Tori Spelling returns to TV 
PASADENA, Ca. -- Seems Spelling counts on the TV press tour.
A day after Randy Spelling shopped his new reality show to critics, his sister, downsized socialite Tori Spelling, and her stolen hubby, Dean McDermott, gushed all about their new reality series Tori & Dean: Inn Love. Produced for the U.S. cable channel
Oxygen (pretty sad when oxygen doesn't cross the border), the series finds the former Beverly Hills, 90210 star spending her paltry $800,000 US inheritance on a Southern California bed and breakfast.
Actually, by the time you pay off the lawyers and work out the tax, Spelling says she walked away with way less. Doesn't sound like she's going to get any more of her daddy's multi-million-dollar fortune, either. She and mom Candy are still on the outs. "You probably know as much as I do," she said regarding the situation with her wealthy mom. "I wish things were different."
Maybe the two will patch things up by the time the baby arrives. It will be a boy, middle name, Aaron. That's to honour Tori's dad, the TV mogul who passed away last June at 83.
The baby was conceived in a bed and breakfast in Ottawa, the lovebirds blurted. They were shooting their second movie together there last June, Kiss The Bride. (They met shooting 2005's Mind Over Murder.)
Neither had ever stayed in a B&B before. Tori had heard they were filled with "old creepy stuff and people's used things," including "decrepit teddy bears with eyes hanging out." McDermott had heard they "smelled a lot like pee." Before you could say "shabby chic," their child was conceived.
McDermott would like to eventually extend the Inn franchise into Canada. "That's maybe Season Two," he said.
Spelling looked hot in a short shirt dress and black herringbone hose. McDermott said she looks "so sexy" pregnant. Spelling agrees. "I gotta tell you, every night when I walk by my mirror I just stare at my belly," she said. "I'm just so impressed by it."
Critics cooped up in this hotel for two weeks knew what she meant.
Spelling admitted she doesn't have much experience waiting on others. McDermott, who once worked at a restaurant, will handle the breakfast chores. "I'm more into happy hour and hors d'oeuvres," said Spelling.
When I indelicately asked McDermott if he was worried his ex-wife, What's For Dinner? co-host Mary Jo Eustace, might barge into the inn, he took the high road. Eustace made a few local headlines when she came within heckling distance of the couple last June at the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto. "That got blown out of proportion," McDermott calmly insisted. "My relationship with my ex-wife has always been amicable. She's a great lady, we have a great son, our relationship will always be great."
So far, no word on a Canadian buyer for Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Inn Love. You can see Spelling on TV tonight, however. She's guest-starring on Smallville (8 p.m. on A-Channel and The CW). Spelling plays, of all things, a gossip columnist. "I thought, wow that's ingenious," she said when she heard about the part. "Here am I writing the dirt about other people. That's funny."
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