Tiffani Thiessen’s character Valerie Malone was the best thing that happened to 90210

I loved how she manipulated Cindy here.

Her response to learning that Dylan is rich.

Rolled a sh!tty joint.

I agree wholeheartedly OP

R3 True.

My TikTok algo has been feeding me a steady diet of season 6 clips when Kelly was a coke whore. I have been laughing hysterically at how bad it was.

R6 Kelly the coke head was the most interesting Kelly.

Kelly the coke head also gave us the Tara storyline.

Fucking fat facer.

R9 She has a beautiful and distinctive face.

The show jumped the shark before she came on.

I preferred cult Kelly.

I prefer Doherty but Tiffani was a great replacement.

I love the scene where Val runs into Kelly right after Kelly's breakup with Brandon, and Val says, "I just saw Brandon. He looked like the weight of the world had been lifted off his shoulders."

R12 I did too, but there's no kidnapping and mirder/suicide plot, just the standard financial grifting.

Did her character on White Collar ever get to have sex with hottie Tim DeKay? They kept being interrupted.

R16 I think so. I thought they were a great couple.

R13 I think they were wrong to fire Shannen, but Tiffani was a great replacement and her character enabled the show to do a soft reboot.

R14- Valerie had the best likes especially those directed to Kelly.

I LOVED Tiffani Thiessen's cooking show!!

She and Elizabeth McGovern and Minnie Driver are doing a show together: "Cube-Shaped Talking Heads."

the first guest star will be Helena Bonham-Carter.

R19 She has the right personality for it.

Intros with all the characters across the seasons.

Valerie and Brenda made the show worth watching.

How much did her face weigh?

R23 Yes.

Valerie: I am not Brenda. I will never be Brenda.

Valerie was wonderfully manipulative.

Olmec headed cunt.

Olmec? r28

Kenny (referring to Kelly): “Are you guys good friends?”

Valerie: Good enemies.

Valerie’s entrance at 0:20.

I always loved that Valerie drove a black Acura NSX. Was a hot car back then!

90210 went from being an actual story (albeit ridiculous) about young adults and their mundane problems in a rich enclave, to being a full-on soap with the snaky bitch, Val. I didn't love it.

R33 That’s what made the Val years great,

[quote] 90210 went from being an actual story (albeit ridiculous) about young adults and their mundane problems in a rich enclave, to being a full-on soap with the snaky bitch, Val. I didn't love it.

They were trying too hard to be like Melrose Place. There were no memorable outlandish moments like Kimberly's wig or drunk Alison. Just forgettable stuff.

Cocaine Kelly was as good as Drunk Alison. Val leaving the diapers at Kenny’s house was good.

R18 Nah, she was a pain in the ass to work with. Even the actor who played the mother said she was pretty unprofessional and unprepared. And I am a huge Shannen fan. You should listen to her podcast--if it's still on Spotify. She's open about how she was a mess back then.

I hated 90210 UNTIL they hired Thiessen

R33 are you familiar with Aaron Spelling?

R37, Shannen was definitely a pain in the ass during her 90210 days but, unlike others, she cleaned up her act. From everything I have read, Jennie Garth was actually far meaner to the women on the show than anyone else (even Thiessen said this and she became BFFs with her for a while).

I heard that too about Jennie, R39.

R40, and then she got pissed at Thiessen when (allegedly) she told her that her husband hit on her and ended their friendship because of it. She sounds stupid.

R38 Spelling originally produced the show's first season as standalone episodes. It became a continuing drama in the second season. But still Spelling seemed to be resisting making it a full-on soap until the Valerie years,

Valerie was a Temu Amanda Woodward

R43, I don't really see them as being similar. I like both characters.

There are some similarities between Amanda and Valerie. Amanda was more grounded.

There are also similarities between Heather and Tiffani. Aside from being gorgeous, they are also strong team players with strong work ethic. They both have been used many times to shore up troubled shows.

R41 Tiffani and Jennie’s husband Peter worked on Fastlane together. Jennie was jealous of Tiffani in it.

R46, Jennie and Tori were both very jealous of the other women on the show so that doesn't surprise me.

I imagine Tori was jealous of any woman who was more attractive than a toad.

R48, right, seeing as she was beaten to a pulp with the ugly stick.

How did they react to Kathleen Robertson?

Cary Grant's daughter Jennifer was on the show and played Steve's girlfriend for a while iirc.

R51 I would have loved Dyan, Jennifer Grant’s mother, to have made an appearance.

Tiffani talking about making out with Jaime Pressley on Fastlane at 3:00. She said she had fears of feeling manly next to her.