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.

What about Laura Leighton? Find out here!

Pete Wentz has revealed that he would like to have many children with his wife Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, enough to start his own “soccer team”.

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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Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson take their little boy, Bronx Mowgli Wentz, with them during a quick trip to PETCO in Studio City, California on September 16, 2009. Despite reports of marital trouble, the couple was seen being affectionate and holding hands while shopping.  So take that!

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Bronx Wentz may only be 10 months old, but mom Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has already thought about his first date — and how she’ll handle it.

Husband Pete Wentz “is definitely over protective, I know that! And I’m definitely going to be lay the boundaries down,” Simpson-Wentz, 24, tells Rachael Ray in an interview that will air Sept. 15.

She admits she’d be tougher if she had a “little girl.

“It’s different for a girl than with a guy, so I think we’ll have to grow together and be able to lay the boundaries,” she says. “But with Bronx, there will be a curfew and all that.”

She doesn’t want him hitting up too clubs or getting in trouble.

“I don’t want him to grow up in the middle of Hollywood,” she says.

Simpson-Wentz reveals a few surprising details from her pregnancy to Ray as well.

“I could do the splits when I was nine months pregnant,” she says. “I could put my leg over my head still. I used to be a ballerina.”

She next appears as Violet, a new girl in town with a shady past, in the Melrose Place spinoff, which premieres Sept. 8 on the CW. Wentz doesn’t mind all her steamy makeout scenes, she says.

“He is so not a jealous person, and it’s work. It is what it is. And believe me, there’s some jaw droppers for Violet!” she says. “I’d rather be kissing my husband.”

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She looks so great!

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