Pete Wentz Wants Ashlee Simpson To Be A ‘Bitch’
Pete Wentz has gone on the record about plans for his wife Ashlee Simpson to join the cast of the Melrose Place redux that is currently in production for The CW. Talking to US Weekly on the red carpet of the 2009 Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards over the weekend, Pete reveals that it is his sincere hope that Ashlee plays the “bitch” on the show. Lovely. Here is a pic of the pair together at the 2009 MTV Australia Awards in Sydney, Aus last week:
Pete Wentz hopes his wife Ashlee Simpson-Wentz gets to be a diva on Melrose Place. “I’m excited to watch. She’s a good actor,” Pete told Usmagazine.com at the Kids’ Choice Awards on Saturday. “I think it will be awesome. I told her that I hope she gets to play the bitch.” Ashlee, 24, and Pete, 29, didn’t grow up watching the primetime drama, which went off the air in 1999. “She was way too young, and I was a little too young,” Pete said. “I was into 90210 and I kind of got into Melrose Place, but I was more, like, a Saved By the Bell kind of guy!” No matter: Pete says the spinoff, due to premiere in this fall on the CW, will be different than the original. “I think they are revamping it,” he said. “They are not ignoring [the past], but it’s getting a new look, a makeover.” Ashlee told Us earlier she was “thrilled” to play a lead character named Violet, a small-town girl who moves to L.A. with a secret.
Ha! To be honest, I totally get the sentiment that Pete is trying to convey. The bitchy character tends to get a lot of attention so why wouldn’t he want her to be the villain. Honestly, I don’t know that Ashlee has the chops to be able to pull off a role like that. That being said, it’s not toally unreasonable to think that a “small-town girl who moves to L.A. with a secret” can’t turn into an überbitch character. Kristen Davis played a horribly evil character on the original Melrose Place. She was so good at the role that I loathed the sight of her for years! It wasn’t until I got into Sex and the City (years after the show went off the air) that I found new love for her. I guess we’ll see who gets bitchy and who doesn’t when Melrose debuts on The CW this Fall.
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Tags: 'Melrose Place', Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, Pete Wentz
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March 30th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I think Ashlee is really cute.. I like her better with blonde hair. Even though I love red hair, I just don’t like it on her for some reason… She should get the “Bitch” part, though – she LOOKS like she could be a bitch. :)
March 30th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
pete wentz is SO NOT 29
March 30th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I totally forgot that Kristen Davis was on Melrose! And she really was a bitch too!!! It’s so odd though because she just seems to embody Charlotte so well! I can barely even remember her bitchy side! And I get what Pete is saying too… not only do the bitchy characters get more attention but Ashlee seems like she’s really sweet and down to earth (I remember her reality show) and playing something opposite of herself would be so much fun! I still don’t know if I’m going to watch though…