High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nicholas Scott "Nick" Lachey (pronounced /l???e?/ "la-SHAY"; born November 9, 1973) is an American pop singer, actor, producer, television host, and television personality who rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the boy band 98 Degrees.Lachey starred in the hit reality television series Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica with his then-wife, Jessica Simpson. The series ran on MTV for four seasons, from 2003?2005.Nicholas Scott Lachey was born near the border of Kentucky and Virginia in Harlan, Kentucky to Cate Fopma-Leimbach and John Lachey.