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Rumors have been swirling for months that The CW's quickly canceled series "The Beautiful Life: TBL" would somehow walk the runway again, most likely during the network's quiet summer season. But according to Reuters, creator Ashton Kutcher has decide to resurrect the series online.

Only two episodes of the model drama aired before the network pulled the plug in September. Ashton has three additional episodes in the can and is planning to upload all five to YouTube, with the first three going up today and the remaining two premiering December 21.

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Tags Ashton Kutcher, Ben Hollingsworth, Billy Magnussen, Ed Quinn, Elle Macpherson, Mischa Barton, Nico Tortorella, Sarah Paxton, The Beautiful Life

If the unfashionably early demise of The CW series "The Beautiful Life: TBL" left you with a closet full of questions—Who's the father of Sonja's (Mischa Barton) baby? Is Raina's (Sara Paxton) brother sleeping with the fishes?—you're not alone. Just a few days ago we pondered these same (seemingly unanswerable) questions. But we needed a little closure, so Hollywood Crush caught up with a member of the model drama's production staff who spilled major details about the series including what we would have seen in upcoming episodes (hint: sex, lies and murder!).

As was earlier reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the cast and crew were in the middle of filming the seventh episode when news broke last Friday that the show would be canceled. (Ironically they were ahead of production compared to other CW shows, even though they started two weeks late). Even more surprisingly, they didn't hear the news first from CW brass. Nope, they heard it like the rest of us—through the media! According to our insider, the news was leaked to THR 10 minutes before executives informed producers the series was dunzo. Our source also added that a script for the eighth episode was finished and scripts for the ninth and tenth episodes were in various stages of completion.

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Tags Ben Hollingsworth, Billy Magnussen, Ed Quinn, Elle Macpherson, Mischa Barton, Nico Tortorella, Sarah Paxton, The Beautiful Life

EDITORS NOTE: After we published this post we actually got a chance to talk with an insider from "The Beautiful Life" who low and behold had answers to almost all of our questions. So after you read the below, make sure not to miss our exclusive interview about the show's cancellation and would-be storylines!

By now you've likely heard the CW model drama "The Beautiful Life: TBL" walked off the runway — or more accurately, was pushed — due to poor ratings. The Mischa Barton-starring series, produced by Ashton Kutcher, ran for just two episodes before getting the axe, making it the first series cancellation of the 2009-10 season. Though low viewership was blamed, we can't help but wonder if the inclusion of "beautiful" in the title had something to do with it. Back in 2006, another show about comely characters, the ABC Family drama "Beautiful People," starring Daphne Zuniga and a pre-"Twilight" Jackson Rathbone (!), was also canceled, though after 16 episodes.

Whatever the reason for its demise, the death of "TBL" has left us with several unsolved mysteries and burning questions. After the jump, check out our top 10:

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Tags Ashton Kutcher, Ben Hollingsworth, Corbin Bleu, Mischa Barton, Nico Tortorella, Sarah Paxton, The Beautiful Life

It seems like someone was reading our diaries from elementary school because they are finally making a live-action film about Barbie. Variety reports that Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to make a film about the most famous blonde in the world. And since there has yet to be a storyline, director, writers or actors attached to the flick, we here at Hollywood Crush would like to place ourselves in the casting director's chair for just one moment.

With Hollywood teeming in bevies of blondes who would most likely kill each other for the chance to play the famed doll, we narrowed our list down to five likely starlets who we think resemble the iconic Barbie in some way or another. And, we decided that since Tyra Banks already starred as a doll in "Life-Size," she had her chance. So, now let's give some others that opportunity.

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Tags Ashley Tisdale, Barbie, Blake Lively, Olivia Wilde, Sarah Paxton, Taylor Swift