The shower revelers snacked on iced cupcakes from Sprinkles, got make-up tips and mini-make-overs from Napoleon Perdis and snapped funny photos in the on-site photobooth. Sounds like a fun party. As I said last weekend, by the time the shower rolls around you know it’s almost time for the mommy-to-be to blow. Hopefully we’ll be congratulating SMG and FPJ on the glorious arrival of their newborn child!

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As we learned previously, Shannen was asked back to appear in two more eps of the series later on in the season and it looks like she’s begun work filming those eps. No word on if any other Beverly Hills, 90210 alums will be appearing on the spin-off this season but at least now we know that Shannen is back for sure. I just love that Jennie Garth has joined the chorus of celebs who are vocalizing (in whatever way they can) their opposition to Prop 8 in this State. I understand another round of protests are taking place today … and for the foreseeable future. A few Pink readers have asked if I knew of any planned protests coming up so I offer THIS link to a list of events that should be updated as new events are planned.

In any event, it’s great to see Shannen back to work again (we’ll see if this new guy turns out to be someone relevant) and to see Jennie be so awesome :)

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Beverly Hills’ original side-burned heartthrob is back! Sort of. Jason Priestley has agreed to do an episode of The CW’s 90210 later this season, but you won’t see him — he’ll be behind the camera, working as a director. Sources confirm to EW.com’s Michael Ausiello exclusively that Priestley will helm this season’s 18th episode, which is slated to air this spring. Meanwhile, a 90210 insider also reveals that Priestley’s TV sis, Shannen Doherty, is nearing a deal to return for two more episodes later this season. Executive producer Gabe Sachs would only confirm that she’s “in talks,” but my 90210 spy insists “she’s coming back. The deal isn’t officially done, but it’s happening.” Might one of Doherty’s two episodes be the Priestley-directed installment? Sachs says that’s TBD. “I think it would be a kick for Jason to work with any of his [former 90210 costars], and it would also add something special to that episode,” he says. “But we don’t know whether that will happen yet.” A more likely scenario has Priestley bossing around his other leading lady, Jennie Garth, who’s back for at least six episodes — despite what the actress herself told Ausiello at EW’s pre-Emmy party last month. “That was a misunderstanding,” whispers a source.

Woot! Any news that involves of the BH, 90210 alums to return in any way, shape or form to the new world of 90210 is great news. Knowing that Jason Priestly is amenable to returning as a director means that he may be willing to reprise his role as Brandon Walsh … which may lure, mebbe, Luke Perry to return as Dylan McKay (who, whether he likes it or not, already figures very importantly in the new version of 90210 as Kelly Taylor’s babydaddy). I really don’t understand the hesitation on the part of the male actors from BH, 90210 that is keeping them from running back to reprise the roles that made them very famous but … mebbe they’re playing hard to get? In any event, I am very much looking forward to Shannen Doherty’s return later on in the season (I mean, you KNEW she was comin’ back). Now, if they could only figure out a way to get Tori Spelling back as Donna Martin … that would rule all. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we may, one day, have a great West Beverly High Class of 1993 class reunion, doesn’t that sound like the most awsomest idea ever?

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Not long ago, Shannen Doherty, the once and future Brenda Walsh, took a day off from shooting the short-lived TV show North Shore in Hawaii and went on a shark-diving trip with a couple of friends. Hundreds of yards offshore, Doherty descended into the water in a protective cage. Members of the boat’s crew chummed the water, sharks gathered—and Doherty freaked. “I couldn’t breathe, I started having an anxiety attack, I couldn’t stay out of their reach,” Doherty says, shuddering. Her Irish brow crinkles into slight worry lines that make her look her age, which is 37. “They were slamming into the cage—they looked so frickin’ mean! My leg slipped a little through the bars, and a shark swam up against me and rubbed off a layer of my skin.” Doherty is telling the story in a restaurant on the Pacific Coast Highway, in Malibu, a few hundred yards from the beach. She still owns nine or ten surfboards but hasn’t been on one—or even swum in the ocean—since the shark encounter. “I tell myself the least I can do is give the ocean back to the sharks,” Doherty says. And then she giggles. “No, that’s just a bullshit rationalization—I’m just terrified now.” … Shannen Doherty may not have been a nice girl, but she is a sweet woman. Then again, there is nowhere to go but up after you’ve singlehandedly defined the modern American mean girl. The journey began with her performance in 1989’s Heathers, as the quiet yet lethal member of the troika of button-nosed title characters. But Doherty went hard-core after she was cast on Beverly Hills, 90210, which made its debut in 1990. As Brenda Walsh, she played a virginal daughter of Minnesota relocated to the zip code of the entitled and wealthy. Brenda was initially a likable, naïve beauty, but her equanimity didn’t last long: she soon morphed into Elizabeth I in Guess jeans, adopting a kill-or-be-killed attitude toward all of teendom. Kurt Cobain’s refrain “Here we are now, entertain us” might have captured the nineties Zeitgeist, but so did Brenda’s Season 2 bon mot, “To be a bitch or not to be a bitch—that is the question.” “I don’t think Brenda was a complete brat,” Doherty says. “She was fueled by her insecurities: not being from Beverly Hills, not feeling safe in that environment. And then the love of her life was stolen from her. That can really injure a young girl’s esteem.” Alas, poor Doherty was playing the role of a lifetime as her TV and real-life personae began to merge. There was boy trouble and more boy trouble. Doherty’s relationship with Dean Factor, heir to the Max Factor makeup fortune, ended when a restraining order was filed against her after she allegedly tried to run him down with her car. (Her memorable line: “If I really wanted to run him over, I wouldn’t have missed.”) Then there was a teen-angst-worlds-colliding liaison with Judd Nelson. Next Doherty met George Hamilton’s son, Ashley. They married after two weeks; the union lasted all of seven months. Her chaotic personal life exacted a professional toll. Amid rumors that she was consistently showing up late to the set, Doherty left Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1994, after the fourth season. She lay low for a while, except for a winning turn in Kevin Smith’s Mallrats in 1995 and an appearance in Playboy. Then, in 1998, Aaron Spelling cast her in Charmed—as an actual witch—opposite Alyssa Milano. Just as the “Shannen is back” story line began to gel, she quit, reportedly because she was at odds with Milano. But that was seven years ago. Since then Doherty has, much to her relief, fallen off the tabloid radar. “I have a great life now,” Doherty says. She owns three horses and rides them obsessively, and her parents live a five-minute drive away. “If you could see me with my horse Picasso, how I call his name and he sticks his head out of his stall and then licks me from the neck up—that’s what my life is like now,” she says. “It’s really kind of boring.” An obvious question arises: If Shannen Doherty is so happy with her placid life, why is she raising Brenda Walsh from the dead?

And the Details article, which you can read HERE, goes on to answer that question. The one question that isn’t answered in her interview is how the magazine stylist managed to convince her to wear that horribly outdated leather vest for the shoot? It looks exactly like the sort of outfit that Brenda Walsh would’ve worn back in the day … and mebbe I just answered my own question. I’ve yet to grow tired of all the Brenda Walsh/90210 hoopla but it can’t last much longer … especially since this week’s ep (which aired last night) was the last ep of 90210 to feature Doherty for some time. How much longer can she milk this role? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

After the jump, check out a few new outtake photos from Shannen’s feature in Radar magazine along with some outtake portions of her interview with the mag …

On playing Brenda in the original 90210 series: “I actually think [Brenda] had a bad influence on me. I think when you’ve been very sheltered and protected, and suddenly you’re on a show, you’re 19, and you’ve got the red carpet rolled out for you, and you’re playing a character that’s going through all this teenage angst, there’s a part of you that’s like, What have I missed out on? This crazy bitch is going through all this stuff and I haven’t experienced anything. So you try it. You go to a few clubs and see how it is. You date the wrong guy—I dated the wrong guy many times. But you know, it happens. And the difference is, now that I’m older, I never have to do any of that crap. I can live vicariously through my character, and when they call ‘Cut,’ I’m me again. And that’s kind of cool.”

On being a loner: “I’ve always been a bit of a loner. I like to hang out with my friends, but it gets to the point where I’m like, ‘okay, enough is enough. Go home. I need to be alone.”

I mean, wow, what more is there to know about Shannen Doherty? I think we’ve pretty much learned it all, yeah?

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On how it felt to be hated by the tabloids:
“I was exploring who I was as a person and testing my own boundaries and trying to be a normal 18-, 19-, 20-year-old, and I got raked over the coals. Many nights I cried myself to sleep over that stuff.”

On the worst lie she ever read about herself:
“There’ve been so many. One of those bullshit rags [wrote that I'd entered AA]. They said that I was so, quote, ’scared of the drink’ that I was sleeping on my sponsor’s couch. Now, I’ve never been in AA. I accompanied my husband to AA meetings—actually, I forced him to go to one—but I’ve never actually gone for myself. Sometimes you can find some truth, a little nugget somewhere, but not one thing about this was true … But people sell their stories and make their 500 bucks at your expense, and it’s like, ‘Wow. Really?’”

Fascinating … well, not really. But, I am intrigued to read the whole interview tho, I mean, it’s Shannen Doherty … she’s gotta have something worth talking about, right? Well, OK, mebbe not … but perhaps they ask her about Tori Spelling again and she gets all pissy with the interviewer — that always manages to get a small chortle out of me. Now … I must say that I like her coverphoto very much … it’s simple, it’s nice. The rest of the photospread, tho, leaves much to be desired IMHO. After the jump, check out a few pics from Shannen’s Radar photospread …

Meh. The pics are too washed out … she is far too pale to be photographed in this way … I don’t think the absence of color and darkness is doing her any favors. Too arty, I don’t really care for it. Am I wrong … do any of y’all like it? Also, do any of you really care what Shannen has to say anymore now that the novelty of her reemergence on 90210 is winding down?

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But, I know that some folks don’t like to read/see/hear about spoilers before the episodes air so I’m putting all the spoilery stuff behind the cut. After the jump, check out a few preview pics of tomorrow’s ep along with a short episode synopsis …

ANNIE AND TY DECIDE TO SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER — As opening night of “Spring Awakening” nears, Annie (Shenae Grimes) and Ty (guest star Adam Gregory) have had a chance to spend a lot of time together and Ty reveals his plans for a one-on-one after-party in his hotel room. Harry (Rob Estes) catches Annie and Ty kissing backstage and later he and Debbie (Lori Loughlin) express their concern for how fast Annie’s relationship is progressing. Silver (Jessica Stroup) is overwhelmed with stage managing the play so Dixon (Tristan Wilds) offers to help backstage, prompting the two to get close. Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord) refuses to accept her parents’ divorce and is determined to get them back on track. Brenda (guest star Shannen Doherty), Kelly (guest star Jennie Garth) and Ryan (Ryan Eggold) confront Adrianna (guest star Jessica Lowndes) about an obvious substance abuse problem, giving Annie the chance to take the lead in the play. Jessica Walter, Dustin Milligan and Michael Steger also star. Paul Lazarus directed the episode written by Sean Reycraft (#105).

I totally love that they are doing Spring Awakening as their high school musical … tho, I doubt they’re gonna bust out the nude scenes that are featured in the actual Broadway production. If I recall, Brenda performed fully nekkid or chickened out of performing in the nude (I can’t recall which it was) in a play back on Beverly Hills, 90210 during the college years … I hope this isn’t merely an issue of plotline recycling cuz … that’d be bad, no? In any event, I’m really looking forward to this week’s new ep. I believe it is the last one that Shannen Doherty filmed for 90210 (she only committed to appearing in 4 eps thus far) so it may be some time until we get to see Brenda Walsh on the small screen. What a great time to bring back Donna Martin (Tori Spelling), don’tchathink?

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At the Silverspoons Pink Party Luncheon in recognition of breast cancer awareness, OK! caught up with Tori Spelling as she tried on the New Balance pink sneaker designed especially for breast cancer awareness month. Tori was happy to talk about upcoming projects, revealing she’s still holding out for a role on the new 90210. “Yeah, well see. I’m a big believer in what’s meant to be will be, so if it’s meant to be it will work out,” she says. “I watched it and I think it’s so cute. The new cast is so cute.”

My money says that last night’s Donna Martin shout-out is a clue that producers will eventually bring her back on the show again. My guess is that she will, indeed, return … most probably after Shannen Doherty’s 4 eps have aired. I would love to have Kelly, Brenda and Donna all together again on screen but … at this point, I’ll take what I can get. After the jump, check out video of Kelly and Brenda talking about Donna in the cafeteria of West Beverly High School …

On the actual show itself, Shannen wore a completely different outfit (tho, I think I prefer this one) … and she managed to pull off a very charming interview, I thought. She talks about, among other things, her Catholic-inspired tattoo, the trials and tribulations of living in Malibu, CA and, of course, 90210. After the jump, check out video of Shannen’s Late Show appearance …

Shannen Doherty ain’t look all that hot in the unforgiving SoCal sun … actually, only Lori Loughlin looks like she’s ready for the cameras (little whipper-snappers AnnaLynne McCord and Shanae Grimes need to step up their respective games, yo). In any event, I’m sure each one of these ladies is very pleased with how well 90210 did in the ratings Tuesday night :) After the jump, check out the moment when Kelly Taylor re-met Brenda Walsh at the refurbished Peach Pit during the show’s series premiere …

In case you missed it the first time, or want to see it again, here is Shannen Doherty’s first scene on 90210:

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So as not to spoil anything for those of you who have yet to see the 2-hour series premiere last night I’m putting my comments about the show behind the cut. After the jump, check out my take on the new 90210 …

I gotta confess, I was really skeptical about last night’s premiere. I dunno why, but I had a bit of a chip on my shoulder before I even watched the first ep. I think I was just really clinging to the original series way too much and had convinced myself that the new incarnation wouldn’t be good or would ruin the feel of the original. I am happy to report that that isn’t the case. I found the updated 90210 very fresh while still paying due respect to the original series:

In all honesty, I was worried in the first 10 minutes. I felt the blow job scene that we were shown before the first commercial aired smacked of desperation … thankfully, that tone didn’t really hold for the rest of the series premiere. I loved the mix of new and old … it felt familiar and yet modern. It was really very cool seeing Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty on screen again … I was happily shocked that Kelly Taylor (Jennie’s character) is a mother of a 4-year old boy — and we don’t know who the father is just yet! I hope they keep that secret for a while, I love the not knowing. Shannen still has that Brenda Walsh vibe about her … it’s as if no time had passed, to be quite honest. I’m really looking forward to seeing more eps, I think I’m hooked already. Interesting that Silver is Kelly’s little sister (who was born on BH, 90210). It never occurred to me that Silver is her last name and not just a nickname … she is, of course, David Silver’s (Brian Austin Green) little sister as well. Love it! I also noted that the saucy grandma’s friend (who is the grandmother of the jock kid on the show, whose name I don’t know yet) was played by Linda Gray — who played Hillary Michaels in the failed TV series Models Inc. (which was a spin-off of Melrose Place which, of course, was a spin-off of Beverly Hills, 90210). I don’t think that Linda Gray plays the same character … but it would’ve been GENIUS if her characters were the same. She would’ve been the only actor on the show playing a character that was spun-off from a spin-off on a spin-off of the original show :)

OY! There was just so much going to talk about … I noted there was a Zuckerman-Vasquez on the West Beverly High newscast, clearly the daughter of Andrea Zuckerman (thanks CH) and I would love it if the meatheat LAX jock asshole turned out to be a relative of Steve Sanders — they’ve got the same hair, after all. I really love Rob Estes character as father/principal … I really like the whole thing … as did over 4 million other folk, 90210 was the highest rated scripted show premiere in CW history. Well done. I don’t know that I’ll be recapping the show on a weekly basis but I’ll deffo be watching. So … what did y’all think?

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