A Lifetime original movie entitled Flirting with Forty will air on the network's channel on December 6, 2008. Starring Heather Locklear and Robert Buckley, it follows a divorced mother of two who is on vacation shortly before her fortieth birthday and falls for a younger man. It is based on a Jane Porter novel of the same name.

Photos of Healther Locklear in a tiny red bikini, and on set of Flirting with Forty, looking incredibly fit leaked onto the internet in April 2008.Zimbio: Heather Locklear in Red Bikini (April 25, 2008) Blogs and celebrity gossip sites took the opportunity to put the photos up against recent bikini photos of Denise Richards who was also in a red bikini.Defamer: Heather Locklear and Denise Richards Square Off in Bikini Deathmatch (April 25, 2008) The two former friends had a falling out due to Richards dating Locklear's husband at the time. The website declared Locklear to be the winner of the red bikini battle.Defamer: Heather Locklear and Denise Richards Square Off in Bikini Deathmatch (April 25, 2008)

• Heather Locklear as Jackie Laurens
• Robert Buckley as Kyle Hamilton
• Cameron Bancroft as Daniel Laurens
• Jamie Bloch as Jessica Laurens
• Sam Duke as Will Laurens
• Christy Greene as Melinda
• Chelah Horsdal as Anne
• Tracy Trueman as Sabrina