Tori Spelling and hubby Dean McDermott are in Toronto with their three-month old baby Liam in their fancy Silver Cross pram ($3000), promoting their new show "Tori and Dean: Inn Love" and shopping for a home. Which wouldn't be interesting at all, except that Dean's ex-wife Mary Jo Eustace also lives here.
Which is, come to think of it, not interesting at all. Unless you're Canadian, in which case it's a scandal on a par with K-Fed squiring Britney and brood around Shar Jackson's hood. (Which, no, you're right, isn't really a scandal, but still.)
If you're Canadian, or an avid Tori-phile (which would put you in the company of legions of unemployed thirtysomething guys with Brandon Walsh mullets living in their parents' basements watching 90210 on cable, and, maybe, one or two aspiring drag queens), you know that two years ago Dean dropped Mary Jo for Tori while he and Tori were making a TV movie together. You might also know that he and Mary Jo were, at the time, in the process of adopting a baby girl, an adoption that Dean - ever the man - backed out of. You might also know that Tori was pregnant well before the ink was dry on the divorce papers.
It was torrid. It was messy. It was unCanadian. So of course we lapped it up. We all still feel a little bit dirty about it, but what's a Canadian to do? Canadian sex scandals usually just involve politicians playing footsie with each other or calling each other dirty names. Which is to say, Canadian sex scandals usually involve no sex. So we'll take it where we can we can get it, thank you very much.
It would all be really, really funny, if it weren't for the babies. Tori and Dean sung the joys of parenthood as they pimped their show - it has been, they said, "amazing" to work with young Liam who, despite his infancy, will feature prominently in the second season (start 'em young, I say) - all the while glossing over the fact that this is Dean's second shot at fatherhood, and that he failed pretty miserably at the first. (What? You don't think bailing on an adoption because you found higher love in a pair of 34DDs is problematic paternal behaviour?)
So Dean McDermott abandons his wife, son and nearly-adopted infant daughter and runs off with Tori, his Movie-Of-The-Week co-star slash 90210 has-been, and has another baby who he promptly puts on display in a reality TV show and we're all supposed to applaud and coo because he and Tarty Tori are, like, totally "on a baby high" right now?
Please. I'm too Canadian for that.
