Jessica Stroup & Dustin Milligan – cute couple?

Here’s Jessica Stroup and Dustin Milligan at the incomprehensible Kitson event. And, um. I guess I just don’t find him all that attractive – he looks like a doofus high school kid. And she has on enough makeup to clothe a third world family for three weeks or so. Making her look like an overdone socialite and him look like a child who incidentally seems to wear the exact same thing every time he leaves the house. All together, I’m not sure it works.

Outfit check: Jessica Stroup at Kitson

So Jessica Stroup and a few of the other 90210-ites were at Kitson for the opening of some kind of 90210 collection, which I don’t really understand. (Although I still maintain Kitson is better than Intuition.) At any rate, let’s take a look at what she wore to this event:

I’m assuming she has something on other than the yellow skirt with the random triangle print that doesn’t even begin to match up on the seams, but it is so overtly hideous that it has blinded me to anything else on her body. Perhaps that was the stylist’s goal – if everyone is staring at her totally fugly skirt, nobody will notice her oddly protruding clavicle and that you can see the start of her ribs in her “cleavage” area! Interesting tactic, stylist, but I’m not sure the yellow skirt of doom is preferable.

Also, those shoes must die. It is either time for boots or it is time for open toed shoes. IT IS NEVER TIME FOR BOTH.

Overall: D for attempted distraction.

Jessica Stroup & Brittany Snow, BFFs

Did you know that Jessica Stroup and Brittany Snow are apparently besties? I did not. But after seeing a photo of them hugging at some T-Mobile party or something, I found all these other photos of them doing stupid young girl stuff together. So I present a photo montage of bestie-ness:

Cast bonding session

Let’s all go to an LA Kings game! It’ll be fun! We can hang out and totally bond! We love wearing parkas! So thought the cast as they headed to the Kings v San Jose Sharks game at the Staples Center on October 12th. Love Jessica Stroup’s jaw dropped in shock. Yes, Jess, they hit hard.

Shenae and Jessica fighting over Dustin

A few weeks back, photos surfaced of Dustin Milligan (Ethan) leaving Jessica Stroup’s (Silver) house early in the morning and them smoooching in the street.

Apparently, Miss This Is My Show and I Am Queen Shenae has gotten pissed that Jessica has a man and she doesn’t. Per hotornotgossip:

“Jessica and Dustin are obviously dating and Shenae doesn’t want that – She always needs to be the center of attention! She’s been flirting with Dustin on and off the set in front of Jessica and it’s pissing her off… Dustin doesn’t like her, but Shenae won’t stop. You can see the tension between her and Jessica once the cameras stop rolling!!”

First, this is not a guy worth fighting over. He’s Canadian, for god’s sake. Second, Shenae, you are the suckiest person on the show – even more sucky than Naomi and Lori Laughlin, which is saying A LOT. You are not entitled to your choice of male actors. You, in fact, are not entitled to anything but a kick in the face.

Dustin Milligan + Jessica Stroup, sitting in a tree

So while Dustin seems pretty boring on the show, as Ethan, he is apparently interesting enough to bag Jessica Stroup. Here’s some photos of him leaving her house on the morning of September 17, 2008, after spending the night. Perhaps they were just recreating the slumber party episode from BH90210? (photos and story courtesy dustin-milligan.net)

Tori Spelling’s advice for Shenae

Tori Spelling thinks Shenae Grimes shouldn’t concern herself with the rumors floating around that she’s a total psycho diva bitch on the 90210 set.  She says: “I can only look at the positive side of what’s happening and I can say that she’s made it. Once they start talking about you, false or true, then you’ve made it, so you can look at it that way.”

That’s kind of true, and kind of sad. These girls – Shenae and Jessica Stroup both – would never have been on the cover of US Weekly before now, whether or not they weighed 90 pounds each. Nobody would have known nor cared. Same with this story about Shenae. But it’s odd and somewhat disconcerting that the marker of fame is when you’ve become enough of a celebrity brand for there to be rumors and stories about you.

Outfit check: Jessica Stroup Teen Choice Awards

This is a lovely outfit – clean, simple, appropriate. Only problem – what’s up with those tan lines, Jess?

• I adore the dress. It’s not a color I would ever wear myself, but it’s bright and fresh and summery. Perfect for the awards. It’s nice and simple but with enough detail around the bustline to keep it interesting. It fits her marvelously.
• Simple gold heels that make her legs look millions of hears long. (Take note, ladies, neutral toned shes make your legs look longer than black shoes.)
• Her hair is styled but not overstyled, so she looks young and clean.

Overall: A for appropriate.

Cast out and about in LA

Via Defamer, who has this news because when people see the 90210 cast out in the world they email Defamer and not me, here’s two reports of cast sightings:

Sunday, Sept. 14: Saw that guy who plays Ethan (DUSTIN MILLIGAN) and that girl who plays Silver (JESSICA STROUP) on the new version of 90210 having lunch together at Mani’s on Fairfax. In this case, lunch meaning that he was eating while she watched.

Monday, Sept 15: Saw the new Brenda (SHENAE GRIMES) and Naomi (ANNALYNNE MCCORD, who incidentally makes me ache for Tori’s acting chops) last night at the Belmont. New Brenda is as shockingly adorable in person as on TV but was completely sans trademark smile and actually appeared pouty and pissed at times. She and the even-less-beautiful-in-person Naomi (the new Emily Valentine?), who has overgelled 90’s hair and is clearly skinnier than her own body type would prefer, were feverishly chain smoking. They were also HARDcore flirting with their waiter, the only guy there more interested in them than the cowboys and eagles. Between packs of cigarettes the girls were, yep, drinking. I’ll save you the trouble of looking it up: New Brenda’s only 18. Oooooo! I hope new Jim and Aunt Becky don’t find out, new 90210 is boring enough without old 90210‘s lesson-learned moralizing.

Silver is the new Dylan?

In a recent interview with Jessica Stroup, she was asked how her character compared to the characters from the original show. Her reply was quite interesting:

What character from the old show does she correspond to?
Luke Perry [Dylan]. He was a rebel and independent, but he also was tied into the group as a whole and was a huge vital part. I like the idea that, 20 years later, it’s the girl who’s the Luke Perry type. The strong, cool, do-what-she-wants-to-do type girl. It’s girl power.

Well, kind of. Dylan was certainly a rebel and independent. He surfed and had a vintage car and didn’t care about college or typical markers of success and had a raging alcohol and drug problem. And oh yeah, all of that was to cover up his broken heart from having to make his own way in the world and not having any real adult guidance or support and so lashing out against the world. I wouldn’t call him that powerful. And I’m not sure it really would say that much for feminism and “girl power” were Silver’s character really his equivalent.

However, I don’t think Silver is much like Dylan at all. She hasn’t really shown anything out of the ordinary – she has problems with her mom, sure, but her most intense rebellion is that she has a blog! And we all know bloggers are totally intense independent rebels. (I sure am.) Until she stirs up some serious shit – taking Dixon to Mexico, throwing flowerpots at Brenda in the street, skipping her SATs – I don’t find her very Dylan-like at all.