former ice-skating champion Gina Kincaid’s bad-girl
bona fi des might never have matched up to those of Val-
erie, but there’s no question that her arrival in the show’s
ninth season majorly amped up the drama. Introduced
as Donna’s cousin, Gina romanced both Dylan and David
and lied about sleeping with Donna’s then-boyfriend
Noah. She later learned that she and Donna were actu-
ally half sisters who shared the same father—awkward!
Off screen, Marcil, 50, who came to 90210 having made
a name playing Brenda Barrett on General Hospital, had
a real-life relationship with costar Brian Austin Green;
though the couple split up, they have a son together,
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earnest attorney matt durning turned up in the
show’s ninth season practicing law in the same shop-
ping complex where Kelly persuaded Donna to open a
boutique. Before long, he and Kelly were an item, but
like every 90210 relationship, things got complicated.
Matt was placed on professional probation for using
a client’s money to buy Kelly an engagement ring; he
later cheated on her at a desert rave after being dosed
with LSD. In the end, Matt—played by Daniel Cos-
grove, now 48, a veteran soap opera actor and married
father of four—moved back home to New York to be
a father to his late brother’s young daughter—he had
been her parents’ sperm donor, conveniently. Kelly, of
course, found her way back to Dylan.A SOAP STAR
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