New parents Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are having trouble in their marriage – at least if Page Six is to be believed. The couple used to be a permanent fixture on the party scene, but since little Bronx Mowgli came into the world they’ve had to tone it down. Well, half of them has. Ashlee’s been stuck at home while Pete is still partying as much as ever. And not surprisingly, that’s created some resentment and friction within the marriage.

PARTY animals-turned-parents Ashlee Simpson (above) and Pete Wentz are having trouble with their new domestic lifestyle. An insider told Page Six, “Ashlee and Pete are on the rocks. He is going out all the time and she’s stuck at home. It’s just not working.”

A rep for Simpson, who’s currently spending some alone time with her hubby in Australia without baby Bronx Mowgli, said, “This is not true. Everything is fine in their world.”

[From Page Six]

Thank goodness celebs employ high-priced reps who do nothing but deny, deny, deny. That’s money well spent. At this point, I feel most of them could fire their PR flacks and the rest of us can just assume their response to anything less than the most flatting story is either “No comment,” or some variation of “We’re as happy as can be.” Oh wait, unless they’re breaking up, in which case it’s, “We plan to remain the best of friends.”

Since Bronx was born I hardly ever see pictures of Ashlee out and about compared to Pete. How could that not create some ill will? She’s only 24, and Pete has admitted Bronx was a “happy accident.” Ashlee clearly wasn’t planning on being a mother at this point in her life, and she’s still fairly young. I’m guessing she’d like to go out and party once in a while too. Pete’s 29. He should be better able to prioritize. What really ought to happen is they should both stay home most of the time. Their child needs to be number one in their lives. But at the very least, Pete should offer to stay home and let Ashlee have a break as often as he does.

Here’s Ashlee, Pete, and Bronx Mowgli the last time they were photographed out together, on March 3rd. Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline.

I can tolerate Ashlee Simpson as a singer. You only have to take her in 3 minute, radio-friendly doses. And I don’t think she’s had any songs out in a long, long time. She’s really just famous for being famous at this point. But unfortunately Ashlee’s decided to step it up a notch, and act. Back in the day she had a few guest episodes on “7th Heaven,” but now Ashlee’s going to be coming at us full-time, in 60 minute doses, as one of the stars of the “Melrose Place” remake.

The real-estate market may be sagging in real life, but it’s looking up on TV: The CW has reportedly signed a deal for Ashlee Simpson-Wentz to move into Melrose Place.

The singer-actress, 24, plans to return to TV as a small-town girl trying her luck in Los Angeles, according to Entertainment Weekly. The character she will play – seven years after her first big role on the WB’s 7th Heaven – will display a “disarming naiveté [that] masks the calculating, shrewd sex kitten within,” says EW.

Simpson-Wentz and her rocker husband, Pete Wentz, will also guest star on the March 18 episode of CBS’s CSI: NY as a Bonnie-and-Clyde-like couple who get caught up in a drug deal gone bad. “I wish I got the chance to be murdered or rob a bank but I heard the make-up is much longer for that,” Wentz, 29, recently told PEOPLE.

[From People]

Oooh, how unique, a character that’s a disarmingly naïve but also a calculating sex kitten. Let me call the Emmy committee and put them on early alert. Seriously, the only thing I like about Ashlee Simpson is that I only have to look at pictures of her. That’s all she’s been doing, walking around and being photographed by the paparazzi. And frankly, that was working for me. Actually sitting through an hour of her “acting?” Not so much.

Speaking of “Melrose Place,” Entertainment Weekly reports that Mischa Barton will probably be joining the cast – and both the roles she’s being considered for are hysterical. “Did Simpson score the part that Mischa Barton had been circling? My sources tell me no. That means the ex-O.C. siren is in talks to stretch her acting chops to within an inch of their life play straight-arrow med student Lauren or revoltingly sweet schoolteacher Riley.”

I’m encouraging everyone to stay away from this craptastic show. God forbid anyone actually come up with a new concept when they can rehash played out shit television.

Here’s Ashlee and Pete Wentz (looking like a total douche) leaving Chateau Marmont on February 27th. Images thanks to Fame.com and Pacific Coast News.

Pete Wentz is known for his candor. From talking about his depression and considering suicide to admitting that his son was a “happy accident,” he generally comes across as pretty frank. Unfortunately Pete and his frankness spent some time with Howard Stern and his bawdiness, and that turned out to be quite the open – and specific – conversation. It covered everything from Ashlee’s bra size and weight to the first time they had sex.

In a raunchy interview on Howard Stern’s radio show Tuesday, Pete Wentz revealed that wife Ashlee Simpson is “awesome” between the sheets. “We have an amazing sex life,” the Fall Out Boy bassist, 29, said while promoting the band’s new album, Folie a Deux. “We have such sexual chemistry,” he went on. “If we had been on this show last year, we’d probably be doing it in the green room right now.

“Hopefully, the kid doesn’t change it,” he added, referring to their newborn son Bronx. Currently, they don’t have sex — “the kid’s [a few] weeks old,” Wentz explained — but “we do other fun stuff.” Wentz said it took some time to convince Simpson to hook up with him. (He joked that he had to “beat her over the head with a club and drag her back to my cave.”)

Once they did it, it was “the single best sexual encounter I have ever had,” he said. “It was at the Soho Grand Hotel [in New York City], and I’m looking in the mirrors, [thinking], ‘Oh my God, you are [sleeping with] the girl of your dreams, and you can watch yourself!’” he said. Wentz told Stern that Simpson also “loves giving me lap dances. She gives a mean lap dance.” She wears thongs and “sexy clothes,” he noted.

He went on to say that Simpson’s body is already hot three weeks after giving birth. Normally she wears a C-cup “but with breast milk, [she's] a D.” She weighed “up to 150 [lbs.]” while pregnant, Wentz revealed, but “it’s dropped nicely … it’s blazing off her.”

[From Us Magazine]

Pete also told Howard that he never fantasizes about Ashlee’s sister Jessica, but that he maybe would have considered a threesome “20 years back.” And it’s good he shared that, because otherwise the interview was running the risk of being bland and dull.

While Pete Wentz strikes me as a reasonably okay guy, there is something so physically unattractive about him that I really don’t like to imagine him having sex. I’m sure their kid is adorable, but I prefer to imagine he just magically appeared in Ashlee’s womb. I do not need to imagine them doing it in a fancy hotel with a lot of mirrors. Same for the specifics on Ashlee’s weight and cup size. Thanks for the over share Pete. I hope you enjoy sleeping on the couch.

Here’s Pete and Fall Out Boy bandmate Patrick Stump in Washington Square Park to perform a free mini-concert for their fans in New York City yesterday. Images thanks to WENN.

Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson’s newborn son Bronx Mowgli is the hottest baby in town. Not only does he have a very unusual – and often puzzled over – name, but the kid actually has a line of people waiting to get in the door to meet him.

Pete says no one knows the “real story” on how he and Ashlee came up with Bronx’s name. But it’s generally what you’d expect: they just came up with Bronx, and they’re both fans of the “Jungle Book.”

Proud papa Pete Wentz may not think that people “have the real story” about the genesis of the unusual moniker he and wife Ashlee Simpson-Wentz bestowed on their new baby boy. But when you throw an Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding, hold a Winnie the Pooh-themed baby shower and name your firstborn Bronx Mowgli, it’s probably safe to assume a love of Disney had something to do with it.

“I feel weird—people have all these ideas of what it means now,” Wentz says of his offspring’s name during a phone call today to E! News’ Ryan Seacrest. “I think it’s kind of cool to leave the narrative the way it is… People are stoked or pissed or whatever…I don’t think anybody knows the real story of why or how.”

Not that they couldn’t hazard a fairly accurate guess. “We came up with the idea Bronx, we’d been throwing it back and forth a while ago,” he says. As for the origin of the middle name? “The Jungle Book is something me and Ashlee bonded over. It’s really cool.”

…Not quite so helpful, however, is the fervor with which well-meaning friends are lining up to catch a glimpse of little Bronx. “Yeah, it’s like opening a new spot in L.A.,” Wentz explained. “Everyone’s trying to get in every night—they’re like, ‘No, I know Pete, kind of.’

“I’m like, you do not have a plus-one.”

[From E! News]

That’s really cute. Pete is obviously a very proud and boastful new father, which is wonderful. He said that Ashlee was “a saint” and that she was worried about him and trying to take care of him while she was going through labor, because he was panicking so badly. Pete also said both of their mothers have been helping them take care of Bronx. These two made it clear in many ways that they probably won’t be the most traditional parents, but it seems like they’re in love with their son and will do a great job.

Here’s Pete and a then-pregnant Ashlee out and about in Hollywood on October 4th. Images thanks to WENN.

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz out on 10/4/08. Credit: WENN

Emo couple Ashlee Simpson and her new husband, musician Pete Wentz, had a “white trash” themed 24th birthday party for Ashlee. The tasteless soiree was held at Ashlee’s parents’ home on Friday and featured a feast of corn dogs, macaroni and cheese, and cheap beer that some guests drank out of paper bags. Host Pete wore a fake mullet and a tank top while pregnant Ashlee, who is due to have her first child at the end of next month, sported a fake tattoo on her large belly.

Both Life & Style and People have the details, which kind of supplement each other so I’ll include some highlights from each:

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz held one last party on October 3 in LA (to celebrate Ashlee’s 24th bday) before heading off into the sunset as young parents. Their theme? “White Trash.” “They had people come over in costume and dress up in white trash,” a source tells Life & Style. “Wife-beater tank tops, jeans, trucker hats, mullets, – the works. And a lot of beer. Some were drinking beer out of paper bags. It was really hysterical.” The beer of choice in the paper bags? “Pabst Blue Ribbon – PBR.” Ashlee wasn’t drinking it of course!

[From Life and Style received via e-mail]

People has the details of the hosts’ outfits, which paint an even more questionable picture:

“It had a white-trash theme,” says a guest who attended the bash at Simpson’s parents’ home in Encino. “Ashlee wore Daisy Dukes and platform flip-flops with a bathing suit and a fake tattoo around her belly.”

The singer celebrated with friends and family including husband Pete Wentz, dad Joe and sister Jessica.

“Joe wore a cut-off muscle T-shirt and a mullet wig. It was funny,” says a guest. “Jessica was wearing a crazy leopard-print dress that showed off a lot of cleavage.”

The menu included corn dogs, macaroni and cheese, chicken fingers and French fries.

With her first child due next month, an exhausted Simpson-Wentz headed home early, missing party guests Christina Aguilera, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, who dropped by after hitting Gwen Stefani’s birthday party earlier that night.

[From People]

Life and Style adds that the perky fringe-banged couple is considering a move to NY after the baby comes to “minimize the paparazzi experience and celebrity exposure.” That’s doubtful considering how much they both court the press. I’m only surprised that we haven’t seen the photos of this party yet considering that it was a Simpson affair. This baby is going to hit the newsstands in some kind of exclusive spread three to four weeks after birth.

Many people find “white trash” to be a derogatory and dismissive term that unfairly labels poor people, particularly those that live in the country or the south. Our friend Michelle over at “White Trash Mom” sees it as term that people can reclaim. In her view, it’s not a negative to be called “White Trash” and it just means you’re normal and not perfect. She thinks most of us have a little white trash inside.

What do you think? Is it harmless fun or kind of mean to have a “White Trash” themed party?

Outlets are buzzing that bland emo poster couple Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson are expecting twins after a friend of Pete’s spilled the beans in an interview. It could have been a joke or the guy may not know Pete as well as people think. It’s possible he was basing the twins story on a rumor that came out earlier in the year when Pete didn’t want to know the sex of the baby and instead referred to it as “them.” Pete and Ashlee’s rep says they’re just having one baby, so I guess that’s what we should believe:

Pete’s buddy, hip-hop artist Tyga, says that the parents-to-be are expecting not one, but two bundles of joy.

“They’re having twins,” Tyga said in an exclusive interview yesterday at the House of Hype’s pre-VMA barbeque. “They’re really happy.”

Either Tyga spilled the beans or he’s repeating an internet rumor that Pete started earlier this summer…

In June, Pete sent the internet into a tizzy when he referred to his and Ashlee’s unborn baby as “them” during an Arizona radio interview. He quickly denied they were having twins, explaining to blogger Perez Hilton that he was just trying to be vague about the pregnancy.

A rep for the couple insists only one baby is on the way. “It is not true,” the rep said of Tyga’s twins report.

Pete, 29, and Ashlee, 23, were married on May 17 at her parents’ L.A.-area home. Eleven days later the young rockers announced that Ashlee was preggers.

[From E! Online via News.Yahoo.com]

There will be some mild interest in Pete and Ashlee’s baby, but hardly as much as twins would garner. So many celebrities are having babies that the only way to get much lasting publicity out of giving birth is to have multiples. It’s doubtful they will be having more than one given the origins of the story and the fact that they’re not likely to have sought fertility treatment which would have upped their chances. Ashlee is 23 and Pete is 29.

Ashlee is getting pretty big, but her baby is due in less than two months, reportedly around Halloween. If she does have twins there must be fertility drugs in the water.

Update: Pete Wentz denies that the couple is expecting twins, and told US Magazine “It’s going to be a big disappointment when it’s only one!”

Photo Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures

Ashlee Simpson wants us all to know she’s happy being pregnant, and isn’t worried about her weight. Which means she’s either very lucky, or is fibbing. She addressed rumors of excessive pregnancy weight gain on her official myspace blog, titled ‘My size 0 jeans…by Ashlee SImpson-Wentz’.

Today I read on a blog that I went to the doctor and he said I was overweight and I cried and went to Planet Blue (because I was blue) and bought 6 pair of size 0 jeans. Now it is ridiculous to read such nonsense about oneself so I thought I would address this one…
1. My doctor says I am right on target with my weight gain
2. Have not been to Planet Blue in at least two years
3. Love my maternity jeans ..they have stretchy tops it is awesome!
4. My closet full of size 0′s are being worn by Pete right now and he looks hot in them
So now that I have cleared that up let me tell you…carrying a child is the most inspiring, emotional, amazing experience of my life. My weight and my pant size are the absolute last thing I am concerned about. I am only concerned with having a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. People who talk and judge pregnant women’s weight need to get a life!!!
Peace and Love,
Ashlee

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Ashlee must still be in the phase of pregnancy where you’re looking comfortably rounded, and everyone smiles at your belly, and the baby is just starting to kick and move and it’s absolutely magical.

For most of us, this is rapidly followed by the final stage of pregnancy weight gain, where you are so large you can only assume you still have feet, and you believe you’ll never be human sized again, let alone thin. You rail against the state of reproduction that forces you to carry your gestating offspring for 40 weeks, and want to pummel anyone who makes the inevitable comment about how elephants gestate for 22months.

Or maybe that was just me?

Ashlee told ET last week that she is busily preparing for motherhood, getting together a nursery and picking names. Pete says that he and Ashlee have not asked the sex of the baby, so they’ve probably got a size 000 collection of black hoodies and skinny leg jeans ready for him/her.

Ashlee Simpson is shown shopping at Chanel on 8/28/08. Credit: BAC/WENN

Pete Wentz really freaks me out as a potential parent. First off, I think the combination of his DNA with Ashlee Simpson’s could be an absolute intellectual nightmare of unparalleled severity. Britney and K-Fed didn’t worry me this much. Secondly, Wentz thinks raising his kids on the road with his band Fallout Boy would be a “really awesome environment ,” for them. Thirdly, he’s getting some of his parenting advice from Look Who’s Talking. But at least he’s smart enough to be taking away the right message from the movie.

Having already admitted that he’s turning into his own father in anticipation of the arrival of his and wife Ashlee Simpson’s baby, Pete Wentz tells PEOPLE that when it comes to prepping to become a parent, “I’m reading a lot of books.”

The Fall Out Boy bassist, 28, at his Angels & King nightspot in Chicago with Ashlee nearby, explains, “The biggest one is The Expectant Father. It’s a really good one.” Not that the printed page is teaching him all he needs to know. Jokingly, he adds, “Also, I’ve watched Look Who’s Talking and Look Who’s Talking Too. I’d be worried if the baby sounded like Bruce Willis.”

As for wise words from his father, Wentz says, “The best advice my dad has given me was, go with your gut. And he said you can’t really have expectations. If I have expectations that he’s going to be a rock star, I’m sure he’ll come out being into sports, and if I have expectations that he’ll be into sports then he’ll be into math or something.”

[From People]

Goodness, math? We wouldn’t want that now. Actually the Look Who’s Talking joke is probably the first thing Pete Wentz has ever said or done that I thought was funny. And that is one hell of a good parenting movie. Important lessons include: don’t sleep with your boss; don’t fall for a cabbie; don’t be too straight-laced; and always, always ignore it if your babies sound like 40-year-olds. That just means they’re mature. All good rules for Wentz and Simpson to follow. Because I think they’re really struggling with that straight-laced issue.

Here are Pete and Ashlee in Hollywood on July 3rd. Images thanks to Fame.

Pete Wentz is going to be one hell of a frightening father. I mean he’s going to rival early Britney Spears in terms of parenting. And the kid’s got Ashlee Simpson for a mother. Pete thinks it would be totally awesome and a heck of a lot of fun to bring his baby on tour with his band Fall Out Boy. Because what’s better for a little, impressionable kid who can easily pick up both germs and bad language than spending its formative years touring with a quasi-rock band?

Their baby isn’t due for several months, but Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz are already planning to bring the little one on tour. “I think it would be a really awesome environment for kids,” Pete, 29, tells In Touch. “Bringing a kid along would be cool.”

And he probably won’t get an argument from his wife — Ashlee, 23, was singing along backstage when Fall Out Boy performed at Victoria’s Secret Pinkapalooza in LA on July 17. “Pete came over and sang to her belly after their set,” an onlooker says. “They were so cute.” Lead singer Patrick Stump gives his approval, too! “He’ll be a fun dad,” Patrick says. “I’m most excited about meeting the baby,” Pete tells In Touch.

[From In Touch]

Wow, that really would be an awesome environment for kids. You know what else would be a great environment in which to raise kids? The circus. Running and jumping through those circles of fire? That’s the best. Maybe Pete can convince Fall Out Boy to do a circus-based tour, and combine those two really awesome environments for kids. I hear the zoo is also a really great place to raise kids. Particularly the tiger cage.

What do you think the odds are that Pete and Ashlee’s kid will end up without some significant loud (bad) music related hearing loss by the age of one? Frankly that’s probably the best case scenario. My mind boggles at the shear amount of obstacles this child will have to overcome in order to survive to the age of seven.

Here’s Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz at Cafe Med in Los Angeles on July 15th. Images thanks to WENN.

Twins seem particularly popular in Hollywood today, so much so that Pete Wentz got confused about how many babies Ashlee Simpson actually has inside of her.

Speaking on the John Jay and Rich radio show in Pheonix on Thursday morning (June 12), Wentz talked about a scrapbook the couple are keeping for their newborn saying, “We’ve been keeping a book so far, like a journal for them when their born.”

The comment lit up the gossip pages with news that the newly married couple are expecting twins, however, Wentz has explained to Perez Hilton that it was all a misunderstanding.

“That was waaaaay wrong. I meant to say ‘the baby’ and said ‘them’ cos it was 7 am. Not in a bs way: I can tell you we are absolutely not having twins. I totally misspoke coz we dunno if it’s a boy or girl. I try to speak vaguely and I totally blew it on this one.”

The Celebrity Truth

Pete has, of course, lied in the past in regards to this pregnancy, saying flat out that Ashlee wasn’t pregnant, so it could be she’s going to pop out some twins – and when I say pop them out I actually mean ‘pimp them out to the highest bidder for the magazine exclusive’.

It might also be true that Pete was confused too. When I was pregnant I didn’t want to know the gender of the baby, but hated to call it ‘it’. People think it’s a little horrible when you do that. Of course, it’s even worse when you continue to do it several months into the child’s life, but maybe if I could get a decent night’s sleep I could remember your name/gender. Enjoy parenthood, Ashlee and Pete!

I also think it’s a little unusual for Pete to the mistake twice, and not correct himself. He said ‘them’ and ‘they’, but it is possible he means that they will do it for their future children also. Or he’s trying to generate more interest in the pregnancy. Or he’s just a little bit confused, as are we all Pete, by everything that comes out of your mouth.

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are shown outside a medical building in LA yesterday, thanks to WENN.