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They were rumored to not get along on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 - but it sounds like Shannen Doherty has nothing but respect for Jennie Garth on Dancing with the Stars.

"She is amazing," Doherty said to People magazine at a promotional junket for her November 25 ABC Family original movie Christmas Caper. "Ian (Ziering) did great on it and Jennie is doing great on it."

Don't look for Doherty to be Dancing with the Stars at any point, though.

"Dancing with the Stars actually offered it to me the very first one that they did and I have an issue being judgedâ€"I'm not a big fan of it," Doherty said. "But I love the show."

The 36-year-old Doherty, who's single and lives in Los Angeles, says she tunes in every week to see how Garth and the other celebrities are doing on the show.

"We're TV actors. We're not used to performing live," Doherty said, referring to how well Garth handles the pressure. "We do takes and we get to mess up and we know that we're going to have another take where we get to be perfect...

[On Dancing] You've got to nail it the first time perfectly. It's a lot of pressure and a lot of nerves come from a show like that. I admire people that can do that. I'm not one of them."

After advancing to the final four on Dancing with the Stars, Jennie Garth and Derek Hough have a drink to celebrate.

Tune in this Monday to see them compete against Marie Osmond, Helio Castroneves and Melanie Brown. Who do you think should win?

Jennie Garth has not only made it to the final five on Dancing with the Stars, she's slimmed down this television season.

"I've lost weight and I'm looking great," she told People magazine recently. "And I know me. I'll just go get pregnant again! I actually secretly look forward to [it]."

And her husband, Peter Facinelli, knows why: "So that she could eat and have ice cream."

The actors, married since 2001, have three daughters: Luca Bella, 10, Lola Ray, 4 and Fiona Eve, 1.

Before they can get down to the sexy business of making another one, of course, Garth, has a certain ballroom competition to focus on. Fortunately, she doesn't feel any pressure from it.

"Anyone could go home at any time and I'm okay with that," she said. "I love my life. I can't wait to get back to it full-full time."

The Beverly Hills, 90210 bond is as strong as ever.

Just ask Ian Ziering about the chances of his former-co star, Jennie Garth, to advance far on Dancing with the Stars.

"Jennie's doing incredibly well, and I think for sure she's going to be in the finals," the actor said to Us Weekly.

Ziering also thinks Jane Seymour and her partner Tony Dovolani are "doing an amazing job," while adding he was sad to watch Mark Cuban get voted off Tuesday night because "he was very watchable. He had a certain charm about him."

But what about the dancing days for dear old Ian? Those appear to be caput.

"My feet are still recovering!" he said, adding that he's gained back about 12 of the 22 pounds he lost on the show.

Still, he said he occasionally busts a moves at "some nightclubs and a few weddings, but that's about it."

This may be Jennie Garth's first appearance on Dancing with the Stars, but TV Guide reports the actress was asked twice before.

"But I've been having babies since I can remember," says Garth, now 35 and the mother of three with her husband, actor Peter Facinelli. "I was always pregnant or had just had a baby when the opportunity was brought to me. This time, it worked out with my life and my schedule."

Nevertheless, the former Beverly Hills, 90210 star had doubts about signing on.

"My husband said, 'You should do it,'" she says. "He was the one who sort of opened the box, in my mind. And then I started thinking that maybe it would be fun. But I feel like I just jumped off a cliff."

However, the hit reality how is a leap Garth prepared to take due to her love of dance. She studied ballet, tap and jazz between the ages of 11 and 14. Like Jane Seymour, she dreamed of becoming a professional in the dance world. Unlike Seymour, though, she saw herself more as a dance teacher than a prima ballerina.

"I dreamt of being on pointe," she says, "but I just didn't have the chops. There was just something inside of me that felt inadequate, that I would never be as good as other people. And then I stumbled into acting."

Garth's pro partner will be Julianne Hough's brother, Derek, who performed on one of last season's results shows and is also considered a sensational dancer. Garth is hoping that he can make her look â€" just a little â€" like two of the female professional dancers on the show or, perhaps, Laila Ali.

"I'm a big fan of Cheryl Burke and Edyta Sliwinska," says Garth. "I think their dancing is beautiful. And I loved the way Laila danced because she didn't do a bunch of fancy leg kicking and splits. She just kept it simple, classy and elegant, and I really like that. I think that would be more my style."

Don't look now, but Dancing with the Stars has apparently become the publicity platform of choice for former Beverly Hills 90210 stars looking to revitalize their careers.

After Ian Ziering finished fourth with professional partner Cheryl Burke during the show recently concluded fourth season, it was reported that Tori Spelling - his fellow former 90210 star and current co-star of Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Inn Love - was in discussions with producers to appear on the show's Fall 2007 installment.

Now Ziering has spilled the beans that he talked another fellow former 90210 star, Jennie Garth, into two-stepping on Dancing with the Stars, In Touch Weekly reported in its June 18 issue.

"We texted each other back and forth," Ziering told In Touch about his conversations with Garth, who unlike most of the rest of her former 90210 co-stars, found four more seasons of regular television work on The WB's What I Like About You sitcom after 90210 ended its 10-year run in 2000.

"She had a lot of trepidation at first," Ziering told In Touch. "And as an actor, it's scary because there is no second take. If you screw up, it's out there for everyone to see."

Garth's publicist Nicole Nassar confirmed In Touch's report to Access Hollywood on Wednesday. "It's official [Garth will be doing the show next season]," she said.