Pete Wentz may have knocked up Ashlee Simpson, but he still gets shit for being a homo. The Fall Out Singer tells Out that he regularly gets called out on the street - and he’s all right with that. In fact, he’s basically embraced the abuse:
In an attempt at spinning the Web 2.0 era back into something resembling its roots, MTV last week launched FNMTV, which supposedly stands for “Friday Night MTV” (because it airs on Friday), but like “OMFG,” carries just that hint of badass, because it could be interpreted as “Fuckin’ MTV.” And perhaps it should. Because this Pete Wentz vehicle, which asks viewers to watch music videos and then upload response clips, is largely a piece of garbage. “Watching the show with the feedback on top of the video, felt like watching pop-up videos, only worse, and without really being able to hear the song,” notes on critic. FNMTV accomplishes, if anything at all, the perfect case study in how to merge television and the Internet absolutely the wrong way. Congratulations.
Ever the media-savvy businessman, Joe Simpson has publicly responded to the same rumors we hear about him every week (he’s a creepy control-freak), and his defense isn’t helping. “The media says that I try to plan everything,” Joe says. “If I had half of the power they give me…” Um, then what? Do we want to know?
Are you ready for the worst 30 seconds of your life? Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt and Pete Wentz teamed up to shoot a commercial for some new Friday Night MTV thing (called F N MTV), but for the first few seconds we thought we really were watching an episode of The Hills. If this is the couple “acting,” then that should clear up any confusion in the minds of the slower MTV viewers as to whether or not the Speidi relationship is authentic.
After paying an estimated $1.3 million for photos of Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz’s wedding, People magazine won’t risk any opportunity to turn their investment into a web traffic boon.
Meanwhile, while Joe Simpson turned his youngest daughter’s nuptials in a press spectacle, one other starlet managed to exchange vows under the radar: Jessica Alba, with Cash Warren, in a shotgun wedding. Perhaps it helped that nobody else was at the ceremony, and rather than wearing white, Alba chose “a long blue dress and her hair back in a ponytail.”
Why would Joe Simpson want daughter Jessica’s ex-boyfriend Tony Romo at Ashlee’s wedding? “To come to show support for the wedding,” as one Us Weekly source says? [Us] Or because papa Joe knows that the more celebrities at Ashlee’s wedding, the more exposure he can get, and the more he can possibly charge. We’ve already reported he sold the wedding pics to People for an estimated $1.3 million, but with Romo there, the gossip currency only grows. And let’s just hope Joe didn’t promise People that Tony would be there.
So yeah, Tony, go show your “support” for “the wedding,” and not Joe’s bank balance.
This morning, gossip outlets like Rush & Molloy were reporting that bidding over the wedding pics for Saturday’s Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz wedding were being shopped around for “a seven-figure sum.” One source we just spoke to says the winning bid came from People magazine, with a $1.3 million fee paid to, who else, Joe Simpson, who brokered the deal himself. The photos will appear in next week’s issue.
It’s probably a good time to revisit the argument that paying these huge sums for exclusive pics is actually not a profitable business model.
Like old Madonna, Pete Wentz owes at least part of his career to the gays.
The bent boys are always fawning over this over-hyped singer, who once showed his penis to the world and confessed that he would - gasp! - kiss a boy. Not one to ignore his biggest fans, Wentz gave the gays some more love last night at his bar, Angels & Kings.
Not only did Heidi Montag repeat an outfit at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, she offered more fodder for the boring war with Lauren Conrad to continue. “After hearing about Conrad’s earlier rants, Capitol File magazine thought it best to create a separate VIP area for Pratt and Montag when they arrived at the Newseum afterparty. But the bitterness apparently remained. After potty-mouthed celebrity DJ Pete Wentz (of Fall Out Boy) gave multiple shout-outs to the couple, Conrad called it quits and headed out.” Then again, Wentz also “kept it classy by shouting, ‘I just want to thank my girlfriend’s vagina!’” So, yeah.
Here’s Ashlee Simpson on the cover of this month’s Shape. The photo of her skinny belly, for sure, was captured months ago, as was the interview that makes no mention of fiance Pete Wentz.
It’s this magazine cover, suspects MSNBC’s The Scoop, that’s “part of [Ashlee’s] reason for staying mum” about the possible pregnancy.
Um … no.
Not only would Ashlee not even take a magazine cover (especially an unpaid one) into consideration in deciding to announce if she’s in a family way – the only concern is publicity for her new album – but Shape editors would have loved Ashlee to announce that she’s pregnant, so they could shop around their cover as the last pre-baby Ashlee issue.
“There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood,” Pete Wentz told MTV News via email about Us Weekly and OK!’s rumors that Ashlee Simpson is pregnant. “I mean we’re engaged, that’s true, and happy about it.” Does that mean he’s denying the pregnancy rumors? “Yeah.”
Funny, because over a taping of MTV’s TRL today (set to air Thursday), Ashlee Simpson told a more vague story, skipping around those rumors and saying only that if all the rumors about here were true, she “would have had a baby by now. […] Some things, you want to keep personal, and I think that when people deny [pregnancy reports], it’s probably because it’s something they want to keep personal.”
Way to throw ‘em off, Ash!
Sorry we’re so late with this, the most incredible thing currently happening in global youth culture, but here we go: hundreds and hundreds of young people are taking to the streets of cities throughout Mexico to hunt down and assault “emo kids,” those dark, flat-ironed saddies who love Elliot Smith more than themselves. Dios mio!
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benefic \buh-NEFF-ik\ adjective
: of, having, or exerting a favorable influence
Ashlee Simpson has had a benefic effect on Pete Wentz’s goal of destroying any musical credibility he once had.
• Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson look just like you thought they would in bathing suits, which is to say, not that sexy.
• Tila Tequila dresses just like you thought she would, which is to say, immodestly.
• Drew Barrymore behaves just like you thought she would, which is to say, belligerently.
• Daniel Radcliffe dates just who you thought he would, which is say, his co-stars.
• Amy Winehouse destroys her career just like you thought she would, which is to say, she won’t attend the Grammy’s because of her drug problems.
• Rihanna has all the body parts of a regular person, just like you thought she would, which is to say, there are pictures of her nipples available online.
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• The election that started way too early is finally happening. The Iowa Caucus is tomorrow. If you’re not excited now, it maybe time to re-take high school civics.
• Pete Wentz is not engaged, and is still looking for that high school sophomore who understands him totally. CONTINUED »
• Hey size 2 haters, turns out Jennifer Love Hewitt is with child, not with Big Macs.
• Tony Parker and Eva Longoria are holding hands, which means there’s no way he could have cheated on her. CONTINUED »
A fist-wielding Joe Simpson jumps into action when he mistakenly perceives his surgically enhanced younger daughter to be in danger. Because this is what happens when your father-slash-manager micromanages your ENTIRE LIFE and your hump-buddy (and would-be defender) is far too worried about his guyliner smudging to jump to your defense. [Mollygood]
There’s nothing worse than waking up one morning and suddenly finding out that you’re dating a Shrewish American Princess, or as we like to call them, SAP’s. These overly possessive, shrill-voiced creatures are precisely the sort of vaginally insecure types who bitch and moan every single time you talk to—or, God forbid, look at—another girl, never mind if it’s only the pear-shaped barista at Starbucks and your entire conversation consisted of the words “Double grande no-fat latte.”
And naturally, despite giving you death-glares every time you come within a 10-foot vicinity of another female and smothering you with their clinginess, they burst into tears whenever you inevitably break down and say you need a night out “with the guys.” Go figure!
Anyhow, we were literally expounding about our feelings towards SAP’s when we happened to come across this report about Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson, a.k.a. the most annoyingest couple in music/lip syncing history.
• Pete Wentz and his unknown guest graciously smile for the cameras.
• Meanwhile, for once we actually agree with Perez. The most poignant way to describe Avril Lavigne is, in fact, by scrawling “SUX” over her face with a giant white sharpie.
• Never underestimate the brazen self-confidence of an overweight, SCRAM-wearing SNL alumnus.
• A movie adaptation of annoying late-90’s catch-phrase “He’s just not that into you?” We’re just not that into it.
• Tyra Banks donates $2300 to someone other than Tyra Banks. Now that’s fierce.
• Kate Walsh buys $4.5 million mansion for herself and her fiancé (and boyfriend of three months) which will be worth approximately $2.75 million after the inevitable quickie-divorce settlement.
• A furtive Ashlee Simpson hides her penchant for KY jelly from her pervy dad-slash-manager.
Sadly – or not – Nancy Jo Sales’ extensive (some might say exhaustive) look inside the world of the Cisco Adlers, Pete Wentzs, and Stavros Niarchos of the world isn’t available on VF.com, although a video add-on is. Which means you’re going to have to haul the double-pounder September Vanity Fair from the newsstand to your reading room (oh, you don’t have one?) to read “I’m With Her,” where Sales trips through Hyde and LAX taling “the boys who love the girls who love the spotlight.”
From Cisco’s low-hangers to Joel Madden’s spermination of Nicole Richie (the official acknowledgment came too late for press time), Nancy Jo’s basic argument is this: These “It” couples aren’t made of love, but business prowess. Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz make for a paparazzi-laden opening of his Angels & Kings clubs while also delivering cross-over appeal with their fanbases. Thanks to his engagement to Nicole Richie, mostly average DJ AM can command five-figure fees to spin from L.A. to the East End. Harry Morton’s Pink Taco restaurant blew up only when Lindsay Lohan latched on to his arm. And so on.
Really, though, the article is most useful as an expose into how Vanity Fair plays the celebrity game while also reporting on the game of celebrity. And with the accompanying diagram, it’s also a look into what keeps the art department at their desks late into the night.
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