Ashlee Simpson-Wentz cast in new “Melrose Place”
24-year-old singer Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is reportedly returning to TV in the CW network’s reboot of “Melrose Place.”
The younger Simpson sibling, who recently gave birth to son Bronx Mowgli with husband Pete Wentz, will be playing a small-town girl with a “shrewd sex kitten” within, according to Entertainment Weekly.
“I’m thrilled to be joining the cast of Melrose Place and I look forward to being a part of its new generation of residents,” she said in a statement in People magazine.
A source close to Simpson-Wentz tells PEOPLE the actress “wanted something stable so she could be close to her baby.”
“She was specifically looking for something in television as her next step that filmed in Los Angeles so she wouldn’t have to be away from Bronx,” the source says. “Music is still a passion but she felt this was the best thing for her and her family at this point in her life. She’s really excited about Melrose Place.”
She and her rocker husband, Pete Wentz, will also guest star on the March 18 episode of CBS’s CSI: NY as a Bonnie-and-Clyde-like couple who get caught up in a drug deal gone bad. “I wish I got the chance to be murdered or rob a bank but I heard the make-up is much longer for that,” Wentz, 29, recently told PEOPLE.
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