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Shannen Doherty: Monstrous Or Misunderstood?

The girl America once loved to hate, Shannen Doherty, was back in the news this weekend. On Saturday she tied the knot with husband number three, one Kurt Iswarienko, in Malibu, California. Their courtship and wedding is the subject of a new series called Shannen Says, which premieres next year on WE tv, the same network that brings you Guyspeak.

Now, those of you who keep up with celebrity gossip even casually know that since Shannen made her big splash back in 1990 on Beverly Hills 90210, she has had what you might call an eventful life in the public eye. And I'm not talking about events like winning a Nobel Prize or adopting 14 sad-eyed African orphans. I'm talking about scandals. Mud-slinging. Firings. Arrests. Lawsuits. And, of course, the husbands.

In Ms. Doherty's defense, much of what the public hears about celebrities is--what's the word oh yeah--bullshit, and Shannen has long maintained that she isn't the monster the press has made her out to be. Maybe she is, maybe she isn't--you'll have to decide for yourself. Perhaps these tidbits of gossip we've read about Ms. Doherty will help you do just that. Are they true? Heck if we know.

- Shannen was married to her first husband, Ashley Hamilton, for seventeen minutes. Her marriage to second husband Rick Salomon was even shorter: 146 seconds. His sex tape with Paris Hilton was four times longer.

- Doherty's backstage nickname on 90210 was "She Who Must Not Be Named."

- While on the series Our House from 1986 to 1988, Memphis-born Doherty got co-star Wilford Brimley addicted to sticky-sweet Southern iced tea, which caused him to develop life-threatening diabeetus.

- Shannen was kicked off 90210 not because she suggested to the producers that they "go f*ck themselves," which she did, but because she wanted an on-screen incestuous relationship between her and Jason Priestly, who played her brother on the show and on whom she had a secret crush.

- Doherty led the Pledge Of Allegiance at the 1993 National Caucus of the Black Panthers.

- In 1993, California's United Bank took Shannen to court for $36,000 they claimed she owed them after she pilfered more than 875,209 ball-point pens from the bank's West Hollywood and Century City branches over an eight-year period. Doherty says the thefts were inadvertent: "I thought that shit was free," she said.

- Doherty has appeared nude in magazines three times, twice in Playboy and once in The Christian Science Monitor.

- In 1981, the actress made her television debut at age ten on the television series Father Murphy. Her performance as the young Antichrist won her an Emmy nod.

- Shannen Doherty famously earned the ire of comedian Dennis Miller in 1992 after she appeared on his talk show and told him what everyone else in America had wanted to tell him for years, which is that he sucks and has never been the least bit funny, ever.

- Doherty was forced off the TV series Charmed because of ongoing friction between her and co-star Alyssa Milano over who had the worst-looking breast implants.

- The actress beat out Jennifer Love Hewitt for the role of Rene in Mallrats. Correction: not beat out, beat up. Doherty put Hewitt in the hospital the day before auditions and won the part uncontested.

- Shannen says this will be her last wedding. "I know without a doubt that Kurt is the one forever," she told the press, "but just in case he's not, I'll elope next time, because I'm completely out of wedding ideas."

We at Guyspeak wish Shannen and Kurt the very best of luck. Like every married couple, they'll need it.

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I've always liked her -- so what that she's always been a bit rebellious and controversial? I tend to enjoy people who aren't afraid to show all their colours and who are multi-layered -- makes for a far more interesting friendship/association. For me, it's kinda like the tank top my boyfriend gave me this past Summer which reads, "Ick. Vanilla is just NOT my flavor! " I sincerely hope her new show is a hit and that this last marriage is a successful one for her.

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You would think that a bank would take less than 8years to figure out someone was stealing 300 pens per day from their branches. Just saying, that's one consistent effort ;)

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sounds like my Ex wife, but you can take the girl out of Memphis but you cant take the south out of the girl, LOL

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