Either this 90210 spinoff is going to be so legendarily awesome that the original cast members are just aching to get on the show, or the original cast members’ careers are in such abysmal shape that they’ll do anything to get on the spinoff. When Jennie Garth signed on, I thought it could go either way. But yesterday it was confirmed that Tori Spelling is also on board, and I think that makes it pretty clear exactly what kind of show this is going to be: the kind filled with desperate stunt casting.

Looks like Jennie Garth isn’t the only Beverly Hills, 90210 alum returning to her old zip code. Tori Spelling – who played Donna Martin – has been tapped to co-star in the new spin-off version of the ’90s hit teen drama, a source confirms to Usmagazine.com.

“She will be a recurring character,” the source adds. DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com first reported the news. “I am excited about it,” Spelling told Us in April when asked about the new version. “In some way, every show that followed 90210 was a remake of 90210,” she added. “For the fans’ sake, I am really happy for them.”

Spelling’s father Aaron created and produced the original series. Former Full House star Lori Loughlin has also signed on and The CW has also hinted that other original 90210 stars could be reprising their roles.

[From Us Magazine]

Just when I thought Tori Spelling couldn’t be more dumb and useless. Every show that followed 90210 was a remake in some way? So NYPD Blue, Friends, and Antique Roadshow then? I’m going to assume Tori’s as dumb as the characters she plays, and meant to say that every show of the self-indulgent teenage drama variety was a remake of 90210.

Apparently the original storylines are being drawn upon but updated a bit. I really hope they redo that episode where Brandon Walsh defies the school and daringly invites all the back kids from the inner city school to the Fall dance. At first there’s tension, but then they all mix it up to Brian Austin Green’s raps, and everything is A-OK. Oh, and whenever some outsider teases one of the gang for being over-privileged and going to Beverly Hills High, the character needs to reply – really indignantly – “Hey, I go to WEST Beverly.” And then walk away like he just proved his point.

Picture note by Celebitchy: A pregnant Tori Spelling is shown signing copies of “sTori Telling” on 3/14/08. Jennie Garth is shown at the PRISM Awards on 4/24/08. Thanks to PRPhotos.

In a 20/20 interview aired last week, Tori Spelling revealed that she had hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit card debt after 90210 went off the air and she was living on her own without her super-rich father’s support. Tori’s dad Aaron Spelling is the most prolific television producer ever, according to Wikipedia, and had 218 producer credits up until his death in June, 2006. He was worth nearly 1/2 a billion at the time of his death. Tori said she was close to bankruptcy due to “bad shopping habits” after she was on her own financially. She said she never had a conversation with her father asking him to bail her out, and that she didn’t want to do that because she didn’t want people to think she was living off her daddy’s money:

“I had a hit TV series, so I didn’t really need [my parents] for anything,” she said. All that changed when “90210″ went off the air. Spelling says that at one point she owed hundreds of thousands of dollars on her credit card and that she came close to bankruptcy, all because of her “bad shopping habits.”

“Bad shopping habits die hard,” she explained. “In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money … that was my reality.”

She says she was too proud to go to her father for help. “That means, in my mind, [that] I was what everyone thought I was, taking money from my dad, the rich little girl that he paid for everything. And I just refused to be that. [I would] rather be bankrupt.”

[From abcnews.go.com]

Tori was left less than a million from her father, which represents about 1/5 of one percent of his net worth. She said that she had lunch with her dad before he died, and that he told her “You’re gonna be OK. I made sure. You’re getting just under a million.” I guess we know where most of that money went if she had hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit card debt.

She’s doing these interviews to help promote her new memoir, “sTORI Telling,” which is getting positive reviews on Amazon. I skimmed through the excerpt available on ABCNews’ website, and it’s well written and interesting. Tori tells about all the excesses she experienced as a child, like her father having snow made in California for Christmas, and over-the-top birthday and graduation parties including the USC marching band showing up for her 6th grade graduation party. Tori’s favorite memories with her family are simple things like scooping dog poop with her dad and looking for seashells with her mom. She was dismayed to read in a magazine years later that her mom planted exotic seashells ahead of time for her to find on the beach.

Tori Spelling is still managing to make ends meet without her dad’s money. She has a reality show on the Oxygen Network with her husband called Tori & Dean: Inn Love, and a jewelry line available through the Home Shopping Network. You can’t say the girl isn’t trying.

Tori is due to give birth to her second child in July, and has a son, Liam, who turns one later this week.

I live in Europe, so I don’t watch American television yet, (although I’m trying to get JayBird to install one of those Slingbox devices so I can.) Right now I’m on “vacation” in the states, though, and my mother loves Dancing with the Stars and we watched a couple of episodes, fast forwarding through the results episode because they just drag that shit out as long as possible.

The show is quite entertaining, and it’s easy to see how people get hooked. When excellent dancer and Cheetah Girl Sabrina Bryan was eliminated in an upset last week, I suspected that she was involved with her partner, because of the way he was clinging to her and she called him “baby” all romantic-like. Sabrina and her partner, Mark Ballas, are indeed dating, with Sabrina confirming their romance to TVGuide, saying that “I always call him ‘Baby Marky.’ I absolutely love and adore him.” She also said they were going out on a date the next day. Sabrina and Mark were spotted out at Hollywood hotspot Hyde, and TMZ has video of a photographer asking them when they’re getting married, with Sabrina answering “August of 08.”

With all the attention and fame that comes with competing on the dance show, many c and d-listers are vying for a place. Tori Spelling is said to be anxious to appear next season, and to follow her 90210 cast mates, Jennie Garth and Ian Ziering’s, lead. The thing is, she’s also gunning for her husband, Dean McDermott, to be on the show, and since he’s only known as Mr. Tori Spelling, producers don’t want to take him on:

[Tori Spelling] is campaigning to be on next season’s Dancing with the Stars after seeing how it helped Beverly Hills 90210 pals Jennie Garth and Ian Ziering. “She is hoping it will open doors,” says an insider. “At the very least, she can earn some money from touring with the dancers after the show. She’s the breadwinner in her family and needs to keep her career alive.” There’s just one hitch - Tori has hinted that she wants her husband, Dean McDermott, on the show. The show’s producers “don’t want Dean at all,” adds the source.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, November 12, 2007]

I can see Tori appearing on the show, but she seems so gawky to me that you wouldn’t expect her to get the hang of it. Maybe it’s just her um, features, that give you that impression and she could be a surprisingly good dancer.

Jane Seymour and her partner were eliminated from last night’s Dancing with The Stars, with Jennie Garth also in the bottom two. Four couples remain on the show, Melanie B and Makshim, Helio Castroneves and Julianne, Jennie Garth and Derek, Marie Osmond and Jonathan, and Cameron Mathison and Edyta. Marie Osmond was absent from last night’s results show due to the death of her father. Jane Seymour also missed a results show in week two due to her mother’s death that day.

Nearly 50 million people watched the premiere of Dancing With The Stars this season, so you can see how the show appeals to minor celebrities like Tori.

Tori and Dean are shown on 9/28/07 in Vegas before Tori’s appearance with The Pussycat Dolls.

Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott’s Bed & Breakfast (which she claims to own but several documents have shown she in fact just rents) Chateau La Rue may burn to the ground! Now fire is nothing to joke about, and the California wildfires are particularly shocking right now – they stretch all the way from south of San Diego to north of Los Angeles. But it’s hard to root for someone as obnoxious as Tori Spelling. So I’m just going to root for the fire to get under control, because I can’t specifically root for her. I bet she’s sitting there thinking, “This will make for such a dramatic episode for our show.” And then she realizes that if the B&B burns down they won’t have a show anymore. So she tries to open her eyes really wide in shock, and then realizes they always look that way.

The raging wildfires in Southern California are threatening thousands of homes: among them, Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott’s newly renovated bed and breakfast, Chateau La Rue, in Fallbrook, Calif., about 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Spelling and Dean were in L.A. on Monday at ABC’s filming of Dancing with the Stars, supporting Spelling’s former 90210 castmate Jennie Garth. But their thoughts were elsewhere.

On the way to the studio, “We got a call that our Temecula [wine country] B&B was being evacuated,” Spelling told PEOPLE. “We had a lot on our minds tonight. We have friends who are watching [the situation].” McDermott added, “We don’t know the extent of it. There were guests on their way [to the B&B], but they were notified and sent back. The whole town of Fallbrook was evacuated.”

The inn is the setting for the couple’s reality show, Tori & Dean: Inn Love, on the Oxygen network. The pair also spoke to Entertainment Tonight, telling the TV show, “Fallbrook is obviously very near and dear to our hearts, so we’re really worried about the people that live there, there are such great people in that little town.”

[From People]

Oh Tori Spelling. If I had any reason to believe you gave a damn about the sweet people of Fallbrook, I might have an inkling of compassion for you. But I’m pretty sure your life revolves around taking your pug for walks in his special dog stroller and stealing other people’s husbands. I looked over the woefully inadequate website for their B&B (which was named after said pug, Mimi La Rue) and found this little hospitality gem: “We extend our warmest welcome to you, and aim to share a slice of the pampering that Mimi la Rue currently enjoys!” Translation: you pay a lot of money to stay here, and we’ll treat you almost as well as we treat our dog! I wonder if that means Tori will walk the guests in special strollers too.

Anyone with enough time and money can have perfect breasts – but picking the breasts you might like to have takes a little longer. UK scientist Patrick Mallucci spent many hours of research looking for the perfect breast to aid you in your decision. His research involved looking at lad’s magazines. Some people really have the worst jobs, don’t they?

In his lecture, titled Concepts in Design for Breast Augmentation, he will express the hope that his insights are used by surgeons providing breast enlargements.

The operation is Britain’s most popular cosmetic surgery procedure, with 6,156 performed last year.

Mr Mallucci said: “I studied a wide variety of photographs of the most popular topless models to work out the various proportions they had in common and what made those particular features attractive.

“These findings allowed me to form a template around which to plan a breast augmentation, and set a standard of aesthetics.

“Obviously personal interpretation and expression has to be accounted for, but this has allowed me to develop a template that I have been using successfully for some time.”

The key aesthetic elements are nipple position and the proportion between the upper and lower halves of the breast, he said.

“The ideal is a 45 to 55 per cent proportion - that is the nipple sits not at the half-way mark down the breast, but at about 45 per cent from the top.”

He added: “All of the models I looked at conformed to these parameters. None of them were augmentedand yet they were clearly considered to have beautiful breasts, so I wanted to examine how that could be achieved in someone not so well-endowed by using an implant.

“It’s about wanting to create something as close to perfection as possible.”

Daily Mail

Apparently Victoria Beckham’s ‘unnaturally round’ boobs are out, and a UK model and actress by the name of Caprice has a perfect pair. Despite Posh’s breasts not being scientifically appealing, many people still request them when they go in for an augmentation surgery. Almost as many request Caprice’s breasts in Britain and if you’re interested, a Texan surgeon is now offering a breast augmentation procedure that takes 30 minutes, then you go home, have a nap, wash your hair and go out for dinner. All the while screaming in agony I assume.

Posh herself seems to be learning that her sex appeal may not be translating well in her new home across the Atlantic – she’s said to be planning a stint with the Pussycat Dolls. That’s the Las Vegas burlesque troupe and not the pop band.

“They’ve been blown away by Victoria since she arrived in LA,” a source said.

“They love her style and think she has the perfect figure for the group.

“They are all huge Spice Girl fans and can’t wait to have her on stage with them.”

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Other celebrities that have danced with the troupe include Pamela Anderson, Denise Richards, Tori Spelling, Eva Longoria, and Nicolette Sheridan. I think that Victoria is going to be fighting fit for her Spice Girls tour, and is going to absolutely blow everyone away. If she doesn’t snap like a twig.

Header image from the Daily Mail. Image below from Pretty On The Outside.

Tori Spelling has become a minister. You can call her reverend.

I thought that this whole thing was just a stunt for her reality TV show, which it is, but you can actually become a minister online! I always thought this was a joke.

Anyway, Tori has already performed her fist gay union, at the Chateau La Rue. Here’s what she had to say about it on her blog.

So, very exciting weekend for this new mom. I am now officially ordained. Yep, thats right….Reverend Tori Spelling! I did it last week online and my official certificate is in the mail. I’m so proud. I can’t wait to hang it. And, this weekend Chateau La Rue had its very first wedding. I was so honored when the couple asked me to officiate. We did it on the front steps of the Chateau as 40 of their friends looked on seated in a lounge like atmosphere. It was so beautiful as I united Tony and Dex as life partners in love. They wrote their own beautiful vows and there was so much love surrounding them that there wasnt a dry eye in the driveway! I was beyond nervous though. I’ve done live theater and presented at The Emmys and this by far was my scariest moment simply because they had bestowed such an honor upon me and I didnt want to let them down. Afterwards, we threw the reception on our grounds where guests dined on tapas of hanger steak, sea bass, veggie lasagna, and tuna tartare. We had amazing Martini’s( thank you Krol Vodka) that we named after the couples favorite Broadway musicals. And, once again our friends at Wilson Creek Winery provided us with their special Almond Champagne. Its the best in the world! Our guests can’t get enough of it. We danced to 80’s,70’s,house, and got a show stopping performance of “Caberet” from one of our grooms. Dean and I took Liam out onto the dance floor and he had his first dance in our arms. The three of us swayed and smiled to Madonna. It was a magical evening of pure love. I will never forget that night and was so proud to witness first hand what I already knew… that Love is pure and true Love knows no gender.As I put Liam down to bed that evening I told him that he will one day find true love. A love that unites him as one with his soulmate. He will be raised knowing that true love is the ultimate and pure love know no age, gender, or race. I’ve found it, Tony and Dex have found it, and I wish love to all that seek it. Don’t ever let anyone tell you who to Love. Only our hearts can dictate that. Congrats again Tony and Dex…we wish you a lifetime of happiness. Love, T

I really like the message here that Tori is sending about raising her child to tolerate everyone’s choice of partner, same sex or not. Still, something weird about this marriage…Oh that’s right! getting married by a former actress from Beverly Hills 90210!

Picture note by Celebitchy: Here are pictures of Tori and Dean in the UK to promote their reality show on June 1, 2007. You may have already seen them, or you probably just don’t care.

Thanks to WENN for these photos.

Lainey’s gossip has a blind item that sounds just like Tori Spelling. Lainey says that a wife-stealer in her second trimester of pregnancy has been drinking up a storm and that her husband doesn’t care:

I’ve never had a baby, nor do I intend to, and therefore don’t consider myself an expert, but even I know that it’s wrong to over-imbibe when you’re expecting. Then again, it’s also wrong to steal another woman’s husband so why hold our mother-to-be to such lofty standards of propriety? Besides, going by what I hear, she’s probably not smart enough to figure out that alcohol can actually harm your fetus - relief therefore that her empire of origin has been left in more reliable, if manipulative, hands.

Still… it’s really not the kind of gamble you want to f&ck around with. But as I said before, sound judgment is not her strong suit and well into her 2nd trimester, she was openly throwing back glass after glass of red wine. Over a 5 hour period, eyewitnesses report that it was refilled more times that would be considered “medically, socially, morally” acceptable. Even more interesting though: the person doing the replenishing was none other than the proud father and reigning junior master.

Word is he keeps her already vacuous mind as stimulated, or as de-stimulated, as possible, which may account for the common phrase heard among those who’ve met her and describe her behaviour: “She is always OUT OF IT”…so much so that he often has to accompany her to do her business.

After all, opportunistic love also extends to the loo.

Commentors on Oh No They Didn’t, where we found this story, note that it’s probably not Angelina because she doesn’t seem to be pregnant again and Lainey generally adores her and wouldn’t write something this nasty about her. It also sounds like Tori because she uses the term “opportunist love” to describe the husband.

Gwyneth Paltrow was seen out drinking twice in the late stages of her pregnancy with Moses, and Rachel Weisz said it was ok to drink while you’re pregnant as long as it’s in moderation. (She was directly questioned about it, and did not bring up the subject herself.) I was kind of shocked at these statements as I had my pregnancy in the states, where it’s a strict taboo to drink while pregnant and any kind of alcohol is considered a risk to the baby. Some of our European readers said that their obstetricians said it was ok in small doses.

If this is true there’s no way that it’s healthy to drink more than a glass of wine occasionally while pregnant, and Tori should be ashamed. Hopefully her baby will turn out ok anyway.

Tori is shown at the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour. I’m Not Obsessed says she’s on a pregnancy pass, which can excuse bad fashion but certainly not drinking.

Janet Charlton is ripping on Tori Spelling’s sense of style, as evidenced by these pictures supposedly from her house where she’s holding an estate sale this weekend. Tori has been selling her crap on eBay and now she’s getting rid of her posessions the old fashioned way with a yard sale.

It doesn’t look that bad to me. I mean it’s not my taste, but I wouldn’t think poorly of a friend with this stuff in their house and it looks well designed and comfortable. It’s that shabby chic french country style I guess. The china is really ugly, but she’s selling this stuff and she probably inherited it.

We just KNOW you’re going to want to drop everything and dash to Tori Spelling’s “Dazzling Hollywood Estate Sale ” at her Valley home this weekend. (11369 Dona Lisa Drive, Studio City) Ads promise sale items represent “fifteen years of buying and collecting.” But there’s something fishy here. First of all, since when does Tori live in middle class Studio City? And take a look at these photos of the roomsful of items for sale. Doilies everywhere! Plastic plants! Grandma style dishes! Not to mention used cosmetics - and don’t forget that fire extinguisher under the vanity. Granted, there’s an occasional picture of Tori propped up, but we’re not buying the notion of Tori Spelling lounging on white wicker furniture. Either this is someone else’s house, or Tori Spelling’s taste is MUCH worse than we suspected. Candy would be humiliated. Or maybe that’s the idea.

I’m betting it’s her house. It’s not bad at all, and I guess I’m kind of surprised that she hasn’t streamlined everything but I think it looks ok. She must be a collector like her mom.

Tori Spelling revealed that she is finally starting to adjust to being pregnant, 5 months into it. She talks to “Extra” on the set of Smallville in Vancouver, Canada about finding out the baby’s sex.

“I’m a little tired, but feeling good. The first three months I had every textbook symptom, but now I’m starting to adjust,” she said.

Spelling and her husband Dean McDermott also do not yet know if they are having a boy or girl.

“We do want to know, as soon as I get back from (Vancouver, British Columbia) we have our ultrasound,” Spelling revealed.

“If it’s a boy, we’re making his middle name Aaron. If it’s a girl her middle name will be my husband’s mother, who passed away,” she added.

Source & Source

Let’s hope for Tori Spelling’s sake that she really is knocked up and isn’t just wearing big tops to hide the fact that she’s getting a bit chub. She wore a form-fitting dress that showed off a rather prominent bump a couple of weeks ago, so it’s most likely that she’s pregnant. She also reportedly registered for a bunch of high-end baby items at chic boutique Petit Tresor, showing just how unlikely it is that she’ll come to terms with her financial situation any time soon.

She did buy a used bike and notify the paparrazi, though. She seems to bring a photographer along whenever she visits a pawn shop, and it’s doubtful that she’s scrimping consistently.

Tori doesn’t have to rely solely on the cash she gets from tipping off photographers whenever she bargain shops. She landed a guest gig as a gossip columnist villian on “Smallville” this season. Now that’s a role that Tori will bring a lot of firsthand knowledge to.