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Fall Out Boy: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), 15 March 2007

They're arguably the world's foremost emo band, yet for a brief moment in 2006 it looked like it could all unravel for Fall Out Boy. The reason for the troubles? Outspoken Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz found private photographs of himself holding his penis leaked to gossip sites on the internet.

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