Jessica Lawlor first appeared on The Simpsons as the rapscallion daughter of Rev. Loveloy, voiced by Meryl Streep, with whom Bart fell in love. Or she didn’t, but she has a vaguely similar name to Jessica Lovejoy, who did, and this is something which was probably a source of pride back when the show was good and popular.
Now the show is aged and saggy, the comparisons are unlikely to cause much as much gentle mirth- outside of whichever Botox agency tasked with perking her up anyway. But still, with Denise Van Outen- perennially linked with footballers but never quite able to finalise personal terms and pass the fitness test- married and out the game, Lawlor would appear to be our best chance of having a wag whose name resembles a character out of The Simpsons, if you squint a bit as you read it. Which must count for something. Unless you did eventually get around to seeing the film, in which case it probably counts for a fair bit less than that.
She lives with Stephen Ireland. “He is a real home bird. He would rather stay at home than go out partying with the lads,” she says. I think at this point we are supposed to nudge one another, in a strained display of ‘who can blame him?’ type shared camaraderie, yeah lads? But it need not be a grand statement in favour of the company of Lawlor over the company of, say, Craig Bellamy. Maybe Ireland isn’t the going out type. Partying with the lads is, like Simpsons box sets past season ten and International football, not for everybody.
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