Joe Simpson Approves of John Mayer

Joe Simpson may not have approved at first of daughter Jessica’s marriage to Nick Lachey, but he’s given her new man, John Mayer, the thumbs up.

“If Jessica is in love, I love the things she is in love with,” Joe Simpson, 49, told People magazine of Mayer at the Entertainment Weekly upfront party at The Box in New York City on Tuesday.

“I want her to be happy. I’m always a fan of his. I love him; he’s got great music.”

Simpson wasn’t such a fan of Lachey when Jessica married the former boy-bander in 2002. “Everybody thought, including my father, that my marriage to Nick would kill my career,” Jessica told 20/20 in 2004, a year before she and Lachey separated.

But Joe Simpson says Mayer is a different story. “I think the beautiful thing is that [he and Jessica] don’t do the same thing,” he told PEOPLE on Tuesday. “He’s a legend already. There is no competition. He’s a guitarist; that’s his thing. Jessica is a singer. She doesn’t play guitar, so there’s no competition.”

Source: People.com