The Country Music Association Awards Wednesday night proved that history can, in fact, repeat itself.

Carrie Underwood, co-hosted and performed, pulled off a three-peat, taking home Female Vocalist of the Year for the third time in a row.

After performing her hit “Just A Dream,” the American Idol alum teased during her acceptance speech, “Mama, it’s real hard to sing when you’re in the second row crying.”

And the third time was the charm Kenny Chesney, too. The crowd fave snagged his third consecutive (and fourth total) Entertainer of the Year Award—presented by surprise guest Shania Twain.

Underwood’s co-host Brad Paisley—who’s expecting his second baby with actress wife Kimberly Williams—got more good news at the show. He took home two awards, Male Vocalist of the Year and Music Video of the Year, for his song “Waitin’ on a Woman.”

Rounding out the show, The Rascal Flatts were dubbed Vocal Group of the Year, and Lady Antebellum was named best New Artist of the Year.

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Carrie Underwood & step out on the CMA red carpet.

Carrie Underwood sends message to Jessica Simpson.

Carrie Underwood is clearing up the air about some confusion she may have caused for fellow blonde singer Jessica Simpson.

The American Idol alum insists she and ex-boyfriend Tony Romo no longer speak, despite having made a controversial claim in August that the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback still calls her.

“It was just something that was said in passing, and I would never mean to say anything to hurt anybody or to stir up anything, because I’m just not about drama,” Underwood tells the December issue of Elle.

“I might be mad too if somebody said my boyfriend was calling some other girl.  So I can definitely see where she [Jessica Simpson] would be coming from.  But I haven’t talked to him since, like, May,” she tells the mag.

Most recently, Carrie has been rumored to be dating former Bachelor Travis Stork—but she’s decided silence is the best policy to deal with those rumors.

“If I say I am [am dating] or I’m not, as soon as this magazine comes out, it might be the opposite of what I tell you now,” says Underwood. “It’s just best not to go there.”

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Move over, Jessica Simpson. Carrie Underwood has something on you—and it’s not Tony Romo.

Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney and Alan Jackson were each nominated for two or more Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday, including album of the year.

Underwood’s Carnival Ride, Chesney’s Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, and Jackson’s Good Time were nominated for album of the year along with George Strait’s Troubadour and Brooks & Dunn’s Cowboy Town.

Other CMA nominees included Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts, who revealed some of their fellow honorees during a live announcement on Wednesday’s Good Morning America. The 18-year-old Swift, who won CMA’s Horizon award for upcoming acts last year, giggled when her name was read as a nominee for female vocalist of the year, a category that included Alison Krauss, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride and Underwood.

“I can’t believe it!” Swift said. “I’m having a really good morning.” Another reason for the teen to smile these days? Her reported romance with Jonas Brothers hunk Joe Jonas.

Additional CMA nominees were to be announced later Wednesday morning in Nashville on the CMT network. The CMA Awards are set for Nov. 12, and will air on ABC.

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The battle between Carrie Underwood and Jessica Simpson rages on, with the American Idol alum dropping the dreaded F- bomb.

Underwood reportedly mocked the voluptuous Simpson’s recent People magazine cover photo, saying Simpson looked “a little fatter” than she did on a previous cover.

“She finds Jessica’s love of putting her life on display pretty desperate,” a friend of Underwood’s tells OK! magazine. “She laughed at the People cover, because it’s the same one Jess did about John Mayer — same smile, same look, except she’s a little fatter.”

The two blondes have been at odds since Simpson started dating—and chatting up a storm about—Underwood’s ex-boyfriend Tony Romo almost one year ago.

Simpson, who has been very vocal about her feelings for the Dallas Cowboys quarterback recently raved that Romo is the “love of my life” and her “perfect guy.”

The busty blonde also shot down Underwood’s claim that the footballer was still blowing up his ex’s digits, saying she checked her man’s call log and it wasn’t true.

“Tony and I both laughed at that,” Simpson said. “We got a chuckle out of it.”

While Simpson may have won Romo’s heart, there’s one thing Underwood is not concerned about losing—her fans.

“Carrie doesn’t think fans will spend money to watch Jess warble through a few badly written songs,” sources say of Simpson’s recent move to the country music scene.

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Jessica: Tony doesn’t call Carrie.

Carrie Underwood opens up about life in the fast lane and a few of Hollywood’s biggest players.

“You never really know why somebody wants to be around you, or if they do genuinely like you,” she told Allure magazine in the September issue.  “I wish everyone had a label on their forehead so you could automatically tell their intentions.”

The 25-year-old country singer has dated her fair share of famous faces including Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford and footballer Tony Romo.

“We didn’t have a fight. No one cheated. It plain didn’t work,” she said of Crawford.

As for Romo, “We were both small town people doing very big things, and we relied on each other, dealing with fame.  I don’t know. The phone will ring and it’ll be him, and I’ll maybe not answer.”

When pressed, Underwood remains tight-lipped on her biggest heartbreak.

“I don’t want to name names, even though he probably deserves it, but he fooled around,” she tells the magazine.  “It was one of those things that everyone knew but me.  And he seemed perfect in every way.”

The September issue of Allure hits newsstands August 19.

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