14 DAY TRIAL // Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott’s marital problems after he was caught cheating were transformed into a Lifetime docuseries, True Tori, that ended last week, and they already got a Lifetime follow-up special. It’s not enough for Tori, though.
The former “Beverly Hills 90210” star, who in recent years has transformed her life into perfect daytime drama material and has starred in countless such television projects, is now hoping for another series to come her way.
Insiders speaking for Radar Online swear that she’s actually “addicted” to being on a reality show and that, if she could, she would have the cameras rolling 24/7, without as much as sparing a second thought on the wellbeing of her 4 children with Dean and how negative this much media exposure can be for them.
We’d argue that it’s not the actual fact of being on a reality show that does it for Tori, but rather the cash flow that comes with being on one. She’s probably itching to stay relevant as well and is courting attention, and being on a reality show helps her grab headlines and have people talking about her.
Whichever the reason, Tori is holding her fingers crossed that she’d get another project, preferably soon.
“Tori is hoping either Lifetime or Oxgyen will want to do another reality show as her family begins to live their lives after Dean’s three month stint in rehab. Dean has been filming Chopped Canada in Toronto, but has been commuting back and forth. It doesn’t faze Tori that she is currently shooting her ABC Family TV show with Jennie Garth… Tori would do a 24/7 reality show of her life if she could. She is truly addicted to it,” an insider reveals for the e-zine.
Many of us would do something 24/7 if it meant just being ourselves and get paid for it, but Tori’s case is heartbreaking because, in her desperate desire to always be at the forefront of everything, she’s not even thinking of the children, another source chimes in.
She did the latest docuseries even though her oldest son, Liam, told her that he didn’t want to be part of it, when he was clearly reacting to something in the air in the household that told him that things were not right between his mother and father.
“The last thing Tori’s kids needs are more cameras in their lives. Liam is clearly struggling as he has been acting out on the show. Thankfully, Hattie and Finn are young enough to not realize what is going on around them. Tori needs to take a year off from filming a reality show, or writing a book spilling all of the most intimate details of her life,” says the spy.
“It’s bad enough Tori decided to do the reality show as she was trying to repair the marriage, but to include the kids was not wise. In recent days, Tori told her close friends Liam was having major issues with appearing on camera, and that she had to bribe him with toys and candy,” the tipster continues.
Friends worry that, in her dash for attention and money, Tori forgets that she’s a mom first.
Fortunately for the kids, it’s unlikely that she or Dean will get another reality series soon: ratings for True Tori weren’t as impressive as Lifetime expected and, while many people talked about what was happening on each episode, many still weren’t convinced by what they saw. Rumor has it that Tori invented the cheating scandal just so she could get this docuseries.