Jessica Simpson has fired her publicist Rob Shuter after the recent John Mayer flip-flopping.

A fortnight ago, reports appeared in People and Us Weekly magazines claiming Jessica and John were dating and that Jessica was saying she was “in love” with John. However, it quickly became apparently that John was unhappy with the coverage and thought it smacked of Jessica being “desperate” to stay in the public eye.

A source close to Team Simpson claim the family have been unhappy with Shuter for some time but the Mayer debacle “was the last straw”.