We haven’t heard much from 90210 alum Shannen Doherty since her unsuccessful turn on Dancing with The Stars last season. She was on the 90210 remake for a few episodes in 2008 but was reportedly fired for being difficult to work with. There were rumors that Doherty was trying for her own reality show with her photographer boyfriend, but nothing came of that. Now Shannon has a new memoir coming out in early November called Badass: A Hard-Earned Guide to Living Life with Style and (the Right) Attitude. In a promotional interview with Parade magazine she explains just how different she is from the latest crop of actresses trying to out do her in the attitude department. It’s like she thinks she invented mean girl entitlement and that she did it with more panache and none of the credit. Doherty says she’s changed though, and that she’s learned from her past. Here’s part of what she said:

On her reputation
“I have a rep. Did I earn it? Yeah, I did. But, after awhile you sort of try to shed that rep because you’re kind of a different person. You’ve evolved and all of the bad things you’ve done in your life have brought you to a much better place.”

Claims she wasn’t that bad
“The irony is that, if I was doing the same stuff now, I wouldn’t be getting the attention. Like I never did a sex tape. I never didn’t wear panties and flash a camera. You sort of stop and go, ‘Wow, it’s sort of what’s acceptable now.’ And, then, they always have excuses. When I made a mistake, I would admit to it. These girls don’t seem to see their own mistakes, much less learn from them.”

On Lindsay Lohan
“It’s such a horrific situation that I don’t even know what to say. I just have kind of tried to tune it out. I totally understand that it’s newsworthy, but it just seems so tragic to me. I mean, Lindsay’s dad giving a press conference at the end was just like, ‘Oh, my God.’ I’ve been acting for 29 years. My parents have never given a press conference, ever. It all seems so exploitative.”

Advice to Lindsay
“I think that it’s still about having faith in yourself. You’ve hit some road bumps and maybe they made you fall down and you’ve got some gravel and asphalt in your face because things are that bad. But have faith because you can get better and you can become the woman that I’m sure you want to be.”

What badass means to her
“Badass is a little tongue in cheek. But, at the same time, it’s very poignant because it’s sort of telling the things that I went through and the mistakes that I made when I was in my 20s. I had this amazing career in front of me and because of some things I did, my career really suffered. Thank God that I’ve had some second chances.”

“You can either be a bad girl in life, or you can become a badass. It means owning who you are and being compassionate and knowing when you’ve made a mistake and not repeating it. And, also not being afraid to kick some ass and take names.”

On people dissing her online
“Perez Hilton has been very nice to me, so I clicked on his site recently to see some reader comments about me. The majority of them had really nasty things to say. I was devastated. So I called a friend of mine who said ‘Everybody has haters. It doesn’t matter how huge of a star you are. People want to take other people down.’ My mom has always told me, ‘You know what kind of person you are, so hold your head up high and just keep believing in yourself. But it’s hard, especially when you click on a bunch of haters.”

On Angelina Jolie being a badass
“My book gives a couple of examples of celebrities I really admire who I think are badasses. One of them is Angelina Jolie. When she was in her 20′s, she had the vial of blood and the knives and everything. You were like, ‘Okay, she’s brilliant, she’s talented, she’s stunning, but what about the weird stuff?’ Now, you see the progression that she’s made as a mature woman. Angelina is an inspiration.”

[From Parade, subheaders added]

Yes Doherty screwed herself out of gigs on 90210 and Charmed, got arrested in 1996 and got a DUI in late 2000. In her mind she’s not like Lindsay because she plead guilty for DUI and did her community service and probation without complications. The result for her career seems to have been about the same though.

39 year-old twice divorced Doherty also talked about her piss poor taste in men and how she was hoping to “save” some of the guys she was with. She added “like any badass, I think I’ve learned from my mistakes.” She never went to jail at least. I don’t think it makes her “badass” to do stupid destructive things and then follow judge’s orders. Badass is being yourself but not sabotaging your career.

Shannen Doherty is shown out on 6/17 and 6/26/10. How fake does her hair look? Credit: WENN.com

The new lineup for Dancing With The Stars was announced, and apart from Kate Gosselin (who surely leaked the news ahead of the official list in order to get some more publicity mileage) it’s not half bad. And in “not half bad” I mean that I recognize most of the competitors’ names and am even interested in seeing some of them dance. First up is greasy has-been Pamela Anderson, who will incite the censors with her fabric-challenged outfits while trying to dance her way out of the trailer park. There’s also Bachelor Jake, who made his final choice last night, Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls, gold winning figure skater Evan Lysacek, and ESPN anchor and peeping tom victim, Erin Andrews. Here’s more:

It’s official: Kate Gosselin is headed back to television.

The 34-year-old mother-of-eight will compete on the ninth season of the ABC reality hit, it was announced Monday.

Her competition: Bachelor Jake Pavelka, Pamela Anderson; Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco, soap star Aiden Turner, ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, Shannen Doherty, Buzz Aldrin, Niecy Nash, Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger and Olympic skater Evan Lysacek.

[From US Weekly]

Many of you were rolling your eyes at the statements in Kate Gosselin’s Radar Online announcement yesterday. One that was particularly laughable: “the mom of 8 likely will do most of her practicing near her Pennsylvania home because she insists on putting her children first.” You know that the next step for Kate will be posing in a bikini on a magazine cover with “how I lost 15 pounds.” She’s just one step behind Nadya “I’m doing it all for my kids” Suleman.

As I said yesterday, I doubt Kate will be able to bring it anyway. I’m really rooting for Niecy Nash! I love her on Clean House and find her so much fun. I’m also interested in seeing Shannen Doherty after all this time. There are rumors that she’s been gunning for her own reality show to help revive her career, but DWTS will probably do much more for her if she’s able to pull it off with grace and a good attitude.

Looking through photos of the other contestants, I have to say that Chad Ochocinco is one gorgeous man! (The bald African American guy, below.) Aiden Turner isn’t bad, but he looks like one of the “Jersey Shore” cast with that spiky hair.

Photo credit: WENN.com except for photos of Erin Andrews and Kate Gosselin, credit: PRPhotos

We haven’t seen much of former Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty, 38, since she was on Charmed from 1998-2001. She did a four episode guest stint on the new 90210 in 2008 and there were rumors that she was canned due to bad behavior. (She did come back though in three episodes in 2009, so maybe those reports were false or overblown.) She had a reality show on Oxygen in 2006 called Breaking up With Shannen Doherty that involved her going around telling people their significant others no longer wanted to be with them. That lasted just one season. There’s more, but the jist is that Doherty has had just piecemeal work the past few years. If the National Enquirer is to be believed, she’s now trying to remedy that with the last ditch effort of many fallen stars – a reality show. The show would follow Doherty’s career and her attempts to move in with her new boyfriend. She now allegedly has a couple of networks interested:

Shannen Doherty… recently had a three-hour meeting with her reps, who told the notorious diva that she needed an image makeover so she can “get back to work,” a Hollywood insider revealed to The Enquirer.

“The bottom line is Shannen’s got one of the worst reputations in Hollywood for being difficult to work with. She’s got to make herself likeable again.”

The new project will focus on Shannen’s life as a one-time popular actress who must now compete for acting gigs, as well as her romance with her current boyfriend, 35-year-old photographer Kurt Iswarienko. Cameras will be rolling as Kurt and Shennen, 38, move in together…

So far, at least two major cable stations have shown interest in the series, according to the insider – and the show could be on the air as early as next summer.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, February 8, 2010]

Why do we need yet another reality show featuring the life of someone we’ve forgotten? People must watch those shows or they wouldn’t keep getting made, but I can’t see this being a real success for Doherty. If anything the show would just magnify the personality traits she’s trying to overcome by making a reality show in the first place. Plus it’s pretty much dooming her relationship with her soon-to-be live in boyfriend.

I don’t think most verite-type reality shows are worth the trade off for the participants. It’s like signing a pact with the devil. You get what you bargained for but the price is always way higher than you expected. Maybe I’m too negative about the possibilities, though. A reality show has really boosted fellow 90210 alum Tori Spelling’s profile and so far her relationship with the husband she stole is fine.

Last week Star Magazine ran a story about Shannen Doherty’s history of dating taken men and breaking up their marriage. Doherty’s latest boyfriend, a photographer she met during a photoshoot last summer, was married when he hooked up with her. The guy’s mother-in-law told Star “Shannen broke up a marriage and that’s all I’m going to say!”

Shannen also broke up “Nip/Tuck” hottie and her “Charmed” co-star Julian McMahon’s marriage to Brooke Burns with a much-talked about affair in 2001. McMahon and Burns had a one year-old daughter at the time.

Now there are allegations that Doherty helped hasten the end of her former “Little House on The Prairie” co-star Melissa Gilbert’s first marriage to Bo Brinkman. Gilbert has a new memoir coming out called
Prairie Tale, and Star Magazine has advance details that Gilbert dishes on Brinkman’s one night stand with Shannen. The sad part that Star fails to mention is that Shannen was a teenager when she slept with Brinkman and may not have even been of legal age. It’s hard to tell with the vague timeline they’re giving, but she wasn’t 20 yet. Gilbert claims that Doherty seduced her husband because she looked up to her and wanted to be like her:

Shannen was just 11 when she was cast as Melissa’s niece Jenny for Little House’s final season. She immediately glommed onto Melissa, the show’s biggest star, according to the insider.

“Melissa tells of how Shannen was in awe of her. She’d follow her all around the set and even gushed how she wanted to be like her when she grew up.”

Five years after the show ended, Melissa married Bo – Dennis Quaid’s cousin – following a whirlwind eight-week romance…

But the marriage was soon in trouble and it was during a counseling session that Bo admitted he’d slept with Shannen, says the publishing insider.

“Melissa implies in the book that it was Shannen who sought Bo out, purely because she wanted to be like Melissa,” the insider says.

Just as the marriage was falling apart, Melissa bumped into Shannen – who was then only 20 – at an awards ceremony and told her she knew of the secret night of passion with her husband.

“Melissa writes that Shannen just looked her straight in the eye, smirked and made a snide comment.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, June 1, 2009]

Melissa was married to Bo Brinkman from 1988 to 1992. Shannen was 17 in 1988, so she wasn’t of legal age until the next year. Even if she sought out Gilbert’s husband he has no excuse for taking the bait, especially from a barely-legal teenage girl! This sadly became a pattern for Doherty, though, and now she’s taken up with yet another married man.

Gilbert has sort-of admitted that she makes this claim in her book. She just found out yesterday that the news was out about the big bombshell in her book. Here’s the timeline from her official twitter account.

From user HBTracey: @melissaEgilbert Star spoils your book. Did SD really sleep with Bo? How old was she?

From melissaEgilbert: @HBTracey Star spoils your book- Star magazine?!?

From melissaEgilbert: @HBTracey Star Mag. Chelsea Handler revealed on last night’s show.- Crap

[From Melissa Gilbert's twitter]

No word from Melissa on how old Doherty was when she slept with her first husband. I guess we’ll have to wait for the book for that.

Melissa Gilbert is shown on 3/25/09. Shannen Doherty is shown on 1/10/09 and 3/8/09. Credit: WENN.com

Rick Salomon and Shannen Doherty on 9/2/02. Credit: Fame Pictures.

Shannen Doherty, 37, was married to porn purveyor Rick Salomon, 40, for just nine months in 2002. (She still lasted longer with him than Pamela Anderson, who filed for divorce 10 weeks after they were married late last year, took it back, then ultimately obtained an annulment five months later.)

Doherty talked about her brief marriage to Salomon in an interview with Details Magazine. It sounds like they had a blast together, but once the initial euphoria was over their relationship crashed and burned. Salomon is the co-”star” and the person who filmed Paris Hilton’s sex tape, 1 Night In Paris. While he initially filed suit against the company that sold the tape, and against Paris’ family for sullying his name by claiming that he was behind its release, he eventually cashed in and sold the blue film through his own company and made millions.

In a new interview with Details, Shannen Doherty admits, “I haven’t made the best choices in men.”

(She famously married George Hamilton’s son, Ashley, in 1993 after two weeks of dating. They split seven months later.)

But out of all of her past romances, Doherty says she has no regrets over Rick Salomon, who appeared in the infamous Paris Hilton sex tape.

“There was something that Rick provided that was amazing to me,” the currently single star tells Details.

Still, she adds, “I look at what he did [with Hilton] and think, ‘God, that’s disgusting.’”

But during their 2002 marriage (which was later annulled), “I never had someone make me laugh so much. I was madly in love. It was a really hard marriage. When it ended, it was a heart-crushing thing.”

As for her future on CW’s 90210, she says, “We all agreed we’d see how it goes.”

She said she wouldn’t have done the show if her character Brenda “was stuck in the same spot.

[From US Weekly]

The last time we heard from Doherty about her stint on the new 90210 she said that she had another project and couldn’t commit to new episodes. There were rumors that she was dropped due to similar bad behavior on set that got her canned from the first series. Now she’s saying she’s allowed to stay on the show on a trial basis. I guess we know now that her excuse about the other series she was working on was bogus.

Doherty and Salomon are shown on 9/2/02 right before leaving LAX to go to Mexico to attend Freddie Prinze Jr and Sarah Michelle Gellar’s wedding. Credit: Fame Pictures

Shannen Doherty claimed that she had another project in the works and that’s why she couldn’t stay on CW’s 90210 remake beyond her initial four episode commitment. The truth is that she wasn’t wanted back after she showed major attitude and tried to rewrite her lines, reports the Enquirer. In the end, producers decided she was more trouble than she was worth and she got canned:

Fourteen years after she was fired from “Beverly Hills, 90210″ for bad behavior, the show’s given Shannen Doherty the boot again!

The producers of the new “90210″ originally wanted Shannen, 37, to appear for the entire season, but the Enquirer learned she was so difficult on the set that producers gave her the heave-ho as soon as they could…

“She argued with people, hated some of the scripts, and wanted things done her way. She pranced around the set like she owned it and often ordered changes in her dialogue, which cost time and money.

“After the first taping, the brass decided she just wasn’t worth the hassle.”

Many of the cast and crew did not like working with her, according to the insider, and as The Enquirer reported recently, “90210′s” rising young star Shenae Grimes clashed with her immediately.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 28, 2008]

It seemed like Doherty has changed since her first stint on 90210, but if this report is true she’s just about the same.

Mild 90210 spoiler for a past episode follows
This week it was revealed on the show that Dylan McKay from the first series – played by Luke Perry- was the father of single mom Kelly Taylor’s four year old son. Jennie Garth, who plays guidance counselor Kelly, is one of the staples from the initial show and has signed on for additional episodes.

There was speculation that Perry and old costar Jason Priestley, who played Brandon Walsh, might revise their roles too. Luke Perry has ruled out an appearance however, and Priestley has also declined, according to sources quoted by E! Online. Perry has an upcoming guest role on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and has starring roles in two smaller films out later this year. Priestley has been doing television work and also has a smaller film coming out. They’re both probably hoping to distance themselves from the roles which made them famous in the 90s.

Shannen Doherty is shown outside The Late Show on 9/4/08. Credit: RAM/Fame

Shannen Doherty won’t film more episodes of the new CW 90210 remake beyond the four she initially signed up for. She says it’s because she’s too busy working on other projects, and of course they wanted her back. Jennie Garth will do at least five more episodes than the six in her contract, though.

Just like Brandon, Dylan, Steve, Colin, and Matt before them, 90210′s producers just can’t get enough of Kelly. So, my sources tell me, they’ve signed Jennie Garth to appear in five episodes on top of the six to which she originally agreed.

So now we’re gonna get the Kelly-Brenda rematch we’ve all been waiting for, right?

Erm, no. Though Shannen Doherty may return later in the season, for now it appears that the first four episodes she signed on for will also be her last (the second of those episodes airs next week). “They asked me to do a lot more,” she says, but “I’m in the middle of pitching a show, [so] I couldn’t commit to more than [I did].”

[EW via TMZ]

EW’s Michael Ausiello goes on to recommend that Tori Spelling get some respect and the salary she deserves to be brought back on the show. Rumor had it that Tori was offered just $10-20k per episode but Jennie and Shannen were receiving something like $35-50k an episode. When Tori found out that her pay was significantly lower, she dropped out of the remake. It is thought that she might return around November in time for sweeps. The show is doing well in the ratings, but isn’t fairing as well with critics.

Shannen Doherty told EW Magazine in a joint interview with Jennie Garth a couple of weeks ago that she did not have the fistfight with Jennie that was detailed in Tori Spelling’s now number one book on the nonfiction list, sTori Telling. Doherty dismissed Spelling’s book by saying “I just don’t believe you write personal on-set experiences in a book… In 27 years of acting I’ve never sold out one of my cast members.” Maybe it’s a good thing there’s little chance these two will be working together again.

Shannen Doherty is shown outside the Regis & Kelly show on 9/5/08. Credit: Ray Filmano / WENN

Entertainment Weekly has a new cover story and interview with former feuding 90210 costars Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty, who are back on the new version of the series on The CW as their original characters as adults. Both Garth and Doherty say they had no problems working together despite their conflicts in the past and that they’ve grown up considerably. As for their on-set fights, they say that there wasn’t the fistfight that Tori Spelling detailed in her book sTori Telling, and Doherty adds that that Tori sold her out by portraying her so negatively in that book and that she would never do that to a coworker:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: In Tori Spelling’s book sTORI Telling, she tells some pretty harsh stories about you, Shannen. Did you read the book?
DOHERTY: I will censor myself out of respect for Jennie because she’s friends with Tori. I got passages sent to me and a vast majority of it is incredibly exaggerated. Maybe it’s a difference of how I was raised. I just don’t believe you write personal on-set experiences in a book. For me, when you work it’s almost a sacred experience whether you get along with everyone or not. In 27 years of acting I’ve never sold out one of my cast members. Ever. And I will stick to that.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: In the book it says you two got into a fistfight. That sounds very badass. But is it true?
JENNIE GARTH: A fistfight? That makes us sound so tough.
SHANNEN DOHERTY: I know. Like we were serious gangsters.
GARTH: I didn’t read the book either.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You’re thanked in it.
GARTH: For what? I wonder what I did. I asked Tori if I needed to read it and she said no, I shouldn’t bother.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Okay, but back to the fistfight: fact or fiction?
GARTH: I don’t think we ever hit each other.
DOHERTY: We had our moments.
GARTH: I just remember being outside and the boys having to try to settle us down.
DOHERTY: No, we never punched each other.
GARTH: Scratching? I’m not going to deny that.

[From EW.com]

The two say they’re pretty surprised at the racy direction the show is going in, and that it’s a departure from what they’re used to with the show. Both of them had input into their characters, though, and are pleased that they’ve matured and are in successful careers. One plot point they vetoed would have involved a love triangle between their characters fighting for a guy. Garth and Doherty say they’ve already done that and don’t think their characters would be in that place now:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: There is a rumor that in this new 90210, Kelly and Brenda will be fighting over the slightly Dylan-esque bad-boy English teacher, Ryan Matthews. Are we really going to see Kelly and Brenda fight over another guy?
DOHERTY: I would not do that.
GARTH: People want that. They want that love triangle because that’s what they’re comfortable with with us. But it’s not happening.
DOHERTY: That was one of the things I was adamant about: Brenda Walsh would not fight for a guy anymore. There are bigger, more important things in her life. Besides, I encourage [Kelly] to date Ryan. I offer to babysit.
GARTH: All those people who wrote the ”I Hate Brenda” newsletter are going to get mad at me now, like ”Why are you leaving your child with Brenda?”
DOHERTY: Hopefully those people have grown up.
GARTH: I doubt it.

[From EW.com]

Doherty came off as mature but tough in this interview. She’s gone through a lot in her personal life, and says she didn’t really like her character Brenda Walsh and the way she behaved on the old 90210. Doherty acknowledges how much she owes her fans and says that she’s willing to play Brenda again and it’s a kind of thank you to her fans for her past success. “At some point it hit me that this is what the fans wanted. They put a roof over my head. They allow me to eat and to feed my dogs. The only reason I survive is because of them. If there’s one way to possibly say thank you, it is to go back and play a character that you never even liked yourself.”

Doherty likely needs the work too, and I wouldn’t guess that she has a lot of offers coming in. She did Charmed, Scare Tactics, North Shore, and Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty, but nothing really lasted for her.

The new 90210 will premiere on The CW network on September 2.

All photos credit Entertainment Weekly.