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Joel Madden Writing Memoir

Vanessa Baker — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:33:09 +0000

Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden, 30, has announced he’s working on a memoir, reports Perez Hilton.

“It would be about, mostly, the big changes in my life: kids, relationships, moving to L.A., the big life changes that I’ve gone through,” he said. “I’m lightly working on one, but I don’t want to put a book out there if it’s not actually meaningful. I’m not going to go there unless I can deliver. If I put a book out, I want it to be something that matters to me. It has to be real, you can’t just put a book out, to put a book out.”

Madden,30, and girlfriend Nicole Richie, 27, are expecting their second child at the end of the summer. They already have a daughter, Harlow Winter Kate Madden, born Jan. 11, 2008.

Nicole Richie and Joel Madden Expecting Second Child

Joelle Tomlinson — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:19:04 +0000

Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have announced that they are expecting another child. E! News reports that with a 1 year old and a new baby on the way, Richie and Madden are going to have their hands full.

In a blog posting on his band’s website, the Good Charlotte frontman writes:
“What’s better than winning an Oscar? I am so happy to tell everyone that Harlow is going to be a big sister! God has truly blessed my family. Hope your all feeling as good as i am right now.”

21-year-old Richie and 29-year-old Madden announced their first pregnancy on July 31, 2007, due in early January 2008. In February 2008, Richie introduced her daughter, Harlow, in People magazine. Richie told the magazine that “she gives life a whole new meaning and a whole new purpose.” She also swore to desert her former bad-girl ways, and adopt a new lifestyle in order to set a good example for her first child.

The happily unmarried couple welcomed daughter Harlow on January 11, 2008. Richie and Madden have been together since December 2006.

No Weekend Wedding for Nicole Richie and Joel Madden

Irene Ogrodnik — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:37:00 +0000

Joel Madden posted on his band’s website that he and girlfriend Nicole Richie got married over the weekend. However, “The Good Charlotte” rocker was only kidding when he wrote the blog entry “We Did It! Nicole and I Finally Got Married!!”

According to E! News, Madden decided to post the blog after receiving several calls and texts from family and friends regarding his marriage to Richie.

Madden wrote:

“So I feel really stupid even posting this, but I’ve been getting calls and texts from my family all week asking me why they weren’t invited to my wedding. I guess the only answer I could give them was that I didn’t know we were having one. So I just found out that Star magazine wrote some story about a 2 MILLION dollar wedding we are supposed to be having, and that’s where it came from. Sooooo if you were pissed at me for not inviting you or even telling you, don’t blame me, there’s nothing to worry about. It’s just Star magazine. How long do you think it will be before they write we called it off, or we broke up? I give them a week or two…”

Joel Madden Reunites with Estranged Dad

Irene Ogrodnik — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:17:40 +0000

Since the birth of daughter Harlow, mom Nicole Richie has become a lot closer to her birth mother. Now, her rocker fiancé has done the same with his dad, according to gossip site PerezHilton.com

Ever since walking out on the family over 10 years ago, Joel and his twin brother Benjii have not spoken to their father Roger Combs. Ever since the birth of Harlow, however, Combs says he began receiving text messages from his sons.

Recently after holding his granddaughter for the first time, Combs tells In Touch Weekly magazine: “It was a wonderful moment. She’s such a beautiful girl. I felt very proud.”

Even Richie is giving Combs some love.

“I was talking to Joel on the phone one day, and [Nicole] grabbed the phone from him and said, ‘Let me talk to him now. I want to talk to my dad,” says Combs.
What a happy family!

Joel Madden Says Baby Harlow ‘Likes The Cure’

Irene Ogrodnik — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:37:48 +0000

Joel Madden, who has a baby with Nicole Richie, says their daughter Harlow likes to listen to “The Cure.”

“She likes a lot of Disney stuff and classical. She likes Good Charlotte. And she likes her granddad [Lionel Richie]’s music. She likes old stuff. She’s a Cure fan … She likes The Cure,” says Madden.

Madden flew to the Hamptons for the Memorial Day Weekend to DJ at La Playa in Southampton but the singer is not planning on staying.

“The Hamptons are definitely a good place to hang out for the whole summer,” Madden tells “People” magazine. “But I’m a dad now. I’d be staying if I didn’t have the girls at home. That’s why I’m going home.”

Christina Aguilera, Nicole Richie Are New Moms

Eva Lam — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:35:45 +0000

Christina Aguilera and Nicole Richie both became first-time moms over the weekend — and in the same Los Angeles hospital ward to boot.

Richie, 26, whose father is singer Lionel Richie, gave birth to a daughter named Harlow Winter Kate Madden in the Cedars-Sinai hospital, according to People magazine.

The father is Richie’s boyfriend Joel Madden, lead singer of Good Charlotte.

“The beautiful healthy baby girl left the hospital with her ecstatic parents,” said a spokesman for the couple late Friday.

Aguilera, 27, gave birth in the same ward of the hospital on Saturday. The five-time Grammy Award-winning singer confirmed the birth on her website Sunday.

“Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman are proud to announce the birth of their son Max Liron Bratman,” read the short message. “He is a beautiful, healthy baby boy.”

Aguilera and Bratman, a music executive, married in 2005.

Nicole Richie is Excused from Class

andPOP Staff — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:10:46 +0000

Extremely pregnant Richie has been granted a leave of absence from her court mandated alcohol-education course.

No. It’s not a case of early graduation, as Richie has only completed three months of the 18 month requirement. Richie has been given the time off to safely prepare for and deliver her baby.

Unlike her buddy Paris Hilton, who reportedly received special treatment in prison, Richie’s reps deny the allegations that the leave of absence was granted because she is a celebrity student.

Santa Barbara’s SB 38 Multiple Offender Drinking Driver Program, reportedly offers the option to request a leave of absence to all enrolees with a proven medical condition.

Richie claims that she will promptly return to her classes shortly after giving birth to her and Joel Madden’s baby early in the new year.

Pregnant Nicole Richie: ‘I Wasn’t Smoking’

andPOP Staff — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:16:27 +0000

Nicole Richie has denied reports by Page Six that she was smoking this weekend in New York.

The pregnant Richie apparently wasn’t even in the States at the time of the two reported incidents. She is traveling abroad with boyfriend Joel Madden of Good Charlotte. Her rep told “Extra” that the reports were “irresponsible and untrue.”

Meanwhile, Richie and Madden have delayed their wedding plans.

Richie Is Free After 80 Minutes Behind Bars

andPOP Staff — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:15:44 +0000

NICOLE RICHIE is a free woman after serving just over an hour of a four-day sentence in prison.

The pregnant socialite was booked, released and sent home in an 80-minute spell at the Century Regional Facility in Lynwood, California on Thursday (23Aug07).

A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department explains prison population levels prompted officials to release Richie after the briefest prison spell.

In a press release, the sheriff’s spokesman writes, “At this time, the criteria for a female arrestee sentenced to 30-days or less for a non-violent offense is as follows: the arrestee is booked, screened and usually released within 12 hours.

“This procedure is based on jail overcrowding to manage population levels mandated by Federal Court guidelines. Based on the mandated guidelines and Ms. Richie’s 96 hours sentence, she will be treated in the same manner as other inmates with a similar sentence.”

Richie was charged with a misdemeanor DUI on 27 July (07) and was sentenced to 36 months of summary probation. If she violates probation, she will have to serve one year in jail.

Richie was arrested on 11 Deceember (06) when she found driving her Mercedes Benz the wrong way down California State Route 134 highway in Burbank, California.

After failing an on-field sobriety test, Richie admitted to having smoked marijuana and taking a vicodin painkiller.

Richie is five months pregnant with rocker boyfriend Joel Madden’s baby. (KL/WNVET)

Lionel Richie Thrilled By Baby News

andPOP Staff — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:58:37 +0000

Soul star LIONEL RICHIE is thrilled by the news his daughter NICOLE is pregnant – because now she gets to go through what she put her dad through.

The socialite/actress publicly confirmed her pregnancy during a TV interview earlier this week (beg30Jul07) but admits she told her father weeks ago.

She says, “I said, ‘Well, you’re going to be a grandfather,’ and he told me, ‘Now you’re going to experience what I have. All the things you put me through, that’s what you’re going to go through.’”

The Hello singer has stood by his daughter’s side through drug addiction, a broken engagement and a handful of wild controversies, which have culminated in a four-day jail sentence for driving the wrong way on a California freeway while under the influence.

Richie admits she lied about her pregnancy at first – because she couldn’t believe she was with child.

She adds, “It took me a long time for it to sink in. I didn’t even really believe it until I heard the heartbeat.”

The baby’s father is Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden. (KL/WNV/GES)