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sTORI Telling
sTORI Telling

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Author: Tori Spelling
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 reviews
Sales Rank: 290

Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment Hardcover Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.2

ISBN: 1416950737
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.45028092
EAN: 9781416950738
ASIN: 1416950737

Publication Date: March 11, 2008
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Review
She was television's most famous virgin--and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character's exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed--and sometimes slammed--the same doors it had opened.

sTORI Telling is Tori's chance to finally tell her side of the tabloid-worthy life she's led, and she talks about it all: her decadent childhood birthday parties, her nose job, her fairy-tale wedding to the wrong man, her so-called feud with her mother. Tori has already revealed her flair for brilliant, self-effacing satire on her VH1 show So NoTORIous and Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Inn Love, but her memoir goes deeper, into the real life behind the rumors: her complicated relationship with her parents; her struggles as an actress after 90210; her accident-prone love life; and, ultimately, her quest to define herself on her own terms.

From her over-the-top first wedding to finding new love to her much-publicized--and misunderstood--"disinheritance," sTORI Telling is a juicy, eye-opening, enthralling look at what it really means to be Tori Spelling.



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A Bonus Story and Family Photo from Tori Spelling

The Manor
People are always asking about my parents' mansion, which they called the "Manor," but I don't really spend much time talking about it in sTORI Telling because I didn't grow up there. After demolishing Bing Crosby's former estate in Holmby Hills, a fancy neighborhood in west L.A., they spent six years building the Manor. It's about 46,000 square feet (slightly over an acre) and has 123 rooms. Not that I counted or measured. I got those figures from the press, just like everyone else.

Anyway, we moved in when I was seventeen and I only lived there for two years. In some ways the house is like a normal house, but everything is on a bigger scale. It has four floors: the basement (which we call the "Lower Level," probably because that's its designation on the elevator) and the first, second, and third floors. The first floor has a kitchen, a breakfast room, a dining room, an office, a family room, a living room, and a projection room. There's a grand foyer with sweeping staircases on each side. Oh, and there's also a guards' room and the staff dining room. Everyone except fancy guests comes through the service entrance into a hallway with the guards' room and the kitchen.

The kitchen is gigantic, and my fondest memory of it is from when I was twenty-one and had just moved back in after splitting up with a boyfriend. I came home drunk with some girlfriends, and we pillaged the two double-sized Sub-Zero refrigerators. There was always bulk food in there for the staff. We pulled out a big vat of chicken salad and a tub of peanut dressing, both of which looked like they'd been made for giants. Somewhere in the middle of our feast we decided to have a food fight, and the five of us started flinging food at each other. Soon we were covered in peanut dressing from head to toe and the pristine kitchen was a mess. Then we heard a ding, the elevator doors opened, and there was my mother.

She stared at us in silent disbelief. I said, "We're going to clean it up!" She just said, "Mmm hmm," and left the room. I felt a surge of love for her in that moment. It took us hours to clean the kitchen, but it was worth it. That moment made it feel, for once, like home. --Tori Spelling




Product Description
She was television's most famous virgin -- and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character's exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed -- and sometimes slammed -- the same doors it had opened.

sTORI telling is Tori's chance to finally tell her side of the tabloid-worthy life she's led, and she talks about it all: her decadent childhood birthday parties, her nose job, her fairy-tale wedding to the wrong man, her so-called feud with her mother. Tori has already revealed her flair for brilliant, self-effacing satire on her VH1 show So NoTORIous and Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Inn Love, but her memoir goes deeper, into the real life behind the rumors: her complicated relationship with her parents; her struggles as an actress after 90210; her accident-prone love life; and, ultimately, her quest to define herself on her own terms.

From her over-the-top first wedding to finding new love to her much-publicized -- and misunderstood -- "disinheritance," sTORI telling is a juicy, eye-opening, enthralling look at what it really means to be Tori Spelling.


Customer Reviews:   Read 290 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   October 11, 2008
I liked Tori and wanted to know more about her life, not much in the way of life growing up, pretty much dull and uneventful, not the rich girl, gets everything she wants, no good dishing on anyone worth mentioning. Such a dissapointment, pretty much like high school stuff and not great high school stuff to boot!! If you want excitement look at your own growing up, don't waste your time!! Tori you could have done soooo much better!! So glad I didn't buy this book.


5 out of 5 stars sTORI Telling   October 9, 2008
This was a great book, I was very impressed. I finished reading just two days after I received it in the mail, I just couldn't put it down! I was also very surprised the book was so cheap.


4 out of 5 stars the nepotism nymph   October 9, 2008
Using the same format that a majority of other Tori Spelling reviewers have taken: surprisingly, this book came across as a very fun read!

Tori paints the picture of her life in a very simple and honest way, adopting some of the humor from her short-lived sitcom "so noTORIous". It's easy to see that she's rehearsed these stories at length with friends, and they flow across the page with wickedly fun glee. Some autobiographies become lost in the minute details of unestablished characters, focusing more on the author's memory than on the reader's ability to grasp. Tori made sure to reference her friends and give us an idea of what she was dealing with.

The rumors that seemed to surround her life were surprising. She makes it a point to also not brow-beat us with the information we'd already heard before (via tabloids) and dispels any untruths that have come across. It's shockingly raw and honest, hearing her admit her mistakes and taking the weight of a lot of what was dealt in her life. This is no "poor little rich girl", indeed. You really see all sides of Tori Spelling, and for that I think I admire her.

It's total Hollywood fluff but it's also the life of Tori Spelling. It'll be interesting to see what she comes up with for the next 30 years....



5 out of 5 stars Excellent Read!   October 8, 2008
This book is very well written and pulled me into her world! I loved reading about her childhood and how she is now. She's completely down to earth and normal!


4 out of 5 stars My review of the book   October 8, 2008
I was so excited to of recieved the book in the mail. Not knowing that my husband had purchased it for me. He knows that I am a big fan of Tori Spelling. I just want to say that it is a good book to read. You will find out all about her life as a child and as she grew up. There are so many things that know one knew about her or her family, that she is telling. I recommende everyone purchase a book.