Heather Locklear did not have Ashlee Simpson moved out of “Melrose Place”
8:29 am, October 29th, 2009
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Amazing! It took four Star magazine reporters to come up with a single page of text, and still it’s so riddled with inaccuracies that it seems more a work of fiction than an article.
In a piece titled, “Ashlee Forced Out! By Heather,” the Star claims, “Heather Locklear was gunning for Ashlee Simpson-Wentz from the moment she set foot on the Melrose Place set. Now Ash is history – and the prime-time diva couldn’t be more thrilled!”
According to a so-called “source,” Locklear “was jealous of Ashlee immediately… She knew Ashlee was one of the bigger names on the set, and she wanted her gone so she could make it her show. Heather is very political and calculating.” Adds the “source” in what is clearly a made-up quote about Locklear: “For a sunshiny California girl, she sure has ice running through her veins.”
The cutting dialogue, the intrigue… this fabricated story is almost as dramatic as an episode of “Melrose Place.”
The article also goes way off base when it states how Simpson-Wentz and her onscreen love interest Colin Egglesfield were informed their characters were off the show: “Producers told them by e-mail they were being let go!”
Well, Gossip Cop spoke to sources involved in the production, and here is what we learned. For starters, Star violated Journalism 101, says a source, who related that the magazine “never called to fact-check.”
Had Star done the basics, the magazine would have found out what Gossip Cop did which, according to a highly placed source, is that their story is “100 percent not true.” That same impeccable insider said, “Ashlee is a total pro, and Heather is a total pro,” but emphatically stressed, that Simpson-Wentz’s departure had “nothing to do with Heather, but was part of the original plan [for her character].”
Additionally, that whole thing about her finding out she was gone via e-mail… the insider said that, too, was “completely false,” and told Gossip Cop she was personally informed by producers.
Gossip Cop has said it before and we’ll say it again: We think we’re developing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from having to repeatedly type the words “Star magazine” and “not true.”
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