Tiffani Thiessen’s teen daughter has a blunt take on her ’90s TV hits - Yahoo

Tiffani Thiessen is back in the halls of a teen drama. This time, however, she's not playing the student everyone wants to date — she's running the school. More than 35 years after becoming a defining face of '90s television as Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell — and later shaking off her good-girl image as Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210 — Thiessen stars as Miss Graves, the formidable and glamorous head of a magical school in Disney's Coven Academy. The show premieres Oct. 1 on Freeform (streaming on Disney+ and Hulu the next day). The role puts Thiessen, 52, on the other side of the teenage experience in more ways than one. After growing up in front of the camera herself, she is now the veteran on a set filled with young stars, including Disney heartthrob Malachi Barton, who are navigating fame in the social media era. At home, she is raising two kids, including a teenage daughter who recently watched every episode of Saved by the Bell before offering this critique: "I don't think that show would hold up today. " (Harper, 16, did soften the blow: "But you looked cute, Mom.