Jimmy Olsen joins the cast of "Smallville"

by: Average Joe July 12 2006

Will join the cast in the sixth season scheduled to debut on the new CW network in the Fall.

Comics Continuum reports that Aaron Ashmore will join the cast of Smallville in it’s sixth season playing the role of Jimmy Olsen.

"We are very excited to have Aaron joining the show as Jimmy Olsen,” Gough told The Continuum on Tuesday night. “We had been big fans of his work on Veronica Mars and think he’ll be a great addition to the cast.

"Also, I think it will be great that our perennial third wheel Chloe Sullivan will finally get some romantic action with a non krypto-freak!"

Ashmore, 26, recently played Troy Vandegraff in UPN’s Veronica Mars.

Ashmore is the twin brother of Shawn Ashmore, who played Iceman in the last two X-Men movies and also played the power-absoring Eric Summers in two episodes of Smallville.

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