Talkin' With Tori

First, I swung by the house to see if the crowd of buyers and lookie-loos was as big as Friday's group. It was about the same amount of people. 100 or so folks were lined up waiting for their chance to take home a piece of Tori. I hung out for about 15 minutes and the line had swelled to 150 or so. What surprised me was how many repeat customers were there. It turns out people have been hawking Tori's wares on e-Bay. So, they came back for more stuff. However, a quick perusal of e-Bay tells me the Tori items are not exactly hot ticket items. Very few people have bid so far.

Next, it was off to Kohl's department store where Tori would be taking part in the stores' Winter Wonderland event which had set up for customers and their kids. Looking adorable in her black maternity dress, I was shocked to find out it was actually from Kohl's maternity line 9 & Company. Who would ever think that the daughter of the late Aaron Spelling would ever be wearing clothes from a discount store.

This will be Tori's first holiday without her father and she told me it will be tough, "It is. It is, but I feel like I have been given such a gift having this little baby inside of me, that it's kind of a part of him because I conceived after he passed away. So, it felt like it all kind of lined up together. So, I know that he will be up there wishing us well and celebrating with us and this little one inside me."

If Tori has a boy she will pass on Aaron's name as the babies middle name. If she has a girl they will name it after her husband, Dean McDermott's late mother.

So why would someone who grew up in a life of privilege be forced to throw an estate sale? Many people keep asking me if I think Tori needs the money since it's been reported that her mother, Candy Spelling, has essentially cut her off. Personally, I have no clue. It's possible that she and her husband, Dean, are trying to go it alone. Tori just signed a deal to write an autobiography which I'm sure netted her a pretty penny. Plus, they have signed on for a reality show on "Oxygen." The reality show was there to capture all the shenanigans at the estate sale and if I were a betting woman I'm guessing this is the only reason why the sale even happened. Most likely it was all for reality show fodder.

Tori's explanation though for why she held the sale involves a style change," You went inside so you saw, it's all shabby chic which is very girly and cute and represents about 12 years of my life but my style is modern now and I'm married and I have a baby on the way and you know, what do you (do) when you have twelve years worth of furniture from a house I own, from an apartment I had. You have a sale."

As for the media circus which erupted outside (that involved paparazzi, police, security and helicopters taking live shots above) she says, "I didn't expect that because to me everyone has a yard sale. Everyone has garage sales."

You have to give it to Tori though for actually being present at the sale and interacting with the folks who came out. I spoke to several people who had their items autographed by Tori herself. She told me, "People were great I had moments where I thought like 'oh gosh, I feel weird. This feels weird kind of, selling my stuff and I don't know how I feel about it' and people were like 'oh my god we are just so happy that we are getting to be a part of your life and a piece of you' and I was like 'really, ok.' That made me feel better."

I'm hoping other celebrities will follow suit and start opening up their homes for garage sales. If George Clooney has any items he doesn't want, I'll be first in line.