June 5th, 2007 - Happy Birthday Pete Wentz!

June 5th, 2007 - Happy Birthday Pete Wentz!
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Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III (born June 5, 1979) is the bassist, frontman, back-up vocalist, and primary lyricist of Chicago-based band Fall Out Boy.

He's 28!

Wentz was born in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in a family of 3, and he attended New Trier High School and North Shore Country Day School where he was an all-state soccer player. After graduating from high school in 1997, he attended DePaul University, where he studied political science, dropping out one semester shy of graduation to focus on music.

Wentz recalled in a Rolling Stone interview, that his earliest musical memory was listening to The Foundations' song "Build Me Up Buttercup" in the back of his dad's car.

Personal Life:

In February 2005, in what appeared to be a suicide attempt, Wentz took an overdose of the anxiety medication Ativan, and as a result, spent a week in the hospital. Commenting on the event to a magazine, he said, "I was isolating myself further and further, and the more I isolated myself, the more isolated I'd feel. I wasn't sleeping. I just wanted my head to shut off, like, I just wanted to completely stop thinking about anything at all." The suicide attempt was soon put into song form, entitled "7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)" and was released on their album From Under The Cork Tree. After this event, Wentz moved back in with his parents.

In March of 2006, nude photos of Wentz were posted on the Internet to the LiveJournal celebrity gossip community Oh No They Didn't. The LiveJournal poster reported that she received the photos third-hand, and that Wentz originally sent the pictures to a woman in whom he allegedly had romantic interest, although some say that he was advertising for a CD. After the pictures spread across the Internet, Wentz posted a response on Fall Out Boy's website and blog asserting that the pictures were stolen from his T-Mobile Sidekick, and that after "feeling badly about this for about 24 hours, I am now ready to get back to laughing."

The video for the single "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" contains a scene that makes reference to the incident. When asked about the incident in a March 2007 interview with Blender, Wentz said, "It’s liberating! I have no qualms about the gang showers that happen on arena tours, and at photo shoots I’ll just change in front of people, and, you know, when I meet girls, they already know what the machinery is like…"

In a recent interview with Blender magazine and a follow up in The Advocate, Wentz admitted to being "a bit of a makeout bandit," partial to kissing both women and men. Wentz said, "anything's fair game above the waist." When asked why he doesn't go any further with men his response was, "cause honestly, I'm not a real big fan of penises. Like my own, whenever I look at it, I just don't find anything attractive about it. I can't believe girls are into it."

Wentz has been romantically linked with singer and actress Ashlee Simpson.

Other June 5th Birthdays:

Kenny G-Saxophonist -51
Richard Butler-Singer/Psychedelic Furs -51
Ron Livingston-Actor/Band of Brothers -40
Brian McKnight-Singer -38
Mark Wahlberg-Actor/Singer -36
Chad Allen-Actor -33
Liza Weil-Actress/Gilmore Girls -30
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