It Is What I Wanted, But…

Laura Leighton will be back on TV this fall in The CW’s reboot of Melrose Place.

Oh yeah, pose, snap!

Here’s the part that makes me nervous, though: Leighton left the original show after her character, the deliciously devious Sydney Andrews, was, mmm…uh, run over…on her wedding day…outside the church.

Presumed dead, she never was seen again for the rest of the show’s run.

Although the reboot’s pilot script is being kept under wraps, sources said Leighton would be the landlord to a new crop of tenants including Ashlee Simpson-Wentz.

Bringing back characters from the dead is very jump-the-shark-ish, but I’m intrigued. I heart Leighton so, and Sydney always was my favorite.

Now that Leighton’s on board, I wonder which original-flavor cast members will be moving back to the neighborhood. Heather Locklear and Andrew Shue aren’t (yet), but how about it, Thomas Calabro? Did you call your agent yet?

Photo: MyLifetime.com.

Update: Called it!

Thomas Calabro also will be seen lurking around the new Melrose Place when his Michael Mancini returns to the apartment complex this fall.

Awww. Did Syd and Michael make it work, after all?