There’s one movie star that followers mistake Jenny McCarthy for greater than others: Jennie Garth.
“I’ve signed so many autographs together with your identify as a result of I’m like, I don’t wish to disappoint the folks. I’m all the time very good they usually’re like, ‘Oh, my God, I really like you on 90210.’ And I’m like, ‘Thanks.’ And I’ll simply signal. They’re in all probability going dwelling going, ‘The signature doesn’t match,’” McCarthy confessed on the Wednesday, March 12, episode of Garth’s “I Select Me” podcast. “However I don’t wish to be a disappointment. And I’m very good to them, so I figured you wouldn’t thoughts. But it surely occurs so much, which is a praise.”
Whereas followers mistake the pair, Garth revealed that she and McCarthy would additionally face errors throughout the Submit Workplace.
“I don’t understand how this might have occurred, however I really feel like we bought one another’s mail at one level. How did the Submit Workplace confuse us?” Garth mentioned, to which McCarthy replied, “I don’t know. That’s a very good query. I might perceive some fan mail or one thing like that. But it surely was very weird.”
The Beverly Hills, 90210, alum gushed that there’s “no one I’d fairly be confused with than you” and is “very snug with it,” whereas McCarthy replied, “Ditto. I agree.”
The duo crossed paths on a 2005 episode of Garth’s sitcom What I Like About You, which premiered in 2002 and aired for 4 seasons. The present facilities round Amanda Bynes’ Holly Tyler transferring into the New York Metropolis dwelling of sister Valerie Tyler (Garth) after their dad is transferred to Japan.
“I used to be like, ‘I’m wondering if she remembers I performed a lesbian plumber on her present,’” McCarthy informed Garth, who replied, “Oh, you have been a plumber? I knew the lesbian half, however I didn’t know the plumber half. I didn’t recall plumbing. I simply keep in mind you have been a lonely lesbian who had the hots for Val Tyler.”
McCarthy recalled being referred to as for the position and responding, “Hell yeah,” earlier than coming down with “the worst” flu of her life.
“So I couldn’t do it. They’d a placement are available after which actually the day earlier than you guys have been about to shoot, they referred to as me like, ‘Do you are feeling any higher? As a result of we don’t like the person who changed you, so it’s a must to are available and take your position over.’”
McCarthy recalled the expertise being “so nice,” calling everybody “so welcoming.” She added, “I did so many sitcoms again then. I used to be that visitor that was once always on the Love Boat or Fantasy Island again within the day. I simply went from sitcom to sitcom to sitcom, and also you guys have been so pretty to me. You have been simply variety, You have been only a good soul, and I felt fortunate.”