Jennie Garth Says She Regrets Participation In ‘90210’: “I Didn’t Know How To Say No Then”

Beverly Hills, 90210 star Jennie Garth admitted she regretted her participation in the CW‘s reboot of the nineties classic during a panel that reunited her with costars Brian Austin Green, Gabrielle Carteris and Ian Ziering.

“I wish I hadn’t done it. No offense to them,” she said, via People, Sept. 14 at ’90s Con Florida, held in Daytona Beach.

Garth continued, “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.”

For their parts, Carteris said she “never wanted” to join the reboot, which lasted five seasons from 2008 through 2013. “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 also added, “No offense at all, it’s, to me, we did 10 years of that show and it’s like OK, done.”

Created by Darren Star, Beverly Hills, 90210 — which ran for a decade beginning in 1990 — followed a group of friends as they transitioned from their school days in Beverly Hills through college and onto adulthood. The teen drama starred Jason Priestley, the late Shannen Doherty, Luke Perry, Tori Spelling and the aforementioned cast who spoke on the panel. It spawned numerous spinoffs, including the preeminently popular soap Melrose Place (and subsequently short-lived Models Inc.), 90210 and Fox’s BH90210, a season-long fictionalized drama that starred all original cast members as heightened versions of themselves.

While Garth, Doherty and Spelling were the sole cast members who were a part of 90210, the panelists said that the canceled BH90210 was an “impactful” moment for the actors.

“I was pretty much the only outspoken person saying I think we should give the audience what they want: comfort food,” Ziering said.

Meanwhile, Carteris characterized the experience as “cathartic.” She continued, “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.”