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Ashlee Simpson to join ‘Melrose Place’ cast

March 10, 2009 4:00pm
LOS ANGELES – Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is moving to Melrose Place.

The 24-year-old singer will join the cast of the CW's "Melrose Place."

Simpson-Wentz will be playing a small-town girl with a "shrewd sex kitten" within, Entertainment Weekly first reported on http://www.ew.com Monday.

"I'm thrilled to be joining the cast of Melrose Place and I look forward to being a part of its new generation of residents," she said in a statement in People magazine. - AP