Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are getting married, they announced Wednesday.

“We know there has been a lot of speculation recently about Pete and I, and we wanted our fans to be the first to know, because you guys are the best,” Simpson said in a statement posted on friendsorenemies.com. “Yes, we are thrilled to share that we are happily engaged. Thank you for all of your support and well wishes – it means the world to us. We consider this to be a very private matter, and we wanted to be the first to tell you and to hear it straight from us.”

Maybe it was all the talk about children, but while Angelina Jolie was discussing Iraq education policy Tuesday in Washington D.C., she “felt kicking suddenly,” she says.

And though it was “in the middle of the event,” the expectant mother of four didn’t miss a beat as she talked about her two visits to Iraq and her new initiative, Education Partnership for Children of Conflict.

Jolie, 32, says EPCC will be “a center that helps raise awareness and coordinate all the various efforts of people working towards education for children of conflict.”

Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn have halted their divorce proceedings, court papers show.

In a one-page document filed Tuesday in Marin County Superior Court, the clerk dismissed the couple’s divorce petition at their request.

Penn, 47, and Wright Penn, 42, filed divorce papers in December after 11 years of marriage,.

Penn and his wife were also spotted at an Eddie Vedder concert in San Francisco Tuesday night, according to Extra, which first reported the withdrawal of divorce papers.

Don’t expect Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale to be stocking up on baby items in pink or blue just yet. The couple, who are expecting their second child, will find out if they’re getting a boy or a girl on delivery day, Rossdale said Wednesday.

“We don’t know [the baby's gender]. It was a surprise last time so we’re kind of working on that this time,” he told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show. “There are some [names] floating around the house, bouncing around the walls.”

Angelina Jolie was radiant as she awarded her friend, journalist Mariane Pearl, with the Fern Holland Award Monday night at the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards gala in Washington, D.C.

Jolie, who played Pearl in the film version of her book A Mighty Heart, spoke of Pearl’s special gift as a mother and called her an example of “courage, hope and tolerance,” reports the Washington Post.

Grammy-winning singer Toni Braxton is in “good condition” after being admitted to a Las Vegas hospital for chest pains Monday night, says a spokeswoman for a hotel-casino where the singer has been performing.

The singer, 40, is expected to be released from the St. Rose Dominican Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Flamingo Hotel-Casino rep. She has been headlining her live show “Toni Braxton: Revealed” five days a week at the Flamingo since 2006.

All those pregnancy rumors are starting to make Fergie self-conscious. Dismissing chatter she’s expecting (”No, no,” the pop star insisted), Fergie told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show Tuesday morning that she stepped up her exercise game in preparation for Fox’s Idol Gives Back special to hopefully squash the rumors. Perhaps to prove it – and also to show off her love of gymnastics – she performed a one-handed cartwheel during Sunday’s taped performance with the group Heart. Catch her skills when the special airs Wednesday on Fox.

Mischa Barton will accept a plea deal in her DUI case, sparing her any jail time, a source says.

The former O.C. star will plead no contest to DUI at her arraignment Thursday in Beverly Hills court, and agree to serve a three-year unsupervised probation term, the source says.

Barton will also be sentenced to a three-month alcohol-education class, and pay a fine of approximately $1,700. In addition, a marijuana possession charge against the actress will be dropped, due to the small amount found. Another charge of driving without a license will be reduced to an infraction, according to the source.