Shannen Doherty wasn’t the judges’ favorite on Monday’s Dancing With the Stars premiere (she scored an 18), but she said hitting the dance floor was still special.

The reason: Her father, who lost his ability to speak after suffering a massive stroke last year, was in the audience.

“It was beyond emotional,” the 90210 alum, 38, told UsMagazine.com after the show. “It was amazing to have him here. I had eye connection with him throughout my routine and to see the pride and the love in his face was overwhelming to me. He is determined to come back every Monday, and it’s been great for him tonight.”

She told Us she was “so nervous” when she did the Viennese Waltz, but “I got through it. And I didn’t fall!”

Which fellow contestant surprised her partner Mark Ballas the most? “I thought Pam [Anderson] was awesome!” he told Us. “She hit it out of the park.”

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Shannen Doherty chatted with Ryan Seacrest this morning on his KIIS FM radio show, and she was a bundle of nerves! “I feel so sick,” Shannen told Ryan as she was driving to the Dancing with the Stars studio. The 38-year-old actress dished on why she finally said yes to the hit reality show, and being part of the most drama-filled cast yet (as she and Pamela Anderson share an ex)!

“I’m driving there at the moment, and I don’t know what I’m going to do about this. My stomach is a mess. I’m like, ‘I can’t. I can’t. I can’t.’ I don’t know what I’m going to do,” Shannen — who breaks out in hives in front of live audiences — told Ryan about her debut on the DWTS stage tonight.

The former 90210 bad girl will be performing the Vietnamese Waltz on tonight’s premiere with partner Mark Ballas. She said she finds the dance difficult because she’s “not the most graceful girl in the world… more of a sports girl.”

“There is a lot of pressure there, because he [Mark] has had great partners in the past and won twice, and I don’t want to let him down,” she said of her partner. “I adore him.”

So what provoked Shannen to say yes and surmount her fear of live audiences?

“On Christmas, my dad had a massive stroke, and he lost his ability to speak and a lot of his mobility,” Shannen reveals. “It was really rough. When I mentioned Dancing With the Stars as a joke because I’m so nervous in front of a live audience, he got really excited…and we kind of struck a deal.”

“He is going to go in there and work really hard on regaining his speech and mobility, and I was going to get over my fear of a live audience.”

Shannen definitely joined the cast for the right reasons, and we can’t wait to see her compete!

Who is her biggest competition?

“I think Nicole [Scherzinger] is amazing,” Shannen said. “Not only is she really, really nice but she is a dancer.”

“I think Evan being an ice skater is going to do fantastic.”

Shannen did admit she is part of one of the most-talked about casts in DWTS history.

Shannen and fellow competitor Pamela Anderson were married to the same guy, film producer Rick Solomon, and both had their marriages annulled.

When Ryan questioned Shannen about their relationship on set, she responded that they were friendly, and Pam is working very hard.

Shannen has yet to meet Kate Gosselin, so could not comment on her demeanor on set!

Tune in tonight at 8 p.m. for the premiere of DWTS on ABC.

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Beverly Hills’ original side-burned heartthrob is back! Sort of. Jason Priestley has agreed to do an episode of The CW’s 90210 later this season, but you won’t see him — he’ll be behind the camera, working as a director. Sources confirm to EW.com’s Michael Ausiello exclusively that Priestley will helm this season’s 18th episode, which is slated to air this spring.

Meanwhile, a 90210 insider also reveals that Priestley’s TV sis, Shannen Doherty, is nearing a deal to return for two more episodes later this season. Executive producer Gabe Sachs would only confirm that she’s “in talks,” but my 90210 spy insists “she’s coming back. The deal isn’t officially done, but it’s happening.”

Might one of Doherty’s two episodes be the Priestley-directed installment? Sachs says that’s TBD. “I think it would be a kick for Jason to work with any of his [former 90210 costars], and it would also add something special to that episode,” he says. “But we don’t know whether that will happen yet.”

A more likely scenario has Priestley bossing around his other leading lady, Jennie Garth, who’s back for at least six episodes — despite what the actress herself told Ausiello at EW’s pre-Emmy party last month. “That was a misunderstanding,” whispers a source.

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Shannen Doherty once stole a car from the set of Beverly Hills, 90210, crashed it, and let a castmate take the blame.

The actress begged Ian Ziering to let her test drive the Corvette his character, Steve Sanders, drove in the 90s show – and when he said yes, she smashed it up.

Doherty, who has made a cameo appearance in new spin-off show 90210 reveals, “I wanted to drive the Corvette so badly. We took it and I went too fast and hit this bump and it bottomed out. Ian was so sweet he took the blame for it.”

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Shannen Doherty has wrapped shooting the four episodes of “90210″ that she signed up for — but it’s possible she might extend her stay in the world’s most famous zip code yet.

“If the CW comes back with an offer for additional episodes, she’s happy to consider it,” Doherty’s spokesman told the Associated Press.

“90210″ reps issued a statement Friday saying they’d “love for her to do more” episodes reprising her famous character Brenda Walsh, and there’s “definitely” a chance that she might.

It was previously reported that fellow “Beverly Hills, 90210″ original Jennie Garth signed up for an additional six episodes after finishing her first five.

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Just like Brandon, Dylan, Steve, Colin, and Matt before them, 90210′s producers just can’t get enough of Kelly. So, my sources tell me, they’ve signed Jennie Garth to appear in five episodes on top of the six to which she originally agreed.

So now we’re gonna get the Kelly-Brenda rematch we’ve all been waiting for, right?

Erm, no. Though Shannen Doherty may return later in the season, for now it appears that the first four episodes she signed on for will also be her last (the second of those episodes airs next week). “They asked me to do a lot more,” she says, but “I’m in the middle of pitching a show, [so] I couldn’t commit to more than [I did].”

That being the case, the powers that be might want to reconsider ponying up the big bucks to get Tori Spelling back on board as Donna. Though the update’s second eppy kept it Tuesday’s highest-rated show with women 18-34 (2.9/8) and women 12-34 (2.5/7), its overall numbers took a hit opposite stiffer competition, including the premiere of Fringe.

What do you think? Does 90210 2.0 need Garth and Doherty to make the grade? Or are the new characters appealing enough to make the grade on their own merits? The comments section below is yours for the filling.

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