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Melrose dumps 2 cast members

Possible Spoilers: Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Colin Egglesfield are moving out of Melrose Place.

mpPossible Spoilers: Leaving so soon?

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Colin Egglesfield are moving out of Melrose Place.

Simpson-Wentz’s Violet and Egglesfield’s Auggie have been part of the murder mystery involving Sydney (Laura Leighton), whose death kicked off the season and who’s been seen in flashbacks. That mystery is being wrapped up in December.

In addition to the return of Heather Locklear’s Amanda, several new characters will be introduced and the show will take on a lighter, more fun vibe.

Producer Todd Slavkin said, “We always knew that this murder mystery would end in episode 12. And we always knew that [Ashlee’s] character of Violet would be instrumental in that as a suspect, and [Colin’s character of] Augie as well. And once that murder mystery was solved, she would go on her way. That was the original plan going into the development of the show.”

He denied the changes were ratings-related.

“None of us foresaw the ratings; there’s nothing we can do about that. All we can do is write and produce the best show we know how. It’s fine to speculate, but in the end there was always a plan.”

Producer Darren Swimmer added: “The nature of soaps is that as things progress along, the story takes on a life of its own and the characters come and go in relation to that.”

Source: EW.com

5 Responses

  1. i still can’t believe the brought sydney back from the dead (we all saw her get hit by the car-there’s not faking that! she died in craig’s arms for god’s sake!) just to kill her off straight away…will Amanda come out of hiding to just be arrested again…
    maybe if syd had been an important, ongoing role maybe i could look beyond it but seriously…

  2. Shame to see Ashlee go…and I assume her character’s exit will be a fatal one (makes for good TV)…but like all good psycho’s, they always live to see another day…

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