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Title: I love Joel Madden this much! View count: 2271 Rating: 5.00 (6 ratings) Description: Joel Reuben Madden (born Joel Reuben Combs on March 11, 1979) is most notably the lead vocalist for the band Good Charlotte. Joel was born to a middle class Irish-American family in Waldorf, Maryland. He has an identical twin brother, Benji Madden, who plays guitar in Good Charlotte. He has an older brother named Josh, and a younger sister named Sarah. Joel attended La Plata High School in La Plata, Maryland. When Madden was 15 years old his father left the family, causing financial hardship for the family. Joel took up various odd jobs as a teenager to help his mother with the family's bills. One job he and his brother, Benji, took up was washing people's hair at a salon. While in his early 20s, Joel changed his last name from Combs, his father's name, to his mother's maiden name, Madden. He did this to further himself from his father, who had left their family. In 1995, at the age of 16, Joel attended the Beastie Boys Ill Communication Tour with his brother Benji. Drawing from music introduced to them by their older brother Josh, such as Rancid and Social Distortion, as well as the influence of the Beastie Boys concert, the two started their own band with a friend. The band was short lived and the Maddens eventually recruited fellow high schoolers Paul Thomas and Aaron Escolopio to form Good Charlotte. Joel dated singer and actress Hilary Duff for two and a half years before their relationship ended in November 2006. Later that year in December 2006, Madden and Nicole Richie became a couple. In June and July 2007, numerous media outlets were stating that Richie was pregnant with Madden's baby. These rumors were unaddressed by the couple until July 31, 2007 when they confirmed in an interview with Diane Sawyer that Nicole was pregnant with Joel's child. For the sake of Nicole and the baby, Joel has given up smoking. Nicole gave birth to the couple's daughter, Harlow Winter Kate Madden on January 11, 2008 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Joel currently resides in Glendale, California. Tags: avril, best, charlotte, damn, good, joel, lavigne, madden, nicole, richie, thing, Author: LeanneGC101 |
