Former ‘Desperate Housewives’ star Nicollette Sheridan is taking the ‘Housewives’ creator to court, reports E Online.

A Los Angeles Judge has given the go-ahead for the ex-star’s $20 million lawsuit against creator Marc Cherry to proceed to trial. Why is Sheridan taking Cherry to court, you ask? Sheridan sites ‘wrongful termination and assault’ for the lawsuit, claiming Cherry smacked her in the face while on set and then arranged to have her fired when she complained. Talk about harsh.

“It is clear to the court that this is something that needs to go to a jury,” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen announced at a hearing yesterday.

Sheridan, who had not appeared at any of the other proceedings in the case, did turn up for the session.

“I’m very happy that I am being treated fairly,” she told reporters outside the courtroom.

The actress, whose character on the hit ABC series met a shocking end (literally, she was electrocuted and killed off), filed her complaint against Cherry a year ago. Sheridan claims that the creator wrongly fired her after she reported to network bosses an incident of assault by Cherry in 2008.

However, last June (after her former costars pledged to support Cherry’s version of events), the actress backed off the abuse claims, filing an amended suit. Sheridan then changed her tune, alleging that the altercation didn’t involve a whack but rather “a light tap on the side of the head.”

But now, she’s going back to her main story. Something about this seems fishy – she just can’t make up her mind about what happened. Maybe the slap across the head caused memory loss.

ABC investigated her allegations, including her assertion that Cherry “took her aside and forcefully hit her with his hand across her face and head,” but determined they were “of no merit.”

Now it’s up to a jury to sort it all out. The trial is set to kick off on June 8.

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Actor Nicollette Sheridan, known for her role on “Desperate Housewives,” is suing the show’s creator, Marc Cherry.

According to TMZ, Sheridan is claiming that Cherry struck her across the head and face on set of the show, after she complained about him firing her. She is suing for assault and battery, gender violence and wrongful termination. She wants over $20 million.

In the lawsuit, Sheridan says that Cherry had created an unfriendly workplace from the beginning, “behaving in an extremely abusive and aggressive manner toward the individuals who work on the show.”

On September 24, 2008, Cherry allegedly physically assaulted Sheridan after she asked him about something in the script. According to the suit, “Cherry took her aside and forcefully hit her with his hand across her face and head.” The lawsuit then goes on to say that after the supposed incident, Cherry went to Sheridan’s trailer to “beg forgiveness.”

Sheridan claims she reported the experience to ABC immediately, but the network did not take action and Cherry’s aggressive behaviour only got worse.

To add a nice little cherry on an already undesirable cake, the suit also alleges that when Cherry found out that “Housewives” actor Teri Hatcher went above him to complain about him, he said, “I hope Teri Hatcher gets hit by a car and dies.”

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Nicollette Sheridan’s manager has sued her for more than $500,000 E! Online reports today.

Rob Lee is claiming the “Desperate Housewives” star failed to keep her end of a deal made between the two when they first partnered. At the time the two began their partnership, Sheridan was not a well known actress and got very little work, but she paid him 10 per cent of whatever she made. She stopped paying him in 2004 after she fired him.

Lee’s claim also says that he convinced the actress to attend the second audition for the hit ABC show, which originally Sheridan didn’t plan on doing. The suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior District Court yesterday. Sheridan has not commented on the current lawsuit yet.

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For the second year in a row, Eva Longoria, star of ABC’s hit “Desperate Housewives,” has topped Maxim Magazine’s “Hot 100″ women list, the Associated Press reports.

The women are among the most successful in television, film, music, sports and fashion.

According to the AP, Longoria was shocked to hear of her win for a second consecutive year.

“I was actually really shocked last year when I made the list,” Longoria told the news service, because the year before she ranked No. 91.

“So 91 to No. 1 was a big jump, and then to get it a second time in a row, I just couldn’t believe it. I was like, ‘Surely there are more beautiful women in the world.’ I can name 10.”

This is the first time the number one spot has been occupied by the same woman for two consecutive years.

The number two spot went to Jessica Alba. Lindsay Lohan, Angelina Jolie, Stacy Keibler, Scarlett Johansson, Cameron Diaz, Kate Bosworth, Keira Knightley and singer-actress Christina Milian round out the top 10.

The only other two Housewives to make the list were Nicolette Sheridan (number 48) and Teri Hatcher (number 73).

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