Hollywood Exclusive by Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith

Tori Spelling and her mother Candy have had a very public up and down relationship, which has only seemed to escalate thanks to the fact that neither has shied away from dishing out details about each other in their respective books that they've been out touting the past several weeks.

When asked if she feels the candidness of these books has contributed to the strained relationship, Tori responds, "I don't know the answer to that.

"When I made the decision to write my first book ("sTORI Telling"), I had to completely be OK with the decision of putting my life and my stories out there as the truths that I saw and how it affected me," says Tori, who also talks about her mom in her newest book, "Mommywood."

"None of my stories were jabs to anyone," she insists. "I only told stories in relation to myself — stories that made me the person I am today. Some of the stories I needed to tell to show my growth as a woman and now as a wife and mom. Before I wrote it, I was very conscious that my mother could possibly not be happy that these stories are in print, but I had to be completely OK with it, and I move forward with no regrets."

Now she and her husband, Dean McDermott, are moving forward with the fourth season of their Oxygen reality show "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood" premiering May 26.

"There's lots of juggling with our work schedules and baby schedules. You get to see some of my new hobbies," says Dean. "Fans will also get to see some behind-the-scenes stuff with '90210.' I had the hugest crush on T as Donna Martin, so it's good to see her play her again."

The McDermotts also had to deal with Dean being gone for five weeks to shoot a movie in Canada. "It was the longest we've ever been apart, so that was hard because we function better together," claims Tori. "I struggled daily with being a stay-at-home mom and wanting to work, especially with the economy the way it is."

BATTENING DOWN: With the Disney Channel's "Jonas" series debuting tomorrow (5/2), the Jonas Bros.' leading lady, Chelsea Staub, admits she's nervous about potential resentment from the teen idols' admirers.

"Filming a TV show is nerve-wracking enough, and then waiting so long for it to air, wondering about your performance in general — but then add to it the fact that they have thousands of fans who aren't going to like you because you're near them, it make the nerves even more intense," she says. So far, Chelsea has had kind treatment from the Jo-Bros' following, she says.

"They've written nice things on MySpace, sent me pictures and hugs. At the end of the day, I want the girls to know that I just hope they like the show and that I'm not dating any of the Jonas Brothers in real life, so please don't hate me."

Staub tells us that she had a blast filming the first season's 21 episodes of the show in which Kevin, Joe and Nick play exaggerated versions of themselves. Besides shows set in their pop star world and their private school world, there are also some surprises coming up, she says. "We have one episode that's like a 'Blair Witch ' takeoff, done with a hand-held camera and a lot of spooky elements. All my lines are screaming — run and scream, run and scream, run and scream," she reports with a laugh. "That will probably be on in October."

WOMAN ON THE MOVE: Dee Wallace has just wrapped what she terms "a little part" in Harrison Ford's forthcoming "Crowley" drama, which also stars Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell as a couple desperately searching for a cure for their child's rare genetic disorder. For Dee, that makes a total of nine movies in the can — and several more on the horizon. Which is a lot. Even for her.

Among the most notable, there's "Stay Cool," which just debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. She plays Mark Polish's "mother who is a drunk and an airhead" in the Polish Bros. comedy, with Winona Ryder as Polish's high school dream girl all-grown-up, Hilary Duff as a too-admiring student and Sean Astin as his goofy friend. The cast is filled with attention-grabbing names, from Chevy Chase to Jon Cryer, to former "Family Ties" dad Michael Gross, who plays Dee's hubby. "We had so much fun doing that movie, it was like going to a party every day. I just love Mark and Michael Polish, as directors, as writers, as actors and as people," she says.

GIVING VOICE: Gary Anthony Williams of "Boston Legal" fame says he was hoping to take a break after launching the recent L.A. Comedy Shorts Festival, but the event did well enough that there's going to be expansion. "We're already planning now for next year," the funny man reports. Meanwhile, he's spending a lot of time behind the microphone, doing cartoon voice work. "On 'The Boondocks' I play a self-hating black guy (Uncle Ruckus) who hates every black person ever born," he says. "On 'Special Agent Oso,' I'm the guy in charge who gives Special Agent Oso all his orders," he says of the Playhouse Disney show about a secret agent panda bear, voiced by Sean Astin. And Gary has another upcoming show on which he's voicing a happy-go-lucky neighbor. "They're all very different," he says. "I'm just glad for the Disney one. I finally have something that my 6-year-old son can watch."

With reports by Emily Feimster.

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