Garth's character Kelly Taylor was in a love triangle with Priestly's character Brandon Walsh and Luke Perry's character Dylan McKay on the show
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NEED TO KNOW
- Jennie Garth revealed in a recent interview with PEOPLE whether things got romantic between her and her Beverly Hills, 90210 costar Jason Priestly
- The pair played on-again, off-again couple Kelly Taylor and Brandon Walsh on the hit 90s show
- The actress also revealed how her relationships on the show affected her outlook on relationships in real life
While Beverly Hills, 90210’s Kelly Taylor and Brandon Walsh may have had a strong love connection, the opposite could be said for their real-life counterparts, Jennie Garth and Jason Priestly.
Garth, 54, revealed in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE while promoting her new memoir, I Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose, and Embracing Reinvention, that she and Priestly, 56, kept things strictly professional on and off the set of the hit 90s show.
“Did I ever make out with Jason in real life? No, I did not,” the actress shared.
“He and I, we’re very close. We’re like brother and sister. So much love for one another, but no, we kept it to Brandon and Kelly,” she added.
However, when it comes to Kelly Taylor’s other love interest Dylan McKay (played by late actor Luke Perry), it was a different story. Garth shared that she had sometimes gotten caught up in her onscreen romance with Perry, who died at the age of 52 in 2019 following a stroke.
She wrote in her memoir of his lingering kisses and flirtatious squeezes: "When Kelly was falling for Dylan, I was falling for Luke.”
"I do think he was my first true love," Garth told PEOPLE. "Now looking back, I'm like, 'You were just like every other girl in the world.' Everyone imagined him as their first true love."
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“But it really was confusing. It got a little blurry at times,” she went on to explain. “There were a lot of intimate conversations and moments between these two characters, and I think I got caught up in it and I allowed myself to think that it was real.”
While the love triangle of Kelly, Brandon and Dylan played out on the screen for viewers over several seasons, it also deeply impacted the Bad Influence actress. Garth admits that the relationships on the show affected her perspective on relationships off-screen.
“It had a huge impact on my view of love and relationships," she said. "My character was caught up in a lot of love triangles. And even Brandon ended up being unfaithful to Kelly. Of all people, Brandon Walsh!”
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“So there were so many messages of, ‘It’s risky to love, it’s dangerous to love someone.’ So I lived my life pretty guarded in the relationship world. Until I found that that didn’t work for me either,” she added.
Despite this, Garth would go on to marry Peter Facinelli, 52, and welcome three daughters. The pair split in March 2012 after 11 years of marriage. She has since found love again with actor Dave Abrams, whom she wed in 2015.
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Jennie Garth's new memoir I Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose, and Embracing Reinvention, will hit shelves on April 14 and is available for preorder now, wherever books are sold.
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