'90210' Star Jason Priestley Publishes Memoir: He Dishes on Living With Brad Pitt, Working With Shannon Doherty and Tori Spelling's Wedding Invitation
Star of the zip code soap teen drama "90210" Jason Priestley released a book this week. In the book, Priestley talks about his first love, living with Brad Pitt, working with Shannen Doherty, and how he felt about Tori Spelling selling his wedding invitation.
In Priestley's new book "Jason Priestley: A Memoir," which came out last week, he also talked candidly about his Canadian upbringing, marriage, his brief jail sentence for drunk driving, fatherhood, and his passion for car racing. Priestley's passion for car racing almost killed him; while he was at the Kentucky Speedway, he experienced a near fatal car crash.
Priestley's first love was Holly Robinson Peete, before she was Peete. The two met in the makeup trailer while Robinson was filming "21 Jump Street"; the feelings between the two of them were mutual. They both dated heavily for some time, flying back and forth between Los Angeles, where Priestley soon moved to pursue his Hollywood career, and Vancouver, The Hollywood Reporter wrote.
"I could not have asked for a more idyllic first love," Priestly says about Peete in his book.
On meeting Brad Pitt, the pair met when Pitt was an "unemployed couch-surfer," and it was Priestley and another friend who shared an apartment in 1987. Priestley contends that they were all struggling and broke actors. Priestley also remembers that Pitt used to sneak off to go and visit his secret girlfriend, then Geena Davis, after "Thelma and Louise" had just finished filming, The Hollywood Reporter noted.
On working with Shannen Doherty on the hit show "90210," he says he was mostly amused by Doherty's diva-like demands from the very first day of the show. The demands, Priestley claims, would eventually get her fired from the show by Aaron Spelling.
"She really did not give a sh*t," Priestley says about Doherty's attitude. He recalls how Doherty once showed contempt at a Fox publicist for ordering her a town car instead of a limo -- this was before the show was even picked up -- and he thought that she was joking. "It was a very cool attitude, until it wasn't," Priestley affirms about Doherty.
About Tori Spelling selling his wedding invitation, several years ago, Spelling sold an invitation to Priestley's wedding nuptials at a yard sale, Access Hollywood reported. During an interview with Access Hollywood, Priestley explained why he wrote the passage in his book; he stated that it was not to bash Spelling, but to let people know how it made him feel to see his wedding invitation on the local news. Priestley went on to explain that he does not judge Spelling for that.
On a reunion of "90210?" While at his book signing in New Jersey, Priestley says he is open to doing a reunion once the timing is right. Priestley also added that "we [90210 cast members] are all friends, and that we are all very close."