Jessica Simpson Steps Out With Thomas Eisenhood Amid Romance Rumors
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Jessica Simpson may have found someone who takes her breath away.
Over a year after the “Take My Breath Away” singer confirmed she and Eric Johnson were divorcing, she stepped out with musician Thomas Eisenhood at Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In photos obtained by TMZ, Simpson—mom to Maxwell, 14, Ace, 13, and Birdie, 7, with the former NFL player—and Eisenhood appeared low-key and loved up at the annual ballooning attraction, staying close as they made their way through the crowd. At one point, Eisenhood, who sported a red sweatshirt, took several photos of Simpson, who wore a brown fringe jacket over a denim shirt.
The Dukes of Hazzard alum and Eisenhood’s outing comes six months after they first sparked romance rumors in April, when multiple outlets reported they were newly seeing each other.
Meanwhile, it makes sense that Simpson wouldn’t want a totally public affair with the Nashville recording artist just yet, considering she confirmed her separation from Johnson—with whom she is still finalizing her divorce—back in 2025.
"Eric and I have been living separately navigating a painful situation in our marriage," Jessica told E! News in a statement at the time. "Our children come first, and we are focusing on what is best for them. We are grateful for all of the love and support that has been coming our way, and appreciate privacy right now as we work through this as a family."
But while the last few years have been a transition for Simpson, she previously admitted her boots were made for walkin’ into a new chapter.
“I feel so in step with my purpose, so aligned in the middle of a lot of stuff,” she told E! News in May 2025. I feel lighter and brighter than I ever have and I can only say that some spiritual realm is protecting me.”
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Part of that meant that Simpson has devoted more time to her music career.
“No matter what we go through in life, I feel like music heals,” she shared at the time. “The fact that I'm able to make it is even more healing.”
And when she made her foray back into music in 2025, the Newlyweds alum—who was previously married to Nick Lachey from 2002 to 2006—had a new goal for her releases.
“The job that I'm doing is for myself and that's to be vulnerable, raw and do the music that I want to do,” she said. “There is nothing more fulfilling.”
For a deeper look into Simpson’s dating history, keep reading…
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Eric Johnson
Simpson began dating her current husband, a retired NFL tight end, in summer of 2010. They welcomed their first child, daughter Maxwell Drew Johnson, in May 2012, and their second, son Ace Knute Johnson, in June 2013. Simpson and Johnson wed the following summer. In March 2019, she gave birth to their third child, daughter Birdie Mae Johnson.
In January 2025, the pair shared that they were going their separate ways following 10 years of marriage.
"Eric and I have been living separately navigating a painful situation in our marriage," Jessica told E! News in a statement at the time. "Our children come first, and we are focusing on what is best for them. We are grateful for all of the love and support that has been coming our way, and appreciate privacy right now as we work through this as a family."
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John Mayer
The two singers dated on and off for almost a year since summer of 2006, several months following her split from husband Nick Lachey. Simpson opened up about her relationship with Mayer in her 2020 memoir, Open Book. She said he repeatedly told her "he was obsessed with me, sexually and emotionally."
Mayer had told Playboy in 2010 that Simpson was like "crack cocaine" to him, adding, "Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm."
This did not sit well with his ex. "He thought that was what I wanted to be called," Simpson wrote in her memoir. "I was floored and embarrassed that my grandmother was actually gonna read that."
Two years later, Mayer expressed regret about his comments, telling NPR, "I had nothing to say. I was going through a time in my life where I didn't really want to share what was going on, but I didn't want to be boring."
Simpson also wrote in her book that she was constantly worried she "wasn't smart enough" for Mayer, adding, "My anxiety would spike and I would pour another drink. It was the start of me relying on alcohol to mask my nerves."
On April 1, 2020, Mayer said on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen that he had "heard some bits" about Simpson's memoir, adding, "But as Pee Wee Herman says in Pee Wee's Big Adventure before the movie of his life is about to play out at the end, he's not watching the movie, and the reason he's not watching the movie, he says, 'I don't have to watch it, Dottie, I lived it.' And I think that's prescient here."
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Nick Lachey
Simpson married the fellow singer in 2002 after almost four years of dating, and she reportedly lost her virginity on their wedding night.
Their marriage was documented on the MTV reality show Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, which aired between 2003 and 2005 and contained the now-infamous moment in which Simpson ate canned tuna and uttered the line, "Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna but it says, 'Chicken By the Sea.' Is that stupid?"
Simpson and Lachey split in 2005. They had no children together.
In a new excerpt for the paperback release of her memoir, she detailed her heartbreak after learning Lachey had moved on with now-wife Vanessa Lachey. As Jessica wrote in the diary entry, according to Entertainment Tonight, "So, Nick, you're with another already? Seems that you forgot the love you spoke to me... I'm saddened beyond belief. Alone in the dark, with no one to call my own."
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Tony Romo
Simpson and the Dallas Cowboys quarterback began dating in late 2007 and split less than two years later. He broke up with her the night before her 29th birthday.
"She was surprised. She wouldn't have planned a party if she knew this was coming," a source close to Simpson told E! News at the time. "They're both going their separate ways."
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Billy Corgan
She and the Smashing Pumpkins frontman sparked romance rumors in late 2009. Months later, she told E! News she was "single" and called Corgan a "dear dear friend of mine."
"If I am going through a hard time I definitely would talk to Billy," she added. "He always has the best words."
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Jensen Ackles
Back in the late '90s, she reportedly dated the Supernatural star. On her and now-ex-husband Nick Lachey's MTV reality show Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica, the singer revealed that she had her heart broken by an "actor on Days of our Lives." Neither Simpson nor Ackles has confirmed a past relationship with each other on the record.
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Adam Levine
The two sparked romance rumors in 2004 while she was still married to Nick Lachey. Neither has confirmed a past romance.
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Johnny Knoxville
Simpson and the Jackass star, who appeared with her in the Dukes of Hazzard film reboot, sparked romance rumors in 2005. In her book, she revealed she had an emotional relationship with him, which she believed was actually "worse than a physical one."
"After I actually had sex, I understood that the emotional part was what mattered," she wrote. "And Johnny and I had that, which seemed far more of a betrayal to my marriage than sex."
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