Jennie Garth is not interested in being a Housewife.
The Beverly Hills, 90210, alum, 54, discussed being asked to join The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills during the Tuesday, April 21, episode of Amanda Hirsch’s “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, explaining why she turned down the offer.
“I’ve been asked to be on Housewives,” Garth said before clarifying that she was asked to join “the Beverly Hills one.”
“How the hell would you fit in there?” Hirsch, 37, asked, to which Garth responded, “I don’t know. That’s why I said no.”
The I Choose Me author added, “I don’t think that’s the right environment for me to feel good and healthy.”
Garth, who became a household name in the ‘90s for her role as Kelly Taylor in the teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210, previously revealed her invitation to join RHOBH during an August 2019 appearance on SiriusXM’s The Jenny McCarthy Show.
“I was like, ‘I’m the furthest thing from a desperate housewife,’” the What I Like About You alum told McCarthy and her 90210 costar Tori Spelling. “Is it Desperate Housewives?”
After clarifying that Garth was talking about RHOBH, Spelling, 52, expressed disappointment that she wasn’t invited to be on the Bravo reality show.
“I was born in Beverly Hills, so I have one thing going for me,” Spelling said. “I’m married with a lot of kids, drama follows me everywhere, they’ve never asked me!”
Spelling then said to Garth, “Imagine if you had done that show? I just can’t picture — what would you do? Imagine you having to cat-fight with all of those women?”
Garth concluded that reality TV in general is “not [her] jam” but noted that Spelling can “throw down” when needed.
Though Garth has not been part of any ensemble reality TV casts, she did dip her toes into that side of television through her 2012 CMT series Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country, which documented her move from Los Angeles to a seven-acre farm in Central California. She later starred in HGTV’s The Jennie Garth Project in 2014, which followed Garth as she renovated a 1970s ranch home in the Hollywood Hills. Garth also competed on Dancing With the Stars in 2007 and has made various appearances on shows like Cupcake Wars, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Celebrity Family Feud and MasterChef.
Spelling, meanwhile, made her reality TV debut alongside now ex-husband Dean McDermott on Oxygen’s Tori & Dean Inn Love, which was later renamed Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. The pair also starred on Lifetime’s True Tori.
