On the rumor she was dating Olympic Swimmer Michael Phelps:

“I swear on everything, on my job, on my house, my dog…That’s how serious I am. It’s all just a lie. Anytime any [media source] ever says ‘a friend said,’ or ‘a close’ whatever – no, they didn’t! It’s just made up. None of my friends would say anything. Ever. About anything!”

On her comment that a taken Tony Romo still calls her:

“It was just something that was said in passing, and I would never mean to say anything to hurt anybody or to stir up anything, because I’m just not about drama. At all. I might be mad too if somebody said my boyfriend was calling some other girl. So I can definitely see where she [Jessica Simpson] would be coming from. But I haven’t talked to him since, like, May.”

On whether or not she’s dating someone:

“If I say I am or I’m not, as soon as this magazine comes out, it might be the opposite of what I tell you now. In three months, it’ll be ‘Carrie said she’s not dating anybody,’ yet last night, I was out on the town with some guy. He’s going to get mad at me. Everybody’s going to think I’m a liar. It’s just best not to go there.”

On life on the road:

“I don’t know how people do it. It’s tiring. It’s hard. Right now I do a lot because I have no reason not to. I don’t have a husband or kids. If I go home, I’m home by myself. I have no reason not to be on the road, no reason not to just get out there and do everything right now, while I’m young enough to, while I can enjoy it. But I think when I get a little older, I definitely want to slow down, just because it’s very stressful. It’s hard on your body, hard on your mind, hard on your emotions.”

On dealing with celebrity:

“I knew what I was signing up for, and I’m not complaining at all. I’ve learned how to deal with it, and my life is great, I’m a happy person. What are you going to do? Give it all up? No!”

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This cover cracks me up.  “Carrie calls Jessica fat!”  Ooooh you got her there!

Some of these tabloid covers are just pathetic.

Carrie Underwood unveils her wax figure at Madame Tussaud’s in New York.

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Jessica Simpson has lashed out at country singer Carrie Underwood for insinuating she still keeps in touch with her American football star boyfriend Tony Romo.

Underwood admitted she was having a hard time moving on after her split from Romo in 2006 - when the pair broke it off and he moved on to Simpson.

In September’s issue of Allure, she insisted Romo was equally keen to keep in touch, adding: “The phone will ring and it’ll be him, and I’ll maybe not answer.”

But Simpson is now taking a swipe at Romo’s former flame - insisting the sports star has never called her.

She snaps: “I looked at his call log. Tony and I both laughed at that. We got a chuckle out of it.”

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Although former American Idol sensation Carrie Underwood has become one of the country music’s biggest stars, fame has its downside – especially when it comes to dating, she says.

“You never really know why somebody wants to be around you, or if they do genuinely like you,” Underwood, 25, tells Allure magazine in the September issue. “I wish everyone had a label on their forehead so you could automatically tell their intentions. Sometimes you just wish that no one wanted anything from you.”

The star, who earlier this year was inducted into Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, recalls a time soon after her success on Idol when a guy who’d ignored her in college – clearly enamored by her newfound success – called saying that “he wanted to explain.”

Fame hasn’t helped create lasting relationships for her either. Earlier this year, Underwood split from Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford via text-messages. “We didn’t have a fight. No one cheated,” she clarifies. “It plain didn’t work.”

As for Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo, who now is dating Jessica Simpson, Underwood says she still hears from him sometimes – but doesn’t always pick up the phone. “We were both small town people doing very big things, and we relied on each other, dealing with fame,” says the singer who claims the relationship wasn’t serious. And now? “I don’t know. The phone will ring and it’ll be him, and I’ll maybe not answer.”

Some of her reservations about opening up to people seem to stem from an old flame who cheater on her. “I don’t want to name names, even though he probably deserves it, but he fooled around,” she tells the magazine. “Oh, yeah, and lied! It was one of those things that everyone knew but me. He was a good liar. Nobody would come out and tell me. And he seemed perfect in every way.”

Added the singer: “I’m sure we’ve all run into these people, whether they’re friends, boyfriends or girlfriends.”

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Good King Wenceslas, you’ve just been bumped.

Carrie Underwood, Sara Evans, LeAnn Rimes and seven other songbirds are teaming up with the king of rock ‘n’ roll—or his voice, anyway—for Elvis Presley Christmas Duets, due out Oct. 14.

This is the first time Presley will be getting the Nat King Cole treatment (minus his holographic performance with Celine Dion on American Idol) and Sony BMG must have figured that celebrating the Yuletide was a good way to ease fans into the idea: Elvis’ Christmas Album, from 1957, has sold more than 9 million copies, making it the top-selling Xmas album of all time.

In fact, Presley only recorded 20 holiday tunes, but his various compilations have accounted for more than 25 million albums sold.

And while this might not be everyone’s idea of how best to remember the hip-swiveling pop pioneer, Priscilla Presley, who still acts as an advisor to his estate, has extended her approval to the project.

“We are so pleased that these accomplished artists are collaborating with Elvis in this unique way to make exciting new versions of his Christmas songs,” said the actress, who was married to Presley for five and a half years before their divorce in 1973. “I am sure Elvis would be proud to have worked with them.”

In addition to Underwood, Evans and Rimes—who have Presley’s back on “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “Silent Night” and “Here Comes Santa Clause,” respectively—the album features digital duets with Martina McBride, Gretchen Wilson, Anne Murray, Amy Grant, Wynonna Judd and Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman.

According to the label, all the mash-ups were done in the landmark RCA Studio B in Nashville, where Presley recorded Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas in 1971.

Sample tracks will be available for preview Aug. 14.

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