Melrose Place Is Doomed
Usually producers worry about stunt casting when they need a little boost to the ratings. They don't generally start with it at the outset of a television series that will get big ratings initially. I'm at a loss to explain any other reason why the producers of Melrose Place have cast Ashlee Simpson in a starring role on the new show. I don't know who owes whom or who has pictures of someone, but Ashlee is not the first person I think of when the word actress comes to mind.
Oh sure, she was on 7th Heaven and so you are saying she has experience and she must be good. Need I remind you that Jessica Biel and Haylie Duff were also on the show. Let me take that back. I actually think Haylie Duff would be good on Melrose. I don't share the same opinion about Ashlee being on the show. The only reason I can think of to have her on the show is to attract viewers and her husband, and not because she is any great shakes as an actress.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the description of Ashlee's character is a person with, "disarming naiveté [that] masks the calculating, shrewd sex kitten within." Uh huh. Let me know when Ashlee figures out what naiveté means. I really had high hopes for this show. After the mostly painful disappointment of 90210, I was hoping the producers would make more of an effort in their casting.
Of course they could just be signing her up for a quick death also. I mean you need those season ending cliffhangers. Maybe Dr. Kimberly Shaw could make an appearance and kill Ashlee. That would be good television, and make for a much better season the next year. The only thing that could possibly make this better is if they cast Jessica Simpson as her mother.
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haha "The only thing that could possibly make this better is if they cast Jessica Simpson as her mother" - pure gold right there
I saw some of her on 7th Heaven. That's where she got the nickname "Asslee." Because her acting is ass.
Did you really have high hopes, Enty? I figured from the beginning they were just going for a quick cash-in on the "success" of the new 90210.
Wasn't Mischa Braton (typo that fits) attached to this as well?
ashlee simpson? really? get out.
besides, who'd even remotely consider her a "shrewd sex kitten"?!
they must be looking for a quick death to that show and are in "just get it over with" mode.
Nice typo, kittens!
Ashlee Simpson!?! Is that really a pic of her?!? Nahhh....get atta heeya
Looks more like a cross between Holly Hunter and Bridget Fonda.
Therefore; she will now be called "Honda" for short.
Oh, lovely. Ausiello says this isn't the role Mischa is up for, so we could get BOTH of them on the show. Wasn't this one of the signs of the apocalypse?
As if she knows how to do anything. All the actresses in town and they cast her. Not that I was going to watch this drivel anyway. There are new fresh ideas for shows, but they're just not used.
Maybe she will lip synch & have someone do the acting for her.
I wasn't planning on watching this piece of crap anyway, and now there is even more reason to avoid it.
Looks like she's had some more "surgery". Better leave herself alone or she'll ruin her looks like her sister did.
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