Loving a Good sTORI: Spelling Memoir Hits No. 1

Tori Spelling, Dean McDermott, Liam McDermott StarTraks photo

New York Times Nonfiction Best-Seller List. Doesn't automatically make you think of Tori Spelling, does it?

But atop that prestigious list is exactly where Spelling's first memoir, sTORI Telling, lies, according to figures released yesterday by the national newspaper.

Taking into account the success of her Oxygen reality show Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, the recent fervor over the new 90210 and Spelling's poignant, Joan Didion-reminiscent prose (or fluffy conversationalist style, whichever), this book has only been gathering steam since its March 11 release.

The 288-page tale of growing up Spelling has been on the Times' list for 14 weeks and, now in its 19th printing, was perched in second place last week.

And why not?

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Brenda and Kelly React to Donna Martin's Absence

Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling, Shannen Doherty Stephen Lovekin/WireImage.com, Nancy Kaszerman/ZUMPress.com, Jerome Ware/ZUMAPress.com

Beverly Hills, 90210 enthusiasts were either dealt a major blow or breathed a deep sigh of relief earlier this week when we learned that Tori Spelling would not be reprising her role as Donna Martin because her costars were making twice as much as her.

Jennie Garth, not one bit like catty Kelly Taylor, sounded very sympathetic towards Tori’s plight of equal pay when she talked to EW.com: "I’m really bummed...I think she should definitely get paid as much as either of us is getting paid. Her father created the show. It just seems wrong if that’s the case."

As for Shannen Doherty, the woman born to play bitchy Brenda Walsh, she doesn't care about anything but the facts, “They didn’t even get the numbers right. So I don’t know if it’s about the money either.”

Cast your vote for or against the Tori & Dean star after the jump...

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Can Stella McDermott Survive the Pink?

Tori Spelling, Stella McDermott, Life & Style Magazine Albert Michael/startraksphoto.com

Tori Spelling certainly knows how to work it. Sell the first-round baby photos to OK!, sell the second batch to Life & Style, and say no to any lousy spinoff series paying Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth more than you.

It’s that formula that gave Life & Style this exclusive peek at the nursery of little Stella McDermott, Tori’s first girl and second child. And holy Malibu Barbie, is it pink! So pink we’re a bit concerned for little Stella. Our eyes were strained just looking at the picture, so we can only imagine what it’s like to actually live in that room.

But then we did some Googling about the effects of pink and found some interesting nuggets of information…

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When Starlets Wear the Same Dress: Paris vs. Tori

By wearing the same Voom by Joy Han silk babydoll dress, reality stars and best-selling authors Paris Hilton and Tori Spelling have forced us to ask that difficult question yet again: Which starlet wore it better?

In one corner there’s Paris, who recently announced she is a grown-up, thanks to Benji Madden. The only thing wrong we can spot here are the heiress' matchy-matchy dyeable shoes.

And in the other corner is Tori, who is taking Donna Martin away from the 90210 spinoff (aw, man!), but who definitely has the bosom to fill out this top. Her biggest faux pas is this music video she made with her husband Dean McDermott.

Now it's up to you to choose the victor in this epic battle of the babydoll dresses. Get to it!

Spelling Tells a Mommy sTori

Tori Spelling, Liam Courtesy Skechers

Despite the handful of reality shows, the magazine covers and her own cranking publicity machine, apparently there are some things we don't yet know about Tori Spelling.

The 35-year-old celeb-about-town announced Monday that she's working on a follow-up to her best-selling memoir sTori Telling, this time prosaically tackling the trials and tribulations of Mommywood.

"Writing my first book, sTori Telling, was an amazing, cathartic journey for me," the former Beverly Hills 90210 (and future 90210) actress said. "Now, being a mom of two beautiful babies, I'm excited to share more stories as I embark on this new chapter of my life."

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Burning Q's: Dean's Other Girl & More Hills Haters

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I've been watching the third season of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott on Oxygen. They keep saying their new daughter is their first little girl. Didn't Dean have a girl with his first wife, right before he left her for Tori?
—Debby

Good eye, kid, good eye. Dean McDermott and former wife Mary Jo Eustace adopted a daughter together in 2005, the same year that he began his relationship with Spelling. But McDermott no longer has any legal responsibility for the little girl, named Lola. So take the "first daughter" gushing as you will. I know I won't.

Got more Burning Q's? Let's go!

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A-List Secrets: Why Stars Need Reality Shows

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What's with celebs needing to do all these reality shows? Are these people so obsessed with themselves, or do they just need the money?
—D.D.

The answer is as varied as the colors of the diamonds that Jennifer Lopez sees dancing in her dreams. Jamie Foxx has a new MTV reality show debuting July 15, but he won't be appearing at all, leaving money as the most likely motivation.

In producing a reality show, big celebs typically get "a 5 or 10 percent takeback from everything made through the show," explains marketer Richard Laermer, who steered über-producer Peter Guber into a reality-show career. "And if the show goes overseas, you can make a fortune on that thing."

So where does that leave, like, Tori Spelling? Well...

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The New 90210's Peach Pit Makeover

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The Peach Pit is back!

But it doesn't look like the kitschy 1950s diner from the original 90210. Instead, the cast from the CW's upcoming new 90210 will be hanging at a much sleeker restaurant.

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Tori's Insights Into the Miracle of Life

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Ah, another day, another celebrity mom gracing the cover of a magazine with her newborn.

Doing us the honors this time around is Tori Spelling, who appears with 2-week-old daughter Stella on the front of OK!—telling the glossy she considers her baby to be "a miracle."

"I was on one pill and wasn't feeling well, so I went off of it," recalls Tori. "Two days later, the doctor put me on another, and on that one day, we conceived. It was meant to be!"

That, or perhaps good old-fashioned biology simply had something to do with it. You see, the egg moves into the fallo—oh never mind.

Li'l Goldie Locks

Reese Witherspoon, Hayden Panettiere, Tori Spelling AP Photo/Shea Walsh, Fame, Wenn

Actresses are being sheared all over Hollywood like little blond sheep. Seems we can't toss our hair without hitting another girl getting a bob: Tori's crop came with her second pregnancy, while Reese's shorn locks seemed to coincide with warmer weather. And the newest 'do gives cute little Hayden Panettiere a sophisticated glamour.

Now get ready for winter's look: blond starlet-hair sweaters.

Tori's La Rueful Loss

Dean McDermott,  Liam McDermott, Tori Spelling, Mimi LaRue Jesse Grant/WireImage.com
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Paws for a moment of silence.

Tori Spelling's camera-friendly pug Mimi La Rue, a staple in paparazzi shots, on her reality shows and the namesake of her and hubby Dean McDermott's ill-fated B&B, died Tuesday of natural causes at the ripe old doggy age of 11.

Spelling tells E! News that her beloved four-legged friend, who suffered from hip and neck problems, died at the family home, surrounded by the couple, year-old son Liam and 10-day-old daughter Stella.

"We are planning a small memorial service for her with our close friends," says Spelling.

Mimi's casket will be, yes, pink.

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Candy Spelling Gushes Over Grandbaby Stella!

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Tori Spelling and her mom, Candy, may not always get along, but babies do seem to bring out the best in this contentious mother-daughter duo.

"There is nothing like the happiness and elation of welcoming a new grandchild!" Candy Spelling tells me exclusively through her rep. "Of course, I'm thrilled about little Stella, and now Liam has a sister, which is what Tori had hoped for. This is a very happy time for the family, and I know Aaron would have been overjoyed!"

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