Grant Show Reflects on Age Gap Between His and Jennie Garth's Characters on “90210: '”Not Good'

Grant Show, who stared as Jake Hanson on 'Beverly Hills, 90210' and 'Melrose Place,' appeared as the first guest on the new 'MP' rewatch podcast, 'Still the Place'

Though Grant Show is widely known for his portrayal of Jake Hanson on Melrose Place, he’s looking back on his time on Aaron Spelling and Darren Star's other show of the era, Beverly Hills, 90210.

As the first guest on Melrose Place stars Daphne Zuniga, Laura Leighton and Courtney Thorne-Smith's new rewatch podcast, Still the Place, Show was asked about his character, who not only was a mainstay on Melrose Place for five seasons, but “the bridge” between the show and its predecessor, Beverly Hills, 90210.

“They cast me from Melrose Place,” Show, now 62, explained. “And then knowing that they were gonna put that character on 90210 sort of, to springboard Melrose Place."

When Jake was introduced on 90210 it was said he was an old friend of Dylan's, played by Luke Perry, who had just returned to town. He later ended up in a fling with Kelly, played by Jennie Garth, after her family hired him to do some work in their backyard.

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At the time, Kelly was in high school while Jake was said to be an adult in his 20s.

“What would now be illegal and like, ‘Me Too,' ” he said before later adding: “I think we only kissed, but still, you know, not good. Not good.”

Show went on to clarify that in real life the two were “relatively contemporaries,” and both adults. When the episodes aired in 1992, Garth and Show would have been about 20 and 30 respectively, as they were born 10 years apart.

“That's not that crazy in real life,” Show continued, before the costars agreed that what set the situation apart was “the high school thing.”

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Show said he hadn’t thought much about the situation before watching the episode back in preparation to come on the podcast.

“I didn't really think much of it at the time we were shooting,” he recalled, though admitted that when watching it back he had some thoughts: “I was like, ‘Oh, yeah. Look at that’, ” he said, changing his voice.

When Zuniga, Leighton and Thorne-Smith recently appeared on Garth and costar Tori Spelling’s podcast 90210mg, they asked Garth for her own take on the romance between the two characters.

“I remember just being like, ‘Okay, this is what I've been told to do,’ ” Garth said. “Like, there wasn't a point where I had much say in anything, and so I was just doing what Darren and Aaron wanted done. And I didn't think anything of it. Like, I literally never thought, ‘Oh, he's this age or she's this age.’ "

Though like Show, Garth said looking back, the dynamic feels different.

“It's creepy now that we look back at it, yeah,” she said. “I guess you're right.”

In addition to her podcast with Spelling, Garth recently launched her own show. I Choose Me with Jennie Garth — a nod to one of her 90210 character's iconic moments.

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"As much as I love talking about 90210 and the episode content from the past, it stimulated this urge in me to talk about something more important, somehow. Something more important to me, I guess. Something a little bit more relatable, just current, what we're all dealing with," she told PEOPLE. "I think that we're all dealing with the same things. It's just a different iteration of what our challenges in life are."

She added, “Even though I'm talking about my life and things that have happened to me in my life, I can almost guarantee you that these are the same things that you're dealing with in your life, just expressed in a different way.”

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