- Born
- Birth nameThomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.
- Nicknames
- Tom
- Hot Pants
- Height6′ 3½″ (1.92 m)
- Thomas Matthew Delonge was born to Connie and Thomas Delonge on December 13, 1975 in Poway, California. He has an older brother named Shon and a younger sister named Kari. He attended Poway High School and was Homecoming King. A friend gave him a guitar for his 15th birthday. When he was away at camp as a kid, a guy started his interest in Punk rock. Blink-182 started in 1992. Tom is the guitarist and vocalist of the band. Box Car Racer was a side project he started in 2002 and released one album. Tom formed Angels & Airwaves after the break up of Blink-182 and will release their third album in 2009. He and his wife, Jen Jenkins, met at a party about 5 or 6 years before they were married on May 26, 2001. They had their first child on July 15, 2002 and named her Ava Elizabeth. Ava was born at 5:30 A.M. at California Scripps Hospital in Los Angeles and she weighed 7 pounds. They had their second child, Jonas Rocket, on August 16, 2006.
- IMDb mini biography by: Theresa
- SpouseJen Jenkins(May 26, 2001 - present) (filed for divorce, 2 children)
- Paints only the nails on his left hand
- His signature fender guitars
- Peculiar pronunciation of lyrics
- Lip ring and various other piercings when he was younger
- His Gibson ES-333 Signature Guitar.
- On Blink-182's real first tour, Tom was arrested for underage drinking.
- Jimmy Eat World performed at his wedding.
- Got expelled from Poway High School for showing up to a school basketball game drunk. He was forced to attend Rancho Bernardo High School for one semester.
- He originally wanted to be a fireman.
- His friends voted him for prom king in high school to annoy the school staff.
- Humor has become so cliché and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
- "We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists" (On how Blink-182 write their music).
- I applaud anyone who thinks I'm good-looking and invite them into my world.
- I came up with a little formula. If you write songs about girls, you get more girls at a show. We write A LOT of songs about girls.
- We were bored and we couldn't get chicks. So we decided if we'd be in a band, that would take care of two problems at once.
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