Tori Spelling: I Wanted to Do Work and Chores

Pampered Hollywood princess turned reality star and Inn-owner Tori Spelling tells Ellen DeGeneres that at 34, she's finally learned how to make a bed.

In an appearance on DeGeneres’ show Tuesday, Spelling and husband Dean McDermott talk about getting into the Bed and Breakfast business and overcoming a privileged upbringing through housework.

Read on for excerpts.

On the decision to open their Inn:
Ellen: Did you look into this? Was it a life-long dream of wanting to have a bed and breakfast? Is it a money-making thing? It seems like so much work.
Dean: Well it was a combination of all of those things.
Tori: I was going to say, no no and no, but …
Dean: (Interrupts.) No, I thought it was a combo of everything.
Tori: Don’t you think it was one of those spontaneous passion dreams that you have late at night when you can’t sleep?
Dean: Yes it was honey.
Tori: Let’s open up a B& B
Dean: We wanted to get into it for a little bit of financial stability because you know acting is so up and down.
Tori: (interrupts) Because B&B’s are so stable
Dean: Yeah. In hindsight, not so much.

On Tori’s inexperience with housework:
Ellen: Did you know you’d be doing all the work and chores? Or did you imagine other people..
Tori: I wanted to.
Ellen: You wanted to do the work? Was this really the first time you had to make a bed or anything?
Tori: Yes
Ellen: (To Dean) You saw sort of how she grew up?
Dean: I was kind of surprised that she said she never knew how to make her bed till I went to the Manor. I was like okay I get it. You have people to all that.
Tori: When he says the Manor he is referring to my parents’ house. It has a name. I know. We have Chateau Le Rue, my mother has the Manor.
Ellen: It’s a big house. On your street there are tour guides that go back and forth just to see that house. I was looking at a house on that street and I was like uh-uh I’m not living on that street. There are tour buses going back and forth on that street. You had someone in your house to literally do like everything; one to wash dishes, one person to make beds, right?
Tori: Or two or three
Ellen: Two or three to do like each chore.
Tori: I’m kidding.
Ellen: No you’re not kidding.
Tori: I know.

Re: Tori Spelling: I Wanted to Do Work and Chores

Tori,

Send me your email addy. I'll mapquest you directions to my house. I'll give you ALL the chores your spoiled heart desires.

~Valerie

I love how her husband said she sorta grew up cause she knows how to make a bed. Wow...shoot for the stars, Tori. Next thing you know, you'll know how to load a dishwasher!

Re: Tori Spelling: I Wanted to Do Work and Chores

Posted by joenick

Tori,

Send me your email addy. I'll mapquest you directions to my house. I'll give you ALL the chores your spoiled heart desires.

~Valerie

I love how her husband said she sorta grew up cause she knows how to make a bed. Wow...shoot for the stars, Tori. Next thing you know, you'll know how to load a dishwasher!