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Birth name: Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III. Born: June 5, 1979 Wilmette, Illinois, U.S. July 31, 2008: "Rocker Pete Wentz Rattled By California Earthquake" Pete Wentz was left "clutching" his pillow after the earthquake in Los Angeles on Tuesday (07/28/08). The Fall Out Boy rocker admits he was terrified when the quake, which measured 5.8 on the Richter scale, hit the city. He said: "Today I woke up to an earthquake, literally. It had me clutching my pillow like it was the mid-west. This s**t is crazy!" The natural disaster was the biggest earthquake to hit the city in more than a decade, luckily there were no reported deaths or serious injuries. Meanwhile, Pete has been talking to Ashlee's father Joe and his own dad Pete to make sure he is fully prepared for the arrival of his baby. He recently said: "I'm reading all the books. The best one I've read so far is 'The Expectant Father'. "I'm talking to my dad a lot. I'm talking to Ashlee's dad a lot. We hang out with other people who have kids. You see the world in a different way. It's exciting." *** July 23, 2008: "Pete Wentz Receiving Fatherhood Advice From Joe Simpson" Pete Wentz has been taking fatherhood advice from his dad and father-in-law. The Fall Out Boy rocker and new wife Ashlee Simpson are expecting their first child together and Pete has been talking to Joe Simpson and his pop Pete to make sure he is fully prepared for the arrival. He told OK! magazine: "I'm reading all the books. The best one I've read so far is 'The Expectant Father'. "I'm talking to my dad a lot. I'm talking to Ashlee's dad a lot. We hang out with other people who have kids. You see the world in a different way. It's exciting." The bassist also spoke about his friends' response to the pregnancy. He added: "My friends are all really excited for me." "Our drummer Andy Hurley was the first to respond to anything. I sent out the email for my wedding and Andy responded seven minutes later like, 'I'll be there and these are the sizes of my clothes.'" Pete recently revealed impending fatherhood was making him adopt the habits of his own father, also called Pete. He said: "I'm becoming my dad, actually! I get up at 7am to drive to work down Sunset Boulevard with traffic that I complain about. And then I come home, and I have a pregnant wife and two puppies!" *** July 7, 2008: "Pete Wentz Talks To His Unborn Baby "All The Time"" Pete Wentz has revealed he talks to his unborn baby "all the time." The Fall Out Boy rocker has been reading Armin Brott's birthing guide 'The Expectant Father' to get tips on how to support Ashlee, 23, throughout her pregnancy and how to bond with his child. He said: "I talk to our baby all the time. 'The Expectant Father' tells you that the woman, when she speaks, the baby hears her all the time. And the father's voice isn't familiar unless you talk to it, so I talk to it all the time." Pete, 29, also hinted the baby won't be the last for the couple, who married in an intimate ceremony in front of close friends and family in May. He added to People magazine: "This is the first one so we'll have to base the next one on how we do on the first one!" *** July 1, 2008: "Pete Wentz kissed A Boy" The eye-lined rocker, who’s expecting his first child with wife Ashlee Simpson, told Out magazine: “When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.” Wentz also said he’s apprehensive about borrowing from gay culture: “If I was gay and I saw people playing with it, being ambiguous, I don’t really know how I would feel. I look back at Elvis [who appropriated black music] and I’m like, ‘Was Elvis a [bleep]?’ ” *** June 27, 2008: "Pete Wentz Introduces New Addition To His Family" Newlyweds Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson have announced a new addition to their family. The Fall Out Boy rocker has posted their new 10-week-old puppy on his website. Pete Wentz writes: "the newest addition to the family. Meet rigby. Shes ten weeks right now and pretty much follows hem around." - sic The bassist, who turned 29 on June 5, also showed a picture of his birthday cake, which is in the likeness of his older dog, Hemingway. The English bulldog was the ring-bearer in Wentz and Simpson's wedding last May. *** June 6, 2008: "Pete Wentz Not Fond Of His Birthday" Pete Wentz "hates" his birthday. Pete Wentz dreads his special day because getting presents makes him nervous. Pete Wentz said: "The truth is I hate my birthday. I don't like it at all. It's because I realized I'm bad at receiving presents. I'm really bad at receiving presents so I get really nervous around my birthday and I really don't want people to give me presents." *** June 5, 2008: "Pete Wentz Excited About Fatherhood" Pete Wentz new wife, singer Ashlee Simpson, is currently pregnant with the couple's first child and Pete Wentz says he is looking forward to them becoming parents. Pete Wentz said: "I'm genuinely a nervous person in general. The first time I ever went to the doctor's office and heard the baby's heartbeat, I felt totally content and at peace with everything." *** May 31, 2008: "Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz Confirm Pregnancy" Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz finally confirmed that they are expecting their first child. “While many have speculated about this, we wanted to wait until after the first trimester to officially confirm that we are expecting our first child,” they wrote on Pete Wentz’s site, “This is truly the most joyous time in our lives and we are excited to share the happy news and start our family.” Ashlee Simpson, who has changed her name to Ashlee Wentz but will go by Ashlee Simpson-Wentz professionally, said after the wedding, “I would love to have a big family one day.” *** May 21, 2008: "Pete Wentz Talks About Marrying Ashlee Simpson" Pete Wentz talks about Marrying Ashlee Simpson, honeymoon, but insists baby 'Has Not Been Confirmed!' In a radio interview Tuesday morning (May 20) for "On Air With Ryan Seacrest," Pete Wentz broke his silence about his marriage this past weekend to Ashlee Simpson, saying that the couple has decided to forego a traditional honeymoon for a more intimate, less expensive post-nuptials retreat — in the basement of the couple's Los Angeles home. "We got some blow-up palm trees," Pete Wentz told Seacrest. "A little fake-n-bake tanning booth. We're eating DiGiorno's pizza, getting in that tanning oven every once in a while — it's great. It's gonna look like we're on that private jet. We're gonna save that $30,000, you know?" Pete Wentz, who disclosed that the couple has a prenuptial agreement in place, also said he's not sure if the new Mrs. Wentz will take his name. "She legally is a Wentz. ... I don't know what she'll do with her stage name — that's up to her," he said. "She hasn't decided that." And how's married life treating Pete Wentz? "I feel great," he said. According to Pete Wentz, last weekend's wedding wasn't a rushed affair, as has been reported. "It's been something we've been planning for a long time," Pete Wentz said. "I gave her a promise ring four months ago." Next, Seacrest asked the obvious question: Is the couple mulling baby names yet? Pete Wentz didn't buckle, staying true to the story he's been telling ever since the pregnancy rumors first surfaced. "Ryan, this baby has not been confirmed," he insisted. "The only thing I'm confirming now is that we're in the basement on our honeymoon with these blow-up palm trees." *** May 13, 2008: "Ashlee Simpson And Pete Wentz Will Marry This Saturday" Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz will wed Saturday, May 17 at a "top secret" location, a source close to the couple said. "Proper invites have not been sent out but instead guests have been given a save the date notice," the source said. The rehearsal dinner – described by the source as "an intimate affair" for "family and close friends only" – will take place on Friday. On Saturday, "all guests will be transported in shuttles to the wedding location," the source explained. Regarding Simpson's upcoming wedding, her spokesperson told: "This is a private matter. There is nothing to confirm." *** April 16, 2008: "Pete Wentz Says 'No' To Ashlee Simpson Pregnancy" In an e-mail to MTV News, Pete Wentz denied reports that surfaced Monday (April 14) on the some websites that he and Ashlee Simpson are expecting their first child. "There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood," he wrote. "This is all news to me. I can't wait for the story about how I'm really in a gay relationship and this is all just a cover. ... I mean really, this is crazy. ... I mean we're engaged, that's true, and happy about it." Asked again if he was denying reports that Ashlee Simpson is pregnant, Wentz, 28, replied, "Yeah." Who cares anyway? *** April 10, 2008: "Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz Engaged" The popstar and Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz have announced they’re getting married. Ashlee Simpson and Fall Out Boy guitarist Pete Wentz have announced their engagement. The happy couple have been together for three years with Ashlee- sister of Jessica- announcing the news in a statement saying: "We know there has been a lot of speculation recently about Pete and I and we wanted our fans to be the first to know, because you guys are the best. Yes, we are thrilled to share that we are happily engaged.” She continued: “Thank you for all of your support and well wishes - it means the world to us! We consider this to be a very private matter, but we wanted you to hear it straight from us. - Ashlee and Pete." It’s certainly refreshing to hear celebs admitting that they are engaged. In Touch magazine reports that Jessica’s parents are pleased. A friend told the mag: “She has an amazing ring, and they are so in love.” *** *** Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz Endorses Barack Obama's Candidacy For Presidency, Lakeview Broadcasting Company January 22,2008 --> NEW pictures of Pete Wentz at the Los Angeles Premiere 'Cloverfield' in Paramount Pictures Lot January 16, 2008 <-- --> NEW pictures of Pete Wentz at Announce Headlining Slot on the 8th Annual Honda Civic Tour in Studio 540 JANUARY 10,2008 <-- Pete Wentz biography (bio): Early life: Pete Wentz was born Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III, in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. He attended New Trier High School and North Shore Country Day School, where he was an all-state soccer player. After graduating from high school in 1997, he attended DePaul University where he studied political science, dropping out one semester shy of graduation to focus more on music. Wentz recalled in a Rolling Stone interview that his earliest musical memory was listening to The Foundations' song "Build Me Up Buttercup" in the back of his dad's car. Career: Beginnings: Wentz was primarily involved in the Chicago hardcore punk scene and was in several bands in the late 1990s. These included First Born, Arma Angelus (alongside Tim McIlrath, frontman of Rise Against), Yellow Road Priest, and Racetraitor. He and Arma Angelus' bassist Joe Trohman founded the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy after Trohman introduced Pete to a musical acquaintance, Patrick Stump. Andy Hurley agreed to drum part-time, but only joined the band full-time later. In 2004, Arma Angelus, the band in which Wentz was the vocalist/screamer, played its last show. In 2002, Fall Out Boy released an EP called Fall Out Boy/Project Rocket Split EP. Soon after, in 2003, the band released Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend on Uprising Records. This album would later be digitally remastered and reissued after the band's second, more successful full-album release Take This To Your Grave, on the independent label Fueled by Ramen Records. Later in 2003, Wentz and the rest of his bandmates signed with Island Records and in 2004 released an acoustic EP and DVD entitled, My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue through the new label. Commercial success: After Fall Out Boy released the My Heart EP, they released their third album, From Under the Cork Tree, in 2005. Wentz wrote the lyrics to the first single, "Sugar, We're Goin Down" with his dad in Chicago; the song peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100). February 6, 2007, was the release date for Fall Out Boy's fourth full-length album, Infinity On High. Wentz has been helping Panic! at the Disco, the band he signed to his Decaydance Records label in 2005, with their second album coming in early 2008. Other projects: Wentz has written a book entitled The Boy With the Thorn In His Side, which is a story based on nightmares he had as a child. The title is a reference to a track on The Smiths' album The Queen Is Dead. He has another book titled, "Rainy Day Kids," which was scheduled to be released February 14, 2006, but has been postponed. It is said to be published in summer 2007. In addition, Wentz is currently co-writing another book with William Beckett of The Academy Is.... Wentz's company, Clandestine Industries, distributes books and clothing and other merchandise. On August 2, 2007, fashion company DKNY joined a partnership with Clandestine Industries. Wentz himself has served as a model on the DKNY/Clandestine promo website. Additionally, he owns his own imprint of Fueled by Ramen, Decaydance Records, which has signed several bands, including: Panic! at the Disco,Sweet Blood Stacy. And other models at Buzznet , Gym Class Heroes, Cobra Starship, October Fall, Lifetime, and The Cab. Wentz's tattoo on his pelvis, the Bartskull, is the logo for Decaydance Records, Clandestine Industries, and Bartskull Films. He also has a film production company called Bartskull Films, which put out the DVD Release the Bats, which stars Wentz, his fellow bandmates, and several of his personal friends. The sequel is currently in the works. In April 2007, Pete came out with his own signature Squier Precision Bass. It has a black body with a red shell pickguard and special graphics that include Wentz’s own red bat/heart design on the body, plus a black bat/diamond fingerboard inlay at the 12th fret. It also features Wentz’s signature on the back of the headstock. Wentz opened a nightclub in New York with his bandmates as well as members of Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is..., and Cobra Starship; the bands' managers are also involved in the enterprise. Called Angels & Kings, the club occupies the former space that housed the Orchid Lounge, on 11th Street near Avenue A. Notable guests, such as Tommy Hilfiger, arrived for the grand opening on Monday, April 30. Personal life: In February 2005, in what appeared to be a suicide attempt, Wentz took an overdose of the anxiety medication Ativan, and as a result, spent a week in hospital. Commenting on the event to a magazine, he said, "I was isolating myself further and further, and the more I isolated myself, the more isolated I'd feel. I wasn't sleeping. I just wanted my head to shut off, like, I just wanted to completely stop thinking about anything at all." The suicide attempt was soon put into song form, "7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)" and was released on their album, From Under The Cork Tree. After this event, Wentz moved back in with his parents. In March 2006, nude photos of Wentz were posted on the Internet to the LiveJournal celebrity gossip community Oh No They Didn't. The LiveJournal poster reported that she received the photos third-hand, and that Wentz originally sent the pictures to a woman with whom he allegedly had romantic interests. After the pictures spread across the Internet, Wentz posted a response on Fall Out Boy's website and blog asserting that the pictures were stolen from his T-Mobile Sidekick, and that after "feeling badly about this for about 24 hours, I am now ready to get back to laughing." The video for the single "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" contains a scene that references to the incident. In a Blender interview in March 2007, Wentz alluded to being bisexual, stating that he'd kissed males before and that "anybody above the waist is totally fair game." In the May 2007 issue of The Advocate, Wentz opened up about his sexuality, saying that he is sexually attracted to males but that "I'm not a fan of penises". In a Rolling Stone photo shoot, Wentz and singer/actress Ashlee Simpson took a picture together for the opening of Wentz' bar, Angels & Kings, and were labeled as a couple. Eventually the two began to acknowledge the relationship. In mid-2007 Wentz spoke about their relationship to InTouch magazine, saying of Simpson that "I have never met somebody who makes me feel the way she makes me feel", although he denied rumors that the two are engaged. |