They hushed it up for four days, but the news is just too, um, vital to silence: The Dallas Cowboys' prettiest quarterback ever, Tony Romo, has dumped Jessica Simpson. Talk about cold: He did it Thursday, on the eve of the poor girl's 29th b'day, which she had planned to mark Friday with a Barbie & Ken-themed party. (Jess' sophistication never ceases to astonish.) Tony, 29, who previously dated Carrie Underwood, was seen Friday at a Tinseltown club with 14 buds. He wasn't dressed as Ken.
Jess, who was married to Nick Lachey for 37 months before their November '05 separation, is "heartbroken," a source tells People.
Jess writes on her Twitter page that she had to cancel the Barbie bash. (Tragedy upon tragedy!) But, she says, life goes on: "Everyone needs to know that hope floats . . . grab the strings and pull it back to you." And she'll keep busy with her new show, The Price of Beauty, a Foucauldian deconstruction of the concept of beauty.
Jessica Simpson was excited to get all dolled up for her "Barbie and Ken"-themed birthday bash in L.A. on Friday night, but there was one problem: She had just lost her Ken.
The singer and her boyfriend of nearly two years, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, had split the night before her 29th birthday, causing a depressed Simpson to cancel her fete.
Jess didn't make friends aware of the breakup and subsequent party cancellation until the afternoon of her big day - pal Emmy Rossum was still blithely tweeting at noon about her outfit for the shindig. Instead, the sad Simpson decided to spend the day not celebrating, but licking her wounds with her family and dogs.
