Nicole Richie Likes Joel Madden's 'Dirty Face'

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Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden is growing a full beard. He's decided not to shave until next year after asking fans on his Twitter blog: "Should I shave? I haven't in five weeks."

Later, after being flooded with replies, he added: "OK, so the tweets have spoken -- 80 per cent say I should not shave. If that is your wish, then I will not shave. But by mid-Jan I should have a beard."

Nicole and new baby Sparrow (Buzznet.com)
Joel, 30, later revealed one of the main reasons he isn’t shaving is because Nicole, with whom he has two children, 22-month-old daughter Harlow and two-month-old son Sparrow, likes a man with a beard. He wrote: "Three good reasons why Joel should not shave: 1. It's November 2. Nicole likes me with a dirty face 3. I'm lazy."

Joel recently revealed he gave his son – full name Sparrow James Midnight Madden – an unusual name to purposely make life hard for him. He said: “My worry raising a son in Hollywood is, what will he have to struggle for? I wanted to give him a name that he's going to have to stand up for. I love it, I think it's a beautiful name."

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