NICK LACHEY is fighting off yet another report that he cheated on his wife
JESSICA SIMPSON - and this time the accusations come from one of his childhood
pals.

Just last week (ends07OCT05), Lachey dismissed claims that he recently spent
time in an Columbus, Ohio, hotel room passionately kissing a 19-year-old college
student.



And now bartender CHAD LESLIE, one of Lachey's oldest friends, has stepped
forward to allege that the pop hunk got a little too cosy with his
then-girlfriend ANGELA BARTLETT, 25, when he was in Cincinnati, Ohio, last month
(SEP05) backing his former 98 DEGREES bandmate JUSTIN JEFFRE's unsuccessful
mayoral campaign.



Leslie tells In Touch Weekly, "Nick and Angela came into the bar where I worked
at about 3:30 in the morning. Angela asked for my house keys and said she was
going to drop Nick off at the Cincinnatian Hotel, and go back to my place."



But Leslie claims that when he arrived home at 4:30am, Bartlett was nowhere to
be seen, so he passed by Lachey's hotel and saw her car parked outside.

Once getting through to her on her mobile phone after several attempts, Leslie
says, "I asked her where she was, and she wouldn't tell me. I told her, 'I know
you're upstairs, please come down, I just want my keys so I can go home.'



"(Later) I told her, 'I need to know what happened in the room.' She said they
opened a bottle of wine and Nick tried to kiss her, but she pushed him away.
Obviously, she was trying to hide something. She was in that room for an hour
and a half, not answering my calls."

In supporting a statement by Lachey's representative that the story is
"absolutely not true", Bartlett blasts, "Nothing happened at all."



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