Jenny McCarthy Admits She Signs Autographs as Jennie Garth

There is one celebrity that fans mistake Jenny McCarthy for more than others: Jennie Garth.

“I have signed so many autographs with your name because I’m like, I don’t want to disappoint the people. I’m always very nice and they’re like, ‘Oh, my God, I love you on 90210.’ And I’m like, ‘Thank you.’ And I’ll just sign. They’re probably going home going, ‘The signature doesn’t match,’” McCarthy confessed on the Wednesday, March 12, episode of Garth’s “I Choose Me” podcast. “But I don’t want to be a disappointment. And I’m very nice to them, so I figured you wouldn’t mind. But it happens a lot, which is a compliment.”

While fans mistake the pair, Garth revealed that she and McCarthy would also face errors within the Post Office.

“I don’t know how this could have happened, but I feel like we got each other’s mail at one point. How did the Post Office confuse us?” Garth said, to which McCarthy replied, “I don’t know. That’s a really good question. I could understand some fan mail or something like that. But it was very bizarre.”

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The Beverly Hills, 90210, alum gushed that there is “nobody I’d rather be confused with than you” and is “very comfortable with it,” while McCarthy replied, “Ditto. I agree.”

The duo crossed paths on a 2005 episode of Garth’s sitcom What I Like About You, which premiered in 2002 and aired for four seasons. The show centers around Amanda Bynes’ Holly Tyler moving into the New York City home of sister Valerie Tyler (Garth) after their dad is transferred to Japan.

“I was like, ‘I wonder if she remembers I played a lesbian plumber on her show,’” McCarthy told Garth, who replied, “Oh, you were a plumber? I knew the lesbian part, but I didn’t know the plumber part. I didn’t recall plumbing. I just remember you were a lonely lesbian who had the hots for Val Tyler.”

McCarthy recalled being called for the role and responding, “Hell yeah,” before coming down with “the worst” flu of her life.

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“So I couldn’t do it. They had a placement come in and then literally the day before you guys were about to shoot, they called me like, ‘Do you feel any better? Because we don’t like the person that replaced you, so you have to come in and take your role over.’”

McCarthy recalled the experience being “so great,” calling everyone “so welcoming.” She added, “I did so many sitcoms back then. I was that guest that used to be constantly on the Love Boat or Fantasy Island back in the day. I just went from sitcom to sitcom to sitcom, and you guys were so lovely to me. You were just kind, You were just a good soul, and I felt lucky.”