{alltv} McDermott to show off culinary skills?

LOS ANGELES -- Smells like the Hollywood reality franchise couple of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott are ready to launch yet another new show -- or at least some kind of product or endorsement campaign involving food.

Just as they finished promoting the heck out of a new home decor store called IvenTORI and its website and promoting the heck out of their new spin-off reality show about weddings, they're suddenly going on about how great a cook the Toronto-born McDermott, 44, is.

"Dean will make a big traditional English breakfast for our guests of fried eggs, sausage, bacon, fried bread, black pudding and baked beans. And, of course, some strong English breakfast tea to start," Spelling chirped about her plans for a royal wedding viewing party that took place last Friday, April 29, at their home here.

Spelling, 37, gave the interview about her royal wedding plans as part of a promotion for the couple's new reality series that premiered April 6 on Oxygen called Tori & Dean: sTORIbook Weddings. That series is a spin-off of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.

There are few coincidences with the ultimate public-relations-savvy Spelling, daughter of one of the most powerful and savvy men this town has ever seen, Aaron Spelling. While a genuinely wonderful and gentle person, Spelling simply rarely gives interviews unless she is promoting one of her many products or lines.

So, when McDermott started adding photos and recipes of his homemade dishes to his Twitter account just two days after the royal wedding, well, you have to wonder if fans are getting buttered up for something.

"Made lamb ravioli last night," McDermott tweeted May 1 and uploaded a photo of the creation. His next few tweets were about garlic, pasta -- and studying for an exam at a private, very expensive cooking school in Los Angeles.

Fans, apparently, hadn't realized McDermott had such a flare in the kitchen and when one complimented him on it on Twitter last month, he said, "Yes, it's something I love and hope to open a restaurant one day."

Was this McDermott just being proud of his domestic skills? Or was it the Spelling/McDermott duo planting the seed of a new venture?

McDermott did not respond to inquiries about his long-term culinary plans.

Meanwhile, actress/chef Mary Jo Eustace, the wife McDermott left in 2005 to marry Spelling after he met the Beverly Hills, 90210 star on a Canadian movie set, came out with a new cookbook last month.

Eustace, who wrote the controversial Divorce Sucks about being left by McDermott after 12 years of marriage, just penned Cooking for Your Cub, which is apparently about how older women can create home-made dishes for their younger dates while still being "saucy."