Grant Show Reflects on Beverly Hills, 90210 Age Difference with Jennie Garth

Melrose place alum Grant show know that his and Jennie Garth‘S Beverly Hills, 90210 love story would ‘be illegal now’.

Show, 62, was the first guest on the Melrose place rewatch the podcast “Still the Place,” where he discussed his time on the iconic high school series.

“They cast me Melrose place knowing they were going to use that character 90210 a kind of springboard Melrose place,” Show said on the Monday, July 29, podcast episode. “It wasn’t the spin-off [or] some of that stuff. It was like they knew all this when they walked in. And then I did three episodes of it 90210 [as] Jake.”

As Show recalled, Jake Hanson initially came on 90210 as a handyman hired to build “a gazebo for Kelly’s family in her backyard.” Garth also appeared on the pilot of Melrose place, where she shared a kiss with Show.

“[It] what would be illegal now and, like, [part of the] Me, too [movement]”, joked Show. “I think we just kissed, but still, you know, not good. … How strange is it that we are a little more prudish now than we were thirty years ago?”

While Garth, now 52, ​​played a teenager to Jake’s 25-year-old, in real life she was over 18. As Show put it, they were “relative contemporaries” because they were “both adults, basically.”

“That’s not surprising in real life [but] it’s knowing it’s high school,” Show said. “Now, you put it in those terms [of the age gap]that’s creepy.”

At the time, Show didn’t think about the now strange age difference.

“She was a mature, professional actress,” he said. “I didn’t really think about it when we were shooting. When I looked at it I thought, ‘Oh yeah, look at that.’ … It is different.”

Ahead of the podcast episode, the cohosts of “Still the Place” spoke exclusively We weekly that the Jake-Kelly love story was “painful” to rewatch.

‘I looked at it and thought, well, they’re definitely almost kissing and then not quite. And I thought, ‘Oh my God, they’re kissing, they’re kissing!’” Courtney Thorne-Smith told Us earlier this month. “It just didn’t age well. Grant is such a straightforward, ethical man that he would never do that today. But at the time it was romantic. We forget how much those things age.”

Daphne Zuniga And Laura Leighton agreed, noting that the storyline feels “different” in today’s world.

Overall, Show liked it Melrose place in the first season, referring to the pilot as “a little corny and a little bland in places.”

“For the most part, I thought it was a really solid episode,” he added, noting that later seasons of the show became vastly “different.”

Garth didn’t come back Melrose place after the May-December romance fizzled out. Her character was mainly involved in one 90210 love triangle with Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestley) and Dylan McKay (Luke Perry). Although Kelly was often torn between her two classmates, it was “a bit weird” for Garth to film love scenes with Priestley, now 54.

“It was a little weird because Jason is like a brother to me, but once we got into the shoes of the characters, it really made sense,” Garth shared exclusively. Us in March. “I love seeing Kelly and Brandon together. What they had was a lot of fun and I’m a fan of it.

Kelly and Brandon almost got married on screen before calling off the wedding at the altar. On the last episode, Kelly chose Dylan. In the 2008 revival on The CW, it is revealed that Kelly and Dylan are no longer together, but share a son.