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.

I find the idea of Shannon Doherty utterly terrifying. I mean just looking at her face makes me feel a little ill. Considerably more so when she smiles. The woman was never much of a looker, and being a legendary bitch didn’t exactly help her cause much. Doherty was fired from the first version of 90210 after her diva behavior became intolerable – she was consistently late to work, hung over, etc. Basically she was the Lindsay Lohan of her day.

She and Jennie Garth supposedly butted heads more than any other cast mates, which once resulted in a fistfight. So the idea of the two pairing up again had Garth understandably nervous. And while she didn’t exactly sing Shannon’s praises, she did say that it wasn’t as terrible as it could have been. It wasn’t as bad as war, death, or terminal illness. So when compared to those things, it was alright.

Jennie Garth admits she was initially uneasy about working with Shannen Doherty again… But when she reunited with Doherty to shoot CW’s 90210 spin-off, she tells TV Guide, “It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.

“I’m not much of a small talker, and I don’t think she is either. I was a little nervous because I hadn’t seen or talked to her in 14 years,” she goes on. “Everyone was making it out to be such a big deal that I think we both fell prey to having that affect us.” With their squabbles behind them, Garth says, “I think it will be OK. We’re both grown women, both professionals. Once we were working, it felt like a good fit.”

Co-star Ryan Eggold, who plays Kelly’s new beau on the series, admits “everybody was on pins and needles and sort of waiting to see how they’d react. They started off kind of tentative, but by the time we were five takes in, they were giggling and seemed to be reconnecting,” he says.

Garth says she wishes she could reconnect with Tori Spelling, who recently quit the show over salary disputes. Fighting back tears, Garth tells TV Guide, “I know Shannen probably doesn’t share the feelings that I have for Tori, but I love Tori like my sister.” She says she is encouraging fans to launch a “Bring Back Donna Martin” campaign.

[From Us Weekly]

Tears? Really? Okay to be fair it’s not all that cheesy – I often find myself tearing up at the mention of Tori Spelling. Although that’s mostly because I’ve seen some recent pictures of Tori over-sharing her boobs and I have nightmares about what years of silicone implants combined with pregnancy can do to an otherwise lovely body part.

In other 90210 news, rumors are that the new show sucks. This is based wholly on the news that the CW network won’t be sending out any screeners of the show, thus leading everyone to believe it must be because it absolutely blows. Though there’s an equal likelihood it’s just because they don’t want the show all over the internet before it even airs. Because it’ll probably suck.

Here’s Jennie Garth at the 2008 CW Network Upfronts on May 13th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

I am probably the one person on the planet who is dreading the return of that awful teen soap “Beverly Hills 90210.” That show was a flaming pile of garbage the first time around. Don’t believe me? Watch one of the re-runs on Soapnet - I dare you to sit through an entire episode without feeling like you’ve permanently lost I.Q. points. It looks like the remake, or spin-off, has hit a snag. Tori Spelling, daughter of the original show’s producer, was supposed to reprise her dry-heave-inducing role as the troll-faced virgin, Donna Martin, alongside Shannen Doherty (quite possibly the worst actress in the world) as Brenda and Jennie Garth as Kelly. But when Tori found out her co-stars would be getting more money, she backed out, citing “timing reasons” as her excuse.

Insiders tell me that Tori was hired to reprise her role as fashion boutique owner Donna Martin for just “$10,000-$20,000″ per episode.

But then Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty were signed for “$35,000-$50,000″ a show. When Tori found out her former co-stars were getting paid way more than she was, she got pissed and demanded equal pay. But the network suits have refused. So now my sources tell me that Tori has pulled out of the series, which premieres with a 2-hour special on September 2nd. “She thought she deserved parity, and she’s got a point,” an insider explained to me.

That’s because, for some bizarre reason, Tori is a reality show ratings hit by Oxygen’s low standards. (Last Tuesday’s Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood was the most watched telecast in the history of that execrable women’s cable channel as 1.4 million viewers saw the episode where Tori gave birth to her 2nd child — which actually took place 5 months ago.) And Spelling wrote a bestselling book besides. Showing once again that it doesn’t pay to underestimate the terrible taste of the American public…

As for Tori, she has told the media only that the timing didn’t work out for her to appear in the 90210 pilot because she was giving birth. “So we’ll see what happens later in the season,” she said last week on CBS’ The Early Show. One insider tells me it wouldn’t be surprising if Tori and the show eventually agree to bring her onto 90210 as a November sweeps stunt. Hmm.

[From Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood]

What kind of world are we living in where having Tori Spelling appear on any show would be considered a sweeps stunt? I truly hope that nobody watches this show. But I am sure I’ll be proven wrong and nostalgic Gen-Xers hoping to recapture their 90s glory days of big sideburns, flannel shirts and bodysuits will flock to this crapfest. Not me- I’ll be watching “Mad Men.”

Picture note by Celebitchy: The new cast of 90210 is shown below at the “CBS TCA Summer 08 Party” on 7/18/08.
Credit: Nikki Nelson/ WENN. Tori Spelling is shown in the header when she was hosting at “Christian Audigier The Nightclub” at Treasure Island Hotel in Vegas on 8/1/08. She just had a baby so go easy on her. Credit: PRN/ PR Photos

35 year-old Tori Spelling is said to be working on another memoir as a follow-up to her first biography, sTori Telling, which detailed her materially rich but emotionally troubled life growing up as the daughter of one of Hollywood’s most successful TV producers. Spelling was left virtually nothing by her insanely wealthy father, Aaron Spelling. The elder Spelling was worth $300 million and left Tori just under a million dollars. In her first book Spelling revealed that she was deep in credit card debt after spending massive amounts of money in her twenties. She’s now working hard to keep earning cash and has a reality show, a jewelry line on HSN, and another book. In the upcoming book, tentatively titled Mommywood, Tori will discuss how her life changed as she went from a minor celebrity to a minor celebrity mother to two children. Tori could easily become the next Katie Price and start putting out a book every six months.

The 35-year-old, who gave birth to her second child with husband Dean McDermott last month, has signed a deal with publishers Simon & Schuster to pen her second tome, tentatively titled “Mommywood.”

The book will focus on her life as “a Hollywood princess-turned-parent” and the growth of her 1-year-old son Liam, and newborn daughter, Stella, according to the press release.

[From SFGate via WeSmirch]

The book is due out around April, 2009 and I wonder what kind of advance they gave her. Tori will also be in the 90210 spinoff on the CW channel along with her old co-stars Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth. There were conflicting reports as to Tori’s involvement, but one of the producers revealed that Tori is on board and that she was said to have dropped out because “she was exhausted from having the baby.” He added that the door is open for her when she wants to return and said “I think that when she’s up for it, she’ll be in.” Tori also confirmed that she will reprise her role as Donna Martin and said she’s excited for it. [Details from STLToday.com]

Tori is doing whatever it takes to keep the cash coming in, and she’s doing a pretty decent job of it. She’s not my favorite person after the way she cheated on her then-husband with a married guy with children, but she’s trying to make a living the best way she knows how and it seems to be working for her.

Tori Spelling is shown at the NBC Universal 2008 Press Tour on 7/20/08. Credit: WENN

Paris Hilton has supposedly come up with an absolutely genius idea. And by genius, I mean for her. Which means not all that smart, but not the very stupidest thing she’s ever come up with either. Paris wants to get all her favorite paparazzi victims together to dish (and I’m guessing bitch/complain) about their lives, and what it’s really like to be them. I’m guessing there will be a lot of complaining about being followed by photographers, with no appreciation for all the money and free stuff.

I know it seems like another reality show is about the last thing the world needs. But I’ve learned Paris Hilton — herself no stranger to the reality TV experience — has dreamed up an intriguing concept for a new show.

According to a Paris pal, the hotel heiress got an inspiration watching both Dina Lohan’s and Denise Richards’ new reality series. Her plan? To try to gather together as many targets of the supermarket press and paparazzi as she can.

Just imagine Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Tori Spelling — as well as Richards, Hilton and her former ”The Simple Life” co-star, Nicole Richie — together in one big two-hour special sharing ”their side” of what it’s like to be them.

That concept alone reportedly has intrigued a couple of cable channels initially contacted about the concept: Bravo and Lifetime.

[From the Chicago Sun-Times]

Even though I find the idea pretty annoying, I’d still watch it. If for no other reason than to see who Paris actually talks into doing this. Tori Spelling and Denise Richards have nothing to lose. The other starlets could go either way. But if some kind of fantastic crazy fight were to break out, that’d be pretty much the best thing ever. I cannot imagine what could happen with all the egos in that room. Diva behavior could very well rise beyond Diana Ross proportions. It could be epic.

Photos are from the beginning of Britney’s breakdown a few years ago. That’s what happens when you put Paris, Britney, and Lindsay in such close proximity.

Tori Spelling and her new baby are on the cover of this week’s OK! Magazine. Inside the mag are photos of Tori and her stolen husband, Dean McDermott, along with their son Liam, who started out a little iffy in the looks department but is now a bona fide cutie pants. In the interview, Tori admits that she and Dean were not planning for a second child- in fact, she had been on birth control pills.

She’s a miracle,” Spelling tells OK!. “I was on one pill and wasn’t feeling well, so I went off of it. Two days later, the doctor put me on another, and on that one day, we conceived. It was meant to be!”

“My first thought was, ‘My god, she’s so beautiful,’” Tori gushes. “My second thought was, ‘Oh my god, she has black hair! Where did that come from?’ [laughs] Liam has blonde hair and is very fair. She was born with black hair, very tan.”

Tori continues, “I never thought I’d have a daughter. Dean’s first child [Jack] is a boy and then we had Liam and I thought, ‘Because I’m so girly-girly, I’ll have all boys.’ ”

Dean agrees, adding, “When I saw Stella for the first time, I just bawled my face off out of pure joy. I’ve always heard that there’s nothing like that bond between father and daughter. There is nothing like it — you feel it that moment. It hit me like a ton of bricks. Little boys are awesome. They’re just like a little you. But having a little girl is something else. As a man, you just lose it.”

[From OK!]

Uh, Tori? We all know you are NOT a natural blond, so who do you think you are kidding with this “Where’d Stella get the dark hair from” bit? Puh-lease. Stella is a very cute baby, but I’m not totally sold on the name. “Stella Doreen.” That sounds rather trailer park-ish. I just picture a girl in cutoff shorts with huge mall bangs. But maybe it’ll grow on me, like “Honor” did.

Thanks to OK! Magazine for the header photo, where there are more pictures of baby Stella.

I’m not a big Tori Spelling fan, but I did love her fabulous little pug, Mimi LaRue. Mimi was the only pug with her own entry on IMDB, and she could wear designer couture with appropriate fierceness. The dog basically stole the show in Tori’s reality show, “Tori and Dean: Inn Love,” in which the couple ran a bed and breakfast named Chateau LaRue, named after Mimi. She also made regular appearances on Tori’s previous show, “So NoTORIous.” Tori announced that Ms. LaRue passed away yesterday. She was 11 years old.

New mother Tori Spelling is mourning the death of her beloved pet dog Mimi LaRue, just a week after she welcomed new baby daughter Stella into the world.

The pooch died from natural causes on Tuesday, at age 11.

Spelling tells People.com, “She was a star and a true lady, and she will be missed greatly. People everywhere knew her by name. I loved when fans wanted her over me. I felt proud.”

The actress reveals the pug had battled medical problems for years, and she says she believes the pooch waited until she had given birth to Stella on June 9, before dying.

Spelling adds, “I’m devastated. I’m convinced she waited around to make sure I had the daughter I always dreamt about before she left us.”

[From SFGate.com]

Tori once said that she bought Mimi at a pet store, but would never consider doing that again, saying, “I wasn’t aware.” Condolences on her loss. One of my beloved golden retrievers, Astro, is getting up there in age as well- I don’t even want to think about it!

Picture note by Celebitchy: Tori and Mim LaRue are shown below in 2004 and in the header in March, 2007 with Dean in front of the Inn. They kind of look alike. Thanks to PRPhotos and Splash.

Tori spelling has popped out baby number 2 - a little girl named Stella Doreen McDermott. She was born Monday, June 9th at 3:13 p.m. PT by scheduled c-section and weighed 6 lbs 8 oz. Which is 3.09 kilos. I really like the name Stella, it’s very classic.

Tori’s rep tells OK!, “She’s here! She’s a healthy baby girl. Tori and baby are resting comfortably.”

Stella, whose middle name Doreen is after Dean’s late mother, is the second child for Tori and her husband, Dean McDermott. The pair, whose Oxygen reality show Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood launches its third season on June 17, are already parents to Liam, 1.

Although having two children under the age of 2 will be a challenge, Tori and Dean do believe parenthood will be easier the second time around.

“You’re a little more laid-back with your second child,” he told OK! last month. “You’re not as anxious. You’re not as frightened. They trip and fall, and you’re a little more laid-back about it and realize they don’t break.”

OK! Magazine

Actually, you aren’t more laid back, you’re just so sleep deprived and confused you no longer have the ability to feel anxiety or fright. At least in my experience.

Congratulations to Tori, Dean and big brother Liam. We look forward to seeing your new arrival in magazines and on reality television soon.

Note by Celebitchy: Tori Spelling is shown in the header out Sunday on Sunset Boulevard. She must have known it was her last day to be photographed before the new baby as her c-section was already scheduled for Monday at that point. She’s also shown at a hair salon on Saturday, and out on 6/1 for comparison. She seems to have had her roots dyed in preparation for the baby. Supposedly most doctors say it’s ok to dye your hair while pregnant, but you should probably wait until after the first trimester.

Either this 90210 spinoff is going to be so legendarily awesome that the original cast members are just aching to get on the show, or the original cast members’ careers are in such abysmal shape that they’ll do anything to get on the spinoff. When Jennie Garth signed on, I thought it could go either way. But yesterday it was confirmed that Tori Spelling is also on board, and I think that makes it pretty clear exactly what kind of show this is going to be: the kind filled with desperate stunt casting.

Looks like Jennie Garth isn’t the only Beverly Hills, 90210 alum returning to her old zip code. Tori Spelling – who played Donna Martin – has been tapped to co-star in the new spin-off version of the ’90s hit teen drama, a source confirms to Usmagazine.com.

“She will be a recurring character,” the source adds. DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com first reported the news. “I am excited about it,” Spelling told Us in April when asked about the new version. “In some way, every show that followed 90210 was a remake of 90210,” she added. “For the fans’ sake, I am really happy for them.”

Spelling’s father Aaron created and produced the original series. Former Full House star Lori Loughlin has also signed on and The CW has also hinted that other original 90210 stars could be reprising their roles.

[From Us Magazine]

Just when I thought Tori Spelling couldn’t be more dumb and useless. Every show that followed 90210 was a remake in some way? So NYPD Blue, Friends, and Antique Roadshow then? I’m going to assume Tori’s as dumb as the characters she plays, and meant to say that every show of the self-indulgent teenage drama variety was a remake of 90210.

Apparently the original storylines are being drawn upon but updated a bit. I really hope they redo that episode where Brandon Walsh defies the school and daringly invites all the back kids from the inner city school to the Fall dance. At first there’s tension, but then they all mix it up to Brian Austin Green’s raps, and everything is A-OK. Oh, and whenever some outsider teases one of the gang for being over-privileged and going to Beverly Hills High, the character needs to reply – really indignantly – “Hey, I go to WEST Beverly.” And then walk away like he just proved his point.

Picture note by Celebitchy: A pregnant Tori Spelling is shown signing copies of “sTori Telling” on 3/14/08. Jennie Garth is shown at the PRISM Awards on 4/24/08. Thanks to PRPhotos.