BH 90210 / Saved By The Bell GOSSIP DISCUSSION

The most difficult part, for me, of trying to come up with a definitive solution to this blind item is that I really enjoy imagining all of the possible actors in the various roles in the story. I definitely hear what Joe is saying about Ian - he is sweaty and I'm not altogether convinced that the party frat guy character of Steve is a pure creation of his acting skills. And he did marry that Playboy centerfold.

But I have to go with my deep understanding of both shows and suggest Brian Austin Green was the male 90210 actor snorting all the coke & macking with the SBTB hottie. At first I thought he would have been too young - he played a freshman in the first season and looked the part - and agreed with Allison that it must have been Jason Priestly, but then I checked Wikipedia and Brian was 16/17 when that first season was being filmed. I knew he dated Tiffani-Amber Thiessen of SBTB and 90210 fame but because I thought he was so young when BH started I didn't think they were the coked-up couple getting down UNTIL I read this passage on Tiffani-Amber Thiessen's Wiki page:

During her Saved By The Bell and Beverly Hills, 90210 career she dated actor Brian Austin Green for about 7 years. They used to live together.

Thus, Tiffani has to be the SBTB hottie in the story. She was still on SBTB at the time and was also dating Brain at the time. And I agree with the Blind Item that she's hot.

When I thought Jason Priestly was the 90210 guy, my guess for the 90210 gal hoovering up the coke without as much as a thank you was Shannon Dougherty. She was young, was and has seemed very selfish, and often displays exactly the diva-type behavior described in the story. It also makes sense that she was hanging out with Jason - she was pretty much the female lead of the show & Jason's tv brother. However, since I know don't think Jason was involved the field is opened up. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Jennie Garth (AKA Kelly Taylor) - she was the "glamorous" teen girl on the show and was always much thinner than Shannon (from a big coke habit?).

I do have to add that if you ever, ever get the chance to see Morris Day and the Time, do it. I saw them in Milwaukee a few years ago (got in free & went backstage to hang with Morris & Jerome thanks to Juan Carlos' love of BBQ & his lovable and gregarious nature) and they were incredible. I remember thinking, and still believe, that if I could be anyone I might choose Morris Day. He's the coolest, smoothest, most fly cat ever created on god's green earth. I am 100 percent serious that if I could pull off wearing the amazing outfits he wears I would in a heartbeat.