The 51-year-old sat down in a brand new interview for Richer Lives the place he made some uncommon feedback concerning the MTV collection that introduced iconic popular culture moments like, “Is that this hen what I’ve or is that this fish?”

“Newlyweds clearly turned an enormous actuality present,” Lachey stated. “The one one which had come out earlier than that was The Osbournes, which was additionally an enormous present. However that present was created as a car to advertise music.”

The collection ran from 2003 to 2005, with the celebrities initially signing on as a technique to perhaps increase consciousness of upcoming albums they every had on the time.

“, my ex-wife had an album popping out, [I] had an album popping out, I will perform a little six-episode factor to advertise the album,” Lachey defined.

“We had no concept it was going to tackle this different lifetime of being this actuality fly-on-the-wall kind of present. In order that was completely surprising.”

As actuality tv was nonetheless discovering its legs within the popular culture world within the early aughts, the pair needed to get “used” to the crew and strangers being of their area.

“I keep in mind at first they had been like, ‘Do not speak to the crew. They are a fly on the wall!’ And I used to be like, ‘Guys, if that is ever going to work, that is simply not how I am wired. You are not going to be in my home and watch my each transfer and we’re not going to speak to one another. We bought to get previous that proper now,’” he recalled.

“So I really got here to actually love the crew. I keep in mind crying the day we shut down since you develop relationships with them. They actually turned [a] household.”

Nevertheless, Lachey and Simpson’s marriage did not final too lengthy after the collection ended. Lachey and Simpson divorced in 2006, one 12 months after MTV aired Newlyweds’ third and last season.

Trying again, the 98 Levels star stated the collection opened him as much as a complete new fan base.

“The gorgeous factor about actuality TV is, while you’re in a boy band, individuals simply know you as Nick from 98 Levels. It’s particularly a fairly feminine viewers,” Lachey stated.

“What actuality TV did for me is it allowed me to introduce myself as Nick Lachey, the individual, to the world, and even guys round me [were like], ‘He is sort of cool. I might have a beer with that man.’ It allowed me to turn out to be very comfy being myself,” he revealed.

Whereas his marriage to Simpson did not final, Lachey later related with Vanessa Lachey and so they’ve been fortunately married for practically 14 years.

As for what Lachey suggests for a contented relationship — do not deliver your work house! Sarcastically, the pair additionally work collectively on TV, co-hosting the Netflix courting present Love is Blind.

“I feel one of the best factor you are able to do just isn’t deliver your work house with you. Which is difficult while you work together with your partner,” Lachey stated elsewhere within the episode. “I feel we do a very good job of doing that, for probably the most half, however it’s not simple working together with your partner generally.”

“Generally you present up for work and there is an argument at house that you simply introduced with you to work and you do not need that to bleed over. And generally there’s arguments at work that bleed over,” he defined.

Nick and Vanessa are dad and mom to sons Camden, 12, and Phoenix, 8, and daughter Brooklyn, 10.