Jennie Garth recollects Luke Perry by chance hit her within the head with a jet ski: ‘Did not decapitate me or something’

Jennie Garth solely has fond recollections of working with Luke Perry — even of the time he virtually killed her.

The previous Beverly Hills, 90210 star recounted a harrowing on-set accident that would have resulted in a critical damage throughout a 90210 panel on Saturday at 90s Con. Joined by her fellow castmates Brian Austin Inexperienced, Gabrielle Carteris, Ian Ziering, Jason Priestley, and Tori Spelling, Garth recalled taping a season 3 episode by which she and Perry had been "within the ocean filming, after which they took jet skis. They stated, 'Get on these and go into the shore for lunch.'" It ought to have been that straightforward.

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Garth defined that manufacturing requested for the celebrities' bodyguards to drive them every again to shore, however "Luke didn't need his bodyguard to drive. He wished to drive it, so he was in entrance, and there was a fisherman… after which there was a line. He went by means of it and yelled, 'Duck!' That means, 'Don't let the road catch you.' And I used to be like, 'What?'"

"I bought tagged, and it didn't decapitate me or something," Garth joked. Floating together with her life jacket nonetheless fortunately secured, Garth remembered that Perry "got here round and tried to save lots of me, however hit me within the head, and I went unconscious."

Garth and Perry performed two of probably the most consequential characters on 90210: the spoiled-yet-humble Kelly Taylor and sensible heartthrob Dylan McKay. The characters knew one another as kids, harboring a mutual crush on one another for years earlier than friendship lastly blossomed into romance. Garth and Perry's characters dated on and off all through a lot of 90210's 10 seasons, cementing their legacy as one of many present's most beloved {couples}.

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Garth has spoken about being devastated by Perry's demise in 2019 after struggling a stroke. She not too long ago stated it "nonetheless doesn't make sense to my mind" that each Perry and 90210 star Shannen Doherty are gone, Doherty having died in July 2024 after a wrestle with breast most cancers. "I dwell in a world the place they nonetheless are so much in my thoughts. So it's very, very onerous to know that they're not right here bodily," she stated.

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On Saturday's 90s Con panel, Garth recounted one other humorous reminiscence on set with Perry. "One time I used to be doing a scene with Luke in his automobile," she started. "I don't know, he was being sassy or imply — brotherly imply — to me. I used to be spraying Binaca in my mouth, and one thing came visiting me, and I circled and sprayed it in his eye."

Garth laughed whereas recalling, "We needed to cease manufacturing, his eye was tearing. I want I didn't try this."

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