Tori vs. Candy: Fame-Whoring Runs in the Family

The two feuding Spellings are just in it for the attention

Candy Spelling, wife of late megaproducer Aaron Spelling, has just called out daughter Tori in the classiest way possible: a cutting, petty open letter written to a cutting house of tabloid fever.

What a gal!

The missive, which is nothing more than a 375-word whinefest about Candy's decision not to attend her granddaughter's B-day do, is without a doubt Candy's finest verbal upchucking yet—and that's saying something, trust.

It's well-documented here on E! Online that the two Spelling bitches have had quite the feud over the past few years, with Tori waiting for her mom to rekindle their relaysh and Candy pissed about Tor's alleged refusal to communicate with her family. But Granny Spelling has reached a new level of divalicious .

Even though daughter dearest appears to be the victim here, all is not as it may seem for the Spelling clan...

Our inside Spelling source (as well as our amazing common sense) tells us that this is exactly what they both want for publicity. Don't you ever wonder why this dumbass feud always rekindles when there's, I don't know, a new book or season premiere at stake? Tori will nab the same sadistic viewers who tuned in to Jon & Kate Plus 8 just to watch the big divorce announcement, while Candy will once again have a brief monopoly on all the gossip rags...like this one. Oh, why do we keep giving attention to crazy bitches?

"They love this," says our source close to the Spelling ladies. "They live for watching what the other is doing." Uh, if one of the women actually wanted this feud to stop, they would do the easiest thing they could: just stop talking about it! Right?

Gotta say we're especially confounded by Candy's decision to throw herself into such a negative, bitchy light every time they fight. The woman's got way more money than Michael Jackson's paid-off accusers, so why does she even bother with petty tabloid squabbles?

She's acting less like the rich, impenetrable matriarch she should be and more like Michael Lohan, who has far fewer dollars to his name but who at least has the self-awareness to know he's a scumbucket quote machine and to shut the ef up once in a while!

Try it, Candy. If you truly want a reconciliation, it's the only thing that's going to afford one. Silence. What a concept, eh?

—Additional reporting by Marc Snetiker