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Oxygen "Power Couple" Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott
By Troy Rogers
After rising to fame on the popular '90s hit Beverley Hills 90210, Tori Spelling has been in the public eye ever since the series ended in 2000. Taking on a wide variety of roles in TV and film, including our personal favorite as the big-boobed Tammie in Danny Comden's 2001 comedy Sol Goode, Spelling has also found time to design her own fashion line of jewelry and star in her own reality series. In 2005 Tori Spelling met actor Dean McDermott on the film Mind Over Murder and shortly afterward the two fell in love and were married in Fiji in 2006. In 2007, Tori and Dean celebrated the birth of their first child and now the couple is awaiting the arrival of their second child.
After scaling down their Hollywood lifestyle in favor of family, Tori and Dean bought a Bed & Breakfast in southern California and opened their doors to reality television with the Oxygen series Tori & Dean Inn Love, which makes its second season debut on June 17. While the couple awaits the premiere of their regular series, Tori and Dean took time out to host Oxygen's 25iest: Power Couples on June 10th at 10pm, a pop-culture series that counts down the most influential couples across Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, and Politics and the impact they have on the pop-culture landscape. With the help of a Blue Ribbon Panel of comedians, journalists, fashion designers, and pop culture gurus, the series explore America’s fascination with some of today's hottest duos.
While Tori prepares to return to the 90210 world to reprise her role as Donna Mills in the upcoming CW spin-off, The Deadbolt caught up to the daughter of the late Aaron Spelling and her husband Dean McDermott to talk power couples, pregnancy, and opening their lives to the public.
Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling on what "25iest" power couples surprised them the most:
DEAN MCDERMOTT: Actually, nobody really surprised me. It seemed like everybody kind of fell right into place.
TORI SPELLING: They all made sense for what it was, because it’s divided into categories as people will see when they watch the show on June 10. But they all made sense for what number they were given.
MCDERMOTT: It was all pretty bang on.
SPELLING: Yeah. There are some funny ones in there, too, though. We’re pretty much up on our pop culture.
MCDERMOTT: Yeah, we’re pretty savvy.
Tori Spelling on the one character she’s played that she relates to the most:
"Actually, a character that’s pretty close to me is a character I just played in the movie that was just released in April called Kiss the Bride that I did. The character of Alex, I thought her personality was kind of fun and quirky, and was pretty close to mine. She just kind of the like seemingly really good girl but then she had kind of this raunchy sense of humor and she’s really fun. And that just reminded me of me. In a girly way, if that makes any sense."
McDermott and Spelling the things that Dean had to run out and get due to Tori's cravings:
MCDERMOTT: The only craving [in] this pregnancy that was kind of regular was Rocky Road ice cream. But even that tapered off. The first pregnancy, her one craving, one and only craving that she had, was a root beer float. And this go around its Rocky Road. But even that stopped.
SPELLING: Yeah, I didn’t get cravings really bad. Like you hear about these crazy cravings that pregnant women get. I never had that. I never wanted to eat dirt or anything.
Tori Spelling on the advice she has for busy mothers on the go:
"Oh my god, they probably have better advice for me than I’d have for them. How to handle it? I mean, we just have such a great connection. A hands-on dad is really helpful. I mean, Dean is more than hands-on. He is unbelievable with Liam so that really helps, especially being this pregnant. It’s really hard to do anything at this point and to carry him. So it’s been really helpful. But, the best thing for us is that we all get to work together. So we get to take our baby to work every day which is really helpful. I don’t know if we would be able to not have helped if we both had to go work somewhere else and not be with Liam every day."
Spelling on the most important lesson she learned about television from her father and her favorite Aaron Spelling show:
"My favorite show of his is probably a show that was his favorite, and that was a show called Family. He was most proud of that show because - my dad kind of got a bad rap, I think. A lot of times people would say, "Oh, he just makes [sudsy] TV and it’s all for entertainment purposes. But he did some really amazing shows that he was really proud of that people kind of overlooked. Family was one of them. It was all about family. It was a great dramatic show and I’m really proud of that show that he did. And as far as what he taught me work wise in television - I mean, I learned everything from him. I have a really, really strong work ethic and I learned that from my dad, because my dad was a workaholic but he always had even more time for us. As hard as he would work, he always made the time. So it’s just about balancing family, I think, and work - and giving everything 100%. And that’s what he taught me.
Dean McDermott on why they chose to open their lives to the public:
"My first answer was insanity. But the truth be told, our lives are pretty much documented in the media on a weekly basis. And we just figured since our lives are being put out there, and we have no control over it, why don’t we put ourselves out there and have control over it? Invite the viewers and the public into our lives to really let them know and see what we’re really like because there are a lot of preconceived notions about celebrities and, of course, Tori, that it’s an opportunity to set the record straight."
-- Troy Rogers
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