People reunites Saved By the Bell cast, almost
Tiffani Thiessen found time in her very busy schedule for People Magazine’s Saved By the Bell reunion.Word has gotten out about what will be on the cover of tomorrow’s new issue of People Magazine: It’s a Saved by the Bell reunion, complete with Zach Morris, A.C. Slater, Jessie Spano, Lisa Turtle and Kelly Kapowski.
What, no Screech? That’s right, no Screech, no Samuel Powers, no Dustin Diamond. Official word is that Diamond told People that “he’s no longer close with his former castmates and did not want to join them on the cover.” Side note: the former Screech is currently working on a tell-all book with some of the show’s writers called “Behind the Bell.” So I guess he is really just saving up his secrets.
People teaser
Shots of the People Magazine Saved by the Bell cover are widely circulating. People Magazine promises that behind that modern-day shot of the Bayside crew, you’ll find interviews with Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, Tiffani Thiessen and Lark Voorhies.
Word is the child stars talk about their hair, favorite show moments and how their lives have changed since the end of the show. No talk about online cash advance in Idahos? Oh well. I guess some subjects are just sexier than others.
Not so busy after all
After Jimmy Fallon brought Gosselaar onto his show — in full Zack Morris mode — and put out an open invitation for the other main characters to come together for a reunion on his show, some trash talk started. People said Tiffani Thiessen had blown off Fallon’s invitation because she was afraid a reunion would highlight her lack of work in recent years.
I have no idea whether that is true or not, but she did make this funny video in response:
But, it appears that in between cat wrangling, working with NASA and looking hot by the pool, she managed to find time for People Magazine’s Saved By the Bell reunion.
Gotta love the Bell!
People Magazine has been in the marketing game for a long time, and I have no doubt Friday’s issue will sell a record number of copies. Not “most copies sold ever” but maybe “most copies sold during the fourth week in July this decade.”
People has managed to leak just enough information about the Saved by the Bell reunion to get former viewers of the show interested. I should know. It says there is dirt in there about “relationships” between the cast members! OK, so maybe I won’t really shell out out the money to buy a magazine that everyone will be blogging about by Friday at noon, but I will definitely read it while I am standing in line at the grocery store.
And, yes, when “Behind the Bell” comes out, it’ll be at the top of my reading list. Beware, die-hard Saved by the Bell fans, Vulture has us all figured out:
Behind the Bell … promises to detail “sexual escapades among cast members, drug use, and hardcore partying,” and for those of us who spent untold hours in our formative years memorizing “I’m So Excited” and the entire back catalog of Zack Attack, this is the greatest book deal in the history of the universe.
