Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner have been ordered to appear at an informal hearing to determine whether they will be charged for criminal battery after a violent fight they had in late December.

Cops were called to Wagner’s San Fernando Valley home last month after a heated argument between the formerly engaged pair allegedly turned physical, a spokesman for the L.A. City Attorney’s office confirms to Gossip Cop.

Police say that during the incident, ”She lost it on him and he retaliated.”

Neither of the “Melrose Place” alums wanted to press charges when law enforcement officials arrived on the scene, but the case was still sent over to the L.A. City Attorney for review.

Locklear and Wagner now must appear at an hearing in late January during which prosecutors will decide if either or both of them will be charged for the scuffle.

The actress was rushed to the hospital last week after she allegedly took a combination of alcohol and prescription pills.

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Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner have called off their wedding, Gossip Cop confirms.

A rep for the actress tells us, “They are no longer engaged.”

Locklear was not wearing her engagement ring Monday night at the Breaking Dawn premiere in L.A.

The former “Melrose Place” co-stars began dating in 2007, shortly after Locklear finalized her divorce from Richie Sambora.

They got engaged in August.

We’ll update when we get more information.

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Marcia Cross won’t have a “Desperate Housewives” gig after the show ends next spring, but the National Enquirer already lined up a new career for her.

According to the tabloid, the actress plans to be a professional therapist.

The Enquirer says Cross signed on to the ABC series “soon after earning her license to practice, so she put psychoanalysis on the back burner to take part in the show.”

Now that “Housewives” is set to wrap, the actress, who has been helped in her own life by therapy, “wants to give back and help others” in that capacity, claims an Enquirer “source.”

But while it’s certainly a worthy professional pursuit, Cross has zero intention of taking it up, contrary to the magazine’s report.

A source close to Cross tells Gossip Cop there’s no truth to the Enquirer‘s speculation about her opening a therapy practice.

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Heather Locklear is engaged!

The actress and Jack Wagner are officially set to tie the knot, Gossip Cop has confirmed.

They’ve been dating since 2007, shortly after Locklear finalized her divorce from Richie Sambora.

The pair appeared together on “Melrose Place.”

Congratulations to the couple!

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“Melrose Place” actress Amy Locane has been indicted on charges of aggravated manslaughter and assault by auto after causing a fatal car crash last summer.

Locane killed Helen Seeman when she smashed into the passenger side of Seeman’s vehicle in Montgomery, NJ last June. Locane told police she’d been drinking.

A grand jury in Somerset County indicted Locane this afternoon.

The actress faces a 5-year maximum sentence for the assault charge and 10 to 30 years for the manslaughter charge.

She is contesting the indictment.

Her attorney, Blair Zwillman, tells Gossip Cop that aggravated manslaughter is “rarely used” in situations like these.

Locane played Sandy on “Melrose Place.”

She also starred in films including Cry-Baby, School Ties and Secretary.

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“Melrose Place” actress Amy Locane has been charged with killing a woman in a drunk driving accident.

Law enforcement officials say Locane was heading north on Cherry Hill Road in Montgomery, NJ on Sunday night when she struck another car’s passenger side as it turned into a driveway.

Helen Seeman was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 10:00 PM. Her husband, who was driving the car, is in critical condition.

According to an affidavit, Locane told police she had consumed several glasses of wine. Prior to the fatal accident, the actress reportedly rear ended a different vehicle at a Princeton intersection and fled. Authorities say the other driver saw her swerving and knocking over mailboxes before the Cherry Hill Road collision.

The actress faces 5 to 10 years in prison if convicted. Bail has yet to be set.

Locane also starred in films including Cry-Baby, School Ties and Secretary.

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It looks like “Gossip Girl” is getting yet another vixen.

Katie Cassidy, previously of (the canceled) “Melrose Place,” will be a new love interest for Chace Crawford‘s character when “Gossip Girl” returns for a fourth season, according to EW.com.

Reportedly, Cassidy will play a Columbia University student who makes trouble for other characters.

The actress happens to be shooting the comedy film Monte Carlo with “Gossip Girl” star Leighton Meester at the moment.

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“Heather Locklear Breaks It Off With Jack Wagner,” claims Perez Hilton, who has cornered the market in “late” and “wrong.”

The blogger says Locklear “called it quits with boyfriend and former Melrose Place co-star Jack Wagner, realizing the relationship was taking away time with her daughter Ava,” whom she had with Richie Sambora.

Uh, huh…

Perez even quotes a so-called “insider,” who explains, “Heather felt like she had been spending so much time with Jack, that it was affecting her child… So Heather told Jack she wants space.”

Sound familiar?

It should.

Gossip Cop busted this bad dish FOUR days ago.

And it was as wrong then as it is now.

A rep for the actress told Gossip Cop talk of a split is “not true.”

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Gossip Cop can confirm that Ashlee Simpson will be reprising the role of Roxie Hart in the Broadway production of “Chicago.”

Simpson, whose character recently wrapped on the TV show “Melrose Place,” starred in “Chicago” in 2006 in London’s West End, where she received good notices.

According to an inside source, Simpson will begin her Broadway run in December and perform for six weeks.

That same insider tells Gossip Cop that Fran and Barry Weissler, the show’s producers, were really pleased with Simpson’s performance in London, and had wanted her for some time to reprise the role.

This will mark Simpson’s Broadway debut.

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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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“Scary Skinny Ashlee Simpson” is the title of a National Enquirer article that claims she’s dropping pounds to compete with the other stars of “Melrose Place.”

According to the supermarket tab, Ashlee Simpson “has been crash-dieting and stressing over how she measures up to her gorgeous co-stars on the CW series.” The rag quotes a so-called source saying, “She substitutes Red Bull for some meals, and snacks on nuts and other small things instead of having a decent lunch or dinner.”

OK, here’s the real deal. “She eats,” says a source close to the singer-actress, who acknowledges that Simpson’s “burning calories by the truckload, but it’s not because she’s not eating” to compete with co-workers. 

Gossip Cop‘s insider assures us that Simpson is healthy, but has lost a little weight because she’s putting in “14-17 hour days on set and running after a rambunctious 11 month old.”

Nice job, Enquirer, with exaggerating the legitimate weight loss of a hard-working mom.

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Apparently, Star magazine isn’t satisfied with the romantic intrigue actually ON “Melrose Place,” because it’s fueling rumors of behind-the-scenes flirtations between co-stars Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Colin Egglesfield.

According to the tab’s piece titled, “Ashlee Crushing on Melrose Costar,” “an overly flirty” Simpson-Wentz “got touchy-feely with Colin between scenes on Sept. 23.” An ‘eyewitness’ tells Star the actress “kept grabbing Colin’s hand and hugging him repeatedly,” “giggled nonstop and did the whole hair-filp thing.”

Star then reports that husband Pete Wentz is aware of Ashlee’s “crush” and is very jealous. According to an ‘insider,’ “He recently caught Ashlee online Googling Colin and flipped,” and “they got into a huge fight over it and didn’t speak for days, and then he went on tour.” At which point, a different ‘insider’ tells Star, Ashlee invited Colin to join her for drinks after a day of filming.

We hate to “crush” this crush story, but a source close to Simpson-Wentz tells Gossip Cop, “It’s not true.”

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Heather Locklear is bringing Amanda Woodward back to “Melrose Place.”

After helping to rescue the original series in the 1990s, Locklear’s conniving Woodward will make her debut on the new version of “Melrose Place” on November 17. In a statement released today, the show’s producers said, “We are ecstatic to have the chance to bring Amanda Woodward back to ‘Melrose Place,’” adding, “Heather’s involvement in the show is something we’ve been working on for some time as we couldn’t imagine creating and producing this show without the iconic character’s inclusion.”

The CW, which airs the show, did not note how many episodes the star will appear in.

Gossip Cop reported back in August that Locklear’s return was likely. She joins Daphne Zuniga, Laura Leighton, Josie Bissett, and other original cast members who have returned for the new series.

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Ever since Gossip Cop posted photos from the L.A. premiere party of “Melrose Place” a couple of days back, we’ve been receiving loads of questions about whether Heather Locklear will join other past cast members, including Laura Leighton, Thomas Calabro, Daphne Zuniga and Josie Bissett, on the new show, which stars Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Jenna Dewan, among others.

Good news: Barring a major negotiation snag (like money), it should work out. A mutual friend of Locklear’s and Gossip Cop’s says, “She wants to do it. [The producers] want her to do it. They’re now just trying to work out a deal.”

Gossip Cop will let you know as soon as she signs on the dotted line.

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New stars like Ashlee Simpson-Wentz mingled with returning stars like Josie Bissett and Daphne Zuniga at the premiere party for “Melrose Place,” debuting this fall on the CW.

Gossip Cop is looking into persistent rumors that Heather Locklear might also sign on to the new series.