The happy couple seemed to be in good spirits as they shared a laugh walking back to the car. Ashlee, with her newly dyed dark hair, seemed stress free from the latest press drama surrounding her departure from TV show “Melrose Place”.

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Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is all set to make her Broadway debut as she reprises the role of Roxie Hart in ‘Chicago’, it has emerged. According to GossipCop.com, the 25-year-old singer-turned-actress, who played the character in London’s West End in 2006, will begin her six-week Broadway stint next month, reports the Daily Star.

The news comes after Ashlee was axed from the TV show Melrose Place last month. An insider had recently revealed that Ashlee had made up her mind to hang up her mic and focus on her acting career for the sake of her 11-month-old son, Bronx.

“She’s reading scripts. Acting is her focus now. If she had an album, she’d have to tour and be away from Bronx. She wants consistency,” Contactmusic had quoted the source, as saying.

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Pete Wentz is throwing a ‘Spongebob Squarepants’-themed party for his son.

The Fall Out Boy rocker’s son Bronx Mowgli celebrates his first birthday later this month and the musician and wife Ashlee Simpson-Wentz are planning to incorporate the tot’s current obsession into their celebrations.

Pete said: “We got the one-year birthday coming up which is going to be pretty awesome. I think we’re going to go ‘Spongebob’.”

Bronx developed his love for the animated ocean-dwelling sponge because of giant pictures the couple have in their home.

Pete explained: “We have these giant ‘Spongebob’ paintings in our house and I said, ‘Spongebob’ a couple times when we were walking by it. Now Bronx has to stop every time we walk by and he says, ‘Bob.’ ”

However, Pete’s revelations are delighted to disappoint his manager – who thinks Bronx keeps saying ‘Bob’ because it is his name.

The rocker added: “I swear to God he thinks Bronx says ‘Bob’ because of him and I don’t want to break his heart!”

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Looks like there’s one less “Melrose Place” mystery. Sure, fans are still scratching their heads about that whole “who killed Sydney Andrews?” thing, but at least those wondering why Ashlee Simpson-Wentz recently got the axe have their answer. According to on-set sources, the sometimes-singer-sometimes-actress was just plain awful as the show’s not-so-naïve Violet Foster.

“They hired her because they needed a good name to help create buzz,” one source revealed to Us Weekly. “But she was embarrassingly bad. Producers cut her down as much as possible.”

Allegedly producers finally realized that the only way to cope with Simpson-Wentz’s particular brand of bad acting was to cut her out of the show altogether. It’s a move that would have only come as a surprise to Simpson-Wentz herself, as another “Melrose” insider revealed the actress never realized she had a problem.

“She’s the worst actress, but nobody will tell her,” the insider said.

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Entertainment Weekly’s EW.com has learned exclusively that two months into its run, The CW’s ratings-challenged (but creatively-smokin’) Melrose Place reboot is about to undergo a major renovation. EW’s Michael Ausiello reports that Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Colin Egglesfield have been let go (they’ll last air in January), and the “Who Killed Sydney?” mystery is being wrapped up in December. Then, in addition to Heather Locklear’s Amanda, several new characters will be introduced and the show will take on a lighter, more fun vibe. Here, in an exclusive interview, exec producers Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer explain why they’re fixing a series that many (myself included) felt wasn’t broken and tease what’s ahead for Melrose 2.0 3.0.

What was behind the decision to let Ashlee and Colin go?

TODD SLAVKIN: Well, 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.

So it was always the plan for Ashlee to leave after episode 12?

SLAVKIN: Yes. Because we felt that once the murder mystery was resolved, the tone of the show was going to shift into a much more fun, romantic, sexy upbeat kind of show, and [her] character would move on.

Is it fair to say that if either of those characters clicked you would’ve found a way to keep them?

SLAVKIN: Well, you never know when you go along. But in the end, we felt like it was right [decision].

DARREN SWIMMER: 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.

How did Ashlee and Colin take the news?

SLAVKIN: They’re total professionals and they took it like professionals. When you go into a show you never know what’s going to evolve and what the possibilities are. But because they knew ahead of time [that leaving was a possibility], it wasn’t a complete shock.

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Wentz, 30, who has 10-month-old son Bronx Mowgli with singer-turned-actress Simpson, 25, revealed they are both eager to add more to their brood in the future.

“Everything is awesome about being a dad. Eventually we want to be able to have a soccer team!” Contact Music quoted him as telling People.

However, the Fall Out Boy rocker and Simpson will have to wait until their lives are less busy.

“We will have to schedule and time things right. Ashlee is really focused on filming ‘Melrose Place’ right now and I’m figuring what I’m doing next year,” he added.

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