Tiffani Thiessen Shares Hilarious Reaction to Comments That She Hasn't Aged a Day Since “Beverly Hills, 90210”
Tiffani Thiessen Shares Hilarious Reaction to Comments That She Hasn't Aged a Day Since “Beverly Hills, 90210”
Angela AndaloroFri, June 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM UTC
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Tiffani Thiessen as Valerie Malone in 1994 (left) and todayCredit: Everett Collection; Tiffani Thiessen/Instagram -
Tiffani Thiessen played Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1994 to 1998
The role came after years of fans growing to love her as Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell
Thiessen jokes about the comments fans make about her appearance in a recent Instagram Reel
Tiffani Thiessen doesn't mind humbly accepting a compliment.
The actress, 52, shared a humorous Instagram Reel on Thursday, June 4. In the post, she joked about getting compliments on her appearance and comparisons to her days playing Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210.
The post shows the actress going from humbly accepting the compliment to striking her best modeling poses as the wind blows through her hair. She captioned the silly video, "Who me???? ☺️".
Hilarie Burton commented, "You are SUCH A BABE!!" while Danica McKellar wrote, "Niiiiice!! 👏👏👏." Fans commented agreeing with Thiessen, and also calling back to her Saved by the Bell days. One wrote, "90210? I thought I was looking at Kelly Kapowski. 😄."
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Thiessen played Valerie from 1994 to 1998, returning for a guest appearance in the show's final season in 2000. Initially, Valerie was seen as "replacing" Shannen Doherty's Brenda, moving into her bedroom as a family friend of the Walshes. Doherty departed the show in 1994, shocking viewers who felt Brenda was a staple of the show's drama.
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Speaking about the situation in a 2000 panel with Entertainment Weekly, Thiessen said, "At first, I did all my interviews, and it was always, 'How do you feel about replacing Shannen Doherty?' It was hard. I wasn't replacing anybody."
Of the character's wolf in sheep's clothing demeanor, executive producer Charles Rosin shared, "We wanted a baaad girl. There was really an edge with Tiffani because she was so sexual. In her first episode, she [smoked] some pot. We were making a statement there."
"They wanted me to roll a joint with one hand so I looked like some kind of pro. I couldn't do it," Thiessen recalled. "The person you see is actually somebody else's hand rolling a joint."
Thiessen took the role just months after parting with longtime character Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell. At that time, she was auditioning for a lot of different roles, as she revealed during a conversation with Nikki Glaser on her Sirius XM show You Up in 2018.
"Did you know I tested for Friends, for Jennifer Aniston?" she shared. While there was interest, Thiessen was just 20 at the time. "I was just a little too young. I was a little too young to the pairing of the rest of them," she explained.
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