Jennie Garth on Why She Regrets Participating in ‘90210’ Reboot

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 collaborating within the remake throughout a current panel at ’90s Con in Florida. “I wish I hadn’t done it. No offense to them,” she mentioned, through Individuals.

“The producer was a friend of a friend, and I remember he came over in my living room, sat me down, [billed it as] this chance of a lifetime. He asked me to do it and I didn’t know how to say no then,” Garth added. “But the people were very nice and all the 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. Nonetheless, Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Brian Austin Inexperienced, Gabrielle Carteris and Ian Ziering additionally joined Garth on the panel and had their very own ideas concerning the reboot.

“I never wanted to [do it],” Carteris admitted. “I was so shocked they were doing a new show. I was like, is it like, they long so much you’re just going to try to reinvent it over and over?”

Inexperienced added, “No offense at all, it’s to me, we did 10 years of that show and it’s like OK, done.”

Beverly Hills, 90210, which was created by Darren Star and ran for 10 seasons from 1990 to 2000, adopted a bunch 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 forged 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 together as adults, having had our children, being able to work together,” Carteris recalled. “I thought it was probably one of those most impactful moments of my life.”