Tori Spelling’s new reality show True Tori is supposed to document—practically in real time—her marital problems with estranged husband Dean McDermott, who checked into rehab after it was reported in Us Weekly that he cheated on her. But the entire first episode rang so incredibly false that many are now questioning whether there was ever a cheating scandal to begin with, or if this was all a machination by the financially-strapped couple to land a new TV show after their long-running Oxygen series was canceled.
On the show, which premiered last night on Lifetime, Tori is presented as the strong single mom who is just trying to keep the pieces of her shattered life together long enough to make it through another day with four young children. But as the hour-long episode progressed, it didn’t feel like we were watching a woman in the midst of an emotional crisis—it felt like we were watching a bullshit artist attempting to create her masterpiece. Let’s review the evidence.
1.) She can’t sell this monologue.
The show opened with Tori giving a six-minute monologue about her current situation. Sitting Indian-style on her sofa, the barefoot-and-jeans look is supposed to inform the audience that this is relaxed and unguarded. It’s all so very real. But unfortunately for her, Tori was never that great of an actress. The entire speech, which was supposed to be an off-the-cuff retelling of what happened to her family and why she’s back on TV, was clearly something she memorized word-for-word. A portion of the exact words she spoke actually appeared on her blog two days ago.
Ironically, when she tweeted the link to that blog post, she explained that her new show is not scripted.
2.) She’s not alone. She has three nannies and an assistant.
A frazzled (yet made-up and well-dressed) Tori is shown running around her house, trying to get the kids dressed, fed and off to school, something she says she does alone every single day since Dean has been away. It’s something they used to always do together. Amid the chaos, she pauses often to speak to the camera, despite her claims that her children have been late to school every single day since Dean checked into treatment. It looks like a difficult, if not impossible task.
But why is she doing it alone? She employs three nannies and a personal assistant, all of whom have been photographed with Tori in recent months.
3.) Their timeline is off.
Tori says on the show—which began filming on April 1—that Dean has been in treatment since the scandal first broke in Us Weekly just before Christmas. She says that she and the kids spent Christmas alone. But Dean continued to be active online until mid-January, posting stuff every day about his kids on his blog and tweeting Christmas morning pictures. (Rehab programs and treatment facilities restrict Internet access and confiscate cell phones.) Both Tori and Dean posted a picture of their family spending New Year’s together.
Dean released a statement to People on January 23 that he had checked into a treatment center for “health and personal issues.” He was photographed by paparazzi outside his family’s home on February 24, which would make sense, if he was in a 30-day program.
On January 9, the couple was photographed arriving at the same sober living facility that was featured on last night’s show. They reportedly stayed for an hour and a half and then left together, smiling all the while. Were they location scouting?
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