It's hard to admit when you've made a mistake, but it's also responsible journalism. So all those times we've said Tori Spelling is a butt-ugly lollipop-headed husband-stealing weirdo? We take it all back.
Because Tori had to grow up as the child of Candy Spelling.
We've mostly known Candy Spelling as the trophy wife of Aaron Spelling; a ditzy double for Paris Hilton's mother Kathy. And we have mocked her pathetic attempts to act like a normal grandmother-to-be and raise other people's children by publishing open letters on TMZ.com.
But now that Candy has a website--complete with cheesey auto-play music?
And has just published a book?
Which is timed to come out just before Tori's next book? So that the only way Candy and Tori are communicating is via the printed page?
Dueling books--and dueling updos.
And ... because Candy has just put The Manor, her 56,500 sq. ft., 100-room mansion on the market for $150 million? (Which seems a small price to pay for a bowling alley, a doll museum, a living room the size of Grand Central Station, and a wrapping paper room larger than most kitchens.)
We take it all back. Because some say heredity is responsible for the way kids turn out. Some say it's environment. But Tori is the result of Candy Spelling and the environment she created:
And therefore has our deepest sympathy.
I remember when "The Manor" was built... it is on the site of Bing Crosby's old home (which was lovely) and it's construction was such a thing of controversy... everyone thought it was too big and too tacky... it was one of the first mega-mansions, though sadly, not one of the last.
It just goes to show that money cannot buy taste.
She's a mess, and not the hot kind. I feel uncomfortable looking at her...and coming from Scandy, that says a mouthful!
I like how she said she wanted the house to have some dignity. You know, because Candy Spelling certainly knows what dignity is.
I absolutely YELPED at that first photo! So scary, man.