When Tori spelling first announced her fifth pregnancy, in an interview with People Magazine, she told an anecdote about her husband, Dean McDermott, expressing shock. Tori said that Dean’s response to her pregnancy was that they just got the youngest child out of diapers and that he “thought we were in the clear.” So you would think that with four young children already another baby would only add to their level of stress. However now that their youngest, Beau Dean, arrived last month, Tori claims that it’s just saved her troubled marriage. As you remember Dean cheated on Tori in 2014 with a Canadian woman in a plotline which may have been fabricated for their reality show. Regardless they were having a lot of problems and four kids did not make it easier. Plus Tori is 43 and Dean is 50. It’s not like they’re both young, many people at Dean’s age have kids in college already. Only now they have another baby and Tori wants us to know that’s solved everything.
“Everyone was saying, ‘Divorce him! [after he cheated] Why is she staying with him? That is weak,’” she tells PEOPLE exclusively. “But my gut instincts just shut it all out, and I said, ‘I love this man. If there is a way to work it out, I want to try to do that.’ ”
The couple underwent intense marriage counseling and McDermott entered rehab.
“We worked on everything,” says Spelling. “The relationship as we knew it died. We had to bury that and start new.”
For the couple, who are already parents to Liam, 10, Stella, 8, Hattie, 5, and Finn, 4 —McDermott is also dad to Jack, 18, from his previous marriage — welcoming baby No. 5 has come to symbolize a fresh start.
“Rebuilding our marriage took time,” she tells PEOPLE. “And now, having a new baby, it makes sense. It’s like a new baby in a new relationship.”
“I am so blessed and lucky that she never walked away, because now we have this incredible relationship,” he says. “And I can’t imagine life without Beau.”
The last we heard Dean owed significant child support to his first wife, who was taking him to court over it. Dean and Tori currently owe hundreds of thousands to creditors including the state of California for back taxes. So they’re selling us an image of a happy family complete with baby Beau. (I have a hard time with that name because my aunt has a dog named Beau and it’s spelled the same way.) Anyway I hope they’re ok for the sake of their kids but this baby was a cash grab by Tori and Dean seems like he’s just along for the ride.
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She needs to stop messing with her face. Plus I just don’t get the appeal of this man, he has the ick factor.
Baby Spice, whatever her real name is, also has a child named Beau.
Emma Bunton
Their line of credit from the “Bank of Spelling” aka: Candy Spelling must have been increased with this latest baby
All I see is Honey Beau Beau.
Beau Dean just made me think of Jethro Bodine from Beverly Hillbillies. Y’all come back now, ya hear?
THAT’S what I came here to say, too! Great minds…great minds.
It makes me think of Boudin (bo-Dean), a sourdough shop in SF.
One of the Mavericks on the old Western tv show was named Beau, so it has good associations for me. I even learned how to play poker from a book because of that show. Had to pretend to be two people while playing by myself, but I was young and flexible.
According to People mag, Tori’s open to the idea of trying for #6.
I hope you’re joking. They are both very dysfunctional people. She complains about not having enough money but continues to pop out kids. She has major issues in her marriage. Why keep having kids? So selfish.
Ugh. They are a perfect example for the theory that humans don’t evolve anymore because instead of a survival of the fittest it’s stupid ding dongs like them that reproduce and reproduce and reproduce. Yeah, I know, harsh. But these two are the worst.
I was about to comment the same thing. In an age where the less populated the Earth is the better it is for everyone, I totally side-eye anyone who has 4-5 children, even if they can afford it. It is irresponsible.
Sorry to be harsh, but they are just making it harder for everybody else too.
ITA, SilverUnicorn
Wow, that’s pretty harsh. I have four kids, my youngest are twins so we weren’t planning on four but that’s what happened. They are all worthy of life and we can afford them so I don’t think I deserve a side eye for wanting to be a mother and actually becoming one to more than one kid.
I am sorry Mel but planned or not, having 4 or more children in these days and age means less resources for everybody no matter what you say. Give your children 30 years and what kind of future awaits them? Can you afford another planet? Don’t think so.
It’s the parents’ egos driving conception, it’s not like children asked to be there, right?
(Sure twins were not planned but the third one was).
Before you reply, that’s the main reason we chose not to have any. We could afford 3 or 4 but it’s everybody’s responsibility not to overcrowd the planet….
Mel – just tell the naysayers that your kids include ones that your child-free friends didn’t have…. How do they even know that you birthed them yourself? Even if they look too suspiciously like you, they could be from relatives.
I agree that we have a population problem, but I am not interested in complaining about children who already exist. Stuff happens even if the parents had planned on fewer. We need to think in terms of the averages rather than strictly limiting each family. Some families are overwhelmed with only one child, but others can manage fine with more. And some don’t really want to raise children at all.
SilverUnicorn: you’re aware that countries like Japan are a demographic time bomb as there is a greater number of aging population, who do take up a lot of public monies and resources, but not enough young and labor market ages people to replace the elderly. So go ahead and feel superior over your childless status and judge everyone else who has kids- hope you still feel that way when you expect someone else’s children to help you shit and eat when you’re frail and elderly.
Disco Dancer: are you saying we should want to have children so they can wipe our butts when we are old? So. Selfish.
hahahaha +1
I’m with you guys. +1. My parents weren’t perfect but they had the sense to realize their emotional and financial resources could only cover one kid. I’m not saying everyone needs to be an only child, not by any means, but who does having that many kids serve, in the end?
Their egos.
Leaving a man who cheats on you isn’t “weak”, we’re all different and have to decide what works for us, walking away from a lying cheater made me stronger. Personally, I think staying with a man who not only cheats on you but also doesn’t really work or pay consistent child support is weak, it’s easier to stay and pretend he’s a great man versus leaving and everyone telling you they told you so.
+1,000
I think she was quoting “that’s weak” as something people said about her, though. I read it as two quotes: “Divorce him!” and “Why is she staying with him? That’s weak.”
Ah, I didn’t catch that:)
Her poor kids never look happy.
+1
Yep. Sad face all around.
They don’t ever look happy, it’s true, especially the youngest two. The youngest boy–I’ve literally never seen a picture of him smiling. Or even looking happy.
For some reason, the kids always look grubby to me. It’s sad because they are young but they don’t look well cared for. In the Hello Magazine shoot they did in Paris all the kids had dirty fingernails. Granted all children play and get dirty but these sadly always look unkempt. There clothes are never cohesive- they seem to dress themselves with whatever they pulled out of the hamper. I know they are kids but what saddens me is she uses them as props but doesn’t really seem to care for them based on the images we always see.
I agree. The Affleck kids can be mismatched, but they look CLEAN. These poor kids look like they grabbed clothes from a pile of dirty laundry and threw them on without anyone helping them.
They look ok to me. Not all kids beam for the cameras. I still hate cameras myself.
Their parents probably just do let them dress themselves, and when you do that – well, the kids dress themselves…. A friend’s daughter had a tendency to choose socks of very different colors and clothing with peculiar color combinations, but they all survived.
I was always walking out the door in mismatched socks myself, but it wasn’t a fashion statement. The light was too dim especially in winter and I had trouble telling the difference between black, dark blue, and brown until I got to the brighter lights at school. As an adult, I solved the problem by getting socks all the same color! I tried using those things to clip socks together in the wash but it was too much trouble.
She should stop having all these kids she can’t afford! Usually having a baby won’t fix a relationship, it just makes the divorce tougher
Pathetic. They’re both able-bodied and essentially living off her mother, in their 40s/50s! Absolutely pathetic.
Yeah I can kind of buy that him cheating was fabricated. Even in Hollywood it would be hard to find a woman THAT desperate! 🤢
The kids shoes in the last pick. I wonder if grandmother helps with the kids financially and not financially support Tori, so she keeps having more kids to increase that mom money. What do Tori and her husband do for income?
Also this is the mindset of a crazy woman or an 18 year old. “If I have a baby it’ll fix everything and he’ll love me forever. “
Apparently grandma pays for the children’s private school tuition and other bills.
Another band aid baby with possibly one in the future. IIRC she said the same thing after the last baby, that their lives were so much better. Until reality sets in.
She had a “bandaid baby” with a useless cheating douche well good luck with that.
Every time I see or hear the name Beau Dean, my mind immediately thinks of boudin sausage. I think I must be hungry.
Is it bad that I thought the doll between Tori and Dean was one of their kids? :p She needs to stop. And she’s a perfect example of why I support Gordon Ramsey’s philosophy about not leaving anything for the kids.
I feel very sorry for the kids. These two are selfish, dysfunctional assholes.
Her eldest 3 children look obese.
I dunno, they don’t look so chubby in the last photo of them all together. I think that they have chubby cheeks and wide jaws – they all look like Dean to me. Which is an unfortunate thing.
Cant wait for the inevitable next marriage saving baby to arrive in 9 months.
I agree with Ramsey ‘s stand on not leaving the children huge amounts of money it sets them up to learn the value of Money. when Paul Newman died nearly nine years ago he left each of his grown daughters a few million dollars and 50,000 a year to donate to charities of their choosing granted they all had jobs and some of the money was also left aside to help care for his widow Joanne Woodward who supposedly has Alzheimer’s disease
I dunno. They are useless fools, but I do wish them well. Not sure why, but I do.
Their kids look overweight, unkempt and unhappy. And the parents look like hapless donkeys.
I agree with the above posters that the kids always look dirty. Unkempt. Greasy hair. They also always look miserable. I’ve noticed for years that they’re never clean or cohesive, since the birth of the first ones, and it’s driven me crazy because no one else was saying anything. I know my next statements about the kids will teeter on the edge of poor taste, if not go over the edge, but they look overweight as well, and not in a genetic way but in a miserable they eat too much to deal with the awfulness of their lives way. I know it isn’t okay to comment on children, and it isn’t fair, they are innocent beings, but I comment on them in the sense that they are a reflection of the care that they do or in this case do not receive from their environment or parents. In this case Tori chooses to color or dye their hair too young, they are always mismatched and dirty, and those awful parents parade them out for photos when it is obvious that the kids are miserable. The only part of having kids Tori seems to like is the attention and being “special” that comes with pregnancy, actually having to care and rear the children that are the product of pregnancy appears to be an afterthought.