It’s been a while since the teen soap opera The O.C. has ended. And like it’s trite storylines, the post-show career of Mischa Barton has been a veritable checklist of bad-girl young Hollywood behavior. DUI, arrests, drunken public behavior, nipslips, upskirts… you get the idea. She was (and still is) on her way to great obscurity becoming nothing more than a has-been.

Yet, since we celebrate the pathetic and obscene, rejoicing in their crazy ways, perhaps secretly still wishing we were them, no matter how many times we watch them fall and make a fool out of themselves, we still rejoice whenever they do their best to get back on the proverbial horse.

Well, looks like Mischa might just have a chance to mount that horse once again, as long as she doesn’t fuck it up. It’s rumored that she’s being considered to join the cast of the revamped Melrose Place (or Melrose V’09 as I call it in my head) set to debut this fall. If things pan out and she gets to join the cast, then at the very least she’ll have a steady income to support her drug habit (Just kidding! Or am I…). With all the magazines she’s come out in the past year (I counted 4, and it’s only March) it seems like she’s the one doing the campaigning. I guess she’s really that desperate for work.

Truth be told, I wouldn’t mind seeing Mischa do Melrose. It would be great to explore her nasty side. And maybe there’ll be some lezzie love scenes, since they are updating the series for today’s audience. With all the bed-hopping and partner-swapping that went on in the original, I wonder how far the updated version will go. Probably not as far as Mischa going nude since it’ll still be network TV. But if you’re itching to see Mischa a little less clothed, try this place out and maybe you’ll get lucky.