ASHLEE SIMPSON - SIMPSON'S SPITTING RITUAL

ASHLEE SIMPSON refuses to go onstage for a live performance until somebody spits on her hand.

The PIECES OF ME singer, 20, came up with the bizarre ritual ever since she began touring, and now she won't go onstage without somebody else's spittle on her.

She says, "I have to have somebody spit on my hand and say 'toy, toy'.

"It's a German thing, I think. We won't know (what it means). The first day of my tour we did it."