Slow news week in celeb-land! Us has thrown Tori Spelling on this week's cover, presumably because they paid good money for the photos of her newborn son Liam. (No word on how good, except that one insider sniffs, "I'd be VERY surprised if they went for more than six figures.") What on earth are they thinking? Besides, you know, trying to sell magazines. Which, quite frankly, didn't seem like what one would do if one wanted to sell magazines! But we are, maybe, wrong, as it turns out.

Us Weekly is probs banking on the fact that people are still interested in Tori even though she's made up with her mother, Candy, who was mad at her for a whole bunch of reasons. (Quick recap: Tori mocked her in her sitcom noTORIous, then insinuated that her mom had been having an affair while her dad was dying; meanwhile, Tori was almost completely left out of her father's will, and Candy seemed to be gloating about it.) We turned to a celebrity world insider to explain:

Before Aaron Spelling died, no really did care about Tori, except as a D-list actress who would embarrass herself on self-referential reality shows. But once her dad died, and it turned out that Daddy's little rich girl got stiffed — less than a mil from a $500 million fortune — everyone loved it. Then, the Tori-Candy war just took everything to another level entirely — a classic bitchfight over millions and millions between mom and daughter that was straight out of an Aaron Spelling show. Who doesn't like to see a little rich girl wronged?

Well, that explains that. But the question now, of course, is whether Tori will be able to sustain the same newsstand magic she was able to while she was fighting with her mom. Call us crazy, but we're going to go with no. We're assuming there was a clause in the photo sale that said Tori had to be on the cover, because if it were up to us, we totally would've gone with Reese and Jake's burgeoning romance. But, you know, that's just Us.