{"id":583726,"date":"2026-04-14T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583726\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:53:08","slug":"jennie-garth-details-her-falling-out-with-90210-co-star-tiffani-thiessen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583726\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennie Garth details her falling out with \u201890210\u2019 co-star Tiffani Thiessen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennie Garth is no longer in touch with her \u201cBeverly Hills, 90210\u201d co-star Tiffani Thiessen after their infamous falling out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTiffani and I didn\u2019t have such a happy ending with our friendship,\u201d Garth writes in her new memoir, <a data-aps-asc-tag=\"pagesix-20\" data-aps-asin=\"0778305635\" data-wrapped-template=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url\" href=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FChoose-Me-Chasing-Embracing-Reinvention%2Fdp%2F0778305635%3Ftag%3Dpagesix-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpagesix.com%2F2026%2F04%2F14%2Fcelebrity-news%2Fjennie-garth-details-her-falling-out-with-90210-co-star-tiffani-thiessen%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">\u201cI Choose Me,\u201d<\/a> which is out now.<\/p>\n<p>She adds, \u201cWe\u2019re no longer close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two met in 1994, when Thiessen, 52, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/04\/29\/celebrity-news\/brian-austin-green-details-downfall-of-tiffani-thiessen-romance-after-90210-casting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined the cast of \u201c90210\u201d<\/a> in the fifth season as the cunning Valerie Malone.<\/p>\n<p>Jennie Garth admits that her friendship with Tiffani Thiessen did not have a \u201chappy ending.\u201d (The two are seen here in 1996.) FilmMagic, Inc<\/p>\n<p>The two met when Thiessen joined the cast of \u201cBeverly Hills 90210\u201d in 1994. Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer character brought tension, complexity, and a fresh energy to the ensemble,\u201d Garth writes, admitting that she immediately \u201cfelt threatened and competitive\u201d with the <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/12\/15\/what-tiffani-thiessen-thinks-about-the-saved-by-the-bell-reboot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSaved by the Bell\u201d alum,<\/a> \u201cjust as I had with many beautiful co-stars before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garth quickly realized the negative pattern she was repeating, apologized to Thiessen, and \u201cthat\u2019s how we became best friends during her years on \u201890210.\u2019\u201d The two hit it off so well that Thiessen served as a bridesmaid at Garth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/13\/celebrity-news\/jennie-garth-details-the-moment-peter-facinelli-marriage-hit-the-fan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wedding to Peter Facinelli <\/a>in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The two maintained their friendship after the show ended.<\/p>\n<p>Garth admits that the two, in this undated photo, were not friends off the bat because Garth was jealous. WireImage<\/p>\n<p>Garth apologized, and the two became close friends. They\u2019re seen attending the show\u2019s 200th episode party together here. FilmMagic, Inc<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>When Garth, 54, began working on \u201cWhat I Like About You,\u201d an actor named Brady Smith joined the show for one episode. Garth \u201cimmediately knew\u201d Smith was \u201cperfect\u201d for Thiessen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was tall and handsome and from Texas,\u201d she writes, \u201cand I just had the feeling they would hit it off. I called her right away and told her to come down to the set to meet this cute guy \u2026 Cut to: They\u2019ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/12\/22\/tiffani-thiessen-on-best-worst-gifts-shes-received-from-her-husband\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">married for years<\/a> with a gorgeous family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garth has never given a full reasoning behind the falling out, though the <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/10\/18\/jennie-garth-tiffani-thiessen-reunite-at-party-after-feud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two have run into each other<\/a> since, at an audition and a dinner party, <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe connection we once shared wasn\u2019t there,\u201d Garth writes.<\/p>\n<p>Garth even set up Thiessen with her future husband. (The pals are seen here at a party in 2002.) WireImage<\/p>\n<p>Thiessen and her husband, Brady Smith, are seen here in 2005, the year they got married. FilmMagic<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cWhat I Like About You\u201d alum, photographed in 2026, does not reveal why the friendship ended. GC Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve come to see that some friendships are meant for a reason or a season, and ours was a meaningful one, while it lasted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Theissen <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2017\/05\/08\/90210-stars-still-hold-grudge-against-tiffani-thiessen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spoke about their fractured friendship<\/a> during a 2012 appearance on \u201cThe Howard Stern Show,\u201d sharing that they \u201chad a falling out and we grew apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was the one who was hurt, let\u2019s just say that,\u201d Thiessen added.<\/p>\n<p>Garth also writes about the <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/13\/celebrity-news\/jennie-garth-details-the-moment-peter-facinelli-marriage-hit-the-fan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">painful dissolution of her marriage to Facinelli<\/a> in the memoir. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennie Garth is no longer in touch with her \u201cBeverly Hills, 90210\u201d co-star Tiffani Thiessen after their infamous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[43010,236,4032,23485,91,88,252313,136777,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-583726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-beverly-hills-90210","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity-feuds","11":"tag-celebrity-memoirs","12":"tag-celebrity-news","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-jennie-garth","15":"tag-tiffani-thiessen","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}