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Scarlett Johansson is not the only celebrity who is into charity. On Sunday afternoon, singer/actress Jessica Simpson also showed that she wants to take an active role in charity too.

Jessica performed on that afternoon, but the audience wasn’t her usual crowd of screaming teenagers and awed males. Instead, she took the stage and performed four songs for 2000 pediatric cancer survivors, for the 18th annual Celebrate Life With Hope charity event.

“To be able to give back is my sole purpose in life,” Simpson says about why she decided to get involved with the event, which benefits the Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The day’s events were part of National Cancer Survivor’s Day and are the fundraising event for the organization in the Western United States.

Afterwards, she hung around with the kids, signing T-shirts and just playing with them. Together with event planner Mindy Weiss, who incidentally planned both Jess’s wedding to Nick Lachey and also Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz’s wedding, the singer made sure guests had a great time.

“She was so nice and so warm. All the kids were getting a day out and the little ones were looking up at her, it was just really touching,” says a guest to the evemt.

“She kept telling them they were her heroes,” the guest added.

“At the end, she had a little meet and greet up on the stage,” the guest continued. “The kids were just so excited to see her and give her a hug and she was so sweet with them. She was signing T-shirts and the hospital gave her a plaque. She was just really happy to be there.”

Jessica Simpson is at it again, that is, saying that women should dump abusive partners.

After the Rihanna-Chris Brown debacle, Jess has said in a concert last month, to “run away and fall in love again.”

“To any woman out there who is in an abusive relationship, let me tell you that each and every single woman, you can take your heart and run so far away and fall in love again, and that’s the reason I recorded this song called Remember That,” Contactmusic quoted her as telling the crowd last month.

Apparently, she feels that there is a need to say her plead once again, as she repeated herself at a concert in Phoenix last Thursday, March 12, before she sand her song, Remember That.

“In love, we all go through a lot of things, and a lot of things unfortunately make us stay there [in the relationship],” she told the crowd at the Cricket Wireless Pavilion. “No matter what you go through in life, no matter what abuse you go through, take your heart and run so far away.”

The 28-year old country singer/ actress has admitted that she had been in an abusive relationship, she did not, however, disclose the name of the man who had hurt her. The ballad, Remember That, features the lyrics “It doesn’t matter how he hurts you/With his hands or with his words/You don’t deserve it.”

Very sensitive and heart-warming, since this song is penned by Jess, herself.

She spoke more on relationships before singing Still Don’t Stop Me, which she wrote about “a guy I couldn’t get over with,” she said.

“After I wrote that song, I was mad at myself for being so weak, and I got over that guy!”

Talk about women empowerment! Go Jess!

This past weekend held a busy Saturday for Jessica Simpson, as the With You singer ended the day aboard a flight headed to the Middle East.

Jess began the day by attending an autograph session at Dillard’s Stonebriar Center (in Frisco, Texas - just northeast of Dallas - I wish I could have stopped by!) to promote her latest designs in her new fashion line. Her pup, Daisy, stayed by her side throughout the appearance. (more…)

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Ever wonder what’s going on in John Mayer’s big ol’ head? As a part of the Live Earth “concert series for a climate in crisis,” Mayer’s been blogging his thoughts on climate change.

Here’s what Mayer wrote about the event a couple of days ago:

“I hope that for all the cynicism that’s existed around this subject, we can all uncross our arms long enough to give this event a chance to impact the world in the way that I’m beginning to feel that it could. Now isn’t the time to dissect the rights and wrongs. (If you’re hoping Live Earth doesn’t work, you have a lot of soul-searching to do.)

With this kind of lineup, there’s no cause or crisis that wouldn’t be positively affected by an event of this scope. Live Earth isn’t a show - it’s a showing, a presentation of an idea. Artists like us don’t just get together to each play 20 minute sets every weekend, you know. We’re also usually pretty sensitive about the order in which we take the stage, and I’ve got no problems with my 5:12 PM set time. The Police, Bon Jovi, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, and yes, myself and my dumb face are all openers for the true headliner - the power to literally change the world’s mind.”

So inspirational! Wonder what John’s ex, Jessica Simpson, thinks about Mayer’s do-good-ing green scene?

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You may not have known this, but on May 12, Jessica Simpson was in Cologne, Germany. She was performing at the UNESCO Gala 2007, which was held at the gorgeous Maritim Hotel.

She looks sultry here, like maybe she’s seducing the crowd (and with that body, she could).

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Jessica Simpson and her family visited the Casa Hogar Elim Orphanage in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico on March 25, 2007 to donate a new minivan to the orphanage. Jess looks really cute here, and genuinely happy to be helping others.

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Jessica Simpson is doing her best Angelina Jolie by confessing that she wants babies – she just doesn’t want to make one herself, yet.

So what’s getting Jessica in the mothering mood? Her dogs, at least according to the New York Post’s Cindy Adams. But the pop princess, whose been cavorting all over America with boyfriend John Mayer, isn’t quite ready to pump out little Jesses. She’s going to get herself, as Adams puts it so delicately, “another designer kid.”

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In a surprise move, Jessica Simpson has spread a little cheer to a small orphanage in Mexico.

After recently winnning a Chrysler Crossfire sports car at a swag suite at the MTV’s Video Music Awards last year, she exchanged it for a minivan and got in touch with the Casa Hogar Elim orphanage in Nuevo Laredo to see whether they could use it.

‘”Mama Lupita said, ‘We have no transportation at all. Of course we could use it.’ So then she was told that she was getting a brand new eight-passenger van from Jessica Simpson for the orphanage.” Adds the source: “She started to cry for three minutes straight and then said, ‘I can’t wait to give Jessica a big hug.’ “‘

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