World’s sketchiest dad Joe Simpson has been making the tabloid rounds with hopes of selling his daughter Ashlee’s pregnancy pics. Asking price? $1 million. Laughing price? $60k, or that’s what at least one magazine editor estimates would be paid for them. That is, these photos aren’t that salable, even if a package deal includes exclusive shots of her baby bump, an interview, and the newborn pics.

And don’t forget the timing of all this: Ashlee’s album Bittersweet World was a non-starter in the realm of buzz; now she’s getting free advertising from all the paparazzi coverage and pseudo-denials about her pregnancy.

And if there actually aren’t any cells splitting in her womb, it would be a new low, even for the press-hungry Simpson family — it’s a sad day when even an engagement between Ashlee and Pete Wentz isn’t enough to fuel the gossip mill.