You can take a look around to learn a little bit about her, but seeing as you are reading this right now, I may as well give you a few facts to go on. Then you can make educated decisions about your opinion of Katie. Who knows, maybe her TV shows will catch your attention as you play Cheekybingo or file your nails one day.

- She plays Juliet Sharp in US TV drama Gossip Girl. A character who, well, let’s just say her motives aren’t particularly honourable. Everyone loves a bad girl.

- She once dated US pop star Jesse McCartney, back when he was singing about Beautiful Souls and riding a surfboard in US drama Summerland. She even appeared in his music video for ‘She’s no you’. Katie and him are thought to still be friends.

- She starred alongside Selena Gomez in 2011 hit Monte Carlo. The film also starred Leighton Meister (of Gossip Girl too), and Glee’s Cory Monteith.

- If you love a good slasher movie, Katie made her horror début in the 2006 film When A Stranger Calls. She played Tiffany.

- Her biggest TV roles have been in Harper’s Island, Gossip Girl, Supernatural, and Melrose Place.

- Her height is 5′ 7″.

- Her father David Cassidy was a 1970s pop star who was adored by women everywhere. This was thanks to his role in The Partridge Family. Her mother Sherry Williams was a fashion model.

Starting tonight, Heather Locklear reprises her role as the iconic bad girl on CW’s remake of Melrose Place (9 ET/PT). And as a PR firm partner, she’s ready to school junior publicist Ella Simms (Katie Cassidy) on the rules of the road.

Though both actresses say they’re not real-life vixens (they prefer slippers to stilettos), give them a short skirt and throw in a couple of ice-cold lines, and the pair embodies the femme fatale. Here Locklear and Cassidy reveal their rules of workplace etiquette, vixen-style.

Skirts should always be at least 6 inches above the knee. For heels, the higher, the better.

You’ll almost never see Cassidy’s or Locklear’s characters wearing something that isn’t expensive or sexy.

“I think she wears things that are very sophisticated, yet empowering. And these high, high heels. It’s much more intimidating that way,” Cassidy says.

But, Locklear warns, she has to be careful.

“The problem is when you go up the stairs, it’s like, ‘OK, who’s wearing short dresses and big honking platforms?’ If I fall, I’ll look stupid,” she says, with a laugh. “But Amanda is confident. She knows how to walk.”

Make sure to sweep everything off the desk before throwing a man on it.

Woodward and Simms vamp it up. With Locklear’s return, the series will be packed with more cutthroat, ruthless shenanigans.

“Heather is going to shake things up a bit,” Cassidy says. “You definitely see a different side of Ella when she’s around Amanda, which is going to be fun. It’s so pleasant to watch her. She’s so good and she’s so funny and so charming, and there’s so much charisma about her when she’s on screen.”

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

So what will happen when you get two strong female characters dressed to the nines and out for themselves on the same show? Stay tuned, Locklear teases.

“I have read some stuff that people want to see Katie and I fight,” she says, laughing.

“People like to see women fight. Like in the pool. A good catfight. We may get into a pool or two.”

Never underestimate the power of blackmail.

Cassidy, who is the daughter of actor and singer David Cassidy and model Sherry Benedon, has been living on the outskirts of Hollywood and says she’s encountered a few not-so-nice people. That background is where she draws inspiration for her own naughty character, a sexually adventurous, tough-as-nails career girl.

“There’s a way Ella goes about things that I most certainly do in my personal life. She’s very driven, and I think of myself as a very driven person,” Cassidy says. “She won’t take no for an answer. But I would never do some of the things that she does!”

Always carry a purse-size makeup mirror. It’s easier to see who’s trying to stab you in the back.

So is Woodward where Locklear hoped her character would be in 2009?

The jury is still out, says Locklear.

“I was hoping Amanda would be like myself: much more relaxed. I was like, ‘Oh my God, did she learn anything?’ No, she didn’t,” she says with a giggle. “It’s not the same writers, so they’ve written her a little different. Hopefully we’ll find a medium ground to her. I don’t want her to be bitter.”

Source: USA Today

The Spider-Man 3 star, 31, met the Melrose Place actress, 22, at a friend’s Hollywood party in August and the couple has been spotted out on various dinner dates ever since.

An eyewitness tells the National Enquirer, “They could not keep their hands off each other. They sat side by side and were inseparable. Topher kept kissing Katie and rubbing her shoulders. He looked in love.”

Grace has previously been romantically linked to Ivanka Trump and actress Teresa Palmer.

Source: StarPulse

Melrose Place, the primetime soap opera that rose to prominence in the 1990s, is back with all the lying, cheating, stealing, seduction, backstabbing, betrayal and murder that fans expect. Making all the melodrama go down that much easier Tuesday nights at 9pm is today’s Babe of the Day, Katie Cassidy.

Adding a new page to the prime-time diva bitch playbook is Cassidy’s Ella Simms, and all you really need to know about her character is that she swings…every which way, being described by producers as “tri-sexual, which is she’ll try anything.” Previously, Katie appeared on TV in the murder mystery Harper’s Island and as our favorite demon, Ruby, opposite Sam and Dean Winchester on Supernatural.

Source: IGN

Also, don’t forget to watch the second episode of Melrose Place tonight on the CW!

“For the most part, this cast has no connection to the other one,” Laura Leighton, who’s reprising her role as the scandalous Sydney Andrews, admits in the fall TV preview issue of Entertainment Weekly. “They never miss any opportunity to tell me that they weren’t even old enough to watch the original show. Katie [Cassidy, sitting above] turned to me the other day and said, ‘So were you, like, on the old one?’ I have to keep my sense of humor intact because it’s been a series of humiliations, really.”

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, who turns 25 in October, admits she was too young to catch it the first time around, too. “I never really watched shows like this until I was pregnant,” says the singer-actress. “But they’re so much fun — they’re part of American culture.”

Source: NY Daily News

Katie Cassidy, Melrose Place
David Cassidy’s daughter will ditch Harper’s Island and her brunette locks for sun-kissed California blonde on Melrose Place. The actress, Supernatural‘s original Ruby, plays Ella Simms, a ruthless publicist who’s looking to be MP 2.0′s Amanda Woodward.