Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have a lot going on, but that doesn’t mean they don’t find time for romance!

They just threw a superhero-themed birthday party for their 3-year-old son, Liam, on March 13.

Meanwhile, they’ve got their hands full with 21-month-old daughter Stella, and filming the fifth season of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.

However, the pair tells OK! they make date nights a priority, and Tori always goes the extra mile — or at lest 4 inches — for Dean.

“If I’m going to have a date night, I’ll put a pair of sexy heels on, even if my feet are exhausted [from running around with the kids],” she tells OK!.

“Then I feel better, and I’m dressing up a little bit for my husband.”

From OK!

Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott faced reports that their marriage was in trouble this week after footage from the fifth season of “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood” reportedly leaked, but the couple told Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos that they don’t have any plans to split up.

“We’re a normal married couple and I think it gets heightened when it’s in the press and you’re in the public eye,” Tori said. “No relationship is perfect. No marriage is perfect. There’s ebbs and flows and we go through struggles just like everyone else.”

For Dean’s part, he told Maria that a few moments of the couple’s reality show didn’t tell the whole story.

“They can take a little thing from your relationship and spin it into whatever they want,” he said.

“It starts to feed,” Tori added. “The frenzy feeds and then it grows and grows and today we’re [reportedly] divorcing.”

Despite the rumors, the couple seemed to be attentive parents as their 3-year-old son, Liam, joined his mom and dad.

When Maria asked about their parenting styles, it was Liam who explained their roles.

“Is Daddy a bad cop?” Dean asked Liam.

“Yeah,” Liam said.

“And what is Mommy?” Tori said.

“Good cop!” Liam said.

The couple, who has two children, — Liam and daughter Stella — told Maria they’d be open to more – eventually.

“We would consider having more,” Tori said.

“We need a diaper break,” Dean added. “There’s a lot of diapers and a lot of poop in our life right now.”

From Access Hollywood

‘Beverly Hills: 90210′ sweetheart turned doting mom, Tori Spelling, is no stranger to multitasking. Her daily agenda includes balancing a family, a reality show, a jewelry line and a children’s clothing line … and along the way, she found the time to pen two best-selling books. It seemed only natural when the constantly on-the-go mother of two paired up with eBay’s Mobile Boutique at Hollywood & Highland. While finishing up some holiday shopping, Tori sat down with PopEater to dish on how becoming a mom has changed her, what to expect from the next season of ‘Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood’ and what Christmas at the Spelling mansion was really like (Hint: there’s no snow machine, despite what you may have heard).

Tori’s best purchase on eBay: Oh my goodness. Well, I’ve been an avid eBay fan probably, gosh, for like 15 years! Literally, I love eBay. Now that I’m a mom, it’s taken on a whole new meaning because it’s so much easier. I don’t have the time to go out. I don’t believe in the word no, that you can’t find something. If it’s sold out somewhere, it’s the popular big ticket item, you can find it on eBay. I go to eBay for literally everything. I’m a big vintage person, I love antiques, so I have a lot of collectibles. I’m also a big party planner and decorator so I’ve added a lot of things from eBay to what I call my ‘party arsenal.’

On her eBay bidding style: I used to be really competitive, I’m talking back in the Beanie Baby days. No joke, I used to be that person, when Beanie Babies were all the rage, I was on there at every second. I used to have my laptop and I’d be on the set of ’90210′ and I would literally be like ‘that person can’t outbid me!’ Now I’m a mom, I’m not competitive. If there’s something I want, I go bid and if it’s not meant to be, it’s not meant to be.

On searching for her own jewelry line, Tori Spelling Collection, on eBay: It’s on there all the time! It’s funny. It’s good because I love HSN and I love eBay, so it’s great, my stuff is selling on HSN and it’s selling on eBay. Two for the price of one!

On holiday shopping for her son, Liam, age 2:
He’s asking for everything now. He’s getting to that age that with commercials, everything that comes on, he’s like ‘I want that! I like that! I want that! Get that for me!’ He’s really into monsters. eBay’s really cool because he’s really big into monsters and cars. I kind of gauged from that since he’s into monsters and cars … so Transformers. I was like, ‘OK, I’m gonna have a little fun with this. I’m gonna go retro.’ So then I went on eBay and they have retro Transformers.

On rumors of ‘snow on Christmas morning’ at the Spelling mansion: A snow machine on Christmas morning would have been awesome if it had been real. That never happened. The game of telephone is a dangerous game. Maybe that came from me saying my dad had brought in bags of ice on our little side lawn he put on to make it snow.

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Interview: Tori Spelling
The Beverly Hills 90210 babe turned reality-show mom dishes about ditching diapers, valuing family and adding more kids to her brood.

It was one of the wackiest moments I’ve ever witnessed: a decidedly skinny Tori Spelling, in a bright green body-hugging dress, demonstrating the Potty Dance for a motley group of diaper-sporting toddlers, including her 22-month-old, Liam. A bizarre publicity stunt for Huggies’ Pull-Ups? Yes. And yet there was something genuinely touching about the disco party-press event-potty training summit that Huggies hosted in Chelsea last week: It was a reminder that even Tori Spelling has to deal with pee and poop. Although the 35-year-old tabloid target has a busy year ahead–in April she reprises her signature Beverly Hills 90210 role, Donna Martin, in the WB’s revamp of the series, and releases Mommywood, a sequel to her successful memoir, sTORI Telling; in June, the fourth season of her reality show, Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, premieres on Oxygen—Spelling is clear that her kids, Liam and seven-month-old sister Stella, always come first. She chatted with Time Out Kids about how she makes it all work while sporting heels in the spotlight.

So, how’s the potty training going? I just got my kid potty-trained at three and a half.
Okay see, I like hearing that. We’re in the process [with Liam]. It’s been about a month now, but I’m glad you said that because I waited until he kind of gave me the cue. Some of my girlfriends are like, “You start this now…you start that now.” And I was like, “He’ll do it when he’s ready.” And then he was ready to start, but we’re by no means done.

You have a very busy life. How do you balance all of your responsibilities, both professional and personal?
My husband [actor Dean McDermott]. He’s my rock. I am so blessed to have such a hands-on dad. If he weren’t, I don’t know how I’d get through [the day] with as much as I do, and two kids, 15 months apart.

Are you and Dean planning on having more kids?
We are actually. Not right now! I think maybe we’ll get Liam and Stella both potty trained and then start all over again. Maybe. If we’re blessed enough to be able to have more children, we would love to. Whatever’s in the cards.

You’ve never lived in New York City, but I imagine you’d do well here.
Really? I used to be so scared of New York! I loved it, but I thought, I’m too shy of a person to live here. If you stop for a moment, everything just passes you by. I always worried that I wouldn’t even survive in New York. Now that I’ve kind of grown into myself and I’m an adult, I think I could live here. I think I would have a good time.

Would you consider moving here?
We love our life in L.A., we really do, but if there were a certain project that brought us all here while the kids were still young enough to move around, I’d be totally open to that.

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Reality TV star talks motherhood, growing up in the public eye and the new ’90210′

Tori Spelling hasn’t strayed too far from the public eye. The daughter of famous producer Aaron Spelling achieved fame with her portrayal of Donna Martin on the iconic “Beverly Hills, 90210.” Spelling now stars in her own reality TV series, “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood,” which chronicles her second marriage to Canadian-born actor Dean McDermott and the birth of her second child, daughter Stella. As of this writing, Spelling is set to appear in “90210,” a spin-off of the original series set to launch on The CW. MSN TV discussed with Tori the success of her reality show, life in the Hollywood spotlight and the future of Donna Martin’s character.

MSN TV: Congratulations on your new baby Stella. How’s the family adjusting to having a new female in the household?
Tori Spelling: We’re evened out now; it’s good. Liam’s adjusting to Stella, giving her little kisses now. You know, he wasn’t so sure about it all at first, but it’s all good now.

How are you finding the challenge of raising two kids?
It’s a little more work. The thing is, Liam is walking now, so it would have been a little more difficult to hold two babies all the time. But Stella’s relatively easy, though she’s not as easy as Liam was. Liam never cried. There was never a peep out of him. And when Stella wants her food, she wants it. But, you know what? Having two babies is not as much work as I thought it would be.

On TV, Liam seems like a little angel, just the perfect little baby.
He is.

Have your two kids taken on the personalities of their parents?
It’s hard to tell with Stella. She’s a little loud and very girly. When she wants something, she wants something. I think Liam is a lot like me. He kind of has my characteristics: He loves to make people laugh, and I think that’s something I’ve always liked to do. He’s pretty hilarious. I can’t say that he takes after me, because he’s funnier than I am.

Congratulations, too, on a successful season of “Tori & Dean.” Last week’s episode, which featured the birth of baby Stella, was the highest rated show ever for Oxygen. Why has the show caught on with so many viewers?
I can’t believe it. It’s actually rewarding, amazing and completely surprising. It’s our third season, you know, and the show did well in the past. But it wasn’t like a huge hit. And usually you figure by the third season if it the show hasn’t hit, you’ll go merrily along. And if some people like the show, then that’s as good as it gets. But this season, all of a sudden, the show totally takes off. It’s been a totally different response. We’ve always had some very loyal, great fans; literally every day now, I’m getting stopped by people who have seen the show, and that’s amazing. A lot of the time in the past, I would tell people, “My show’s on Oxygen.” And they would be like, “Oh, I don’t get Oxygen!” or “I’m relatively new to Oxygen.” And now, it’s like “Oxygen, Oxygen!” from them. It’s great.

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Actress Tori Spelling is the daughter of one of the most prolific American television producers, the late Aaron Spelling. She is a solid chip off her dad’s block.

Workaholic Tori and husband Dean McDermott have solidified their partnership in love and business, and defied reality TV couple odds by making hay (and baby number two) with the reality TV platform of Oxygen’s latest smallscreen veritas of their lives: Home Sweet Hollywood, set to bow on June 17 at 10 PM.

Tori’s additional TV work includes the announcement that she will revisit her role as Donna in the CW’s “90210″ series that will also see a return of Jennie Garth. No word on “Brenda” Shannon Doherty yet.

Oxygen will also present “25iest,” hosted by Tori and Dean. The show will dish about power couples by counting down the most influential duos in entertainment, sports, fashion, and politics. That show premieres June 10.

Monsters and Critics joined a few online reporters and spoke to Tori and Dean a few days ago:

Tori, what’s the most important lesson your father ever imprinted on you, that you learned from him about television in general?

And also just a follow-up, what was your favorite show that he ever put together and created in your mind?

Tori Spelling: My favorite show of his is probably a show that was his favorite and that was a show called Family. He was the most proud of that show because, , my dad kind of got a bad rap, I think.

A lot of times people would say oh he just makes (jiggle) TV and it’s all for entertainment purposes. But he did some really amazing shows as well that he was really proud of, that people kind overlooked.

“Family” was one of them. It was all about family. It was a great dramatic show and I’m really proud of that show that he did.

And as far as what he taught me work wise in television, I mean, I learned everything from him. I have a really, really strong work ethic and I learned that from my dad because my dad was a workaholic but he always had even more time for us.

As hard as he would work, he always made the time. So it’s just about balancing family, I think, and work – and giving everything 100%. And that’s what he taught me.

Do you think he would enjoy your new show?

Tori Spelling: Oh definitely. He would love it because my dad, as I said, was big into shows that really sent across a positive message and really strived to, , be entertaining for a whole family.

I really believe our show does that. There’s a lot of kind of train wreck TV reality shows out there. And I think Tori & Dean is a great show that really focuses on family, focuses on couples to show that everyone can watch together and enjoy. And that’s what makes me the most proud.

What possessed you to open your lives up for everyone to see in a show like this?

Dean McDermott: My first answer was insanity. But the truth be told our lives are pretty much documented in the media on a weekly basis and we just figured since our lives are being put out there and we have no control over it, why don’t we put ourselves out there and have control over it – and invite the viewers and the public into our lives to really let them know and see what we’re really like because, , as , there’s a lot of preconceived notions about celebrities, and of course, Tori that it’s an opportunity to set the record straight.

What about the dread curse of the celebrity couples in reality TV?

Tori Spelling: Well when we started this show three seasons ago, that was definitely something that we addressed. Dean actually didn’t even know about…

Dean McDermott: I wasn’t even aware.

Tori Spelling: the curse of the reality couples. But I told him. And it wasn’t something we were worried about. And it’s something three years later that hasn’t affected our relationship one bit.

It actually has made our relationship stronger. We love working together. We love – we actually are a couple that does everything together even when we’re not working.

So for us, this is the best venue for our relationship because we get to spend all our time together. And I think for other couples, perhaps they didn’t spend all their time together and then all of a sudden they were stuck together all the time, and they couldn’t make it work. But for us it works.

Dean McDermott: The proof is in the pudding – baby number two.

Tori Spelling: Season three.

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Tori Spelling has a real-life “Curious George” on her hands – her son Liam.

“We call him monkey,” Spelling told PEOPLE about her 8-month-old. “We started to call him that when he was little. I was like, ‘Well, you are a little monkey!’ And then it just stuck. He actually responds to the name monkey more than Liam.”

The TV star added his curiosity is endearing, and he’s already working on his comedic timing.

“He observes everything! If he’s playing with you and he can hear a tiny little noise across the room, he’s like, ‘What’s that?’ ” said Spelling, 34, at Beauty.com’s Around the Clock shop event in New York City Thursday.

“He also tries to make everyone laugh. So if he does something and you laugh, he stops and looks at you and then keeps doing it. He totally gets it and it’s really funny!”

Just weeks ago wildfires in Southern California threatened Spelling and husband Dean McDermott’s B&B, which is featured on their reality show, Tori & Dean: Inn Love.

“The fires did come close and at one point they were 4 miles from us and the town was evacuated,” she said. “When you put so much into something and spent so much time kind of redecorating the B&B and putting so much of ourselves into it and you think, ‘Gosh, in just one second everything could be gone.’ And that was pretty scary … But everything is fine.”

From People

Despite the odds, Tori and Dean still ‘Inn Love’
Nov 10, 2007 04:30 AM
Rob Salem
Television Critic

LOS ANGELES–And they said it wouldn’t last.

Whitney and Bobby. Britney and K-Fed.

Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav.

All the various Bachelors and Bachelorettes and Amazing Brother Survivor hook-ups … and, of course, that poster-couple of reality dysfunction, former Newlyweds Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey … all of them, victims of their own attention-craving hubris, offering up their intimate relationships as weekly television fodder for the masses, only to have those relationships disintegrate once the cameras had gone.

There have been exceptions, like the pioneering Osbournes, Ozzy and Sharon, and the late-to-the-game Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed … but then, they’re old and set in their ways and half-deaf from decades of close proximity to very large speaker stacks.

How, then, to explain the youthful longevity – on TV and off – of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott, the right side of the tracks/north side of the border celebrity couple whose own relationship/reality show, Tori & Dean: Inn Love, is about to start its second season here on Slice (Tuesday at 10)?

The cutesy, cuddly, cooing twosome – and I can tell you from first-hand observation, they really are absolutely besotted with each other – have survived his acrimonious divorce (from Toronto radio host Mary Jo Eustace), the death of Spelling’s father (TV mogul Aaron), her subsequent reconciliation with her estranged mother and the labour-intensive, crisis-plagued realization of their dream home/bed and breakfast, Château LaRue (named after her dog) – only to have it threatened by last month’s California wildfires.

And that would be literally “labour-intensive” – in the middle of all this, Spelling gave birth to their first child, Liam Aaron McDermott.

All of which would be enough to scuttle the healthiest relationship, let alone one already illuminated by the glare of celebrity, and layered upon that, the self-imposed spotlight of intrusive reality cameras.

And yet these two – now three – seem entirely unfazed by it all, as they have been all along. It was slightly less than a year ago that they first presided over a skeptical introductory press session at the TV critics’ tour, all smiles and giggles in giddy anticipation of the adventure ahead of them.

This, despite the questionable success rate of those who had gone before.

“It’s funny,” Spelling allowed at the time. “I mean, we had already signed on to do it, and we had the idea and were all really excited – but I hadn’t broken that news to Dean. He didn’t know that none of the couples who had done a reality show had lasted together.

“I was surprised no one had pointed that out, but …”

“I had no idea,” shrugged McDermott. “But we’re going to be the exception; not the rule. We’re going to prove everyone wrong.”

And they have – not only in terms of their still thriving relationship, but getting the B&B up and running and capable of actually housing guests. This from a Canadian actor with a bit of renovation and restaurant experience, and a Beverly Hills actress/heiress far less accustomed to serving than being served.

“I just have really good style,” suggested Spelling, “so I thought I could kind of spruce up a B&B.”

The project itself, she insisted, preceded the idea of doing a TV show, starting as far back as the previous summer, when they returned to Ottawa, where their romance began, to make another TV movie.

“Returning to the scene of the crime,” smirked McDermott.

“They had offered to put us up at a B&B, as opposed to our fancy Four Seasons hotel,” explained Spelling, “because it was so much closer to the set.

“I had never stayed in a B&B. Dean hadn’t either. So I had some trepidations … my makeup artist at the time was like, `Oh, B&Bs are just creepy and they’re old and (filled with) people’s used things …’

“And it was. It was old and musty and filled with people’s old, used things, like decrepit teddy bears with eyes hanging out …”

“Smelt a bit like pee,” muttered McDermott, as if only half-aware he was speaking out loud. “Well, it did!”

Not that that even fazed them (and besides, if the new place didn’t already smell of pee, young Liam Aaron would soon see to that).

“B&B’s are good for us,” Spelling continued, “because we conceived (in one) in Ottawa, obviously. But we also came away with the idea that we would like to reinvent the B&B, kind of do a modern take on it, and kind of reinvent it for our generation.

“Then came the reality show.”

Again, the combination of a new relationship and the round-the-clock scrutiny of in-house TV cameras does not, historically speaking, bode well, as epitomized by Newlyweds’ Simpson and Lachey (and MTV Canada is now offering a chance to relive that horror, as they replay all 40 excrutiating episodes weekdays at 2 p.m.).

“We’re kind of the next level,” Spelling countered. “We are still newlyweds, but we have the baby, and we’re juggling our careers and the new business … so it’s kind of Newlyweds: Part Deux.

“We are actors, and this is reality, but part of my thing is I kind of like to put a little humour into everything. Because you have ups and downs in life, and if you can’t laugh at it, then what can you do?”

As if in answer – to both this and the Newlyweds question – McDermott deadpans: “You know, I still don’t know … Is Chicken of the Sea actually chicken or tuna?

“Never have figured that one out.”

From TheStar.com