Spellings galore — who cares?

PASADENA, Calif. — Tori Spelling is "starring" in a reality series with her husband. Randy Spelling is "starring" in a reality series with his buddies.

And I am trying really, really hard to care.

Trying. Trying. Still trying. Wait ... trying ... really ... trying hard ... wait for it. ...

Nope. Don't care.

Except that, while chances are no children are going to get hurt by Randy Spelling's A&E series "Sons of Hollywood," there's little doubt that children will be hurt by "Tori & Dean: Inn Love" on the Oxygen channel.

The Spellings are, of course, the children of the late Aaron Spelling — a hugely successful TV producer who achieved fame and a huge fortune with such shows as "Love Boat," "Dynasty" and "Melrose Place."

Tori's claim to fame was landing a role on her father's series "Beverly Hills 90210"; Randy's biggest credit to date was on his father's series "Sunset Beach."

It's become commonplace for celebrities whose fame is on the slide to try to kick-start their careers by doing reality shows. "Sons of Hollywood" puts struggling actor Randy Spelling, struggling musician Sean Stewart (son of Rod Stewart) and their childhood friend, agent/manager David Weintraub, in a house together. Randy and Sean are looking for work and David is looking for fame as they party the nights away.

"Inn Love" follows newlyweds Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott (an actor with minor credits) as they attempt to open a bed-and-breakfast in Temeculah. But it's not like they're turning their back on their acting "careers."

"We're not severing ties from Hollywood at all," McDermott said. "We're still going to maintain our acting careers while we're trying to run a business." ("Maintain" would be a bit of an exaggeration, but, OK.)

Why anyone would be interested in putting the Spelling siblings in reality TV shows is a mystery even they can't seem to explain. "I guess it's the genes," Randy said. "I don't know. We haven't really discussed that together, but for me, I know that it was something that I wanted to do to give people an insight into who I am."

He said he's anxious to deal with the "misconceptions" about him and make people aware of "all the struggles of having a famous last name and coming from a famous family, how hard it really is. It's not just getting silver spoons everywhere and having everything given to you."