Hollyscoop has an exclusive that Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz have sent out invitations announcing their shotgun wedding this weekend at an undisclosed location an hour’s drive outside of LA:

A source close to the couple has told Hollyscoop exclusively, “The wedding invitations have been sent out, its taking place the weekend of May 16. The location will not be revealed until the day of the wedding but guests are told it will be an hour drive from Los Angeles.”

Our source also confirmed that Ashlee is 100% pregnant. Papa Joe is probably busy selling off the wedding info and pictures as we speak so expect to see it in the tabloids Memorial weekend.

[From Hollyscoop]

Ashlee Simpson still does not look pregnant to me, but it’s possible. It’s also possible she’s keeping the rumors going in order to generate buzz for her new album, Bittersweet World. Ashlee’s third CD release debuted at number 4 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and sold 47,000 copies the first week it was out. Her last two albums, Autobiography and I Am Me sold 398,000 and 220,000 copies in the first week of their respective releases. [Details from Wikipedia]

It’s safe to say Ashlee’s popularity is waning since intro sales of her latest release are less than a quarter of the sales of her last album. If her dad is already brokering the photos for her wedding you can bet he’s banking on increased interest in her music. All this advance publicity didn’t help her, it’s not likely that a wedding will do much either.

Do you think People and/or OK! will eventually stop paying astronomical rates for celebrity wedding and baby photos after they realize they’re not big sellers and that the long term increase in circulation is not worth it? Ashlee has a potential gold mine on her hands with a wedding and a maybe-pregnancy, but you can’t help but think she’s going to milk it for all the publicity and the cash her grubby dad can get his mitts on.

Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson were photographed in Paris yesterday. Maybe they’re scouting for wedding stuff. Doesn’t Pete look special? Thanks to Splash for these photos.

Just when you thought Jessica Simpson might be smartenin’ up, she says something like this.

Simpson says, “I’m not going to lie and say that I don’t want to see Tony (Romo) and me in the (tabloid) pictures. It is a good airplane reading if you throw it away when you get off. I’m good at that.

“I am not the type of person who believes everything she reads, but I like to look at photos and see what people are wearing. That’s interesting to me. Do I read the stories? Not really. I try not to read blogs. The comments are extremely harsh.”

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What really gets me is that while Jessica loves these pictures, the rest of us are just mildly disturbed. Do you remember those pictures of her, Tony Romo and the blue icing at his birthday celebration? Yeah, I’m going into therapy as a result, too.

Jessica and Tony are also rumored to be getting engaged, although this is strictly not official. While these rumors have circulated for a few weeks, do you kind of suspect that Jess might be putting them out herself to draw attention away from her sister Ashlee?

Jessica Simpson and her boyfriend Tony Romo have reported confirmed that they are engaged. Sources say friends of the couple were heard toasting their news at a party thrown by P. Diddy last Friday.

“I have never felt better,” Simpson was overheard telling friends. “I am really excited.”

Insiders allege that the singer is determined to get married before her younger sister Ashlee Simpson. Ashlee recently announced her engagement to ‘Fall Out Boy’ rocker Pete Wentz.

“Jessica would love nothing more than to get married before Ashlee. It upsets her that her little sister will be married and she won’t. She gets jealous when Ash gets more attention,” claims the insider.

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I’m sure that all siblings have issues, but getting married out of competition is not going to make for a happy union - if this story is true.

The way for Jess to go is to get married about two weeks after Ashlee’s wedding. Sure, Ashlee will get married first (sort of, Jessica was married to Nick Lachey before), but Jessica will be able to see what she does and outdo her. Ashlee wears a white dress with 3 foot train? Jess will get a dress that requires nine bridesmaids to assist her walking. Ashlee arrives at the reception in a Cinderella-style horse drawn carriage? Jess arrives in the same carriage, but leaves after midnight in a giant pumpkin pulled by genetically modified mice. You could see her thinking there are mice big enough to pull a carriage.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Jessica Simpson is shown at the airport on 2/27/08, thanks to WENN. There aren’t a lot of paparazzi photos of her.

Ashlee Simpson’s new album is not selling well, she’s even been outsold by New Zealand’s fourth most popular comedy folk duo, despite big media coverage of her engagement and pregnancy. The pregnancy that I don’t believe exists, despite Ashlee’s desperate attempts to keep the phantom baby alive.

So, what’s a girl to do when the sales are down and your other tactics have failed? Talk about your eating disorder.

She recalls, “When I went to ballet school, I was around a lot of girls with eating disorders, and I actually had a minor one myself.

“It was about six months of not eating too much at all. I was 11 and five foot, two inches and about 70 pounds. My parents stepped in and made me eat.”

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I wouldn’t really call weighing 70 pounds a ‘minor’ eating disorder, even if you are only 5’2” and eleven. I know that the Body Mass Index isn’t the most accurate way of estimating your healthy weight, but this gives her a rating of 12.8, and anything below 18 is considered underweight, just to give you an idea of how thin that is.

I actually think that when celebrities talk about their eating disorders, they should never give figures as it can encourage girls to copy, when misused by pro-anorexia websites.

Ashlee’s new album has had mixed reviews, Rolling Stone gives it three stars, describing it as Eighties-influenced electro-rock.

The danceable beats haven’t obliterated Simpson’s affinity for chugging riffs, though they may have inspired some ill-advised lyrics: “I ain’t got no beef,” she boasts on “Rule Breaker.” But Simpson’s still her own favorite subject, and she’s got an excellent coming-of-age anthem in “What I’ve Become,” a paparazzi kiss-off with an appealingly honest chorus: “I’ve just begun to find my way.”

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Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are shown at White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton on 4/26/08, thanks to WENN.

Ashlee Simpson has her story and she’s sticking to it: People have been saying she’s pregnant for a while, she think it’s personal and she’s not going to address the rumors. She’s basically begging us: “Please keep talking about me and speculating as if you care about the state of my womb. And buy my new album, thanks!”

Ashlee brought her goofy laugh and lousy singing voice to the Ellen Degeneres show yesterday. She said she had an “inseparable relationship” with Pete Wentz, who she referred to as her fiance. She said she cries when she’s apart from him. Ashlee also mentioned that she has “clip on” hair when Ellen asked.

When Ellen asked “Are you or are you not pregnant?” she answered:

“That has been going on [the pregnancy rumors] for quite a while, but that is definitely something that I chose personally not to discuss. Except for the fact maybe, do I look like I had 10 cheeseburgers or something? (stands up briefly) because I don’t think I do.”

Ellen made her promise that she would tell people she was pregnant before J.Lo did, and she pinky swore to do that.

Then Ashlee told a stupid story about how a monkey at a Costa Rican resort stole her designer stuff, name dropping all the labels the crafty primate took.

She also talked about how she worked until 4:00 in the morning with Timbaland.

Ellen busted out asking “Is it a boy or a girl” and Ashlee just laughed again. After Ashlee’s performance, Ellen put her hand on her stomach jokingly.

Here are the videos.
Clip where Ashlee avoids pregnancy question:

Full interview:

Ashlee Simpson performs “Little Miss Obsessive”

Ashlee Simpson is shown at the Conde Nast Traveler Hot List Party on 4/17/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

Pete Wentz denies pregnancy rumors
A couple of days ago Ashlee Simpson’s brooding mate, rocker Pete Wentz, e-mailed MTV to deny the claims that his intended bride was pregnant. He likened the stories of a pregnancy to a “witch hunt,” saying that the press was all too eager to drum up pregnancy rumors whenever celebrities got engaged. When asked directly if he was denying pregnancy reports he responded “yeah.”

This was after he and Ashlee made a stupid parody video that featured Ashlee wearing a big fake belly and acting like a hick. The credits listed “and the unborn baby, as himself,” and Pete said “Street date, July 2008″ as if he was disclosing Ashlee’s due date.

Ashlee Simpson gets flustered, calls pregnancy question “inappropriate”
When directly asked if she was pregnant during an an interview yesterday, Ashlee said “Some things you want to keep personal.” She did even more verbal sidestepping when MTV news asked her about it, and again said it was a personal matter:

The newly-engaged singer also told MTV News, ” I just think it’s an inappropriate question to ask any woman. For me, that’s something that I didn’t ever want to respond to, because I think it’s an inappropriate question.”

Simpson, however, did not put the rumors to rest. “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.”

[From People.com]

People claims Ashlee is pregnant and planning a shotgun wedding next month
The latest and most legitimate gossip magazine to claim that Ashlee is pregnant is People. They claim to have a source that states that not only is she pregnant, but that she and Pete are planning to marry next month “at a friend’s house in La Jolla, California.”

Great timing for Ashlee
All of this news comes at a time when Ashlee could definitely use the publicity for her third album, Bittersweet World, which is out next week. You can’t help but think it’s all less than a coincidence that it’s coming out now.

Ashlee is shown in the header image at JFK airport on 4/14/08. She is shown below visiting TRL yesterday, thanks to Splash News.

Us Weekly is claiming that they’ve “confirmed” that Ashlee Simpson is indeed pregnant with Pete Wentz’s child. I don’t even want to imagine how much eyeliner and odd bangs that kid would come out with. I’m not totally sure that I’m buying the Us confirmation. To me it’s only “confirmed” when Ashlee, Pete, or their rep says something. To be “confirmed” it need to be said by someone whose name can be printed. But Us is going along with the story – and I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to be true.

Ashlee Simpson is pregnant, a source confirmed to Usmagazine.com. The singer, 23, is expecting her first child with fiancé Pete Wentz, 28.

Simpson and the Fall Out Boy frontman announced their engagement Wednesday.

“We are thrilled to confirm their engagement and congratulate this happy couple,” a spokesperson for the couple told Us. “Beyond that there is nothing to say.”
Simpson’s rep had no comment.

[From Us Weekly]

I’m not sure how that’s different or better than any of the rumors that were floating around when they first got engaged. I’m assuming their source must be really reliable if they’re willing to call it confirmed. Let’s say it is true: I’m not sure what kind of parents Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz would be. She’s sort of a “I can lip-sync and blame it on acid reflux” and “I can have major surgery and deny it” kind of dumb, and he’s pretty “It’s a good idea to take cell phone pictures of 9/10ths of my penis” kind of dumb. They just don’t seem like the two brightest bulbs in the box, which makes you worry a bit. So I’m going to save my official congrats, pending confirmation by someone who’s willing to go on the record with their name, and the results of the couple’s IQ test.

Here’s Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz leaving Beso, the restaurant owned by Eva Longoria in
Los Angeles on April 5th. Images thanks to WENN.

Ashlee Simpson’s new album isn’t even out yet, and it looks set to be a flop. What’s a girl to do? Get engaged and sell those wedding pictures. If that doesn’t push up sales, then the next step is to push out a baby.

Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson are officially engaged:

“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. 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

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Emo girls the world over have even more reason to be sad.

Congratulations to the couple, who have not set a wedding date. The couple started dating in late 2006, and speculation has been rife that they would tie the not since about four days after they started dating.

Just remember Pete – when you marry a girl like Ashlee, her whole family comes in the package. That includes Jessica Simpson, Mama Tina Simpson and Papa Joe Simpson. Are you ready for this? Although I consider that another Newlyweds reality show is unlikely.

The couple did not comment on the pregnancy rumors that surfaced in February after Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson made a silly video blog that showed Ashlee with a fake pregnant belly.

Ashlee and Pete are shown on 2/23/08 before one of Ashlee’s shows at LAX nightclub at Luxor, thanks to PRPhotos.

If you have children, you were probably subjected to Nickelodeon’s 25th Annual Kid’s Choice Awards ceremony on Saturday night. You have my sincerest condolences. I, too, had to watch, and it was often eyeroll-inducing: lame banter between celebrity presenters; boring and unfunny “behind the scenes” skits; stupid slime stunts that dragged out the show even longer and wayyyy too much Disney product, in the form of Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers. Miley Cyrus won favorite female television star and favorite female musical artist, much to my daughter’s delight.

There were a few bright spots in the broadcast, including host Jack Black’s over-the-top opening musical number, in which he wore a bright green superhero costume and rocked out with a giant octopus playing guitar to the Kiss song “I Was Made for Loving You,” with the lyrics changed to “I Was Made for Sliming You.” (In my opinion, Black was the only funny, high-energy part of the show and should have been allowed to riff and get crazy even more.) The theme of each Kids’ Choice Awards, you see, is that celebs and kids in the audience get buckets of green slime poured on their heads at random moments. Slimed celebs included Harrison Ford, who recreated a famous scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” which concluded with him being covered in green slime. Other mildly amusing segments included a celebrity belching contest that featured Jodie Foster attempting to burp along to the song “YMCA.”

All in all, the show had the same problems as most other awards shows: it went on too long, there was too much unfunny dialog, and the host didn’t get enough chances to do what he does best. But if you are at all interested in the winners, here they are.

Favorite TV Show: Drake and Josh
Favorite Reality Show: American Idol
Favorite TV Actor: Drake Bell (from Drake and Josh)
Favorite TV Actress: Miley Cyrus
Favorite Cartoon: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Favorite Movie: Alvin and the Chipmunks
Favorite Movie Actor: Johnny Depp
Favorite Movie Actress: Jessica Alba
Favorite Animated Movie: Ratatouille
Favorite Animated Voice: Eddie Murphy (Shrek The Third)
Favorite Music Group: The Jonas Brothers
Favorite Song: “Girlfriend” by Avril Lavigne
Favorite Female Singer: Miley Cyrus
Favorite Male Singer: Chris Brown
Favorite Male Athlete: Tony Hawk
Favorite Female Athlete: Danica Patrick
Favorite Book: Harry Potter Series
Favorite Video Game: Madden NFL 2008
Wannabe Award: Cameron Diaz

If anything, the Kids’ Choice Awards gives parents a glimpse into the music, movies, and other pop culture their kids like– which should scare the crap out of you. I know I had a hard time sleeping knowing that the youth of America wants to be just like Cameron Diaz.

There seems to very little drama in Fall Out Boy frontman Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson’s relationship apart from a rocky start, so we may as well report this minor story. Pete is said to have moved out of Ashlee’s LA mansion - not because they’re having trouble or anything, but because he was too much of a slob for her and she didn’t want him messing up her house any more. Ashlee is said to be a “neat freak” while Pete just leaves his stuff around, especially in the bathroom.

Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson have been joined at the hip since hooking up last March. But the lovers are no longer sharing an address. Star has learned that the 28-year-old Fall Out Boy bassist moved out of Ashlee’s $4.7 million mansion in LA’s Benedict Canyon because he was too much of a slob!

“Ashlee loves Pete, but she just can’t seem to live with him,” explains a pal of the pop star. “Her house is a mess when he’s there, and that drives her insane.”

While Pete seems born to be sloppy, 23-year-old Ashlee is a neat freak and one of her pet peevs is Pete turning her bathroom into a mascara-caked disaster zone - while putting on his makeup! “Pete is in touch with his feminine side but he’s just a slob,” reveals Ashlee’s friend.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, January 14, 2008]

There was a story right before Christmas that Ashlee’s over-protective father, Joe, didn’t like Pete because of his admission that he likes to kiss guys and said he didn’t want Pete showing up at the holidays. Pete has denied that this is true, and says he gets along well with Joe.

It sounds believable that Pete might be getting out on his own for a while because Ashlee’s annoyed that he’s not cleaning up after himself. My husband is very helpful around the house, he’ll clean up and do the laundry and he’s like that joke book “Porn for Women,” (link SFW and funny). But he does leave his stuff around and that drives me crazy. I’m not the neatest person either, and I do this too but conveniently only notice when it’s his stuff. It’s just something you learn to live with and pick up when you love someone and you’re married.

If you’re single and rich, though, you can hire a maid, take a break and live separately for a while. I can’t see Ashlee and Pete breaking up over this. They might not be engaged as was rumored, but they seem really into each other.

Ashlee and Pete are shown on South Beach with Ashlee wearing her publicity-seeking non engagement ring on 1/1/08. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Last time I counted, I had ten fingers I could put stuff on. I’m under the general impression that this rule of thumb (haha) holds true for most people. Last time I inspected Ashlee Simpson’s hands (which was about two weeks ago when she came over for TV dinners and girl talk) she had all her fingers. So you’d think that if she really wanted to wear a sparkly ring, she could pick one of the nine digits that doesn’t cause the flutter of a million gossip columnists’ hearts. But why do that when you can cause a big ‘ol scene by shoving some knockoff bauble from Claire’s on the ring finger on your left hand? Poor Ashlee Simpson’s rep has been working overtime since she wore what appeared to be an engagement ring on her left hand on New Year’s Eve. But it’s all just a happy coincidence/mistake/ classic case of a Simpson girl forgetting the difference between left and right.

Ashlee Simpson and Fall Out Boy rocker Pete Wentz are not getting hitched, their reps tell Usmagazine.com.

Talk of their engagement started after the singer rocked a ring on her left finger while celebrating the new year at Miami’s Shore Club with Wentz.

But her rep tells Us, “Ashlee is not engaged” – a denial confirmed by Wentz’s rep.

This isn’t the first time engagement rumors have surrounded the long-time couple. In July, Simpson’s rep denied reports they were on the way to the altar.”

[From Us Weekly]

I’m sure the timing of the accidental ring placement was totally coincidental. Entertainemntwise mentioned that, “Ashlee herself helped the speculation along when she used her ring finger to flip the paps as she took a stroll along Miami beach with the Fall Out Boy rocker.” I’m sure that was purely accidental. Just like the ring placement. It most certainly had nothing to do with the fact that Ashlee seems to think she’s not getting enough attention of late. Agent Bedhead noted that Ashlee was supposedly pretty pissed that no one paid attention to her new video last week, due to the fiasco caused by Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy. Well if you don’t want to get knocked up, a fake engagement is probably the next-best thing. Stay tuned next week when Ashlee will no doubt debut a little bit of bloating, after which her people will anonymously call Us Weekly with fake pregnancy rumors.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are shown in South Beach, Miami on 1/1/08, thanks to PRPhotos.