With all the news surfacing about Nick Carter cheating on Paris Hilton with her, it's no wonder that we forgot to wish Ashlee Simpson a happy birthday yesterday. But that doesn't make it okay! We apologize for this terrible omission.

Without a doubt, Ashlee Simpson is one of our favorite celebrities. But once in a generation does a person come along who is so unintelligent, so annoying, so useless, so talentless, so utterly devoid of redeeming qualities.

An individual who can't even sing her own crappy, unoriginal pop songs, who can't go a week without a total makeover or even plastic surgery, and who is famous simply because of a hot sister, and a crazy father who bought her a music career.

She turned 22 yesterday. Happy birthday from all of us at the Gossip!