PETE WENTZ and wife ASHLEE SIMPSON-WENTZ are eyeing a dream move to France to escape the paparazzi.The Fall Out Boy bassist married the pop star in May 2008 and they welcomed their first child, son Bronx Mowgli, six months later. Wentz has previously told of his desire to leave Los Angeles after tiring of the attention from photographers - and the couple now has France in its sights. He tells Britain's Kerrang! magazine, "When I leave my house there are 10 cars waiting outside to take pictures. We have to go from secure location to secure location, places where my wife and kid won't get photographed too much. My wife works in L.A., so it's really hard. I'd love to live in another country for a year while our son is still young enough. Somewhere cool, like France. Maybe we wouldn't get bugged as much."

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FALL OUT BOY have decided to retire their cover version of MICHAEL JACKSON's BEAT IT as a sign of respect for the late King of Pop.The pop-punk band delighted fans when they began performing the hit live in concert, and in 2008, they teamed up with singer John Mayer to record the track, before filming a music video and releasing Beat It as a single. But bassist Pete Wentz insists they have no plans to play the song again, following Jackson's death in June (09). He tells MusicRadar.com, "We never got the chance to (meet) him. I don't even know if he heard it. We kind of recorded it on a whim, like, nine months before he passed away. We've decided not to play it anymore. It's his song, you know? We put it on the record because we did a video for it, but it's definitely his song."

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FALL OUT BOY star PETE WENTZ is smarting after losing a bet with COBRA STARSHIP frontman GABE SAPORTA - he now has a large tattoo of the singer's face on his leg.The pals recently made a bet which would allow Saporta to design some new body art for Wentz if Cobra Starship's hit track Good Girls Go Bad sold more than a million copies. The song hit the mark and Wentz lost the bet - and Saporta took his friend to the tattoo parlor to have a large picture of himself etched on his leg. Wentz tells MTV.com, "Well, I promised Gabe if Good Girls Go Bad went platinum, I would let him pick a tattoo to put on me. A man with such humble beginnings, of course, chose a self-portrait. I held through with the bet." Wentz's calf is now emblazoned with an image of Saporta's face and the inscription "Gabey Baby Made Me Go Bad." The pair's pranks have caused trouble in the past - Wentz recently revealed his friend's personal phone number by printing the digits on a t-shirt which he wore during a tel...

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PETE WENTZ has joined JESSICA BIEL in her charitable mission to draw attention to the Third World's water crisis.The stars showed up to speak at the Live Earth press conference in New York on Tuesday (13Oct09), where they both addressed the need for clean drinking water in third world countries. The actress, who is preparing to scale Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for the cause, admitted she hadn't realised that millions of people around the globe have no access to drinkable water. She told reporters, "For most of my life, water has been an ordinary part of an ordinary day. Turn on the faucet, get in the shower, wash your clothes. It is always there; it is always accessible. I've never been forced to think about where it comes from. "I won't stand up and tell you that learning more has made me the brilliant creator of solutions; I am not. But I am listening. And I am changing the way that I live. This isn't a problem for them or for those - this is a problem for us and for we." T...

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PETE WENTZ lost his trademark floppy hairstyle on Sunday night (04Oct09), when pal MARK HOPPUS shaved him live onstage at New York's Madison Square Garden.The Fall Out Boy rocker has sported the much-copied look - dubbed the emo haircut - for five years. But it disappeared in seconds after Wentz invited the Blink-182 bassist onstage with a razor, as the star proclaimed, "So you guys know Jay-Z's Death of Auto-Tune? This is the death of the emo haircut." Wentz later described his new look as "more aerodynamic".

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FALL OUT BOY star PETE WENTZ suffered a major embarrassment at a gig over the weekend (29-30Aug09) - his trousers fell down onstage.The bassist was performing with his group at the Leeds music festival in England when the humiliating 'wardrobe malfunction' occurred and prompted a production assistant to dash on to save the rocker's blushes. But fans still got a good look at Wentz's blue, patterned underpants. A source tells WENN, "Pete was so busy singing he didn't notice his trousers had slipped down, but thankfully one of his roadies stepped in and pulled them up to avoid any further embarrassment."

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PETE WENTZ has mocked his FALL OUT BOY bandmate PATRICK STUMP, after the singer was arrested for a traffic violation.Patrick Stump was taken into custody on Tuesday night (25Aug09) in Beverly Hills, California for an outstanding traffic warrant, and held on a $15,000 bond. The controversy shocked fans, who are more used to Wentz's headline-grabbing antics than those of shy frontman Stump. And the bassist has taken the opportunity to tease his pal on Twitter.com; in a post on Wednesday (26Aug09), Wentz jokes, "Dude, when I said u (sic) gotta be the bad dude in fob (Fall Out Boy), I didn't mean 2 (sic) get arrested. How many peeps did u (sic) shank (stab) in jail?"

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ASHLEE SIMPSON-WENTZ had a public bust-up with her husband PETE WENTZ during a night out in Chicago, illinois this weekend.The pair was celebrating the first anniversary of Pete Wentz's Chicago bar Angels & Demons on Saturday (15Aug09) when the singer reportedly shouted at him to leave in front of party goers. Ashlee Simpson-Wentz had been drinking and the pair continued to argue heavily when they left the venue, according to reports. A source tells celebrity blogger Perez Hilton that Ashlee Simpson-Wentz "came up completely wasted and yells at him to leave. They fought, she told him he was horrible in front of a whole group of people and made him leave his own party early. So they make a scene and leave the bar." The report also alleges the star became irate when someone took a photo of her leaving the club and she demanded they delete the images. The stars security team then reportedly ushered them to a corner and got their driver to pick them up and leave.

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ASHLEE SIMPSON-WENTZ and her rocker husband PETE WENTZ were delighted to hear their baby boy BRONX's first words - because they were directed at the proud parents.The pair welcomed Bronx Mowgli in November (08) and admit the tot has transformed their lives. And the pop singer was ecstatic when the eight month old started speaking - uttering "mama" and "dada" as his first words. Simpson-Wentz tells America's OK! magazine, "Every week, I'm learning something new from him and every week, he's doing something new. He's crawling and he's got six teeth now. He says mama and dada." Little Bronx also looks set to follow in his parents' footsteps - he's already showing signs of entering the music business. His mum adds, "He loves music. Lately, he likes classic rock and Broadway music! My home life is all about Bronx."

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PETE WENTZ has dismissed reports FALL OUT BOY are to split - even though they have no plans to make any more albums.The bassist shocked fans earlier this week (beg20Jun09) by taking to his Twitter.com Internet page to admit the band's last record, 2008's Folie a Deux, may be their "swan song". But Pete Wentz insists the band is set to continue - they just won't be making any new music. He tells MTV.com, "No, we're not calling it quits, but we've no future album plans right now. We can't quit, we're waiting to get fired. "I think it's all in context. There aren't any new Fall Out Boy songs because we don't write for the sake of it. We will stop doing Fall Out Boy when it stops being fun."

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