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To help prolong his career in the face of a failing marriage, Newlywed Nick Lachey took his publicist's advice to replicate wife Jessica Simpson from the DNA in a loose strand of hair and bring the resulting clone to the Vanity Fair post-Oscar party at Morton's. Unfortunately for Lachey, a raccoon and a basted turkey crawled into the incubator vat while he was growing his tabloid-baiting party date, and the results from the hybrid DNA were somewhat less than convincing.