No word on why he was drinking the other times.Ħ. In order to get away from his nice-guy character Brandon Walsh, Priestley would smoke and get drunk during every press interview. When Shannen Doherty got hitched to Ashley Hamilton after a few weeks of dating, the crew had a pool going for how long the marriage would last.

Just sit here for the rest of the flight and be quiet.”Ĥ. Priestley flew to New York with Doherty to do promotional press for the first season of the show when on the plane ride over, she tells the PR handler, “Really? A town car? You send a town car to take me to the airport, not a limo?” When he tried to josh around with her, she snapped at him, “Stop talking. Spelling, I don’t know who this guy is who you have as our producer here on the stages, but you need to get rid of him.” The guy was fired within a day. So he walked out of the office, called Aaron Spelling, and said, “Mr.

Said producer lied to him when Priestley confronted him about the show being non-union (Fox wasn’t considered a “network” then). He got one of the producers fired before they started shooting Beverly Hills, 90210. Six-year-old Priestley thinks to himself, “I could not have been happier with the way my day was going.”Ģ.

When he arrived on set for Stacy, the lead actress had just jumped off a balcony and broken both of her legs. On the set of his first movie, the lead actress broke both her legs. Here are nine points that Vulture found amusing.ġ. This isn’t a disastrous tell-all along the lines of Dustin Diamond’s Behind the Bell, but there are still some juicy tidbits, and yes, a lot of them have to do with the awfulness of Shannen Doherty. However, being a good workhorse doesn’t necessarily mean being a good memoirist: For an autobiography, Priestley’s has a weird lack of introspection. This was a time when soapy primetime Aaron Spelling shows had 32 episodes per season, and by the end of his run on the show, Priestley was not only the lead of Beverly Hills, 90210, but also a director and producer. First off, we have to hand it to the guy, because he works really hard. Jason Priestley’s new memoir, Jason Priestley: A Memoir, hit bookstores last week and is as charmingly oblivious as the title suggests.

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