At the start of this month, we learned from Candy Spelling herself that she and estranged daughter Tori Spelling decided to end their years long (and very public) feud with one another in the hopes of fostering a new relationship together. US Weekly reports that the reconciliation is still on and was fortified by the mother and daughter’s decision to spend the Xmas holiday together!

Sounds like the Spelling family had a very merry Christmas indeed. After years of estrangement and very public, often nasty sparring, Candy Spelling and daughter Tori spent Christmas 2009 together, ET reports — in Beverly Hills, naturally. Candy, 64, and Tori, 36, made the yuletide gay for a Dec. 25 meal at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Joining them? Tori’s husband Dean McDermott, their children Liam and Stella, McDermott’s son Jack, plus Tori’s brother Randy Spelling and his girlfriend. An eyewitness told ET that “several strangers stopped by their table to give the reunited family unit their well-wishes.” The once-feuding mother and daughter have been hinting of a reconciliation for the past month. “We’re together as a family, and that’s the most important thing,” Tori told E! News Dec. 17. “It’s just a blessing that [the reconciliation] happened around the holidays,” she said. “And it just makes me think, ‘Wow, it’s an amazing thing and it happened this year and it’s just the best gift we could get.’” Earlier in the month, Candy told UsMagazine.com of their patched-up relationship, “I’m so happy. That’s all I want to say about this topic — I’m happy.”

Well it’s about damn time these adult women stopped acting like children and started acting like mature grown-ups. It’s pointless to place blame on either Candy or Tori because they are both guilty of acting like idiots … what is important now is to focus on the fact that the ladies have reconciled and appear to be serious about making their relationship work. I wish the Spellings a Happy, Happy New Year filled with love for one another in the hopes that they can make up for all that lost time they spent feuding with one another. I’m certain that the late Aaron Spelling, wherever he may be in the ethos, is happy at this news of reconciliation.

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E! News’s Marc Malkin is reporting that the epic public and pretty nasty feud between Tori Spelling and her mother Candy might be over … or, at the very least, might be coming to an end. According to Malkin, mother and daughter started peace talks when they were each hospitalized in September … since that time, they’ve begun to mend fences and, in a huge step towards peace in the family, Candy has finally deigned to meet her 18-month old granddaughter Stella! Could it really be peace at last in the Spelling family?

It’s no Middle East peace treaty, but it looks like one of the world’s most heated feuds has finally come to an end. A source tells me exclusively that Tori Spelling and her mom, Candy, have quietly been repairing their once very fractured relationship. I’m told the two began talking again in September, when both were in the hospital. Tori was being treated for a stomach ailment, while Mama Spelling underwent back surgery. Things are going so well that Candy finally met Tori and hubby Dean McDermott’s 18-month-old daughter, Stella. She has also spent time with grandson Liam, 2, who she apparently hadn’t seen in over a year. Reps for both Spellings did not immediately comment. In April, Candy posted an open letter on her website expressing hope that she and the 90210 star could begin having a better relationship. She also said she’d like to start spending more time with her grandchildren. Candy declined Tori’s invite to Stella’s first birthday party in July because, the matriarch explained, she didn’t want to become a storyline in the Tori & Dean reality show. Not that Candy has anything against reality programming. She’ll be featured on E!’s very own upcoming Bank of Hollywood, a Ryan Seacrest-produced show premiering Dec. 14 in which everyday people will try to persuade a group of panelists, including Candy, to give them money to help them fulfill their dreams.

Thank the sweet baby Jebus! This feud between mother and daughter is THE dumbest thing ever … the bitter words that have been hurtled back and forth over the years were such a waste that I am happy to know that they seem to finally be over all the bullshizz. I truly hope that both Tori and Candy realize that life is too short for silly feuds like this. Let’s all send our best wishes to the Spelling women in the hopes that they will truly kiss and make up once and for all.

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Candy Spelling, that lovable matriarch that seemingly puts Joan Crawford to shame as Mommie Dearest, has penned another open letter (or Letter of Truth, if you will) to her only daughter Tori Spelling and sent it off to TMZ so that it can be read by the entire world wide web. As you may recall, Candy reached out to Tori with an open letter earlier this year in the hopes that mother and daughter could bury the hatchet and end their feud … an offer that Tori brutally (and publicly) rebuffed. In retaliation, Candy gave a very public interview that blamed Tori for her father Aaron Spelling’s death (which, IMHO, is the lowest of the low). It seems that Candy was inspired to pen another letter after learning that Tori’s reality TV series Tori & Dean: Home, Sweet, Hollywood will feature a season finale that attempts to show the world how daughter reached out to mother to attend granddaughter’s first birthday and, after initially agreeing to attend, grandmother eventually refused (you may recall, the party took place last month and we learned then that Candy refused to attend, presumably because she didn’t want to appear on the TV show). Before that episode airs on Tuesday, Candy felt it necessary to make the preemptive strike. Here is the full text of Candy’s latest open letter to Tori:

TO: MIDDLE-AGED REALITY SHOW STARS (LIKE MY DAUGHTER)
FROM: CANDY SPELLING

For all the reality show personalities, please remember that real life doesn’t get edited to make things better or worse or get better ratings. You’re responsible for what you do. Life isn’t just a show. And your families can’t just be props. Make your own season finale without creating conflicts you will regret later.

Um … Cue music. Cue sideways glaces. Clue Lights. Candy Spelling is a heinous beyotch. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s idiotic for Tori Spelling to try and still exploit her public feud with her mother in order to get higher ratings for her TV show (because, honestly, that’s exactly that she’s doing) but for a mother to continue to publicly abuse her child (both mentally and emotionally) that has to be the most disgusting thing ever. Clearly Tori is trying to embarrass her mother by showing how cold-hearted she is (by not attending her only granddaughter’s first birthday) but Candy is going out of the way to show EXACTLY what a cold-hearted beyotch she really is by not only attending but making such a public spectacle of the whole situation. This has to be the saddest thing ever. Some fault does lie with Tori Spelling but, in the end, Candy Spelling — in her old, wizened age — should be the grown-up here. After all, Tori is the product of Candy’s parenting … a job that Candy clearly was never, ever qualified for. At least poor Aaron Spelling isn’t alive to bear witness to these sad and seemingly on-going events.

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Yikes! As if the animosity between Candy Spelling (mother) and Tori Spelling (daughter) wasn’t already bad enough, Candy had to go and lob another accusation/attack on Tori in a new radio interview this week wherein mother publicly blamed her daughter for the death of TV producer/mogul Aaron Spelling (Candy’s husband, Tori’s father). Now, I like me a family feud as much as the next person (OK, I really don’t … but up until now the Candy vs. Tori thing has been marginally amusing) but this seems to be taking things a bit too far. It wasn’t that long ago that Candy Spelling released one of her famous “open letters” to daughter Tori pleading for a reconciliation … but Tori refused. Clearly, that didn’t sit well with Candy … hence, these new comments blaming Tori for Aaron’s death. Damn. And I bet you thought your family had issues:

Everybody knows Candy and Tori Spelling had a beef, but now moms is taking the family feud to a whole new level of nasty. Appearing on a Massachusetts radio station Thursday to pimp her new book, Stories from Candyland, Candy Spelling not just bad-mouthed her 90210-starring spawn, but went so far as to blame husband Aaron Spelling’s demise on her estranged daughter. “My daughter one day decided that she wasn’t speaking to my husband, myself and my son and that’s how it’s continued for the last, oh gosh, four or five years,” Candy said to 94.7 WMAS-FM’s Kellogg Krew. “And it was sad, that’s what killed my husband actually. He just didn’t want to live after that. He has just done everything he could possibly do for his daughter and she wanted no part of him once he couldn’t do anything for her.” The über-producer died June 23, 2006, following a stroke; angst was not listed as the official cause of death. Candy says that while both women have paid lip service in interviews about reconnecting, there has been no such luck thus far. “I’ve always been trying to work on the relationship. I don’t know what the anger is.” Call it a hunch, but maybe it has something to do with the accusations of patricide. We’ve been trying to get reps for Tori and Candy on the horn, but so far nada.

This is about as low as low-blows go. It’s one thing to launch personal attacks on someone else (tho, it’s pretty sad when those attacked are leveled at your own flesh and blood) but to publicly blame your daughter for the death of her father is just … shitty. I used to think that Candy was a spitfire but this is just a really crappy thing to say about your daughter. Something tells me that a reconciliation between these two grown, adult women now has an even greater likelihood of never happening … ever. I do feel bad for Tori Spelling tho … it must be really terrible to hear these sorts of attacks coming from one’s own mother. The late Joan Crawford ain’t got nothing on the Mommie Dearestness of Candy Spelling.

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It’s been quite some time since we heard from Candy Spelling via one of her famous Open Letters but the time has come, once again, for Mama Spelling to post a new public message to her estranged daughter Tori Spelling:

Yesterday I posted a newslink to a new interview with Tori Spelling wherein she talks about how much she loves her mother and how things are not as bad between them as the public may believe:

Tori Spelling insists that the supposed rift between her and her mother, Candy Spelling, isn’t nearly as bad as it’s been made out to be. “It’s not like we’re not talking, we just haven’t talked,” the actress, whose new book, Mommywood, hits bookstores Tuesday, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview. “I love my mother. I’ve always loved her [and] no doubt she loves me. There’s no feud. We simply never meshed.”

In response to these new comments from Tori (and to new excerpts from Tori’s new book Mommywood, in stores today), Candy has posted a new open letter to her daughter on CandySpelling.com refuting the claim that the pair are not estranged and pleads that Tori “step up” and reach out to her … she writes:

“You haven’t responded to my emails, phone calls and text messages. You say you look at my website, so I’m trying to reach you that way. I want to see you and your family – in private, like the ‘normal family’ you say always wanted.”

Oh yes, Candy Spelling has much more to say to her daughter Tori. After the jump, read Candy’s latest open letter in full to find out just what exactly is on Candy’s mind right now …

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After releasing her fairly successful first goss-filled memoir sTori Telling last year (a book that managed to piss off half of Hollywood), Tori Spelling is gettin’ ready to release a follow-up goss-filled memoir this Spring (which is prolly intent on pissing off the other half of Hollywood). Here is our first look at the cover artwork for Tori’s new book Mommywood which is due out this April:

To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if Tori’s last tome sTori Telling had something to do with pissing off Shannen Doherty which might’ve had something to do with Tori getting axed from the early eps of 90210 … but we’re in a new year, with a new book (that no one has read yet) and that’s all water under the bridge … for now. This new book is, apparently, more focused on Tori’s life as a mother … which may not be as interesting as her first book … but my guess is that she’ll throw in some juicy tidbits this time around — you know, for selling points.

After the jump, check out the cover art for Candy Spelling’s (Tori’s estranged mother) book Tales from Candyland …

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