He – not his wife – has the big closet in the master bedroom at their Newport Beach home, where they have quietly lived for almost two years. The father of four often spends an hour carefully selecting his outfit. He sifts through his hundreds of T-shirts, shoes and belts.
"My belt needs to match my shoes. My socks need to match my underwear. Everything has got to go together. It's an event, for real." His wife likens the event to a fashion show.
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Often drives a Mercedes CL 55, but prefers his PT Cruiser, which he spent $40,000 to customize? But his wife doesn't often let him take out the PT Cruiser, saying: "People can't see you driving that."
Describes Orange County as a "much more mellow scene," with a more "family vibe," than Los Angeles? "There are awesome schools down here. It's like a beach community. I like that. I have children and so I never really felt like Hollywood or most areas in L.A. were suitable for my kids to grow up in. Things down here remind me a lot more of where I grew up. I grew up in Arizona. Everything's spread out. It's more built out than up."
After a week of 10-hour days of press and photo shoots for Linkin Park, Bennington drove straight from his last interview one recent Friday in L.A. to Merrell's Newport Beach home. While their wives hung out, the two spent four hours, until midnight, going over designs for Ve'cel.
-OC Register
