Jennie Garth Almost Played Kelly Kapowski on Saved By the Bell

May 2024 · 2 minute read

Lifetime’s The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story didn’t go away audiences in need of extra essentially — nevertheless it did drop some attention-grabbing bombshells about the early ’80s and overdue ’90s TV classic! For something, Tiffani Thiessen’s now-ex BFF Jennie Garth was at one point in the operating for her Kelly Kapowski position.

The movie, which aired on Labor Day, confirmed a fake casting photograph of Garth in the running towards Thiessen and Elizabeth Berkley for Zack Morris’ (Mark Paul Gosselaar) leading lady. Garth was once cut and bosses made up our minds to create the function of Jesse Spano for Berkley on the spot.

Oddly sufficient, Thiessen, now 40, would join Garth, now 42, years later as vixen Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1994 to 2000. The stars was BFFs all the way through the Aaron Spelling-created high school drama, but would later have a public falling out. Why? That thriller remains to be beneath wraps.

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“I was the one who used to be harm, let’s simply say that. I was the one who used to be harm,” Thiessen said all the way through a talk with Howard Stern on his Sirius XM show in July 2012. “It’s humorous, our relationship started in reality tough and ended the way it started.”

“It’s water beneath the bridge,” she added. “I’ve moved on. I wish her smartly.”

Thiessen also worked with Spelling’s daughter, Tori Spelling, on Saved by the Bell and Beverly Hills, 90210. In the film, (executive produced by Dustin Diamond) it was once printed that Tori was Diamond’s first kiss when she guest-starred on Saved by the Bell as his love passion Violet Bickerstaff. Spelling and Garth currently costar together in the ABC Family comedy Mystery Girls.

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