STAR'S WORLD EXCLUSIVE: THE FATHER OF NICK LACHEY'S NEW GIRL SAYS SHE AND NICK ARE "VERY CLOSE"
Elizabeth Ann Arnold
In an exclusive interview with
Star, Dr. Ben Arnold, father of
Nick Lachey's new gal pal
Elizabeth Ann Arnold, tells
Star: "My daughter and Nick do have a very close friendship, and from everything she's told me about him, he sounds like a terrific person."
As
Star has reported, the soon to be divorced Lachey, 32, and Arnold, 26, an aspiring actress, have been spending a lot of "quality time together in L.A. in the past month."
Dr. Arnold describes his 5'8" hazel-eyed daughter, whom he calls Lizzie, as "a top student at college who graduated Summa Cum Laude (from the University of Kentucky in Lexington) and won an award in biology. I'd hoped that she might go into medicine, but she has her heart set on being an actress and I think she'll have a wonderful career. She enjoys living in Los Angeles, but she loves to get back home whenever she can."
Dr. Arnold, who has yet to meet Nick, wouldn't go into the specifics of how and when the relationship between his daughter and Lachey started. "I'm sure she'll have something to say about their friendship in the future, but at this moment she's just not ready to talk about it," he says.
Source: Star Magazine