Jennie Garth admits she regrets taking part in Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot
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Some of the original members of the hit Fox series Beverly Hills, 90210 reunited for 90s Con 2024 in Daytona Beach, Florida over the weekend.
While hanging out and greeting fans, Jennie Garth, Brian Austin Green, Ian Ziering and Gabrielle Carteris took some time out to reminisce about the old days, during which they dished on The CW's reboot, simply called 90210.
Like its predecessor, the show followed the lives of several wealthy students attending West Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California, and later focuses on their lives after graduation.
During their chat, Green revealed he actually liked the show's concept, but Garth wasn't as forgiving, and let it be known she now regrets reprising her role as Kelly Taylor, as reported by People.
'I wish I hadn't done it. No offense to them,' Garth, 52, said of her role. '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. But the people were very nice and all the best to them.
Jennie Garth, 52, admitted she now regrets reprising her role as Kelly Taylor in The CW's 90210 reboot; seen in 2023
Producers actually offered Garth a role as a series regular, but she balked at the the opportunity, and ended up agreeing to sign on to the reboot as a recurring character.
The new version starred Shenae Grimes, AnnaLynne McCord, Lori Loughlin, Rob Estes, Tristan Wilds, Dustin Milligan, Ryan Eggold, Jessica Stroup, Michael Steger, Jessica Walter, Jessica Lowndes, Matt Lanter, Trevor Donovan and Gillian Zinser.
Along with Garth, some other cast members from the original show to appear in those first two seasons of the 90210 reboot included the late Shannen Doherty, Ann Gillespie, Tori Spelling, and Joe E. Tata.
Carteris, 63, chimed in, 'I never wanted to [do it]. 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?'
Green maintained he was surprised to find out about the reboot, saying, 'No offense at all, it's to me, we did 10 years of that show and it's like okay, done.'
The reboot, which premiered in September 2008, ended up running for five seasons, ending with the finale in May 2013.
Most of the original cast did take part in another revival of the show, Fox's BH90210 in 2019, in which they played heightened versions of themselves in a serialized drama.
Nearly two decades after the original series ended, the group reunite, without Luke Perry, 'to get a reboot up and running, and must reconcile their new lives with the complications of their histories together.'
When Garth reprised her role as Kelly Taylor in 2008, her character was now working as a guidance counselor at the show's West Beverly High School
The former cast members seemed to be in agreement that they were glad to have taken part in the revival of the show with Fox's BH90210 in 2019, for which they played heightened versions of themselves in a serialized drama for one season of six episodes
For this version OG cast members Garth, Carteris, Doherty, Green, Priestley, Spelling, and Ziering all took part for the one season, consisting of six episodes that aired on Fox from August 7 to September 11, 2019.
'I was pretty much the only outspoken person saying I think we should give the audience what they want: comfort food,' Ziering, 60, said of his thought process about the show.
Carteris called the short-lived experience, 'cathartic,' before adding, 'It felt full circle, to be together as adults, having had our children, being able to work together. I thought it was probably one of those most impactful moments of my life.'
The original Beverly Hills, 90210 show became a global pop culture phenomenon with its cast members, particularly, Luke Perry and Jason Priestley, who would go on to be come high-profile teen idols.
It also made the rest of the main cast household names in the U.S., Garth and Shannen Doherty, who seemed to get a lot of press over the years.
Green thinks the success of the series, in part, was due to 'a lack of the Internet' at that time.
'The '90s were a different time: no way to fact check, no one was walking around videotaping everything," the actor explained. 'We were bringing a piece of the world that was famous that no one had really seen. Because there wasn’t access to it, people really enjoyed what it is we did. I honestly don't feel now, this time it would have the same impact it did back then.'
The main cast of the original hit Fox series Beverly Hills, 90210 all became stars following the shows run of 10 seasons from 1990 to 2000; the young main cast consisted of Gabrielle Carteris, Jennie Garth, the late Luke Perry, Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Ian Ziering, Tori Spelling and Brian Austin Green
Garth would become a high-profile star along with the rest of the main cast of the OG series
Beverly Hills, 90210 cast members Garth, Green, Ziering, and Carteris all paid tribute to the late Shannen Doherty at 90s Con in Florida this weekend, in the wake of her passing in July
Carteris believes the show's willingness to tackle issues that were close to the vest of young people back then such as teen sex, domestic violence and alcohol and drug abuse.
Both Ziering and Garth admitted the show jumped the shark on more than one occasion, but they're okay with all that being part of its charm.
'We had a lot of jump the shark moments but I enjoyed them,' Garth admitted. 'Just watching the show back, we get more and more outlandish. Even I watch it and I enjoy it as a fan. Even in the jump the shark moments, I'm still so proud of the show and love it.'
The show is credited with creating or popularizing the teen soap genre that many other successful television shows followed in the years to come.
The four stars of the OG show took some time out at 90s Con in Florida this weekend to pay tribute to Shannen Doherty following her death on July 13 from cancer at the age of 53.
