Miss u Jason Priestley

20 Sep 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in Celebrity, advertising, fashion, man of the week, tv, 1 Comments

When BH 90120 first came out, I wasn’t really allowed to watch it. This Rolling Stone cover came out in 1992, which would have made me… 9 years old. But I watched it anyway. I used to hide behind the potplants at the entrance to our lounge after my parents had sent me to bed (no jokes). The BH kids always seemed so glam compared by my little life on the prairie in Worcester. Kidding, didn’t grow up in Worcester. I grew up on the slopes of Clifton 2nd, which is a bit like Worcester (in that you have to get into a car to find macarons, completely unlike Gardens).

Anyway, I have much loyalty to 90120, and my heart welled with warmth when Pepe Jeans sent me all this old footage of Jason Priestley talking about acting and life and art, obviously a part of an advertising campaign they were doing at the time. I was actually way more into bad boy Dylan (on the left on Rolling Stone cover) rather than Jason’s character Brandon, but I was 9 and foolish and have subsequently learnt that nice guys make the best boyfriends and that bad guys who seem really exciting because they stay single forever actually stay single forever because they don’t really know what to do with women. So have graduated onto Jason. There is something so James Dean about all this footage – love it! Click here to watch it for a nostalgic rush – you won’t be able to fight it.

Some interestings facts about Jason Priestley:

- he was born in Canada (land of the Beaver!)

- he has a twin sister called Justine

- he dated Shannon Doherty (uh, duh)

- he drives race cars and often commentates on ABC’s indiecar racing

And now you know.