Tori’s offering bed & breakfast

NEW-mother-to-be Tori Spelling hasn’t settled on a baby name yet, but she promises it won’t be something crazy. “Tori & Dean: Inn Love,” a new reality show that documents her Temecula bed-and-breakfast and her new relationship with her second husband, Dean McDermott, premieres March 20 on Oxygen. Spelling spent 10 years on “Beverly Hills, 90210” and is the daughter of the late Aaron Spelling, one of TV’s great creative forces. She will not be broadcasting her child’s birth.

You’re going to give birth any moment. How are the final days of that long haul going?

Good! I’m so ready! I feel like I’m a little pressure cooker down there and it’s going “Ding ding ding.” It’s been a good pregnancy. I’ve been very impressed with myself. I’ve been doing a lot of things at once. Instead of patting myself on the back I’ve been patting myself on the belly.

You seem like a woman who always has her gays about her. But do they stick by you when you’re pregnant?

Yeah, totally! They’ve been completely supportive. Obviously I can’t go to gay bars and drink with them, but I get very good presents for the little man from my gay friends. One of my good friends gave me a pink onesy for him. It says, “I left my boyfriend at home.” And he’s like, “This is for my nephew when I take him to the gay bars on Sunday.” They’re all excited to have a little nephew.

You have absolutely impeccable manners. After finding your wedding registry on the Internet in early 2004, I sent you a melon baller. You write a fabulous thank-you note, even to a complete stranger!

Well, of course! That was so kind of everyone to send gifts. Thank-you notes are very important. You know, it’s always hard -- you feel like you have to block out time to do them. I had a lot of thank-you notes to write after that first wedding.

Well, we grew up with you on TV, and at the end of “90210” you got married, so your real-life wedding meant something to a generation. Donna Martin got married. And now Donna Martin procreates. Who knew? But when your divorce came just 14 months later, I wished then that maybe I’d stuck to balling my own melons. Did you feel the same?

You’ll be happy to know I won the melon baller in the divorce.

Your book, a memoir, is due out in spring 2008. Are you having a hard time writing?

I haven’t started it yet! With the B&B; opening and the show and the baby, we decided that right after the baby is born is the time to start with the book.

And what will we learn?

Everything through my eyes. My life is told enough through everyone else’s eyes. I’m finally going to get a chance to tell it how it was.

Well, you were the girl who grew up in Beverly Hills in the mansion with the gift-wrapping room.

I want people to know I don’t take my life seriously. Whatever I was given or had, I’m kind of in on the joke. When I tell my stories, whether they’re good stories or sad stories, people find themselves laughing at them -- because I tell them with a sense of humor. If they don’t know me, they don’t know that

Will you lose friends over the book?

No! I don’t think so. That is not my intention. We’ll see if people can laugh at themselves.

What’s it like being on the cover of Us Weekly?

Depends on what the pictures look like! Kidding! Did you see the cover of all the magazines with Britney on the cover? That was surreal. Now that Dean’s a part of this lifestyle I lead, he was like, “Was this always like this?” And no, it wasn’t. At the height of “90210,” it wasn’t such a frenzy to find out every move a celebrity made through the day. Now there’s video, they take a picture of you, and five minutes later it’s on the Internet.

Why do you want to be on TV?

The way it worked out, we had just thought of the idea for the B&B.; I always have ideas, but I never go through with them. All of a sudden there was interest in Dean and I for reality TV. So I thought, well, we’re really funny and have a great relationship, and it’s not just endlessly showing us as a couple in Hollywood. Why don’t we mesh the two together and have two business ventures? And then we found out I was pregnant. So we’re opening a B&B;&B.;