Valerie tells the group in the series finale that Abby has joined her for therapy to deal with Bill's actions and their relationship is now much better and stronger than before. James Eckhouse, who played Jim, once said in an interview that, "I had felt I. Life magazine did a photo spread and we were not included, as part of that photo. What we didn't realize then is that West Beverly Hills High School doesn't actually exist. It aired from 1990 to 2000 and sparked off other spin-offs like "Melrose Place" (1992-1999), "Models Inc." (1994-1995) and "90210" (2008-2013). I was coming out of this process of mourning. The Wedding: Part 2: Directed by Harry Harris. They later mended their problems and moved away to Connecticut, where she attended Yale. But in the first season, they this whole plan that Cindy was going to get a job and maybe Jim would lose his job, so you had the whole tension of the female breadwinner and the guy who's not making money. Mark Damon Espinoza portrays Jesse Vasquez (main, season 5; recurring, season 4), who first appeared on the show in Season 4, debuting in an episode where he was working as a bartender at a fancy event hosted by the parents of Andrea Zuckerman's then-boyfriend Dan. Jim went to his office every day and dealt with Dylan coming in and dissing him by refusing to call him Mr. Walsh and screaming at him for more money every week. I had never met Aaron Spelling before, and I couldn't have been more impressed with the man. So it was hard. Ian Ziering portrays Steven "Steve" Sanders. At the time, we probably didn't notice these switcheroos, and it's only until decades later are we finally cognizant of all these changes. Dana Barron plays Nikki Witt (recurring, season 3), Brandon's younger girlfriend during his senior year in high school in Season 3. They dated briefly after Gina had enough of Dylan treating her like an ornament, but David ended things with her because she was still hung up on Dylan. It constantly amazes me.". After his father Mel and Kelly's mom Jackie married and welcomed their daughter Erin, David was fully part of the gang. CAROL POTTER, Cindy Walsh, Beverly Hills 90210, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/arts/television/31pott.html. He often serves as a moral compass for the gang, particularly after Jim and Cindy Walsh leave the show. She was shot during a drive-by shooting at LAX and suffered amnesia. At the end of the semester, John and Steve met again at a carnival, engaging in a joust match over a mud pit. By season 9, she almost burned to a crisp in a house fire, had her become fully brainwashed and indoctrinated in a cult, had a miscarriage, an AIDS scare, and got amnesia after getting gunned down in an airport parking lot. The finale of Beverly Hills, 90210 found David (Brian Austin Green) marrying Donna Martin, and The CWs 90210 left the relationships fate up in the air. He had various relationships with Brenda and Kelly in high school. Initially, they are both unpopular among the gang, but starting in Season 2, as David becomes part of the gang, the immature Scott becomes gradually more of a stranger to him as David spends less time with Scott, who becomes a recurring character rather than a regular. 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Episodes She drugged Brandon with a drug called euphoria (4-methylaminorex) at a rave, although the effects were much more akin to MDMA. A magazine illegally obtained her age and went public with it, but it didn't matter, as Carteris was so entrenched on the show by that point,telling People, "A producer did say to me, 'You're lucky we didn't know your age when we hired you.'" Though Jim has a strong sense of morality, he is very committed to his work and loyal to his employersso much that he finds himself at odds with Brandon, who often defends causes important to him, even at the expense of his father's business interests. And I did start complaining to the writers. She became romantically involved with, and eventually married to, Dylan, after he initially tried to use her to get to her father. They quarrelled over several things, most notably Brandon not inviting Tracy to go to Hong Kong and visit his parents, Jim and Cindy Walsh, when he had an extra ticket. And although each hopes for richer story lines (They wont even let Cindy get a job, if you can believe that, says Potter), this summers episodes, in which Jim tries to break up Brenda and Dylan (Luke Perry), offer ample opportunity for family dysfunction, Beverly Hills-style. Season 2 heats up midway when then the gang is ready to start their junior year, forced tostress about the SATs,again. She is portrayed by Carol Potter. It bothered me, obviously, as an actress. Donna's birthday is Christmas Day. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Why did Jim and Cindy Walsh leave 90210? And then I'd go to the counseling and see 3 to 5 clients, and I could put all that stuff aside. The music has been replaced by generic, but similar sounding music. He returned in 1998 and stayed for the rest of the series run, but was credited as a Special Guest Starmuch like Heather Locklear was on Melrose Place. A few "90210" actors left on their own terms, or were happy to move onto (hopefully) greener pastures. She spent time at a mental hospital after threatening to torch herself, along with a parade float, and writing threatening letters to West Beverly and leaving obscene phone messages on the Walshes' answering machine. explore the world through the prism of knowledge. The Rolling Stones made a tour stop in Season 5, but it's not available for streaming on Hulu or Paramount+. In the fall of '95, I went back to school and got a master's in marriage and family therapy, and became a licensed therapist. After a near-fatal car crash, he began to recover by going through rehab and an oddball ex-FBI agent later helped him recover $7.5 million of his stolen funds, after which he rescued Erica. Although it was never declared explicitly, Sue suggested that Scott may have been molested himself. Estes, who plays West Beverly's principal and father to Annie and Dixon, will depart after Season 2. She gave birth to Nat's only child, a son named Frankie. Gina and Dylan soon began a sexual relationship, but Dylan's attentions toward Kelly made Gina angry and bereft. Carly Reynolds was supposed to stick around for at least 2 seasons, but Hilary Swank was shown the door after only 16 episodes. He also hosted a radio show broadcast from the Peach Pit. Vanessa Marcil portrays Gina Kincaid (main, season 910), a former ice skating champion with a bad attitude and an unfairly traumatic past who got fired from her ice show position and stayed with her cousin Donna. She was strict, but compassionate, and became a respected administrator among the students who interacted with her most often. I'm sure the network would have liked us to stay in high school for another four years.". And new viewers today won't even know what magical music moments they missed. [11] Andrea was introduced as a focused student who was socially shy all through high school, with a huge crush on Brandon, but their relationship remained platonic. He kicked his drug habit and managed to avoid becoming an alcoholic. Dylan's wealthy pops Jack McKay had three actors take on the role. When Dylan and Brenda call it quits on their relationship, they are no longer doing it to R.E.M. After graduation from college, he and his friend Steve spent a year developing the Beverly Beat. At the wedding reception, she also gets the last upper hand with Kelly when she relays Matt Durning's request for Kelly to come talk to him while Kelly and Dylan are figuring out their relationship; Kelly asks in an irritated tone what Matt wants and Valerie coolly says "As usual, I'm just the messenger here" and Kelly gets up and walks away from their final interaction as Valerie shares an unrelated laugh with Dylan after asking him if he missed her. Ann Gillespie plays Jackie Taylor, Kelly's mother (recurring, season 110). Family The two eventually reconcile. She had difficulty choosing between Brandon and Dylan. It was later revealed that prior to coming to Beverly Hills, Valerie's father had sexually assaulted her and she was forced to kill him in self-defense, and Valerie's mother was going to turn her in to the police before finally telling Valerie she was blameless and begging her to forgive herself. After college, where she studied fashion design, she opened a boutique with Kelly Taylor. She lost her virginity to Ross Weber and was almost raped. They're not staying in high school forever. Jim Walsh(husband)Glen Evans(fling) I really hadn't had any substantial work in that time. She also suffered from bulimia, and bonded with David Silver over his efforts to help her through her problems. However, time and again, Cindy and Jim weather storms and continue to have a happy life together. At the time, he reveals that he now has a child. In the series finale, Kelly and Dylan reunited romantically, despite her discovery that Dylan covered up for an indiscretion by Matt and didn't tell her. She eventually reunited with Brandon and moved in with him, nearly marrying him. When Scott accidentally shot himself it was a huge blow for David and a source of immense guilt at the state the friendship ended in. It is the first show of the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise. She often suspected that Brandon was not yet over his old girlfriend Kelly, and this was confirmed when Brandon eventually broke up with her. I think I had three auditions, and when I didn't hear anything after the third one, I just was crying. After the breakup, she tells Dylan she's still in love with him. In Season 6, he made friends with Antonia "Toni" Marchette, the daughter of his father's killer, Anthony Marchette. He walked up to me, offered his hand and said, "Hi, I'm Aaron Spelling." Jim also serves as Dylan's trust fund manager/business manager off and on, despite rocky relations between the two of them, often over Dylan's relationship with Brenda. He had surgery for a heart condition and ended up leaving the football team; dated Donna and had no problem with her vow of celibacy, but his plan to move to his Pennsylvania hometown and coach football after asking Donna to marry him wasn't what she was looking for, and they cordially parted ways. Her father couldn't stand them together and tried to have Dylan murdered, but the hitman killed Toni instead. He almost immediately took a disliking to Steve, and tried to get him kicked out of the fraternity by setting him up to be caught during an initiation prank, but Sears stupidly told the KEG President he had set Steve up, and after this was revealed prior to a "vote out" Sears was ousted by a wide margin. Jim and Cindy depart L.A. for Hong Kong on business in the summer of 1995, leaving their now-grown son Brandon whose sister had departed for England a year prior to live his life independently. Production agreed to not interfere with the Torrance's class schedule, and for their troubles were initially paid $3,500 per day. She works as a homemaker, volunteers at a recycling center and is an avid gardener after arriving in Beverly Hills. She became the temporary caretaker for younger sister Erin and a guidance counselor at her alma mater, West Beverly Hills High School. Backstage Andrea got accepted and he shaved his beard. According to the Los Angeles Daily News, the Oxy students at the time weren't thrilledwith the filming on their campus. Same when "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" was played when David remembered Scott after his death, Dylan was mulling who to have "Stand By Me,"and when Brandon was finding love ice skating to "(I've Had) The Time of My Life," and many more musical losses. Gordon Currie showed up in Season 2 as Brenda and Brandon's bitter paraplegic cousin Bobby, and four seasons later, scored a role as a pushy cocaine dealer Danny Five. Rumors persist to this day, from an unauthorized haircut, to tardiness, to a physical spat with Tori Spelling, to just plain unhappiness from all parties involved. In time, she also shared a kiss with Dylan McKay, who later suspected that she merely wanted to seduce him in order for him to fund a movie project of hers. So I thought they really meant that. The two almost moved in together, but the relationship fell apart due to Clare's anger over Steve's mother breaking up with her father. Denise Dowse plays Yvonne Teasley (recurring, 210), a vice principal of West Beverly Hills High School. Who hooked up in set of 90210? Along with Nat, of Peach Pit glory, Jim and Cindy were the only adults who acted like grownups. Later on, Ray became increasingly violent towards Donna, culminating with two ugly incidents when he pushed her against a wall in Oregon and knocked her down a flight of stairs in Palm Springs. Overprotective and controlling, she often tried to sabotage Donna's relationships with David, Ray, and Noah. After high school, she was in an abusive relationship with Ray Pruit, who was mean and manipulative, almost from the start. He is portrayed by James Eckhouse . James Eckhouse, who played Jim, once said in an interview that, "I had felt I really had done wanted I wanted to do. It's hard to complain when you're making all that money. He proposes to Brenda after knowing her for a short time, and they almost wed in Las Vegas before coming to their senses. Many well known and upcoming artists were featured in background and the foreground. After a while, Cindy and Anna become friendly and work at bridging the language barrier between them, although Cindy does not seem to be learning any Spanish. On Tuesdays 90210 a shocker eight years in the making was revealed Dylan McKay is the father of Kelly Taylors 4-year-old son. She was the nice girl until around the second season, when her character began to progress into being more rebellious and devious. Luke Perry left Beverly Hills, 90210 in the fall of 1995 as he wanted to pursue other projects. Kathleen Robertson portrays Clare Arnold (main, season 67; recurring, season 45), who met the group while she was a senior in high school and they were college freshman. Lindsay Price portrays Janet Sosna (main, season 910; recurring, season 8), who joined the Beverly Beat as the new editor after her predecessor got married and left without notice. 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 She is portrayed by Carol Potter . They had as much of a shock in adjusting to the people as thier children did. Clare evolved throughout the show; at first she was wild-child bad girl, but she eventually matured and became an integral part of the gang. The producers felt that the kids were too old to have their parents around. David respected her decision to abstain from premarital sex, until he cheated on her with Ariel. The baby, born premature, was named Hannah and required time in the hospital after birth. But you just have to swallow it. Gina's manipulative ways made her Kelly's new post-Valerie enemy, and drove a wedge between Donna and Noah, as well. She managed to come to peace with both her daughters before her death. "90210" was a music heavy show. Meanwhile, Valerie finally decides to get an AIDS test after Johnny . Bruce Thomas' first appeared in Season 6 as Hank Bradley, and then he returned three seasons later as Carl Schmidt, who was engaged to Valerie's mom. . Jason discusses how much losing Jim & Cindy affected the show. Listen, you should be much tougher on your son!, For Eckhouse, 37, and Potter, 44, the reactions testify to their always believable portrayals of Brandon and Brendas unbelievable parents: Jim and Cindy are tolerant, loving, kind, with-it, funny, and, almost always, forgiving. At a plant nursery, they are spotted by Cindy's old flame, whom she hasnt seen i 20 years. In Season 5, she became Kelly and Donna's roommate in the beach apartment and started CU as a college freshman. First seen Brian Austin Green When she turned both him and Brandon down, he decided to avenge his father's murder. They were no-namers with fresh faces to us then, but they're stars in their own right. The one where EW follows up with the cast. She met and dated her twin brother's friend,seasons Dylan McKay. I just didn't want to spend the rest of my life being associated with being 'the dad from 90210' not that that's so bad, it's a great thing, but I knew I needed to move on." It is unknown what happens after she leaves. Problems in the Malone family had been escalating for many years, mostly in secret, but it wasn't until Valerie's father was found dead in the bathroom of his home, an apparent suicide via gunshot wound to the head, that the family's issues seemed to come to light. Who ends up together in the original 90210? When Jim gets a promotion, the whole family has to move out to Los Angeles, from Minneapolis. They are not without conflicts, among them an old college friend who makes a move on a confused Cindy; their, at times, very different opinions with regard to raising Brenda and Brandon; and their priorities of work and family. He seemed to be a man that was full of exuberance and excitement about living. Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, and director Rob Marshall share the tale behind making their underwater musical with a groundbreaking Disney princess. And not only are we portraying a poor role model, but I also thought, this is the one place where women do have a voice, as moms. Jim Walsh is a principal character on Beverly Hills, 90210. Making a splash: A deep dive into the live-action Little Mermaid with a new generation's Ariel. Antonia Marchette Cookies help us deliver our Services. She was accidentally killed by a hitman who was hired by her father to kill Dylan the day after their wedding. Donna reveals that she and David separated shortly after the birth of their daughter while they were living in Japan, but he sends her a card saying "Thinking of you". Cindy has a hard time adjusting when the family first moves to California. Numerous events in the Walsh twins' lives took place in Jack's backyard, including Cindy and Jim's 20th wedding anniversary, Jackie Taylor and Mel Silver's wedding, the painting of the gang's homecoming float which was later doused with gasoline by Emily Valentine, and - my personal favorite - one of the first times Brenda lays . During the sixth season, Nat rekindled his romance with his former girlfriend, Joan Diamond, whom he hadn't seen in over two decades. Jason Wiles plays Colin Robbins (also starring, season 6), A New York artist who meets Kelly during her internship in New York in Season 6. She was valedictorian, was accepted to Yale but decided to go to CU to be near her friends and family. The Flaming Lips' performance at the Peach Pit After Dark has been cut from the show, but the rest of that episode remains. She almost ends up marrying Kelly's father Bill, but is left at the altar. During the 2000 series finale, its implied that Kelly ends up with Dylan after Perry returned to the show for the final two seasons following his exit in 1995. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Emily Valentine appeared in 12 episodes. She was stunned to learn that Donna's father was actually her father as well, having had a drunken fling with her mother that was covered up. He made his last appearance in Beverly Hills, 90210 Season 9 Episode 5 . He got a weapons charge against her dismissed after she shot and killed the rapist in self-defense, and they drifted apart for a while, until Matt's handling of a death penalty appeal helped bring them back together. After this, the IRS then confiscated all of his family's assets (including Noah's yacht, his parents house, cars, bank accounts and his father's entire life insurance policy) and leaving his widowed mother in destitute. When David told Camille his true feelings about Donna, Donna sold a share of the boutique to Camille so she wouldn't have to face the torment of seeing David and Donna together again. David always wanted to be part of the popular crowd. She later met up with the gang during their trip to Hawaii and learned that she is happy, engaged, and has no ill feelings toward Brandon or Kelly. They meant, We're going to pretend to be a fourth network, but we're going to pay you like we're in cable. They both lied about John being Gina Kincaid's real father and covered it up out of embarrassment, only admitting the truth when Donna found out and angrily shamed them into being honest. CAROL POTTER, Cindy Walsh, 'Beverly Hills 90210' Aug. 29, 2008 An outtake from an interview with Dave Itzkoff.
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