COUNTRY STAR’S ADVICE TO JESSICA SIMPSON: RELAX!

The 27-year-old star brought along a bodyguard, which has country music’s biggest stars raising their eyebrows, LIFE & STYLE WEEKLY reports. “Nashville is probably not the type of town where you need bodyguards,” Nashville-based country crooner Blake Shelton tells Life & Style. “It’s a really friendly place.”

But obviously Jessica felt she needed protection. “When she was at Lime nightclub with her girlfriends, her bodyguard stood there the whole time,” says a Nashville music-industry insider. “No one in Nashville goes out with a bodyguard, not even Garth Brooks! People in Nashville are so used to seeing stars that they don’t pay much attention to them. Maybe an occasional request for an autograph, but that’s about it.”

Still, Blake concedes it may not be such a bad idea after all. “If I’m around Jessica Simpson,” jokes the smitten singer, “she might need some bodyguards to keep me away from her!”

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