Brian Austin Green shares update on Shannen Doherty and his own health after being on Masked Singer Australia

Brian Austin Green has revealed how his health issues left him fearing he may never work again and what to expect on his new podcast.

Brian Austin Green as Crash Test Dummy on The Masked Singer Australia. Picture: Network Ten

Brian Austin Green has shared just how difficult it is to watch his 90210 co-star Shannen Doherty in the fight for her life.

The actor, who was the first celebrity revealed on the latest season of Ten’s The Masked Singer on Monday night, said he’s in constant contact with Doherty who – along with whole cast of the teen drama – he counts as family.

The 52-year-old actress revealed this year that her stage 4 cancer has spread to her brain.

She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, and had a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation therapy and had been in remission until 2020.

“We talk all the time,” Green said, over Zoom from his LA base with Aussie partner – Dancing With Stars judge Sharna Burgess.

“She an incredibly tough person. If there’s anyone who could put up a real fight to cancer – she’s one of them.

“It’s not an easy situation, obviously, but I love her to death.

“And she’s making the absolute best of it.”

Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Luke Perry, Gabrielle Carteris, Tori Spelling, Jenny Garth, Brian Austin Green and Ian Ziering from Beverly Hills 90210.

Green also further opened up on his own health struggles, which he touched on after he was unmasked as the “Hollywood Hearthrob” under the Crash Test Dummy costume.

At the time, he feared he would never work again and was scared he would never return to the successful person he had been.

It started with ulcerative colitis, and then vertigo and then became neurological where he could only say a word every 30 seconds.

“I couldn’t – I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t read.” Green shared.

“I didn’t work for four years.”

“At that point going through it, all I knew was that I couldn’t function as the person that I had been.”

Without an official diagnosis, he clung on to his personal hope and faith that it would come around.

Brian Austin Green as the Crash Test Dummy. Picture: Network Ten

“And luckily it did,” Green said, adding he had to make massive changes to his diet.

“I had just lived life for 40 years eating certain ways that my body didn’t agree with and I had a ton of internal inflammation.

“And that’s the thing, because it’s internal you don’t know it exists until your body starts going haywire.

“I didn’t understand that path until you start speaking to doctors within the field of natural medicine.”

Brian Austin Green with his partner Sharna Burgess and their son Zane. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

It’s one of the reasons Green now says yes to pretty much every opportunity which comes his way. That and turning 50 – or old-ish as he terms it – earlier this year.

That term inspired the name of his new podcast with partner Sharna Burgess and Tori Spelling’s brother Randy which drops this week.

Sharna Burgess and Brian Austin Green. Picture: Instagram

The trio are set to open up about their private lives. In the introduction, Green touches on his divorce from Hollywood star Megan Fox and Burgess shares the backstory to their love story.

But there’s also relatable everyday conversations about family responsibilities and raising children.

The father-of-five ranging from 21 to 15-months, says it’s kid wrangling doesn’t get easier,

“Sometimes it’s more difficult,” he jokes.

Actors Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green who were previously married. Picture: Getty

“And it costs more, I would much rather be buying little plastic toys, than, you know, laptops and cars.”

Green said his ego wasn’t at all bruised that none of the guessing panel – Mel B, Dave Hughes, Chrissie Swan and Abbie Chatfield – picked him as the singer, instead suggesting Nick Carter, Niall Horan, John Steffensen and Donnie Wahlberg.

“That’s the fun of the show,” he said.

“That’s honestly why I did it.

“You string people along as long as you can in hopes that they don’t guess that’s you.

“And I was just a bad enough singer where they had no idea. This guy just hurts.”

The opening episode of the reality singing show peaked at 757,000 viewers nationally overnight, while ratings juggernaut The Block attracted 924,000 eyes nationally.

The Masked Singer, Monday, 7.30pm, Ten