Jennie Garth, star of Beverly Hills, 90210, really didn’t love returning for The CW’s reboot years later.
The actress, who reprised her position as Kelly Taylor in 90210, which ran from 2008 to 2013, shared that she regretted taking part within the remake throughout a current panel at ’90s Con in Florida. “I want I hadn’t achieved it. No offense to them,” she stated, by way of Folks.
“The producer was a good friend of a good friend, and I bear in mind he came to visit in my front room, sat me down, [billed it as] this opportunity of a lifetime. He requested me to do it and I didn’t know how one can say no then,” Garth added. “However the individuals had been very good and all the very best to them.”
Garth, Shannen Doherty and Tori Spelling had been the one authentic actors to return for 90210, which starred Shenae Grimes-Beech and AnnaLynne McCord and adopted rich children at West Beverly Hills Excessive College. Nevertheless, Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Brian Austin Inexperienced, Gabrielle Carteris and Ian Ziering additionally joined Garth on the panel and had their very own ideas in regards to the reboot.
“I by no means wished to [do it],” Carteris admitted. “I used to be so shocked they had been doing a brand new present. I used to be like, is it like, they lengthy a lot you’re simply going to attempt to reinvent it time and again?”
Inexperienced added, “No offense in any respect, it’s to me, we did 10 years of that present and it’s like OK, achieved.”
Beverly Hills, 90210, which was created by Darren Star and ran for 10 seasons from 1990 to 2000, adopted a gaggle of buddies residing in Beverly Hills as they transitioned from their faculty days into faculty and maturity. The present additionally starred Jason Priestley, Luke Perry, Joe E. Tata, Carol Potter, James Eckhouse and Tiffani Thiessen.
Although a lot of the authentic solid didn’t reprise their roles in 90210, they later got here collectively for Fox’s BH90210 in 2019, which noticed them play heightened variations of themselves in a fictionalized drama.
“It felt full circle, to be collectively as adults, having had our youngsters, having the ability to work collectively,” Carteris recalled. “I believed it was in all probability a type of most impactful moments of my life.”