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" Jessica Simpson has joked that the upcoming Fashion Star is a &amp;quot;great shopping show for the ladies&amp;quot;.  The singer, actress and designer will mentor alongside Nicole Richie and John Varvatos in the Elle Macpherson-produced competition, which sees 14 designers hoping to land a multi-million dollar prize to launch their designs at one of America&amp;#039;s top retailers.  Speaking to Nick Cannon at Sunday&amp;#039;s (February 5) Super Bowl, the star said: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s unlike any fashion show you have ever seen because you actually get to buy the clothes you see on the runway so it&amp;#039;s a great shopping show for all you ladies out there!&amp;quot; Simpson added: &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s 14 different designers who are all really, really great and they&amp;#039;re basically competing for a $6 million prize at the end. There are buyers from H&amp;amp;amp;M, Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy&amp;#039;s and they will be putting [the designs] in the stores the night after the show airs.&amp;quot; Watch Jessica Simpson talking to Nick Cannon below:   &amp;amp;gt; Fashion Star - Meet the buyers from Macy&amp;#039;s and H&amp;amp;amp;M Simpson, who is currently pregnant with her first child, previously described her Fashion Star role as a &amp;quot;dream come true&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;To work with these designers one on one and bring out the best in them is a dream come true for me. I&amp;#039;m here to make people believe in themselves or if they&amp;#039;re a little too confident, bring them down a bit!&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I just want to be able to give them the best advice that I have.&amp;quot; Fashion Star premieres Tuesday, February 13 at 9.30/8.30c on NBC &amp;amp;gt; Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie in NBC&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Fashion Star&amp;#039; - video preview "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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