Facts
3rd February 2006)
Heather Locklear and her husband, Bon Jovi Richie Sambora, are set to divorce, Locklear's publicist Cece Yorke confirmed yesterday. Yorke added: "This is a private matter and there will be no further comment at this time."
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While attending UCLA, Heather Locklear
began modeling and working in commercials for the school store.
In 1979, Locklear landed her first TV role
in a TV movie and then on
an episode of CHiPs a year later. She landed a few more bit parts
in shows like Eight Is Enough
and The Fall Guy, before Aaron Spelling
cast her in his new TV series Dynasty.
When the series premiered in 1981,
Locklear was a hit. Spelling immediately cast
her opposite William Shatner in the cop show
T.J. Hooker. The show's 1982 premiere sent
Locklear into the Hollywood stratosphere.
Throughout the 1980's she continued to work on
these two shows and in numerous
movies and television specials. In the 1990's (after a
failed comedy sitcom Going Places), Locklear
won the role that is probably her best known:
the vixen Amanda Woodward on
the series Melrose Place from 1993 to 1999.
Locklear also won First Americans in the Arts:
Best Actress in a TV series
for her role on Melrose Place. After her run on the show,
she was immediately on another
TV sitcom, Spin City, opposite
Michael J. Fox. Locklear also served for 6 years
as the spokesperson for the Health and Tennis Corporation
of America.
Locklear starred in the airport drama LAX,
which ran from 2004 to 2005.
