Dean McDermott

McDermott was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to David and Doreen McDermott.[1] He has three sisters, Dale, Dawn, and Dana. He graduated from North Albion Collegiate Institute in Rexdale, Ontario.[2]

McDermott has performed in films Open Range,[3] Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy[4] and Against the Ropes.[5]

McDermott has appeared in several TV movies including Always and Forever,[6] Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe[7] and A Christmas Visitor.[8]

McDermott has had a variety of guest and recurring roles on television series, such as Earth: Final Conflict,[9] Tracker,[10] 1-800-Missing,[11] NCIS[12] and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.[13] 2016 saw McDermott take on a starring role, portraying Iain Vaughn on Slasher.[14][15]

McDermott's first wife is actress Mary Jo Eustace.[1] They have one child, son Jack Montgomery (born October 10, 1998).[21] In July 2005, McDermott began filming the Lifetime TV movie Mind Over Murder in Ottawa, during which he met actress Tori Spelling, who was then married to writer-actor Charlie Shanian. Spelling and McDermott began an affair the night they met.[22] Upon his subsequent divorce from Eustace, McDermott was granted joint custody of their son Jack, opting not to move forward with the adoption of a baby girl, Lola (born July 7, 2004), whom he and Eustace were in the process of adopting prior to their separation. However, according to recent Instagram posts, Tori Spelling refers to Lola Eustace as her “step daughter” and Lola refers to Dean McDermott as her “dad”.[23]

McDermott married Tori Spelling on May 7, 2006, in Fiji.[24] Spelling and McDermott renewed their vows on May 8, 2010, in Beverly Hills.[25] Spelling and McDermott have five children: three sons, Liam Aaron (born March 13, 2007),[26] Finn Davey (born August 30, 2012)[27] and Beau Dean (born March 2, 2017)[28] and two daughters, Stella Doreen (born June 9, 2008)[29] and Hattie Margaret (born October 10, 2011).[30][31][32]

On July 1, 2010, McDermott was involved in a dirt bike accident, his second motorcycle accident of the year. He was hospitalized in Los Angeles with a punctured and collapsed lung, and doctors said they expected him to make a full recovery.[33] McDermott was released from the hospital on July 6, 2010.[34]

McDermott became an American citizen at a ceremony in Los Angeles on August 21, 2010.

In December 2013, after welcoming their second son, Us Weekly broke the news that McDermott was unfaithful to Spelling. The couple worked through the aftermath of the affair on a Lifetime series titled True Tori.[35]

On January 23, 2014, a month after the news broke, McDermott's publicist announced McDermott had entered rehab for "some health and personal issues."[36]

While McDermott and Spelling's marriage was back on track, the couple once again made headlines in 2016 for owing $39,000 to American Express in unpaid credit card bills. McDermott's mother-in-law Candy, who was also on good terms with her daughter, told TMZ at the time that she was helping out the family financially.[37]

In June 2023, McDermott announced that he and Spelling decided to separate after 18 years together in a now-deleted Instagram post.[38] In October of that same year, it was reported that McDermott is currently living with four roommates in a five-bedroom rental home in the San Fernando Valley and was seen holding hands with a woman named Lily Calo, who is a Senior Account Executive at Conscious Community Global.[39]

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