The Tori Spelling “uncharted terriTORI” Book Signing

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This past Monday night, former Beverly Hills, 90210 star Tori Spelling made an appearance at my favorite bookstore Vroman’s to do a signing of her most recent memoir, uncharted terriTORI.  And even though I live very close to Vroman’s, I am sad to say that I almost didn’t attend the event.  The sad truth is that I have yet to catch up on all of my wedding planning duties, or even my emails for that matter, ever since returning home from the Mayo Clinic with my dad this past May.  So, needless to say I’m feeling just a wee-bit stressed out at the moment.  I finally came to my senses, though, early Monday morning and realized that there was NO WAY in heck I could miss that signing!  I mean, HELLO, I was like the biggest Beverly Hills, 90210 fan ON EARTH back in high school!  Meeting the former Miss Donna Martin was just too big of an opportunity to pass up.  So, this past Monday night at 6 p.m., I dragged the Grim Cheaper out to Vroman’s to do some Tori Spelling stalking.  Amazingly enough, when we first arrived there weren’t all that many people in line  – I’d guess about 50 or so.  And by the time 7 o’clock rolled around, only about a hundred more had shown up, which was shocking to me.  I thought 90210 fans were die hards!

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Because my fiancé has become quite obsessed with cameras as of late, he parked himself out in back of Vroman’s Bookstore with the three paparazzi who were on duty, which was perfect for me because it meant that while he was in position to snap the above photographs of Tori arriving on the scene, I got to hold my place in line.  I must say he did a great job with the photos, too!  They almost look like actual paparazzi shots!  😉  And while Tori looks painfully thin in the above photographs, she really didn’t look that way in person.  She is definitely tiny, but I thought she actually looked quite healthy.  And I also have to say that not only did Tori arrive to the event on time, but she was even a few minutes early!  So not a diva!  Love it! 

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We had been told beforehand that Tori would gladly pose for photographs with her fans, which was awesome being that some stars at signings won’t allow people to take any sort of photographs at all.   Again, love it!  I have to say that Tori is VERY cute in person, much different than she appears on television or in pictures.  She is also incredibly sweet.  The girl ahead of me in line is one of Tori’s Twitter followers and, while we were waiting, she told me that she had, on occasion, Twittered back and forth with the star.  Before the signing, she had Twittered Tori to let her know that she would be in attendance and that she would be wearing a yellow skirt.  Well, sure enough, as soon as the girl walked up to meet Tori, the star looked at the yellow skirt and said, “Oh my gosh!  You’re my Twitter friend!”  Then, when the girl left, Tori said, “Thanks so much for Twittering with me.”  So incredibly sweet!  When it was my turn at the front of the line, Tori stuck out her hand and introduced herself, which the Grim Cheaper managed to get a photo of.  Yay!  (Those are the “Guncles”, aka the “Gay Uncles” – Tori’s good friends Bill Horn and Scout Masterson – who came along for the signing sitting next to her in the above pic.)

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Tori seemed genuinely sweet and took time to chat with each and every fan who was getting a book signed.  It was definitely a more personal experience than most of the other signings I’ve been to.  I told her that I absolutely LOVED her haircut and she was like, “Oh really, you think?  I’m not so sure about it.”  🙂  She was also laughing over my fiancé’s camera, as when he was taking the above photographs he had the shutter on a super-fast speed which allowed him to snap six pictures per second.  I explained to her that he was doing that in case I blinked in one of the pictures and she said that she suffers from the very same problem of blinking in photographs.  All in all, I am SO glad that I went to the signing and, looking back, can’t even believe that I was thinking about skipping it.  If you are at all a fan of Tori or 90210, I HIGHLY recommend attending one of her book signings! 

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And not only did Tori sign the book, but so did the Guncles.  Love it!

Until next time, Happy Stalking!  🙂

Stalk It: Vroman’s Bookstore is located at 695 East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena.  You can visit their events page here.  And you can purchase uncharted terriTORI by clicking here.

8 Replies to “The Tori Spelling “uncharted terriTORI” Book Signing”

  1. OMG! I’m super jealous! LOVE Tori. LOVE Dean. LOVE their show. LOVE her books. Do I sound obsessed? lol But seriously, I think she’s a talented chick and I would love to have her sign my books. Maybe she’ll come to Houston someday. 🙂

  2. Great pictures!

    Love the title of the book, very smart 😉 However, don’t like Tory’s look of last times, though I must say she looks pretty good in these pics, but… :S:S

    But the way, you look GORGEOUS in the pictures!!

    Thanks for the post.

  3. OMG…..I am SOOOOO Jealous!! I love Tori Spelling!! It’s great to hear she was so nice!! 🙂

  4. I’m SOO Jealous!!! I so wanted to come back out for this book signing but we won’t be back until October, airfare, hotel etc..already reserved:). I was looking at your site don’t see any exciting events going on while we are there, I do see KAT VON D is signing but not until Nov..dang it missed it by a month! Any who congrats on getting to see Ms Spelling..I’m just glad Dean wasn’t there NOT A FAN! LOL

    1. Don’t worry – there will be plenty of stuff going on that week. I just usually don’t find out about it until 2-3 weeks beforehand. Dean was actually supposed to be at Tori’s signing, but I guess after his recent motorcycle accident couldn’t come.

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