So Tori Spelling has this new reality show coming up with her husband in which they plan other people’s weddings. It’s called “Tori & Dean: sTORIbook Weddings.” Tori supposedly scoured a huge coup by convincing popular Dancing with the Stars contestant (and former Clean House hostess) Niecy Nash to appear on her show. Niecy recently got engaged to hot electrical engineer Jay Tucker and was said to be thrilled by the prospect of getting Tori’s help and appearing on her show.

Tori Spelling… is gearing up for her Oxygen network spinoff – “Tori & Dean: sTORIbook Weddings” – and she’s booked Niecy’s May marriage as the series kickoff, the Enquirer has learned…

“Niecy put the word out through friends that she was looking for a wedding planner – and Tori jumped on the idea and called her immediately,” an insider told The Enquirer. “Niecy was thrilled. She had no idea Tori organized weddings. She embraced the idea and thought it’d be great publicity for them both.”

Tori invited Niecy and [her fiance] Jay [Tucker] over to preview her wedding planning portfolio, and they “flipped for her ideas,” said the pal.

Tori, 37, and Dean, 44, continue to stat in their reality hit “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood” and are hoping fans will cross over to watch the new show.

“Viewers will see that Tori has a real knack for planning weddings,” the source added. “She has already done it for four of her girlfriends.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, January 3, 2011]

I think that the “great publicity for them both” is key, but if Niecy is game and is getting a bunch of free wedding swag along with it more power to her. I love Niecy and would probably watch this just to get to see her wedding. Tori bugs me though. This story reminds me of Tori’s re-commitment ceremony to Dean earlier this year, which Tori planned and was basically like a second wedding. She put out a bunch of a personal mementos for her and Dean, including a tower of shoes in lucite cubes that she called “shoe art,” and a book on June and Johnny Cash, who she called an inspiration. Tori and Dean even got married in a sandbox while their kids played at their feet. I called her to task at the time for saying that “[Johnny] and June Carter were an inspiration – a couple that were both married before and then found each other.” You know, since Tori and Dean were both married to other people when they “found each other.” They’re still together though nearly four and a half years later, and they’re launching yet another reality show. Something has to be working for them, and they’re capitalizing the hell out of it.

Niecy and her fiance are shown on 12/16/10. Tori is shown shooting scenes for a talkshow she’s doing with Jeff Lewis on 11/29/10. Credit: Fame Pictures