14 DAY TRIAL // Tori Spelling has a new book coming out, “Spelling It like It Is” and, by the looks of things, another reason you might want to pick it up, aside from all that can’t-afford-a-vasectomy stuff, is because she shades Katie Holmes in it.
Radar Online got ahold of a few excerpts from the book and confirms that, indeed, Tori isn’t too nice in describing Katie. In fact, she refers to her as to a “plastic robot” who “can’t sing” to save her life, but only because she’s annoyed that Katie didn’t keep in touch with her (Tori’s) life in the tabloids.
First of all, Tori recalls meeting Katie for the first time back when they were still working on “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Dawson’s Creek,” respectively.
She describes her as sweet and “engaging,” and says that she was everything she expected her to be. She can’t say the same about the Katie Holmes of a few years later, when she’d already been married to Tom Cruise for some time.
“As I sat waiting outside his music room, I heard his prior appointment working with him in the other room. It was some actress singing horribly off-key… That made me feel better. I heard him say good-bye and then the actress walked out of the room. It was Katie Holmes,” she writes.
“I didn’t know whether we should hug or shake hands. But the signal from her was immediately clear: Don’t even come close. I instantly got nervous. We clearly weren’t going to catch up on the last ten years. And we certainly weren’t going to talk about her husband, Tom Cruise,” Spelling says.
Out of nervousness, she pulled out “the mommy card” and hoped that it would help her relate better to Katie. Tori wished her and her daughter Suri all the best, and noted that she had kids of Suri’s age as well. To her surprise, Katie responded with, “Oh do you?”
“Then I was annoyed. Come on. Okay, I know you’re busy. But you’re in the public eye. Don’t tell me you don’t follow the tabloids. Don’t tell me you don’t know anything about other celebrities and their kids,” Spelling writes.
“Then we stood there. She was just plastic. In a perfectly polite way… My pits were drenched. I never sweat. It was that awkward. I thought, I know you’re not a robot because you can’t sing for [expletive]…,” she continues.
Spelling recalls she felt “sorry” for Katie afterwards, when the initial nervousness went away, because she realized that the former “Dawson’s Creek” star was really unhappy in her marriage, just like she’d read in the tabloids she was.