"BH90210" Cast Explain Why Their Real-life Spouses aren't on the Show

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Why "BH90210" 'Recast' Megan Fox and Other Stars' Real-Life Partners
by Matt Webb Mitovich
August 8 2019


Once "BH90210" viewers realized that Tori Spelling, Ian Ziering, Jennie Garth et al were playing not their characters, but (versions of) themselves, there was another twist on tap: the actors’ on-screen families were fictitious.



- Spelling is married to Dean McDermott, with whom she has done reality-TV shows and with whom she has five kids.

On "BH90210", however, Tori’s husband is named “Nate” (Ivan Sergei), and they have a full half-dozen rugrats.


- Brian Austin Green is married to actress Megan Fox, whereas on "BH90210" he is married to a pop star (La La Anthony).


- Ian Ziering’s real-life partner, Erin, is a lifestyle blogger, while on-camera, wife Stacey (Jenna Rosenow) is a fitness influence/wannabe Real Housewife.


- Jason Priestley’s "BH90210" persona has no kids with “wife” Camille (Vanessa Lachey), but in real life he and Naomi, his wife of 14 years, are parents to two.







“All of the spouses and children on BH90210 are completely fictionalized,” Spelling explained during the summer series’ TCA press tour Q&A. “Whereas all of us, [playing] a version of ourselves, we chose specifically to make that different as best we could.”

“For those of us who do have spouses, we chose to use completely fictional characters for those roles, to protect our families,” Jennie Garth explained.

(Garth has been through three marriage break-ups, though she and Husband No. 3 have in recent years patched things up.)




The spouses who have been swapped out for stand-ins “were very supportive,” Garth told TVLine at a Wednesday-night TCA soiree.

“I can say for Tori and myself, our husbands have been so supportive through this whole two-year journey, and our families have sacrificed so much time with us. Everybody is very happy with the finished product.”




In the case of Shannen Doherty, the "BH90210" version of her is single and theoretically ready to mingle, though the actress in real life has been wed to photographer Kurt Iswarienko for eight years.

“My husband … he’s private, and he’s got his own career, and he was pretty adamant about that not being a part of [the show], which I can completely respect,” Doherty explained.

So on-camera, “I have no spouse as of right now.”




Storytelling-wise, using fictional husbands, wives, exes and lovers allows "BH90210" to freely spice things up and get the on-screen gossip mill churning, rather than stick to facts.

“That was kind of the whole point,” says Garth, “to take people’s perceptions and twist it … and take the power back, so that we’re the ones in on the joke.”

https://tvline.com/2019/08/08/why-bh...in-green-wife/

[mets82]

I watched most of the reboot/debut and it was ok. I thought, initially, it was going to be about Brandon Walsh and Kelly Taylor etc. but it's not.