Put on your "Dancing" shoes, Jennie

Following fellow "Beverly Hills, 90210" alum Ian Ziering, Jennie Garth will join the competition on "Dancing with the Stars" next season, which begins in the fall.

Jennie (seen at right) played the awesomely hot (that's totally an early '90s term!) Kelly Taylor on "90210," the ex-GF of Ian's Steve Sanders.

Ian made it to the semifinals of Season 4 of "Dancing with the Stars," only to fall to eventual champ Apolo Anton Ohno last spring.

Along with Jennie, here are the other contestants for Season 5:

√ Sabrina Bryan (She of Cheetah Girls fame)
√ Melanie Brown ("Scary Spice"/Eddie Murphy's baby mama)
√ Mark Cuban (Owns the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, talks a lot)
√ Floyd Mayweather Jr. (Punches guys with boxing gloves on)
√ Helio Castroneves (Drives cars in circles really, really fast)
√ Marie Osmond (Prettiest of all the Osmonds)
√ Wayne Newton (Mr. Las Vegas, but he's no Barry Manilow)
√ Cameron Mathison (Soap star? Anyone heard of him?)
√ Jane Seymour (Former medicine woman)
√ Albert Reed (They say he's a model)
√ Josie Maran (They say she's a model)

Getting back to "90210," I actually met Ian Ziering at the South Hills when Bob's Stores opened up there. I was a freshman in college (so we're talking either fall of '92 or spring of '93) and the "90210" hoopla was in full effect.

Ian was there signing autographs, and about 2,000 teeny-boppers and I waited a few hours to meet him. It was all good, though, 'cause I was taller than all the 12-year-old girls there, so I got to see it all and finally met Ian.

For someone who played a jerk on the show, he was actually very friendly at the signing — it turned out better than my Ricky Schroeder autograph signing saga — and look ... 15 years later, I'm still telling this story!