A day after Ashlee Simpson gushed about the size of the rock she was given by fiancé Pete Wentz, the singer was flashing it on Friday’s Today show.

“I feel like a really lucky lady,” a bubbly Simpson, 23, told the program’s Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira, before she sang a song from her new CD (to be released Tuesday), Bittersweet World.

Asked if she has a wedding date in mind, Simpson said, “I don’t. Right now we’re just enjoying the engagement.”

And, though a source close to the Simpson family confirmed to PEOPLE that the singer is expecting, she remained mum on the pregnancy buzz. “That’s been going around for a year now,” she replied. “Only time will tell with that.”

After a beat, she added, “I am giving birth to my new record.”

On Thursday, Simpson told Ryan Seacrest on his KISS-FM radio show that her ring is huge. “I stare at it. I’m like, ‘Oh, my god, I can’t believe this is on [my] hand!’ ”

After the commercial break on Today, in fact, Lauer apologized to viewers for not letting Simpson give them a better view of the ring on her finger.

Admiring the diamond, Vieira said, “So elegant. It’s beautiful.”

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Ashlee Simpson is one ecstatic wife-to-be, and her diamond sparkler had her gushing to Ryan Seacrest on Thursday morning.

Calling into to his KIIS-FM radio show Thursday morning, the 23-year old singer giggled when Seacrest brought up her impressive ring from fiancé Pete Wentz, 28. “It is [huge]!” Simpson said from her mother’s New York City hotel room, “I stare at it. I’m like, ‘Oh, my god, I can’t believe this is on [my] hand!’”

Simpson was more coy about other details of their recent engagement to the Fall Out Boy bassist. “I’m keeping that part sacred,” she said of Wentz’s actual proposal. “But I will tell you it was very thoughtful and he did a great job.”

Pushed on whether she was planning on drinking alcohol Thursday night, Simpson stayed mum on her pregnancy, playfully answering, “Who knows. Maybe.”

Still, Simpson couldn’t contain her happiness. Despite the name of her upcoming album – Bittersweet World, out April 22 – she said she was “extremely in love making the record.”

Rapper Nas called the newly engaged couple “super people” and shared his recipe for rock star marital bliss with People at a Belvedere vodka event. “Respect each person’s individuality,” said Nas, who has his own high-profile musical marriage with R&B singer Kelis. “Don’t try to hog somebody or handcuff ‘em. Help them grow and blossom.”

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Photographed outside the Chart House Restaurant in Malibu, Calif., on April 12, where sources tell OK! that Ashlee Simpson did her best to power through a bout of morning sickness, the 23-year-old appears to already be showing the first signs of a baby bump! And with insiders saying that the first Wentz-Simpson offspring is due in October, that would mean the singer is nearing the end of her first trimester.

Ashlee Simpson is pregnant and plans to get married next month at a private residence in Southern California, a source close to her family tells People.

Simpson, 23, is engaged to Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz, 28, who initially blasted pregnancy rumors as a “witch hunt.”

But on Tuesday, Simpson, sidestepped the rumors during an interview with MTV after taping TRL in New York, saying simply, “Some things you want to keep personal.”

And now the source tells People that not only is Simpson pregnant, but that she’s planning to have her wedding in May at a friend’s house in La Jolla, Calif., north of San Diego.

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And he’d know, right?

Rumors were circulating yesterday saying that Ashlee Simpson is pregnant by the Fall Out Boy rocker.

But, not so fast, she’s not pregnant, says Pete Wentz:

“There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood. This is all news to me. I can’t wait for the story about how I’m really in a gay relationship and this is all just a cover… I mean, really, this is crazy. I mean we’re engaged, that’s true, and happy about it.”

Next time, we won’t believe it until we see the bump!

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Ashlee Simpson is pregnant, a source confirmed to Usmagazine.com.

The singer, 23, is expecting her first child with fiancé Pete Wentz, 28.

Simpson and the Fall Out Boy frontman announced their engagement Wednesday.

“We are thrilled to confirm their engagement and congratulate this happy couple,” a spokesperson for the couple told Us. “Beyond that there is nothing to say.”

Simpson’s rep had no comment.

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UPDATE: Pete Wentz denies that Ashlee is pregnant.

In an e-mail to MTV News, Wentz denied reports that surfaced Monday (April 14) on the Web sites of OK! magazine and Us Weekly that he and Simpson, 23, are expecting their first child.

“There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood,” he wrote. “This is all news to me. I can’t wait for the story about how I’m really in a gay relationship and this is all just a cover. … I mean really, this is crazy. … I mean we’re engaged, that’s true, and happy about it.”

Asked again if he was denying reports that Simpson is pregnant, Wentz, 28, replied, “Yeah.”

What a gentleman!

Pete Wentz traditionally asked Ashlee Simpson’s father Joe for her hand in marriage.

The couple was on a trip to Colorado when the Fall Out Boy bassist, 28, asked Simpson – his girlfriend of almost two years – to marry him. But Simpson’s father Joe already knew about his plans to propose.

He tells People.com, “(Pete) did ask me. I told him that I would be honoured to have him as part of my family.”

Meanwhile, Simpson’s older sister Jessica has spoke about her happiness for the couple.

She says, “My sister is overflowing with joy. Pete is an incredible soul. They naturally bring out the best in each other. I couldn’t be happier.”

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