm star is putting his pedigreed 1930s Hollywood home (formerly owned by both George Clooney and Jaime Pressley) up for sale for $2 million.
Damn, no wonder people want to work in television! Some kid no one has ever heard of, on a sitcom no one watches, who's not even the famous one on his show, can buy a $3.75m house at the age of 19? And okay, maybe he got some discount from crazy Papa Joe Simpson, but he's selling his current house for $2m, and he must have lived in it for at least a couple of years. So he bought it when he was 17? Or 16? Burn, Hollywood, burn.
Comments:

Hey, I watch Malcolm In the Middle and Reese is hot. So there.


 

I honestly didn't know that show was still on the air. I remember hearing about it years ago when it was new and thinking it would work for about 2 years, until Malcolm hit a growth spurt and was suddenly taller than his parents and no longer boyish and cute. But apparently they're managing his height with cigars and vodka and foot-binding, ala Gary Coleman, and it's all good.

I am surprised it's on TV in NZ, though. I sort of assume crappy US TV shows end at our borders and that the rest of the world has better taste in TV. And then I hear about how David Hasselhoff is a huge star in Germany since everyone loves Baywatch, and I feel very confused.


 

Never watched Arrested Development but by looking at the ads, it was quite interesting-looking, but perhaps just a bit too zany for me.

Malcolm in the Middle is excellent, however; it wouldn't have been running for 7 years if it weren't.


 

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