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No stranger to publicity stunts, Paula Nelson partakes in the first-ever Texas Thunder & Lightning Racefest Celebrity Challenge on Saturday at the Thunderhill Raceway in Kyle, revving up 10 laps for charitable causes. This won’t Nelson’s first time behind the wheel, though. She doubled as Jessica Simpson’s driver in father Willie’s video for “You Don’t Think I’m Funny Anymore.”
This article appears in April 18 • 2008.
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