After playing the Orange Bowl and “Saturday Night Live,” Ashlee Simpson is ready to take on Broadway. Ms. Simpson, 25, announced on Monday that she would play Roxie Hart in the musical “Chicago” for 10 weeks, beginning today. Ms. Simpson, best known for the hit CDs “Autobiography” and “I Am Me” and a much publicized lip-synching episode on television, has played Roxie before, on the West End in London, but is to be making her Broadway debut. Most recently, she has been a regular on the revived version of “Melrose Place” on the CW network, but that show’s producers announced last month that her character would be written out of the story.

Out for another day of filming,  Reese Witherspoon was spotted readying to shoot a few scenes on the set of the new James Brooks comedy “At Bat” in Philadelphia.

Sporting a Team USA jacket, the “Legally Blonde” babe has been hard at work while her ex-hubby Ryan Phillippe has been manning parental duties for the couple’s two children, Ava and Deacon.

PETA’s “Save The Seals” campaign aims to end Canada’s yearly killing of baby seals for their fur. Kelly feels it’s her duty to bring awareness to the project.

“I decided to do the baby seal ad for PETA mainly because I feel I have a responsibility to let people know that fur is not for wearing—we’re not cavemen anymore,” she said during her Save The Seals photo shoot. “The saddest thing for me is just knowing baby seals, some of which have not even had their first meal, are going to be killed, and most of them are probably still alive when they’re skinning them.”

Other stars joining in on the campaign includes actresses Jennie Garth, Rachel Leigh Cook, TV personality and former Dancing With The Stars contestant Steve-O.

The secret to a successful publicity campaign seems pretty simple: Invite a celebrity, attractive woman or a man wearing a costume to your event in order to raise awareness for your product, ideology or run for office.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are well versed in this strategy and this morning enlisted a baby seal mascot and Pamela Anderson (marginally credible as both a celebrity and an attractive woman) to unveil an ad campaign calling for the end of Canada’s seal hunt.

The unveiling, held at a street corner near Ontario’s provincial parliament building, was hampered by cold weather and bitter autumn winds. Photographers huddled together as they waited for the former Baywatch star to appear.

The 28-year-old actress is choosing parts with an eye on how they’ll affect her life. ‘I want to be a woman on-screen because I want to be a woman in my life. I don’t want to be a little girl,’ she says.

Elisha Cuthbert to lead the Grey Cup parade through the streets of Calgary tomorrow.

Elisha Cuthbert will act as the parade marshal.

There are more than 60 floats and groups participating in the parade.

For all of our US readers we hope you are having a fantastic Thanksgiving!

Melissa Joan Hart is known for playing teens on television, but the 33-year-old actress might be playing an adult if a pilot she’s making gets picked up.

“I’m going to be doing a new pilot with Joey Lawrence,” Melissa told Access Hollywood of the potential ABC Family show. “Hopefully it’ll go to series.”

Melissa revealed the show is currently untitled, but as for her character, she is very far removed from the actress’ days on “Clarissa Explains It All” or “Sabrina The Teenage Witch.”

“It’s going to be a fun little sassy character for me,” she said. “It’s going be different ‘cause I get to play a little bit more of a grown-up, a politician, kind of a bad girl politician.”

Madonna is headed back to Malawi — with education, not adoption, on her agenda.

The 51-year-old singer is expected to visit the African country this weekend on behalf of her charity, Raising Malawi, and lay the foundation stone for the $15 million school she is building there.

“She plans to meet the President Bingu wa Mutharika and together lay a foundation stone for her multi-million dollar girls school,” a staffer at the charity, who declined to be named.

Cougar Town is getting back its Realtor.

The ABC show, which stopped filming briefly last week so star Courteney Cox could attend to a “family matter,” resumes production Nov. 30 following an already-planned weeklong break for Thanksgiving, the network says.

The nature of the family issue wasn’t disclosed. But Cox’s reps confirm to PEOPLE the actress and her family are fine and that she’ll be returning to work following the Thanksgiving hiatus.