Wait… what?

The “Wipeout” host is currently expecting her first child with husband Nick Lachey—whom she tied the knot with last July—and although she’s already five months along, Vanessa reveals that she’s been having an easy, morning sickness-free pregnancy.

Unfortunately, we can’t say the same for Nick.

During her recent appearance on “Live! With Kelly,” the former beauty queen revealed that it’s actually Nick who’s been having all of the uncomfortable symptoms that go with being preggers. She shared:

“[Nick’s] got the cravings, he’s got gas. He’s like, ‘I feel bloated, my back, my feet.’ He’s had me rub his feet!’”

Vanessa joked:

“He’s got Pregnancy Dad Syndrome!”

Wow. So that really happens, huh? Nick, who was present at the interview, jokingly explained:

“I just want to be part of the experience, too!”

How adorable!

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Looks like Jessica is not the only one from the age-old Simpson-Lachey tandem who’s expecting this year!

Mrs. Vannessa Lachey, who has incorporated her hubby’s last name into her own, is now carrying the baby of former-”98 Degrees” star and ex-husband of soon-to-be mommy Jessica Simpson, Nick Lachey. The former “Wipeout” star is due to deliver their first baby in the late summer or early fall, they announced on the show “Live! with Kelly,” which Nick also co-hosted Monday.

After almost 8 months of marriage, the two have just discovered that they were pregnant last month, after Vanessa had started feeling “a little different, not herself” after appearing on the show.

Nick, 38, explains to host Ripa on the show:

“So she went to the store, got a pregnancy test, and it came back positive. So we are having a baby!”

The soon-to-be daddy added:

“I’ve had a chance to do a lot of great things in my career and my life but this is the one thing that, more than any other, I look forward to. The fact that it’s actually here, it’s overwhelming.”

But will it be a baby girl or baby boy Lachey for Nick and Vanessa?

“We definitely want to know. I can’t take the knowledge that someone out there knows, but I don’t know. It’s like watching a sports game on TiVo,”

says Nick.

His wife had once told People last year:

“I would love to have children and work. I definitely don’t want it to slow me down. I’m always going to be, ‘Go, go, go.’ And I’m going to be pregnant, fat and happy through it all.”

So we guess Vannessa and former Lachey woman are now even?

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Vanessa and Nick tied the knot on July 15 after dating for almost five years, and in a rare Hollywood move, the gorgeous TV personality took her hubby’s surname.

Yesterday, Vanessa tweeted:

“So. . .I’m making it official, and I LOVE my ‘new name! @VanessaLachey has a nice ring to it.”

It definitely does, doesn’t it?

What do you think of Vanessa’s new name?

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Vanessa recently married Nick Lachey, her boyfriend of four years, in a beautiful, intimate ceremony on Necker Island. Most of their closest friends and family were there, but one person was noticeably absent—the mother of the bride.

Vanessa’s estranged mom, Helen Bondoc, hasn’t seen her daughter in over two decades. She was also not invited to her daughter’s wedding. In an interview with Star magazine, Helen reveals:

“I didn’t have a clue that Vanessa was getting married. We last spoke about 12 years ago, on the phone. I just wanted to talk to her and tell her everything straight about my life. But I still think about her all the time, and I still love her dearly.”

Upon seeing pictures from Nick and Vanessa’s St. Barts honeymoon, Helen gushes:

“Oh my goodness, she’s beautiful! She’s changed so much, though I can still see that little scar on her forehead from where she picked at her chicken pox when she was a child.”

Vanessa’s parents met in the 1970s at the Clark Air Base in the Philippines, Helen’s home country. After Vanessa was born, the couple moved to L.A. and soon divorced. Helen remarried, and right after the second marriage fell apart, she left Vanessa with her father, Vincent Minnillo, and then never came back to see them again. Vincent recalls:

“[Helen] said, ‘Keep them for now… But she never came back.”

Vanessa has been estranged from her mom ever since, and she admits that she feels “sad, confused and emotional” about the fact that her mom abandoned her. However, the former Miss Teen USA refuses to talk about why they have never tried to mend their relationship.

Helen, meanwhile, is open to a reconciliation. She says:

“It would be nice to have a relationship with her now, but I don’t know how she’d feel if I called her.”

And if ever Nick and Vanessa have kids, Helen says:

“It would be a happy occasion to meet my grandchildren. Whatever she’s doing today, I hope she’s happy with this man and that he treats her well. She’s still my little girl.”

If you were in Vanessa’s place, would you have done what she did? Or would you have given your mom another chance and invited her to your wedding?

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Entertainment news heard Vanessa field a question about Jessica Simpson with the awkward response:

“To address the elephant in the room, yes, you know coincidentally at the same time that our wedding is going on, his ex is actually also doing the beautiful thing of getting married herself.”

So in other words, Vanessa‘s not only calling Jess a huge grey wrinkly-skinned pachyderm, she’s implying Jessica‘s impending nuptials are her way of getting back at Nick?

Uh.

You don’t really want to get into a fight with a heavyweight do you, Vanessa? Not only does Jess have infinitely more talent money than you do, she has more clout in Hollywood than an MTV host has-been who hasn’t worked in showbiz since 2008.

Guess you’ll be right smack center on Papa Joe Simpson’s shotgun sights now, eh?

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According to the latest celebrity news, Nick and Vanessa said “I do” yesterday in a beautiful ceremony atop a cliff on Necker Island. Although they only invited their closest friends and family, they allowed reality cameras to document the wedding for a TLC special entitled ‘Nick & Vanessa’s Dream Wedding.’

When asked about their decision to air the wedding on TV, Nick admits:

“We kind of wrestled with that for a while, for obvious reasons… Having done reality TV in the past, I didn’t necessarily want to jump right back into it without having thought it through to great length, and we did.”

He adds:

“[Vanessa and my wedding is] for us, for the people in our lives who are close to us and mean a lot to us… That’s the way we wanted it, and I’m happy we’re able to do it that way.”

The newlywed couple dated for four years before Nick proposed to Vanessa in November 2010.

Are you going to watch Nick and Vanessa’s wedding?

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He has to. After he’s been shackled with the proverbial ball and chain that will be marriage to Vanessa Minillo, both of them will eventually fade into obscurity. Until they decide to go all out in a messy divorce afterwards, that is. (Of course we certainly hope not)

In typical Nick fashion, the party involved countless whiskey shots and flowing champagne. Hollywood rumors strained its ears for any whiff of strippers, but all there was to be had was a midget stand-in for his wife-to-be, and a ball and chain cake inscribed with “Property of Vanessa” presented to Nick at the TAO nightclub.

Is that the best Nick Lachey can get? And here we thought he and his boy pals would go all out in getting all plastered and laid before he gets shut off from the rest of the world after his July 16 wedding. You know I’m just playing around, right?

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Hmmm. Reality TV wedding? Looks like Nick hasn’t learned his lesson.

Nick and Vanessa plan to put their wedding on air—not just the ceremony, but also the events that precede it. Good news for all of the Nick-Vanessa fans out there—but possibly bad news for the couple, if you factor in the “Reality TV Divorce Curse” (there isn’t a single couple who let themselves be taped on a reality show that didn’t end up getting divorced).

Back in 2002, Nick was in about the same place he was now—but with his former wife, Jessica Simpson. He was happy and in love. But then, the couple decided to air their day-to-day lives on a reality show called ‘Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica’—it all went downhill from there. And now it seems that Nick has come full circle.

Despite the déjà vu-ness of it all, Nick will not be dissuaded. A source says:

“Nick feels like his marriage to Jessica was so long ago… He’s not letting that stop him from taping this. They’ve already started filming their wedding festivities and it’s not a reality show. It’s just a special.”

Nick and Vanessa also released a statement regarding their decision:

“We’re lucky to have such passionate and loving fans, and we thought partnering with TLC on this special would be the best way to share the exciting journey we’re on with all the people that support us and our relationship.”

No word yet on when the wedding will actually be, but we’re pretty sure it’ll be soon since Vanessa has already had her bachelorette party!

Though we’re happy for them, we can’t help but ask… Is Nick making the same mistake over again?

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We bet Nick wouldn’t approve if he knew, but he’s probably busy with his own stripper-filled orgiastic bachelor party himself, so it probably won’t be a problem. Unless some version of the movie “The Hangover” occurred mid-celebration that would provide fodder for Tinseltown gossip in the years to come.

Vanessa herself isn’t about to hold back:

“I’m about to get married.  I’m about to get a ball and chain…but not yet and tonight’s my bachelorette party!”

Actually, no. Nick isn’t being pressured by his wife-to-be, but he’s feeling it anyway. In an interview with Parade magazine, Nick shared:

“I’d like to be a dad sooner than later… I’m getting up there. I’ve gotta catch up with my brother. [Drew's] got two and I’ve got zero, so the pressure is on me!”

Nick, who has been volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters for about seven years, thinks that he is as prepared as he can be for the duties of being fatherhood:

“I’m assuming fatherhood is going to be a hundred times more intense than being a Big Brother, but watching a life develop in front of you is a bit of a parallel… I’m certainly looking forward to it.”

He added:

“I’m at a point in my life where I’m ready to start another chapter. Having kids is a big part of that. I’m excited for what comes next… Life is a journey, and I’m certainly ready to close this chapter and move on to the next.”

Nick and Vanessa had been dating for four years before the singer popped the question in November of 2010.

Celebrity news recently covered the couple’s bangin’ wedding shower, and pretty soon, it’ll be time for Nick’s bachelor party:

“I’m fearful!… But we’re going to have a great time. At this point in life you don’t get to see the boys as much as you used to and a lot of the friends from college and stuff have moved on and have their own families. This is a chance for us all to get together and tie one on and have some fun again. We’re all looking forward to it.”

Isn’t this his second bachelor party, though?

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Entertainment news got a peek into their boozy rooftop bash at the London Hotel in L.A. where Nick‘s brother, singer/actor Drew Lachey, and Houston Texans footie Matt Leinart were the only two other remotely famous faces there.

It seems the once-controversial couple (Nick for being the ex-Mr. Jessica Simpson, Vanessa for posing with Lindsay Lohan and ginsu kitchen knives), have thrown themselves a wedding shower, we hope not in the hopes of scoring some wedding gifts.

So have a little pity, and send them items from their registry at Williams & Sonoma, and also at Geary’s, where we heard the wineglasses they’ve registered for haven’t been bought yet. And judging from the hard core drinking that went on at their shower, they could come in handy …

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Instead, she and Lachey want to enjoy a long, relaxing engagement.

“He was joking, we’re not getting married in Italy. I think that’s the game of telephone, he said it sarcastically. We’re enjoying the bliss of it,” she said. “I feel irresponsible for not having a date, but someone made a great point, when you’re dating everyone is always asking when you’re getting engaged. When you’re engaged everyone is always asking when you’re getting married. When you get married they start asking when you’re going to get pregnant. Instead of keeping up with the Jones’, we’re just enjoying it.”

Amen. In other news – would any of us care about Nick and Vanessa had he not been at one time married to Jessica Simpson?

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While making the talk show rounds this morning, he told The Racheal Ray Show:

We’re going to be in Cincinnati with family, and hopefully having a white Christmas,” said Lachey. “We’re going to be in Tuscany for New Year’s. Who knows, we may be married in Tuscany, too! I just basically told her, I said, ‘Tell me where to be, when to be there and what to wear, and I’ll be there,’” he said.

Who do you think will marry first? Nick and Vanessa or Eric and Jessica?

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A friend of Jessica tells Pop Eater, “Even though Jessica wants to be happy for Nick, this is a very difficult time for her,” “Nick was the love of her life then, man, and he was her first, so she will always have a very special place in her heart for him. She’s deeply saddened.”

The happy couple, that’s Nick and Vanessa told Us Weekly that they were excited and incredibly happy about their engagement and look forward to a wonderful future together. Nick got down on one knee and popped the question with an Asscher-cut diamond. Ooooh how cute!

Nick started dating Vanessa shortly after his divorce from Jessica and although the lovebirds had a brief time out last summer, they quickly patch things up! 

If you love someone put a ring on it!

And for Jessica, don’t be say.. if it’s not Eric Johnson, the right guy will come along.

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“We’re excited and incredibly happy about our engagement and we look forward to a wonderful future together,” the couple tells Us magazine in a statement.

According to another source, Nick, 36, proposed with an Asscher-cut diamond with baguettes from Bader & Garrin.

Nick tweeted on Thursday, “I popped the question on bended knee,” “I do a lot of squats so my knees are very strong.”

Nick and Vanessa have been dating since 2006. It’s about time he puts a ring on it.

Congratulations!

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When Jessica spotted the couple across the room, a witness says she started drinking lots of margaritas and taking shots. Getting really loud, and then she sniped to a her server of all people:

‘I hope Vanessa likes her clothes because I bought them for her, since Nick took all my money.’”

Oh, snap! Indeed, Jessica was the major bread winner in that household, so Nick probably raked in a nice sum from the settlement.

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more keeping the love after after the hop…

Vanessa explained: “We shower, honestly, at least twice a day. We shower in the morning and we shower at some point during the day or before bed. It’s so funny because we’ve turned it into an intimate time for each other.

“We both have our own shower heads so we just talk while we’re soaping up and doing our hair. It’s not a sexual thing and it’s not a romantic thing, it just becomes an intimate thing.

“You’re in your full form, so to speak, and you’re vulnerable and we just both let our guard down. I’ve had some of my most intimate conversations with him in the shower.”

Though Nick previously starred in his own reality show, ‘Newlyweds’, with former spouse Jessica Simpson, Vanessa insists she wouldn’t want to join forces with a partner for a programme of their own, though she won’t rule it out completely.

The ‘True Beauty’ host told Parade.com: “I think that a competition reality show is different than a reality show. I personally have no desire. Nick has done one before and he was very successful at it and whatever he chooses to do with his future I will support him 100 per cent.

“Me personally, I don’t know. I think that there’s something to be said for keeping intimate moments to yourself, but he said it best, ‘You never can say never.’ But I personally don’t want to do one.”

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Anyway, Nick said (via usmagaizne.com):

“I am happy in a relationship,” he said Thursday on Good Day Philadelphia. “I was single for a minute there, and then we’ve kind of patched things up…He gushed that “she’s a very smart girl. She’s far smarter than I. “We’re trying to figure things out. I don’t pretend to know what the future holds, but everything’s good. Vanessa‘s a good girl, and I care about her a lot.”

Translation: He couldn’t find anything better. Fair enough. Here’s to another year of non-commitment!

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more photos of Nick and Vanessa after the hop…

According to People.com Nick and Vanessa were first spotted at Dime in Los Angeles, then hung out with Entourage’s Kevin Connolly on the East Coast, before heading to Nick‘s hometown bar The Righteous Room in Cincinatti.

“Nick and Vanessa are not officially back together, but they’re hanging out,” the source says. “They’ll see what happens. Maybe a reconciliation will happen, but they’re not exclusive right now.”

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more Vanessa and Topher after the hop…

According to fellow partygoers, Topher and Vanessa started making out heavily on the dance floor before leaving together at 1:30 am.

Topher started rubbing her arm, and Vanessa whispered in his ear and they exchanged phone numbers. Before long they were on the dance floor and putting the “dirty” in dirty dancing. Vanessa took off her shoes and held them in one hand, wrapping her other arm around Topher‘s neck and the next thing we knew she was kissing him on the neck! In a bit of perfect timing the DJ spun ‘Sex on Fire’ by Kings of Leon and Vanessa turned her back to Topher, and did a super hot grind/dance while he played with her hair. The music switched to The Jackson Five’s ‘ABC’ and that’s when Vanessa and Nick, er Topher, (sorry, it’s so hard to make the transition, for us, not her) starting MAKING OUT right on the dance floor! (via RadarOnline.com)