Heather Locklear

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American perky, sexy, blonde TV actress who made it big. She appeared on two prime time series simultaneously, playing gentle Stacy in "T.J. Hooker" 1982-1987, and nasty Sammy Jo on "Dynasty" 1981-1989. Her nighttime soap, "Melrose Place" celebrated one hundred episodes on 20 September 1995. Locklear appeared in commercials as a spokesperson for L'Oreal hair color. In real life she's known for being as sweet as she is adorable with her pixie grin and bubbly personality. The youngest of four in a close-knit family, she began to model during her freshman year at UCLA. When TV beckoned, she quit school to act full time. Heather was married for seven years, 1986-1993, to heavy metal rocker Tommy Lee, the drummer for Motley Crew. Explaining the apparent mismatch, she said that she was exploring her dark side, "rebelling through Tommy," a tattooed, teased-haired wild man. In February 1994, she met Richie Sambora, lead guitar for Bon Jovi. They married in a civil ceremony on 15 December 1994 at his Rumson, NJ home, with a second formal ceremony two days later in Paris. Their first child, Ava Elizabeth presented herself on 4 October 1997 after 35 hours of labor, finally resulting in a C-section. Locklear joined the cast of "Spin City" in 1999. On 2 February 2006, the actress announced that she had filed for a divorce from her husband, rocker Richie Sambora, to whom the news reportedly came as a huge surprise. On 24 June 2008 she checked herself into a treatment center in Arizona for treatment of depression and anxiety. She has since had a couple of arrests for driving offences in 2008 and 2010, and a brief hospitalization for a drug overdose on 13 January 2012. Link to Wikipedia biography