“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!