
Tori Spelling sold Priestley’s wedding invitation at a yard sale. “Christine was my first full-fledged adult relationship,” he says, and remembers how the tabloids credited Elise with taming his infamous hard-partying ways, born from his need “to prove that I was nothing like the sanctimonious Brandon Walsh.” Though he remains coy about the details, Priestley confirms that “various combinations of people slept with each other over the years.” He does go into detail about his five-year relationship with actress Christine Elise, who played bad girl Emily Valentine on the show. The cast of 90210 did indeed hook up with each other. “It was a very cool attitude, until it wasn’t.” “She really and truly did not give a shit,” says Priestley, remembering how Doherty once scoffed at a Fox publicist for ordering her a town car instead of a limo before the show was even picked up. Priestley was mostly amused by his precocious co-star, whose diva-like demands from the very first days of 90210 would eventually get her booted from the show by Aaron Spelling.

“We were all broke.” He also remembers Pitt sneaking off to visit his secret girlfriend, Geena Davis, after Thelma wrapped, noting that the far more famous actress refused to visit Pitt’s frat-like West Hollywood duplex. “We lived on ramen noodles and generic beer - the kind that came in white cans labeled BEER - and Marlboro Light cigarettes,” Priestley recalls. The two quickly became best buds - think Brandon and Dylan if they had met in acting class - in those pre- Thelma & Louise days. Just another unemployed couch-surfer, Pitt was crashing with Priestley’s roommate in North Hollywood when Priestley came home from a shoot to discover a “tall skinny guy” sleeping in his bed. Though the romance eventually ran its course, Priestley has only fond memories, stating, “I could not have asked for a more idyllic first love.”īrad Pitt was just a random dude asleep in Priestley’s bed when they first met. The feeling was apparently mutual as the two dated seriously for some time, flying back and forth between Los Angeles, where Priestley soon moved to pursue a Hollywood career, and Vancouver, where Robinson was shooting. The two met in the makeup trailer while shooting 21 Jump Street, which Robinson was starring in when young Priestley, a high school senior and five years her junior, was cast in an episode. Priestley’s first love was Holly Robinson (Peete).
