Tori Spelling Taken
It's official: Donna Martin's all grown up.
Beverly Hills, 90210 grad Tori Spelling is engaged, her publicist confirmed Tuesday.
Spelling, whose virginal Donna tied the knot with long-suffering boyfriend David in the 90210 series finale, will be doing the aisle walk for real next summer with newly minted fiancé Charlie Shanian, said publicist Cece Yorke. An exact date wasn't announced.
It will be the first trip to the altar for the 30-year-old daughter of television institution Aaron Spelling.
Tori Spelling and Shanian, 34, met last year during the Los Angeles production of the play Maybe, Baby It's You. Shanian cowrote and costarred in the two-person comedy, a collection of 11 unrelated sketches about finding true love. (Which, surprising, drew favorable reviews for Spelling's oft-scorned acting ability--the Los Angeles Times said Spelling "brings solid comic instinct, a nice flair for characterization and a lot of exuberance.")
The costars' onstage chemistry kept going even after the curtain came down on the show in March. The couple have been spotted, frequently hand in hand (awww), making the scene in Los Angeles for nearly a year now.
Spelling has been working to distance herself from the 90210 ZIP code. She skipped out on last year's TV reunion ("Tori loved her time on the show. She loves the cast, but has since moved on," Yorke said at the time. "It's nothing personal, just that times have changed.") and has been focusing on building a career on her own, sans Daddy's help.
She has shown off her thespian skills in such films as The House of Yes, Trick, Scream 2 and Scary Movie 2, costarred in a string of TV movies and did a sitcom pilot, So Downtown, that never made it to series.
Between wedding planning and her day job, Spelling will be plenty busy in the coming months.
Next up, she'll play the Scrooge-like role of a TV talk-show diva in the Hallmark Channel's Carol Christmas, airing next month. She's also wrapped an indie film titled 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover and has a recurring role opposite Antonio Sabato Jr. in the WB's midseason comedy The Help.





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