Following Jessica’s abyssmal debut in the country music arena, comes the promotional shots for her very first country music album, Do You Know.

The album cover features a rather demure-looking Simpson in a white dress and the staple brown cowboy boots. How original.

She also manages to look astoundingly like fellow country music singer – and rival – Carrie Underwood, in the promo shots. Guess it’ll make it even easier for fans to mistake her for the American Idol winner.

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The switch to country music may not be going so well for Jessica Simpson, after all.

Former pop diva Simpson was mistaken for country music rival Carrie Underwood last week, when a fan asked for an autograph outside a SoHo hotel on June 11.

An eyewitness revealed: “[The girl] said she was her number-one fan from back in the Idol days. Jessica simled politely and didn’t correct her [it was Underwood who was on Idol, not Simpson].”

“[Jessica] started to laugh when the girl asked how she was doing since her devastating split from Chace [Crawford, of Gossip Girls fame],” the source added.

Though she was polite enough to the girl, a pal told OK! magazine that Simpson was less than impressed that the fan had mistaken her for Carrie Underwood, her biggest rival and former partner of current beau, Tony Romo.

“She wasn’t pleased that the girl had no clue who she was!” the friend said.

I guess that means the unsuspecting fan dipped out on an autograph from her “favourite Idol star!”

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Country singer Shania Twain and her producer husband, Robert “Mutt” Lange, have split after a 14-year marriage, Shania’s rep has revealed.

“Shania Twain and her husband, music producer Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange, are separating after 14 years of marriage,” Twain’s spokesperson Jason Owen said in a statement this morning. “This is a private matter and there will be no further comment at this time.”

Twain and Lange met and married in 1993, after a six-month courtship. They have one child together – Eja D’Angelo, six.

In 2000, after Twain’s massive success on the music scene – both pop and country – her marriage with Lange was reportedly “on the rocks.” However, the couple stayed together, and Shania retreated to Switzerland, disappearing from the pressures of public life and cutting short her rising career in the entertainement industry.

“I needed a break, physically and mentally,” Twain explained of her move. “I needed to leave behind the whole ‘Shania’ thing and be myself.”

The country singer is now back in the spotlight, working on a new solo album and a perfume line, both to be released later this year.

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