Ashlee Simpson was reportedly kicked off The CW stinker Melrose Place because she’s — well — a non-acting diva, a disgruntled cast member divulged to FOX News on Tuesday.
“Ashlee was kicked off ‘Melrose Place’ because she was a total diva on set, late all the time, and deeply disliked by fellow cast members,” the loose-lipped informant blabbed. “It created a lot of discord among the cast. She could barely act,” the source said.
Producers, desperate to save the sinking series, wanted Heather Locklear to reprise her role as tough PR exec Amanda Woodward, but couldn’t afford her salary demands without cutting someone.
“They basically trimmed the fat and made it possible for Heather to join the show. Heather is a much bigger name than Ashlee….”
“Bittersweet World” no longer: Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is giving up her recording career for her son. Celebrity insiders tell London’s The Mirror, the hoedown-dancing, “Pieces of Me” crooner has made the decision to hang up her mic and focus on her acting career for the sake of her son with hubby Pete Wentz.
The 25-year-old singer/actress — who was recently canned from the tepid television remake Melrose Place — feels only acting can give her the time to be with the 11-month-old Bronx.
“She’s reading scripts. Acting is her focus now. If she had an album, she’d have to tour and be away from Bronx. She wants consistency….”
We wonder how this is going to work out since most people who saw her on Melrose are emphatic that the girl couldn’t act her way out of a wet paper bag?
Nobody puts Jessica’s baby sister in a corner! Singer-actress Jessica Simpson is fuming over younger sister Ashlee Simpson-Wentz’s unceremonious eviction from Melrose Place — and she’s venting her frustration with the CW show via Twitter.
“CW catching up on MP.who writes this crap?i have had bad scripts to work with,but this?thank God my sister is amazing and got you some press,” Jessica Tweeted on Sunday night.
Late last month, the network announced that Ashlee and co-star Colin Egglesfield would be dropped from the Melrose cast in January following the end of the “Who Killed Sydney?” storyline.
While the move may have come as a surprise to fans, executive producer Todd Slavkin claims it was in the cards all along.
Heather Locklear doesn’t just play a bitch on TV. The primetime diva appeared on classic small screen smashes like T.J. Hooker, Dynasty, and Spin City. She also famously starred as icy PR vixen Amanda Woodward on the original Melrose Place in the 1990s. But we hear the seasoned actress got into the mother of all catfights with actress-singer Ashlee Simpson on the set of the of The CW’s Melrose revival, as a rivalry ensued over who would be the show’s official Queen Bee. When the dust settled, Heather was the last the woman standing, Star Magazine claims in its Nov. 9 issue.
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Pete Wentz and his recently unemployed wife Ashlee are selling their home because it isn’t kid-friendly
The couple has put their sprawling hillside Beverly Hills estate on the market as they hunt for a home with a yard for baby son Bronx, a source tells Life & Style Magazine. “The house is built into the side of a giant hill and it doesn’t really have any yard. Now that Bronx is getting older they realised that really isn’t a child-friendly house,” a tipser divulged.
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That was quick: It looks like Ashlee Simpson-Wentz’s and Colin Egglesfield’s stays at Melrose Place will be short ones.
The stars will be moving out of TV’s sexiest complex — and exiting The CW show — once the show’s “Who Killed Sydney?” mystery storyline wraps up early next year, Entertainment Weekly‘s Michael Ausiello confirmed this afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »
Actress, singer, and mom Ashlee Simpson-Wentz talked about life with her young son, Bronx and her new role on The CW’s primetime soap Melrose Place in an interview with The TODAY Show Thursday.
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and her husband Pete Wentz were reportedly caught in a public tiff during a night out in Chicago over the weekend.
The couple was celebrating the first anniversary of Wentz’s Chicago bar Angels & Demons when Ashlee began shouting at him to leave in front of partygoers on August 15.
The Melrose Place star been drinking heavily and the pair continued to argue ferverishly as they exited the venue.
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Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson are at odds over when to expand their family. At 30, the Fall Out Boy bassist is eager for his 25-year-old wife to get moving on birthing the couple’s second child. Ashlee, on the other hand, wants another child — eventually — but is determined to focus her energy on her new CW soap Melrose Place, premiering in September.
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A Simpson-Wentz insider tells The National Enquirer: “Pete wants Ashlee pregnant NOW. He wants a big family. And he’s adamant that the children should be close in age. But Ashlee is consumed with making it as a serious actress. Each time Pete brings up the idea of a new baby, Ashlee groans, ‘We just had one!’”
Simpson gave birth to their first child, son Bronx Mowgli, last November.
The insider adds: “While Ashlee does want more kids, she wants to wait a couple of years. It’s Pete who is getting antsy — and the baby issue is starting to create conflict. Ashlee worked hard to slim down and lose the baby weight after Bronx was born in November. She thinks another pregnancy now will slow her career momentum.”
In “Not Safe For Life” News….
We heard that manager/stage pop Joe Simpson is hoping the recent passing of pop icon Michael Jackson will help him revive daughter Ashlee Simpson’s fleeting singing career. Joe is reportedly planning a cover album that would feature Ashlee re-recording several songs first made famous by the late King of Pop.
