Tori Spelling and Dean Mcdermott Andrew J Cunningham/Getty Images
Tori Spelling is estranged husband Dean McDermott’s biggest fan amidst their divorce.
“Our family is so proud,” Spelling, 51, gushed via Instagram Story on Saturday, January 11. “We need some levity right now. Watch @iamdeanmcdermott new movie Polar Opposites on Hallmark tonight.”
Polar Opposites, which premiered on Saturday, leads off the network’s slate of “Winter Escape” programming. The film stars Rhiannon Fish as illustrator Emma, who stows away on a cruise to Antarctica with engineer Andy (Markian Tarasiuk) in a bid to help her ailing dad working as a researcher in the arctic country. Emma’s father is played by McDermott, 58.
Spelling and McDermott married in 2004 and separated 19 years later in 2024. Together, they share five children. (McDermott is also father to son Jack from a previous relationship.)
Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have weathered many storms during their marriage — and Spelling’s recent divorce filing hasn’t appeared to sour their relationship. “Tori and Dean are still cordial,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly after Spelling, 50, filed for divorce on Friday, March 29. Spelling and McDermott, 57, have “been together so long […]
Earlier this week, Spelling and the children were forced to evacuate their Los Angeles home amidst the ongoing wildfires.
“The post I didn’t want to have to do … days of watching destruction and monitoring and living in fear,” Spelling wrote via Instagram on Friday, January 10. “I haven’t posted or shared bc social media was saturated [with] amazing kindness, sorrowful loss, helpful shares and pleas. I didn’t want to be redundant. But, last night we were evacuated.”
She added, “I tried my best to hang in there and not just flee to flee but we had to finally. My hearts are with everyone who has lost and suffered so much. But, as a mama bear [with] 5 kiddos & fur babies your gut tells you when it’s time to take action.”
Markian Tarasiuk, Rhiannon Fish, Dean McDermott, Maeve Quinlan Courtesy Johnson/Hallmark
Spelling drove her kids — and their menagerie of pets — to safety.
“Friends who care told me for days to pack and have a plan. I should have listened,” she wrote on Friday. “I fit us all in barely. No clothes. But grabbed photo albums. And fled. … @airbnb saved us! Literally! They stepped in and found something to house our massive family and pets and same night.”
Spelling further concluded that her family is “OK.”
Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have been making headlines since their scandalous start. When the pair met in 2005, McDermott was married to Mary Jo Eustace, with whom he shares son Jack, and Spelling was married to Charlie Shanian. “It was love at first sight. I fell so hard … Then I noticed he had a […]
“We are some of the lucky ones,” she added. “It looked and felt like a movie I’d seen too many times. … We are safe. Woke up to a koi pond & a monarch butterfly sanctuary. Thanks, Dad!”
Tori is the daughter of Candy Spelling and the late Aaron Spelling, whose L.A. mansion was also lost in the fires.
A string of wildfires broke out in the Pacific Palisades and other surrounding neighborhoods earlier this week, ravaging thousands of acres of property. According to local officials, at least 16 individuals have died. Many residents also fled their homes under mandatory and voluntary evacuation orders.
Check the LAFD website for local wildfire alerts and click here for resources on how to help those affected.
