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.

Despite reports that Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz were expecting a boy, Pete says they don’t know the baby’s sex yet, but are hoping to find out in the next couple of weeks. They must have picked out all that blue stuff because they prefer the color. Or hate Pink. Which doesn’t make any sense, because I can really imagine both those people wearing a lot of hot fuchsia for some reason.

Pete also says Ashlee is having the usual pregnancy cravings, including a lot of army green colored food.

What’s mom-to-be Ashlee Simpson craving these days? “Green olives and pickles!” her husband Pete Wentz revealed on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show Thursday. “Green olives on everything!” He called her cravings an “anytime kind-of-thing. You always have to be ready.”

He said the pregnancy is “really, really exciting. “I heard women become mothers when they become pregnant, and boys become fathers when the baby is born,” Wentz, 29, said. “So I don’t feel all the physical things, but when I’m in the doctor’s office, I freak out. It’s … crazy because it’s this thing you made.” He said they still don’t know the baby’s sex, but is “hoping the doctor will see something in the next couple weeks.”

He also joked that he is turning into his dad. “I get up at 7 … complain,” he said. “I come home [to] a pregnant wife and two puppies.” But Wentz (who admitted he made out with guys) doesn’t mind. He said his new goal is to “live in the suburbs and hang out with my kid.”

[From Us Weekly]

It kinda creeps me out that 29-year-old Pete still refers to himself as a boy. Somehow the idea of him being a dad just doesn’t make sense to me. I think it’s the combination of his smile and that “boy” thing. Not that Ashlee Simpson seems really motherly, but I can imagine that a little easier that Pete Wentz playing soccer with his kid. He and Ashlee do seem really happy and solid though, and that obviously counts a lot.

Here’s Ashlee and Pete stopping at the Glen Market and Liquor Store for water and ice cream in
Los Angeles on Monday. Photographer: Apega/Agent47. Images thanks to WENN.

Ashlee and Pete out on 6/12/08, People has a new photo of Ashlee
Ashlee Simpson is out and proud with her baby bump, which seems rather large for someone only four months along. She’s less than half way through her pregnancy, she’s either giving into her junk food cravings, expecting twins, or one of the very unfortunate women who get huge during pregnancy. She looks good though.

It seems that however many babies are inside that belly, she’s having a boy. A Fall Out Boy, since I just can’t resist the pun.

The couple, who married in May, filled out a registry for their baby in June and our source says, “almost everything is blue.”

A salesperson who helped the couple said, “They [Simpson and Wentz] made it very clear that it was a boy.”

On June 30, the rocker couple bought a few T-shirts and bibs from Plain Mary with the words, “Hunk,” “Loved” and “Yummy” emblazoned on the front. The shirts retail for $28 and the bibs for $18.

Simpson and Wentz will visit the baby boutique next week to discuss the nursery, our source confirms.

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Petit Tresor is the same shop that got slapped with a lawsuit for leaking details of Tom and Katie’s shopping habits, so I wonder if Pete and Ash have gone shopping for clothes in there knowing that what they buy is going to get leaked. Next they’ll order some pink items to throw us off the scent, or make us think it is twins.

Isn’t $18 rather expensive for a bib? A bib is used to wipe snot and food off of a baby’s face, it doesn’t really need to be anything special.

Ashlee’s new husband Pete Wentz said this week that he used to make out with guys, but it was ’sexual rebellion’. I’m not sure exactly what Pete Wentz is rebelling against sexually, but I’m guessing it was against those girls who weren’t really into the guyliner.

Photos are of Pete and Ashlee on 6/12/08, thanks to WENN/Apega/Agent47.

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.”

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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.

I hope you all are sitting down, because I have some shocking news. Newlywed Ashlee Simpson is pregnant! I know- I had no idea, either! Simpson and her new husband Pete Wentz confirmed what everyone else already knew: Ashlee has just completed her first trimester of pregnancy. So now the question is: did Ashlee wait to confirm her condition because she wanted to do the customary “wait until the third month” thing, or did she want to wait until she and Pete were married? Wait. That’s not the question. The question is, “Who gives a crap?”

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz have confirmed they are expecting their first child.

They announced the news — which Usmagazine.com first broke in April — on his Web site, friendsorenemies.com, on Wednesday.

“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. “This is truly the most joyous time in our lives and we are excited to share the happy news and start our family.”

The couple wed in Los Angeles on May 17. They just returned from their honeymoon to the Caribbean.

[From Us Weekly]

So, it really was a shotgun wedding after all. How quaint! I don’t know if the pregnancy and the baby are going to help their image or Ashlee’s album sales, but congrats- I guess. I’m sure we will get a comment from Papa Joe any day now, and he will be selling off photos of Ashlee’s growing baby bump to the highest bidder. One thing’s for sure - this kid will have horrible taste in music, and will probably emerge from the womb with eyeliner, fringe bangs and its own reality show.

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are shown on 5/23/08 out in NY, thanks to WENN.

Ashlee Simpson is officially a Wentz. I’m not sure if that’s an upgrade or a downgrade. On the one hand, she no longer shares a last name with Joe Simpson. And that can really only be a good thing. On the other hand, there’s no denying that she is now forever a part of Fallout Boy. I’m pretty sure that changing your last name to Wentz comes with a complimentary lifetime supply of eyeliner. Ashlee says she changed her name because she thinks it’s something women should do.

Newly married Ashlee Simpson is changing her name to Ashlee Wentz in honor of her husband, Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz.

“I think that that’s something that a woman should do when they’re marrying a man,” she tells PEOPLE. “It’s a tradition that I think is a great tradition.” The singer, whose May 17 wedding featured an Alice in Wonderland-themed reception, says that privately she’ll go by Ashlee Wentz and professionally she’ll be Ashlee Simpson-Wentz.

Pete Wentz says he left the name change decision to his wife. “These decisions with Ashlee and her name are all completely up to Ashlee,” Wentz says. “I want her to do these kinds of things the way she wants to do them.” Still, he admits, he was flattered. “Oh man, I was like upgrade me! You know what I’m saying? The Wentz family, our Christmas card just got upgraded!” he says. “It feels insane. It feels unreal.”

[From People]

I think it’d be nicer if she phrased her reasoning behind changing her name as something she wanted to do, or thought she personally should do. Applying it to all women - and using the word “should” - makes it come off as very old-fashioned.

Still, she offered the brilliant quotation, “It’s a tradition that I think is a great tradition” so it’s pretty clear Ashlee Simpson-Wentz doesn’t stop and thinking about the words she chooses before spouting off. So something tells me she didn’t exactly pause to consider the implications of her phrasing.

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are shown out in NY after the Caribbean honeymoon on May 23rd. Images thanks to WENN.

When Tony Romo went to lunch at a paparazzi hot spot with Jessica Simpson on the Friday before her sister’s wedding, I assumed he was trying to help her save face after the news broke that he dumped her. Then when Romo went to Jessica’s sister Ashlee’s wedding as Jessica’s date, again it seemed like he felt sorry for Jessica and wanted to soften the blow of the breakup. Maybe they have an on-off thing, but the insider reports of their breakup were reported in the Chicago Sun Times and seemed true.

So why would Tony make a public reconciliation with Jessica Simpson before her sister’s wedding other than feeling sorry for her? Maybe because if he stayed away from the wedding, it would have cost Jessica’s family $1.4 million. TMZ reports that People Magazine’s contract with Joe Simpson for exclusive rights to Ashlee Simpson’s wedding photos included the stipulation that Tony Romo had to be at the wedding with Ashlee’s older sister Jessica:

Our moles tell us, when People cut a $1.4 deal for Ashlee’s wedding pics, there was a g-string attached — that Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo would be there.

It’s kinda what we were thinking. Who’d pay that for Ashlee Simpson alone. That’s why People wanted to put a pic of Jessica and Tony as an inset on the cover — they sell, Ashlee doesn’t.

Of course, the problem. Jessica and Tony split before the wedding. So you getting the picture why Tony showed? $$$$

[From TMZ]

Maybe that explains why People claimed ahead of the wedding to have a “source” that Tony Romo would attend. There must have been a lot of pressure on that guy to show up, and he swallowed his pride and did a nice thing for Jessica’s family. I guess that explains why he didn’t go on vacation with Jessica and her family afterwards.

But isn’t it a little sad for Ashlee, that - as commenter Elisha points out - she had “to have her wedding cover of People ruined with a huge picture of her sister freak dancing on it”?

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are shown out in NY after the Caribbean honeymoon on 5/23/08, thanks to WENN.

It turns out Pete Wentz really was joking when he said he and new wife Ashlee Simpson were honeymooning in their basement. It sounds obvious now, but given some of the couples’ low-key proclivities, it didn’t sound that impossible. Pete said they had blow up palm trees and a tanning bed down there – and it didn’t sound that far-fetched. Luckily they’re not as low-class as that – though I’m guessing they still ate a lot of DiGiorno’s pizza either way.

The couple actually honeymooned in Turks and Caicos for five days before returning to New York so Pete could play a Fallout Boy show.

Header of Ashlee and Pete arriving at their hotel in NYC after their honeymoon. Here’s Jessica back in California yesterday. Images thanks to Splash.

Newlyweds Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz didn’t spend their honeymoon in their basement after all. Wentz told Ryan Seacrest Tuesday that they were hiding out at home, “eating DiGiorno’s pizza,” to “save that 30 grand” days after their wedding.

Turns out, they were in the Caribbean. The pregnant singer (in a bikini!) and the shirtless Fall Out Boy rocker were photographed swimming Thursday.

The newlyweds are now in New York City, where Wentz is expected to play a private Fall Out Boy show for a Sweet 16 party, New York’s Daily News reports.

The couple can’t keep quiet about how happy they are.

“I feel great!” Wentz told Seacrest. “It is sunny and 65 in my head.”

[From Us Weekly]

Pete had made the basement honeymoon comment to Ryan Seacrest when he called in to chat on his morning radio show. Ryan asked him a few pregnancy-related questions – which, despite the way Us phrased it, is not a certainty at this point – and Wentz responded: “Ryan, this baby has not been confirmed,” he said. “The only thing I’m confirming now is that we’re in the basement on our honeymoon with these blow-up palm trees.”

I’m just going to point out that the basement and blow-up foliage didn’t turn out to be true – I wouldn’t be surprised if the rumored baby wasn’t either. But what a great way to sell records and up the asking price for your chin-tastic wedding photos, no?

While Ashlee and Pete were on their honeymoon, older sister Jessica Simpson honeymooned with her husband… er, dad, Joe. And her mom Tina probably tagged along too, until Joe ushered her away. The three went on vacation to Cabo San Lucas for the exact duration of Ashlee and Pete’s honeymoon. I’m guessing Joe and Tina took Jessica away to distract her.

I imagine whenever Jessica would start to feel sad or melancholy or mention Tony Romo, Joe would try to distract her with shadow puppets. And that would probably work for an hour or two, but inevitably Jessica’s mind would wander back to her happily knocked up sister and her own myriad of ex-boyfriends. And that’s when Joe would get on the phone to some high powered agent and work on buying Jessica’s next relationship.

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz were due to have their shotgun wedding last weekend when Ashlee decided she didn’t want her dad, a former Baptist minister, officiating. She got it in mind that she was going to have a Buddhist minister instead, despite never having previously expressed an interest in Buddhism that I could find. The argument between Ashlee and her dad got so heated that she said she would cancel the wedding if he wouldn’t let her have a Buddhist priest preside. Ashlee’s fiancé Pete Wentz stepped in and was able to save the wedding by convincing Ashlee to give in to her dad:

“In the 11th hour, Ashlee clashed with her father over the ceremony, and when he would not cave, she actually decided to cancel,” said a family friend.

The dispute… was because Ashlee… decided at the last minute to have a Buddhist priest perform the ceremony instead of her father.

“Joe completely lost it!” the source said.

“They were down to the wire. Every last detail was in place and he could not believe his daughter came up with this last-second Buddhist idea after everything was set.”

Joe Simpson, a former Baptist minister, “dug in his heels,” according to the source, and told Ashlee there was no way he’d host a Buddhist wedding.

In the end, it was… Pete who saved the day.

“He ran after Ashlee, sat her down and told her there was too much at stake now to cancel the ceremony,” said the source.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, June 2, 2008]

Maybe Joe was pissed because the wedding was all planned out already, but if Ashlee had an available Buddhist minister in mind, and it’s not clear from this article that she did, it seems like a simple change to have a different person officiate. It’s her wedding and she should be the one to decide who is marrying her. Instead Joe Simpson almost let her cancel the whole thing because he was too stubborn to step down and concede his daughter’s wishes! That’s ridiculous. You can understand him being hurt, but it’s his daughter’s special day and he should care enough about her to step down. Instead Joe showed that his ego is more important than his daughter’s feelings.

The National Enquirer has details of Ashlee’s wedding that we’ve partially already heard. She had an “Alice in Wonderland” theme “decorated with a top hat, teapot and pocket watch with a pot of flowers on top…. Tables were laden with black beauty roses… and tents were decked out with black chandeliers, black rugs and white couches with red pillows.” Guests dined on a dinner of “crab cakes, shrimp tacos, sushi, roast organic chicken, Kobe beef and baked Alaska.”

Just Jared has pictures of Ashlee and Pete’s wedding invitation, complete with Alice in Wonderland “eat me” cookie, and their chocolate table settings with guests names.

Ashlee and Pete are shown at LaGuardia airport in New York last night after returning from their honeymoon. They’re in the same pose as on their People cover. Thanks to Splash News.