Hollywood Exclusive by Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith

Tori Spelling tells us her Oxygen reality show, which returns in June, will focus on her and husband Dean McDermott's move back to Los Angeles but will not, however, feature her mom Candy and brother Randy. No, the Hollywood family is not feuding again. In fact, Tori claims, it's the exact opposite.

"They're not in the show, and I haven't even asked them to be in the show. In the last year, we've been healing that relationship and coddling it, and it's going well. I don't want them to think here I am, asking them to be on my TV show. I'm not trying to publicize, 'Oh, look my relationship is back with my mom.' That's something that's special to me and private so I try to keep it that way," says Tori. Speaking of her baby son, she adds, "Things are good. My mom is great with Liam. She adores him and that means the world to me."

However, Tori had no qualms about including her family in a humorous, self-deprecating memoir she's written called "sTORI Telling," which comes out this month. "I was very candid. I wanted to put it all out there. I figured people have been writing so many false stories about me for so many years that I might as well tell them the real version," she notes. "A lot of the stories do involve my family, and I thought that was such an important part to include."

When asked if her family is upset about the candidness, Tori responds, "To be honest, I don't know how they feel. They have not read it yet. They know that my life is pretty much an open book and it goes along with the territory."

MEANWHILE: Tori and Dean are expecting baby No. 2 but have yet to reveal the baby's sex. "We actually don't know yet. Sometimes you can't tell when the legs are crossed, but I'm not about a yellow nursery, so we do plan to find out."

HOLDING COURT: Bruce Boxleitner is in awe over how well 91-year-old Ernest Borgnine withstood the 115-120 degree heat last summer outside Los Angeles, when they made "Aces 'N Eights," the original Western movie that will be debuting this Saturday (March. 15) on the ION network. "It was tough on all of us, but I think the most inspirational was Ernie — and he did insist that we all call him Ernie. Such a jovial, uplifting and positive man! He wouldn't go back to his trailer because he didn't want to be driven back and forth out to where it was, so he sat under the trees while we all came around and pumped him for Hollywood history."

"We" included costar Casper Van Dien, other cast members and "crew members who would sidle by amid their duties to hear the Oscar-winning nonagenarian.

Some of the younger people in the cast didn't know Gary Cooper, Lee Marvin, Joan Crawford and all these movies film enthusiasts know as classics. They were getting a real kick out of hearing Ernie talk. They loved him."

Borgnine plays a codger who doesn't want to be moved off his land by the tough guys involved with the railroad in the gritty tale. "It got more violent as we shot it," admits Boxleitner. For the former "Babylon 5" hero, "Aces 'N Eights" represented "the kind of character I rarely get to play — a seedy, drunk, down-on-his-luck gunfighter."

BACK ON HIS GAME: Hosea Chanchez may get some peace of mind being on the CW's high rated comedy, "The Game," but as he and his cast members are going back to work this week after the writers' strike, he says there's a new sense of appreciation for their jobs. "Relieved is an understatement," says Chanchez about returning to work after a 22-week break. "You take things for granted everyday, and I'm a pretty grateful person, but you realize that tomorrow is not promised to you in any shape, form or fashion in this business. You can be a hit today and a flop tomorrow. None of those things are determined by star quality. It's all up to the universe as far as what happens. No matter how much you think you can control it, you can't. It was a great revelation as far as I'm concerned."

Though it's yet to be announced when "The Game" will be back on the air, Chanchez is happy to report they have 10 new episodes to work on. "It's a new, exciting rollercoaster. That's what I was told," he says of what to expect. He's just happy they'll get the chance to continue the storyline, which he feels is unique to television. "I think it's a different take on the lives of football players as seen through the eyes of their wives. Those guys, their hearts come from their women. The essence of who they are comes from the people who are behind the scenes with them. They're nothing without their support system, both on and off the field."

"REAL" TO "REAL": Jill Zarin of Bravo's "The Real Housewives of New York City" reveals that she has corresponded with some of her West Coast counterparts — as in the Bravo hit "Real Housewives of Orange County." "I congratulated them, and I got an e-mail from one of the ladies wishing us luck on the new show. I think they're very brave. I think they're funny. I think they're real," she extols. "I feel the pain of the mothers sometimes dealing with their children. The show is a guilty pleasure."

With reports by Stephanie DuBois and Emily Feimster.

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