But will she bring him pizza?
I'm not usually one for press releases, but this one from Rep. Howard Coble's office just begs to be shared.
(WASHINGTON, D.C.)----The member of Congress who is so unfazed by Hollywood celebrities that a chance meeting with actress Melanie Griffith - whom he did not know - became the talk of Capitol Hill a few years ago, will have another opportunity this week to test his pop culture awareness. Actress, singer, TV reality star, and pizza saleswoman Jessica Simpson is scheduled to visit the office of U.S. Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC) on Thursday, March 16.Jessica Simpson will be on Capitol Hill Thursday as an ambassador for Operation Smile, which provides free surgeries for poor children with cleft palates and other facial deformities. Congressman Coble, a longtime supporter of Operation Smile in North Carolina, will meet with Simpson in his office in the Rayburn Building on Thursday at 10 a.m.
For the past three years, Jessica Simpson has been Operation Smile's International Youth Ambassador and traveled last October with a medical team to Kenya. Following her meeting with Rep. Coble, Simpson is scheduled to participate in a news conference for the charity elsewhere on the Hill.
Simpson, who is 26, will be visiting Rep. Coble just two days before his 75th birthday. No word yet if the pop singer will serenade the birthday boy or if he will be able to name any of her songs, movies or television shows.
Coble was given the nickname of Hollywood Howard a few years ago by his House colleagues when word leaked out that he met actress Melanie Griffith while she was on Capitol Hill. It was so obvious to the actress that Coble did not know who she was, that she sent a handwritten note to his office later that day giving him some additional information about her career. Obviously not offended by the chance meeting, Griffith signed her note with a large heart.