[13][14] Brenda, Brandon, and Valerie grew up together in Minnesota until she and her parents moved to Buffalo, New York, when she was around ten years old, and she lived there for most of her teenage years. When Brenda is accused of shoplifting, Cindy lashes out at Brenda, comparing her loneliness to her teen daughter feeling lost, before Cindy composes herself. Stuart Carson appeared in seven episodes. Season(s) I had started dating somebody, he's an actor, and I was leery about the whole thing - the uncertainty and everything. 75. Jason Priestley plays the character of Brandon Andrew Walsh (main, seasons 19; archive footage, season 10). Some time later in Season 3, David and Donna help his younger sister Sue denounce her sexually abusive uncle. Ray then filed charges against Joe, but some straight truth from Brandon led Ray to both admit on the stand he was trying to hurt her (and having Joe's charges dismissed) and to apologize to Donna before leaving L.A. to try out his music. She was also seen and talking to a friend (later revealed to be Ginger) over the phone back in Buffalo, about the possibility of getting involved with Steve Sanders for his money, as well as insulting the gang and boasting of her natural-born ability to lie and act more innocent than she actually is. Episodes [10] He drove a Corvette, had money, girls, and popularity. Life magazine did a photo spread and we were not included, as part of that photo. At the wedding reception, she also gets the last upper hand with Kelly when she relays Matt Durning's request for Kelly to come talk to him while Kelly and Dylan are figuring out their relationship; Kelly asks in an irritated tone what Matt wants and Valerie coolly says "As usual, I'm just the messenger here" and Kelly gets up and walks away from their final interaction as Valerie shares an unrelated laugh with Dylan after asking him if he missed her. That was great. She moved to Washington, D.C., to work on the Clinton/Gore presidential campaign. Valerie tells the group in the series finale that Abby has joined her for therapy to deal with Bill's actions and their relationship is now much better and stronger than before. Class of Beverly Hills 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 Beverly Hills, 90210premiered on FOX in 1990 and in the pilot, the Walsh twins Doherty's Brenda and Jason Priestley's Brendan moved from Minnesota to California with their parents Potter's. Nikki later became friends with the group, due to being partnered with Donna for the Senior Buddy project. John is usually the straight man next to Felice's antics. Throughout the series, he was involved in several scams and wild activities, from obtaining a school "legacy key" to parties in rented homes, to the creation of the After Dark club in Season 5, to numerous fraternity stunts. When she saw him again at the Rubins' Thanksgiving dinner, they hit it off and then started dating. "Mr. Spelling, however, went to the mat for me, and here I am. Cindy has a hard time adjusting when the family first moves to California. It took him a long time to get over his father's death and then in Season 4 he met Erica (Noley Thornton), his half-sister, Jack's daughter, and her mother, Suzanne, and Kevin, her fianc. Eventually, marital problems arose, and they both cheated on each other with someone else. Erin is her half sister and David is her stepbrother. She was valedictorian, was accepted to Yale but decided to go to CU to be near her friends and family. They remained a presence on the show with regular guest roles after Season 5, but were not regular characters themselves after a storyline where Jim received a promotion and huge raise in exchange for him and Cindy moving to the firm's offices in Cutro Contents 1 Character 2 Story 3 Trivia 4 Photos 5 Notes and references Character Cindy is a smart, sweet, sensitive person. Ray returned late in Season 6 when the video company Donna and David were working for assigned them to do his video; Donna was terrified of him, but soon met his new fiance and learned he was in therapy to deal with his anger issues, and they parted on friendly terms. By the end of its first season, "Beverly Hills, 90210" was not only a legitimate hit show with its target audience, but it became a global phenomenon and turned its stars into trendsetters and sex symbols. I was coming out of this process of mourning. While the show's younger stars win the lion's share of the hysterical fan reaction, Eckhouse and Potter who, as Jim and Cindy Walsh, are 90210 's resident grown-ups get something . After high school, she was in an abusive relationship with Ray Pruit, who was mean and manipulative, almost from the start. It's hard to complain when you're making all that money. Graduating a year early, Clare soon received an offer to attend an exclusive graduate school in France and the couple reluctantly split up for good after their CU graduation. Donna Martin (Tori Spelling) and David Silver (Brian Austin Green) finally say their vows, and on-and-off couple Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth) and Dylan McKay (Luke Perry) reunite, as the curtain closes on the teen drama series Beverly Hills, 90210 after 10 seasons. She got pregnant and initially decided to get an abortion, but was forced to wait a day to have the procedure and changed her mind. She ignored Steve's entreaties until they began sleeping together and then turned the Beat into a tabloid, and by later in Season 9 they started seriously dating, even though Janet's conservative Japanese parents cut her off for being with a non-Japanese man. Why did Jim and Cindy Walsh leave 90210? David is especially protective of Kelly during her struggle with addiction, threatening to beat her then-boyfriend Colin if he hears about him giving her drugs again. Joey and Jim Walsh decide that the Peach Pit should be sold due to Nat's condition, but Brandon protests, knowing it would kill him. Afterwards, they sold the Beverly Beat and decided to start a new newspaper company. Donna reveals that she and David separated shortly after the birth of their daughter while they were living in Japan, but he sends her a card saying "Thinking of you". She moved back to San Francisco after reconciling with her parents, thus ending her relationship with Brandon (Like many of the cast, Barron was considerably older than the character she was portraying). They had as much of a shock in adjusting to the people as thier children did. Two of the 90210 's "oldest" actors - Rob Estes and Jennie Garth - have just announced that they will be leaving the CW program. Numerous events in the Walsh twins' lives took place in Jack's backyard, including Cindy and Jim's 20th wedding anniversary, Jackie Taylor and Mel Silver's wedding, the painting of the gang's homecoming float which was later doused with gasoline by Emily Valentine, and - my personal favorite - one of the first times Brenda lays . to Beverly Hills after Jim got a new job in an investment firm. Making a splash: A deep dive into the live-action. In the spin-off 90210, she and Dylan are shown to have broken up, although they share a son. He is last seen during Andrea's farewell party at the end of the fifth season. Gabriel Macht, best known for "Suits," and long set of locks when he played the not very handicapped-friendly Tal Weaver back in season 2. A magazine illegally obtained her age and went public with it, but it didn't matter, as Carteris was so entrenched on the show by that point,telling People, "A producer did say to me, 'You're lucky we didn't know your age when we hired you.'" While she did sober up, it led to more trouble, as a rehab buddy eventually became obsessed with her and almost killed them both. It was later revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had three months to live. Tori Spelling's younger brother Randy got into the family act (father Aaron said it was "fine with me") and made his acting debut as a beach club camp counselor in Season 3. Steve's father Rush (Jed Allan) is shown as an abrasive, overbearing, but doting, and ultimately caring parent. But as their kids grew up, there was little need . Some time after that, they decided that I would go back to school, to get a counseling degree. In 90210, he returns as a recurring character and the boss of Dixon Wilson. Fox had this racy reputation because they had "The Simpsons." And I just thought, Well, we can get married. He walked up to me, offered his hand and said, "Hi, I'm Aaron Spelling." She dated Brandon for most of Season 7, but Brandon broke up with her when he realized his true feelings for Kelly. After a long run, Jason Priestley (via CNN) "felt that the character of Brandon had kind of run his course," and so Brandon left for a newspaper job in New York early in season 9, but didn't even get a goodbye party. A few "90210" actors left on their own terms, or were happy to move onto (hopefully) greener pastures. Potter and Eckhouse, both of whom have young children, see their stint on 90210 as a dress rehearsal for teen parenting; Potter even moonlights as an advice columnist for 16 magazine. He was not close to his unhappy, workaholic father (Ray Wise), who revealed in the Season 9 premiere that the family-owned company, Hunter Oil & Chemical, was bankrupt resulting from Noah's father's many years of mismanagement and underpayment of federal and corporate income taxes. [11] Andrea was introduced as a focused student who was socially shy all through high school, with a huge crush on Brandon, but their relationship remained platonic. Jim's Minneapolis-based company transferred him back. ", A young Walton Goggins showed up asa frat bro with the ability to bark like a seal. They call me maam., Parents are the ones who accost me, says Eckhouse, laughing. He made a deal with Andrea if she gets accepted to Yale University he would shave his beard. And no ardent follower of the shows high school Sturm and pubescent Drang would even think of tearing the clothes off of James Eckhouse. Throughout the entire series, Brandon was involved in various journalism projects, from sports editor and co-chief of the Beverly Blaze in high school to co-editor of the CU Condor, a brief stint as news director at CUTV, and a year as student-body president (sophomore year). In an interview given shortly after her Best Actress Oscar win for Boys Don't Cry, Swank revealed that she had been fired from the show because the producers didn't think that Carly was connecting with the show's audience. He made his last appearance in Beverly Hills, 90210 Season 9 Episode 5 . Ziering did not appear in the new 90210 series. He was the person many turned to when in trouble Donna's expulsion from high school, Brenda's many problems, Kelly's drug problem, Andrea's getting into Yale, Valerie's suicide attempt, Ray's lawsuit against Joe, Steve's constant stunts, and even Dylan's battle with drugs and alcohol and the murder of his wife. Daniel Cosgrove portrays Matt Durning (main, season 910), an attorney who became the legal go-to guy for various issues with the group, including Valerie's self-defense murder of her molesting father, Noah's drunken driving, and David's statutory rape charge. The character seemed to bounce between being treated badly by people for valid reasons (Donna due to her fake fling with Noah and later her cruel comments on Kelly's self-defense shooting, the ice show manager she was rude to) and being treated badly for no valid reason (preppy snobs in a bar who insulted her, Oksana Baiul's rude manager, and even Noah when he blamed her for a mistake the bakery made with Donna's birthday cake). No devoted fan of Foxs Beverly Hills 90210 would dare scream suggestive remarks at Carol Potter. The teen-tastic events that occurred there felt so realistic that we too were a part of the Class of '93. She was shot during a drive-by shooting at LAX and suffered amnesia. Valerie became involved with Dylan, then Steve, then Ray, Brandon, David, Noah, and many others during the course of the show, the most meaningful of them being her romance with David Silver. She appeared as Mrs. T for 23 episodes. The students stole props, threw eggs at the crew, and protested the show's lack of diversity. Yet it's easy to forget that Dylan didn't even appear in the series pilot, and when he did show up he wasn't originally destined for any other episode beyond that second episode. Down-to-earth Cindy is a loving and sympathetic mother to her children, but also to her children's often-troubled friends, especially Dylan and Kelly. She also worries about her kids, who are almost immediately upon arrival thrown into some extreme situations, like saving a teen girl from drowning. [citation needed]. This marked the catalyst that led to Valerie's move to Beverly Hills, where she would live with the Walshes. Also, in this episode, it is revealed that Scott had been the fifth-grade boyfriend of a West Beverly Hills High girl named Denise, who is embarrassed by it. They choose to completely get rid of them rather than make them give them a reduced role like they did the other actors parents to free up money in the budget to offer more money to the bigger stars like Jason and keep them happy. In Season 5, Jesse continues to work as a bartender and plan for his legal future, but the marriage runs into problems (some of them related to money and stress, and others to the fact that Jesse is Catholic and Andrea is Jewish and both of them value those faiths and aren't sure how to present them together to their child) and he eventually shocks Andrea by revealing that just as she did, he had a fling with someone else. Romances Jim hires a housekeeper, Anna, without consulting Cindy, and later buys a jogging set for a work trip which Cindy mistakes for a wrapped present for her. 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With a few hours before Brandon and Kelly's wedding, they continue to feel uncertain about the path they are on. By using our Services, you agree to our use of cookies. They moved to Hong Kong with Jim's job. D'Shawn Hardell appeared in 13 episodes. Why? John Sears is a minor antagonist and nemesis to Dylan Mckay and Steve Sanders. So I thought they really meant that. I did another job after "90210," through Aaron Spelling, a daytime soap opera called "Sunset Beach." If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Kathleen Robertson portrays Clare Arnold (main, season 67; recurring, season 45), who met the group while she was a senior in high school and they were college freshman. Initially Nat is a recurring character, but after season 5, he becomes part of the cast. In the later seasons, following a brief music career where he had a hit song, but quit in disgust when he learned that only happened because of record company payoffs. Jim and Cindy are the parents of Brandon and Brenda Walsh and are mainly introduced as such. She first appeared midway through Season 4 when she aggressively, yet unsuccessfully, pursued Brandon while she was still a high school student and he was in college. Im like their mothers friend. It wasn't so much of a fish out of water experience for them as it was for their kids because it was pretty clear they were past all that 'trying to be part of a cool group,' thing. Fox was touting itself as the fourth network. His and Donna's relationship went through several breakups and reconciliations and he had an active romantic life during his college years that included everyone from Claire Arnold to Valerie Malone and many other guest characters. Jesse and Andrea had romantic sparks immediately and Andrea soon dumped Dan and began going out with Jesse, later becoming pregnant with his child and eventually accepting Jesse's marriage proposal before they welcomed daughter Hannah. By season 9, she almost burned to a crisp in a house fire, had her become fully brainwashed and indoctrinated in a cult, had a miscarriage, an AIDS scare, and got amnesia after getting gunned down in an airport parking lot. It was supposed to be a one-shot deal," Perry was quoted as saying in the book "Beverly Hills 90210: Exposed!" Meanwhile, Valerie finally decides to get an AIDS test after Johnny . Who hooked up in set of 90210? Celeste, Brenda and Donna then assist Steve in humiliating John. They're not staying in high school forever. Have you ever seen me and Brandon have a fight? Along with Nat, of Peach Pit glory, Jim and Cindy were the only adults who acted like grownups. I don't know what they were looking for, but they didn't want to keep me after my first episode. David respected her decision to abstain from premarital sex, until he cheated on her with Ariel. After this, the IRS then confiscated all of his family's assets (including Noah's yacht, his parents house, cars, bank accounts and his father's entire life insurance policy) and leaving his widowed mother in destitute. Estes, who plays West Beverly's principal and father to Annie and Dixon, will depart after Season 2. James Eckhouse and Carol Potter played Jim and Cindy Walsh (main, season 15; special guests, seasons 68), Brandon and Brenda's parents who later moved to Hong Kong when Jim was promoted. Kelly broke up with him, but the medication later failed, and Matt's wife told him she loved him but was getting a divorce so he could have a life with Kelly. Emerson had no regrets and went on to join the Air Force and have a wife and kids. In Season 6, he made friends with Antonia "Toni" Marchette, the daughter of his father's killer, Anthony Marchette. She became the temporary caretaker for younger sister Erin and a guidance counselor at her alma mater, West Beverly Hills High School. During the sixth season, Nat rekindled his romance with his former girlfriend, Joan Diamond, whom he hadn't seen in over two decades. And Fox came back with: "She can't have a job. Then Jack was apparently killed by a mafia hitman with a car bomb. She initially blames Valerie for her husband's death and threatens to turn her in after Val confesses to killing him (in self-defense, while he was trying to molest her); when she initially decides not to go to the cops, she tells her daughter she doesn't forgive her, basically claims that Valerie was dating her father rather than being raped by him, and simply wants to keep the secret. When the series began, James "Jim Walsh" Eckhouse was only 14 years older than his 'son' Jason "Brandon Walsh" Priestley, who was 21 at the time. She left the clothing store to get into public relations. Thank God Jim is toughening up, says Eckhouse. It didn't result in disease, pregnancy, guilt, or weirdness. She lost her virginity to David at the end of her senior year of college. The same is true of Luther Vandross' guest appearance. He seemed to be a man that was full of exuberance and excitement about living. This is all without diving into her sexual assault, the court case, and her eventually killing her assailant. Dr. Martin tried to bond with her and they were making progress, until he died of a stroke that everyone blamed Gina for. Tiffani-Amber Thiessen plays Valerie Malone, (main, season 59; special guest, season 10) an unwholesome and emotionally troubled family friend of the Walshes back in Minnesota. They offered advice not only to their own children throughout the first series, but occasionally to their children's friends. In season 5, he votes for Brandon as student body president and helps Donna Martin over her decision to become a debutante. In the fall of '95, I went back to school and got a master's in marriage and family therapy, and became a licensed therapist. Despite his rather grandiose surroundings - you know, the biggest house in Holmby Hills, with its own bowling alley. Why did Cindy and Jim leave 90210? FOX refused this, saying Cindy couldn't work because she was "the mother" and Carol Potter was, obviously, offended at this sexist nonsense. Jim and Cindy depart L.A. for Hong Kong on business in the summer of 1995, leaving their now-grown son Brandon whose sister had departed for England a year prior to live his life independently. She was in a long-term relationship with Noah Hunter, although it went south because of his drinking and her affair with Wayne. I think Cindy is long overdue to flip out! Problems in the Malone family had been escalating for many years, mostly in secret, but it wasn't until Valerie's father was found dead in the bathroom of his home, an apparent suicide via gunshot wound to the head, that the family's issues seemed to come to light. Valerie subsequently joins her mother in Buffalo. She planned to leave town with Dylan, before her strong words at the funeral led to her finally being accepted by Donna and Felice, and she was neither surprised nor very hurt when Dylan bailed on their travel plans. He also hosted a radio show broadcast from the Peach Pit. Born Nobody gave them anything to do. Potter was born in New York City, New York, and attended high school in Tenafly, New Jersey, and went on to attend Radcliffe College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in social relations. The phrase "Jim and Cindy" has become an almost iconic statement. This was one magazine I would like to have had my picture in. At the time, he reveals that he now has a child. And I did start complaining to the writers. Jennie Garth portrays Kelly Marlene Taylor, the gradual main character who appears throughout the entirety of the series (and the premiere episodes of spin-offs Melrose Place and 90210), maturing from "spoiled teen vixen to grounded 25-year-old. Why was Brenda written off 90210? Andrea Zuckerman's Grandma Rose was also played by two different actresses Lainie Kazan in Season 2, and Bess Meisler for Seasons 4 and 5. 1. level 1. Gabrielle Carteris witnessed . The one where EW follows up with the cast. But they didn't actually mean it. Viewers didn't notice or realize at the time how vital the music was a part of the viewing experience. She began taking multiple pills a day after she injured her back in a car accident with David; Noah's brother Josh gave her the pills. Before Cliff Dorfman terrorized Kelly as Joe Patch in Season 9, he got spooky as Michael Cetta in the Season 2 "Halloween" episode, and snapped up a role as a photographer two seasons later when "Mr. Walsh Goes to Washington.".
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