Here's an interesting one! Following that embarrassing incident on TV show Saturday Night Live, where a technical error revealed she was miming, pop star Ashlee Simpson is facing more criticism for her singing abilities outside of the studio after
65,000 people added their names to an online petition calling for her to be banned from singing live.
The website, www.stopashlee.com, was set up as a joke by New Yorker
Bethany Decker after she saw Simpson's performance at a recent half-time football show in Miami at which the singer's audience booed her off stage. The online petition called on
Simpson's label, Geffen, and her father's management company JT Entertainment to stop Ashlee from singing live, saying:
"We, the undersigned, are disgusted with Ashlee Simpson's horrible singing and hereby ask her to stop. She cannot match the sound of her voice that can be found on her CDs when she sings live. She simply yells the words (sometimes the wrong ones) into the mic."
As word spread about the site and the number of people signing the petition passed the 65,000 mark, Decker told the **New York
Daily News**: "It's been really surprising. With word of mouth and people mentioning it on the radio, it's gotten insane."
It remains to be seen if the joke petition helps or hinders Simpson's first US tour which is due to kick off next month.