Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott Celebrate Their Youngest Son Beau on His 8th Birthday: 'My Greatest Teacher'

Mar. 15, 2025

Tori Spelling and her son Beau (left); Dean McDermott and his son Beau (right).Photo:torispelling/Instagram;imdeanmcdermott/Instagram

torispelling/Instagram;imdeanmcdermott/Instagram

Tori SpellingandDean McDermottare celebrating their youngest on his special day.

TheScary Movie 2alum, 51, and theMy Fake Boyfriendstar, 58, both shared special tributes to their personal Instagram pages to celebrate their son Beau turning 8 years old. InSpelling’s post, she shared several photos of Beau, ranging from when he was a newborn to now. While most of the pictures are solo shots, she included three selfies of the two of them hanging out together.

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Spelling also shared black-and-white photos of her son as a newborn via Instagram Stories, with the caption, “My greatest teacher entered this world 8 years ago …”

McDermott also shareda cute snap of him and the 8-year-oldon his Instagram to celebrate this new year of life. In the photo, the two of them posed together for a selfie in an arcade.

“My Dude is 8 years old today!!! I can’t believe it,” the proud dad captioned the photo. “They grow up so fast!! I love you Buddy!!#happybirthday🎂.”

After nearly two decades together, McDermottannounced his split from Spellingin a now-deleted post on Instagram in June 2023, with Spelling officiallyfiling for divorcein March 2024. The pair welcomed five children together during their relationship:Beau, Finn, 12, Hattie, 13, Stella, 16, and Liam, 17.

“It’s with great sadness and a very very heavy heart that after 18 years together and 5 amazing children, that @torispelling and I have decided to go our separate ways and start a new journey of our own,” he wrote. “We will continue to work together as loving parents and guide and love our children through this difficult time.”

On last week’s episode of themisSPELLINGpodcast, the90210alumcleared up why she recently posted a photo on her Instagram Stories of her son Beaumassaging his mom’s legsas she lay nude on a table with a blanket covering her lower half. The podcaster said when the photo started to get traction online, she was talking to one of her mom friends, who affirmed that she also thought the post was totally normal.

“I think it’s interesting though, that, I don’t know, on social media, why is it like comedians can post anything?” Spelling asked listeners. “Comedians that have families, kids, they can post anything and people are like, ‘They are kidding. That’s funny.'”

“But if an actor posts something like, oh my god. That must be true. She’s a horrible mom,” she went on. “And then I had another friend that was like, ‘Well, good news is you’re relevant. You’re in the press.'”

However, Spelling said she has such “mom guilt” already, she doesn’t want to have to hear it or see it on the Internet, too. “I don’t need people shaming me, thinking I’m forcing my kids to massage me,” she added.

source: people.com