Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo have split!

A source close to the couple tells ys: “It was an amicable break-up. They walk away from it still friends.”

Adds another source, “They still care about each other very much. This is what’s best for both of them.”

The couple hooked up in 2006 — the year after Lachey split from wife Jessica Simpson.

In 2007, Minnillo told Us she wanted to have kids with Lachey: “I always say I want three boys and a girl, but at the end of the day, I just want healthy kids.”

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Vanessa Minnillo’s rep may say the former “Entertainment Tonight” presenter is still with boyfriend Nick Lachey — but she’s sure acting single. Minnillo showed up solo recently at Prive at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas to celebrate her friend Malin Ackerman’s 31st birthday and proceeded to have a few Grey Goose vodka drinks. Then she plunked herself on an unidentified man’s lap for “a while,” before challenging a Michael Jackson impersonator to a “Thriller” dance-off atop a dancing platform. Our spy says, “She matched him move for move, complete with a lick of her palm, grab of her crotch and other non-PG-rated moves. She even completed her dance by kicking off her shoes and climbing off the platform in drunken prom girl style.” Minnillo’s rep didn’t return e-mails.

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Tongues were wagging over Vanessa Minnillo’s recent display of affection with a guy who was not longtime beau Nick Lachey. The celebutrash was spotted at the SLS hotel in LA, “hanging out in a private cabana all night” with “90210″ actor Matt Lanter. Our spy said, “Vanessa definitely wasn’t with Nick. She sat on Matt’s lap and really close to him for two hours at the party. He looks like a younger version of Nick.” A rep for Minnillo said her client knows her “Disaster Movie” co-star because “they made a film together.”

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It looks as though genetically-blessed duo Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo are going stronger than ever, but is Miss Minnillo ready to take the next step? The Tinseltown twosome snuck into Christina Aguilera’s Target Terrace AMAs party at and stood by each other’s side throughout the evening. According to an inside source, Ness did some hinting while hitting the dancefloor during Beyonce’s “Single Ladies.”

“Vanessa was dancing and joking about putting a ring on her finger,” said the eyewitness. “She was pointing to her ring finger! The two were very happy and sipping champagne together.” Awww.

Other guests included rekindled romancers Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman as well as Xtina herself, Sarah McLachlan, David Archuleta, Tyrese Gibson and JC

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Luckily for Vanessa Minnillo, life doesn’t always imitate art.

Case in point? In Disaster Movie, hitting theaters Friday, Minnillo’s cheerleader character just can’t get her boyfriend to say “I love you.”

“He just can’t drop the L-word,” Minnillo, 27, tells PEOPLE of her character’s commitment-challenged boyfriend. “And what a girl wants more than anything in the world is for their boyfriend to say ‘I love you.’ ”

But, says Minnillo, her real-life beau Nick Lachey, 34, doesn’t have any similar hang-ups: “The L-word is not thrown around by men as easily as it is by women – but I didn’t say it first! He’s very loving. We’re very open and vocal.”

While Minnillo and Lachey may be in sync when it comes to their love for each other, their attempt to exercise together is not so harmonious.

“We used to work out together, but we stopped,” says Minnillo, laughing. “We’re doing different things. And the guy runs forever! Like, I swear, he’s running 11 miles a day. I can’t run. That’s the one thing I can’t do, because I feel like the further I jog away from my house, the further I have to jog back!”

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Sexy Nick Lachey does not regret marriage to ex. Jessica Simpson, despite their emotionally-charged very public media divorce.The Newlywed stars split in 2005 following a three-year union documented on their television reality show. But Lachey insists his highly-publicised break-up with the pop star has helped him become a better man. He says, “I think that life is unexpected in a lot of ways… You certainly can’t predict or script the way life is going to turn out. The best you can do is just roll with those punches and be a better person for it in the end.”

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Rumor has it that Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are getting married this Saturday. Nothing like an “unexpected” (you know Ashlee tricked Pete) pregnancy to make a wedding happen in Hollywood. The guests don’t know where the wedding is at yet, but they’ve received save the dates and they know they will be privately transported to the wedding site.

Umm, who the hell do these two think they are? Are they even big enough celebrities to pull this secret location shit? And does anyone care enough to tell the press? Hell, if I was invited I wouldn’t even go because the chances are pretty good that one of those two doofus’s is going to sing at the wedding. Yuck. Plus, Jessica Simpson will be there carrying around her mangy dog Daisy and wearing stupid hair extensions just generally being dumb. I wonder if they’ll invite Nick Lachey? Then I’d go. Just to see the drunk-wedding dram unfold.

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Jessica Simpson was sent home from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being treated for a kidney infection. In Touch was first to break the news that the star went to the hospital on Friday, after not feeling well. “She was hospitalized for a kidney infection, but she has been released and is doing fine,” her rep tells In Touch. “She checked in on Friday morning because she was feeling achy and had a fever,” a friend of the family says. “She is so happy she is out and feeling great.”

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WILMER Valderrama, Nick Lachey and Nicky Hilton can’t be too happy these days with their Las Vegas venture. The trio invested in the Company American Bistro at the Luxor. But word is the eatery - owned by Pure Management Group, which is being investigated by the IRS - is not doing well. An insider said, “Word is it’s closing due to lack of money and poor business practices. It has lost two chefs in less than five months.” A rep for the company said, “Absolutely not. Company was closed Tuesday and Wednesday as we trained new chefs on a new menu.” The eatery reopened last night - “all is on track.”

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Dancing With the Stars, and former 98 Degrees band member, Drew Lachey, his wife Lea, and their daughter Isabella were spotted picking up balloons for Isabella’s second birthday, which happened to fall on Easter Sunday. The couple just had some awful press involving Drew — Star magazine reported that Lachey and his partner Cheryl Burke had an affair while on Dancing With the Stars. The rumor has been denied by both sides.

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Ashlee Simpson was caught in yellow bikini, lips lock with boyfriend Pete Wentz while enjoying their vacation in Jamaica earlier this week.

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Ashlee Simpson has come a long way since being a style wallflower in the shadow of older sister Jessica.

“I used to look at a beautiful girl on the cover of a magazine and think I could never be that,” the 23-year-old singer tells Us Weekly in its latest issue, on newsstands now.

But Simpson – who has churned through countless haircuts and colors over her six years of stardom – has graced recent covers of Cosmopolitan, CosmoGirl! and Seventeen.

Now she’s the cover girl on Us’ 2008 Beauty Makeover Special issue, which includes 30 pages of bonus makeovers, tips, and star style.

“I definitely embrace my sexy side, but at the end of the day, I still feel like the girl next door,” she tells Us. “I like to get dressed up now, and that’s something I’ve never been into before.”

Simpson also opens up to Us about her April 2006 rhinoplasty. “I think as long as people have two eyes, then you probably know the answer,” she says.

“[Plastic surgery] is something that everybody should think about for a really long time,” she tells Us. “Once you know it’s something you really feel comfortable with, then to each their own.”

Still, the singer downplays her own transformation. “I was never really unhappy with how I looked, [and] I don’t think I am more beautiful than I was [before],” Simpson tells Us. “I just see the same old goofy girl I see every day.”

For more from Simpson’s exclusive interview, including her beauty secrets, her style icons, the latest on her relationship with beau Pete Wentz plus her thoughts on Jessica’s romance with Tony Romo, check out the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.

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Nick Lachey is returning to his roots.

The former Newlyweds star is executive producing a pilot for an MTV reality show, which the network describes as a version of the ’80s movie and TV show Fame, according to The Hollwood Reporter.

The yet-to-be-named program focuses on students at the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, Lachey’s alma mater. (Sarah Jessica Parker and Carmen Electra are also famous former students.)

“The stories and relationships are all set to music that’s organic to what’s going on in the school and also performed by the kids,” Tony DiSanto, executive VP of series development and programming at the network, tells the Reporter. “This is a genre-busting, creative experiment that I’m really excited about.”

As an example DiSanto said a scene could feature kids breaking into dance in the cafeteria, which sounds a lot like a real-life High School Musical, or the soundtrack could come from a scene in which a student is practicing his or her instrument.

Lachey, who proposed the project, is executive producing it with Marc Platt and Russell Heldt.

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