How a 'crush' on Loni Anderson helped a gay boy navigate his teenage years
Opinion: Anderson's passing brought me back to a time that was both simpler and painful, and her beauty, inside and out, has never left me, writes John Casey.
August 4, 2025
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Opinion: Anderson's passing brought me back to a time that was both simpler and painful, and her beauty, inside and out, has never left me, writes John Casey.
Tori Spelling's had quite a morning. Before chatting with us about her VH1 series, so noTORIous, based on her real life, the former 90210-er shot a scene opposite Charo. "We got her to play the guitar and go 'Coochie-coochie-coo,' " boasts the eternally game actress. Sounds like our kind of show. "Just wait," Spelling promises. "There's also a scene of me at an all-black church singing with the choir." Tori Hallelujah!
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