Countering recent reports that Ashlee Simpson was having a negative effect on boyfriend and Fall Out Boy pin-up Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Troham has fired up his personal blog to deny that the popstrel is their very own Yoko Ono.
"We don't blame a certain someone [Ashlee] for our lack of a Grammy nod", wrote Troham after the band failed to pick up any nominations at the US awards. "Don't believe the gossip columns out there. This 'poisonous' person that was mentioned is nothing short of awesome, and we fully back her."
Pete Wentz has previously gone on record to bemoan the lack of Grammy nominations for Fall Out Boy at the end of a successful year (one which saw them produce a video so chock-full of product placement there was barely any room for anything else), insisting that the "50-year-old white man" who decided the shortlist couldn't understand their music. The American edition of OK magazine subsequently carried hints that the lack of attention from the Academy had been designed to punish Wentz's girlfriend for lip-synching. No, really.
The possibility that the lack of critical acclaim may be more to do with Wentz being no Lennon than Simpson being an Ono has yet to filter through.