Jennie Garth is criticizing the 2025 Oscars for snubbing the late Shannen Doherty in its “In Memoriam” segment.
In an encounter posted on Wednesday, March 5, Garth, 52, shared her thoughts with TMZ. When a reporter for the outlet approached her on the street and asked about the snub, the actress replied, “Yeah, that’s messed up.”
“What do you think should happen now? Should the Oscars issue an apology maybe?” the reporter questioned Garth, who responded with: “Maybe.” But her expression conveyed that, yes, perhaps the show’s producers should apologize for the omission.
While Doherty was not included in the montage, which played during the Sunday, March 2, ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, she was listed as one of the names that Hollywood lost in 2024-2025 on the official Academy website. (Michelle Trachtenberg, who died on February 26 at the age of 39, was also missing from the ceremony’s montage and only listed online.)
Garth and Doherty starred in the hit TV show Beverly Hills, 90210, which aired from 1990 to 2000. Garth stayed in the cast for the whole 10 years, while Doherty departed after four seasons.
In July 2024, Doherty died at age 53 following a long battle with cancer. Garth was one of the first of Doherty’s former costars to speak out in the wake of her death.
“I am still processing my tremendous grief over the loss of my long time friend Shannen,” Garth shared via Instagram at the time. “The woman I have often described as one of the strongest people I have ever known. Our connection was real and honest.”
She added: “We were so often pitted against each other but none of that reflected the truth of our real relationship which was one built on mutual respect and admiration. She was courageous, passionate, determined and very loving and generous. I will miss her and will always honor her deeply in my heart and in my memories.”
Later that month, Garth appeared on Today, where she further addressed the loss of her friend.
“I was in shock because we all know that Shannon was fighting cancer for a long time, but I don’t know, there was just something about her,” she said. “She was such a fighter and a pro. I just didn’t think that would happen for some reason.”
Tori Spelling, a fellow 90210 alum, had also paid tribute to Doherty.
“I think the big takeaway in the last two weeks is I’ve really been going back in time privately and thinking about the enormous effect that Shannen had,” Spelling, 51, said on her “Misspelling” podcast last summer. “Not just on a generation and generations to come. It’s going to keep going. She will live on in her work and in the people that loved her and the things she stood for.”
