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Charlie Shanian, Tori Spelling first husband is trending following the confirmation of her split from Dean McDermott.

Tori Spelling married her first husband, Charlie Shanian in 2004, but then cheated on him just a year later with Dean McDermott after they met on-set.

They divorced in 2006 and Spelling would go on to build a family with McDermott. Tori Spelling would welcome five kids with Dean McDermott before their 2023 split.

Following news of their divorce, interest has spiked in Charlie Shanian. This article answers the question – who is Charlie Shanian -Tori Spelling first husband?

Charlie Shanian Wiki & Biography

Charlie Shanian is an American actor and writer, primarily known as the first husband of actress Tori Spelling.

Charlie Shahian was born with the birth name Charles George Shahnaian in Peabody, Massachusets in the United States of America in 1968 to his father, Mr Toros Shahnaian and his mother, Barbara. There are no details available online on Charlie Shahian’s day and month of birth. Shanian is of Armenian ancestry.

Tori Spelling’s first husband is currently believed to be 55 years old in 2023.

Charlie Shanan had his early life and education in Massachussets, his state of birth. He attended Peabody Veterans Memorial High School where he developed a passion for the performing arts. Shahian’s pure talent and drive convinced him to pursue a career as an actor and a writer.

After his education, Shahian started a career in the performing arts, writing and performing screenplays, which is how he met Tori Spelling.

Charlie Shanian met Tori Spelling in Los Angeles in 2002 when they both starred in a rom-com co-written by Shanian titled ‘Maybe Baby, It’s You,” – which is about couples in search of love.

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After a whirlwind romance, Charle Shanian married Tori Spelling on July 3rd 2004 in a lavish ceremony held at Spelling’s parent’s home in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California.

At the time Tori Spelling married Charlie Shanian, she had found fame as Donna on Beverly Hills 90210, the hit television series run by her father, the famous television producer Aaron Spelling.

From the start, the couple seemed ill-fitting. 35-year-old Shanian came from a modest background whilst Spelling was practically Hollywood royalty.

Charlie Shanian later said that contributed to their doom as Tori lived a luxurious lifestyle including partying in Monte Carlo nightclubs whilst he was more laid back due to his background.

Trouble started soon after when Tori cheated on her husband with then co-star, Dean McDermott as they were shooting Lifetime’s Mind Over Murder in 2005 – just a year after Charlie Shanian and Spelling’s wedding!!!

“It was love at first sight. I fell so hard … Then I noticed he had a wedding ring,” Spelling wrote in her 2009 memoir, sTORI Telling, about meeting McDermott.

“When someone asked, he pulled out photos of his children. And — oh, yeah — I had a husband too. It was fun to flirt, but I knew nothing would happen … But: Dean and I went to a bar after dinner. And we spent the night at the Cartier Place. The following day when I woke up next to Dean, I had no regrets.

“Something was really wrong with my marriage. Not only because I slept with this guy — though that certainly wasn’t a positive sign — but because I didn’t regret it.”

Just 15 months after their wedding, Charlie Shanian filed for divorce from Spelling and requested spousal support.

After Shanian filed for divorce, Spelling shared that she was “disappointed” by the breakup and stated,

“I went into the marriage with the best intentions, hopes and dreams. I feel that I’ve really disappointed people. I’ve disappointed everyone who came to my wedding. I’m disappointed in myself.”

Charlie Shanian expressed lots of bitterness about the divorce, but later was able to move on. Tori Spelling’s first husband Charlie Shanian is now remarried and happily living with his second wife Elena.

Charlie and Elena Shanian have two kids.

charlie shanian and wife elena — Charlie and Elena Shanian

Tori Spelling married Dean McDermott after her divorce from Charlie Shanian was finalised on April 20th 2016. Tori Spelling welcomed five kids with Dean McDermott before they also divorced in 2023.

For his career, Tori Spelling’s first husband Charlie Shanian is known for Color My World with Love (2022), The Swap (2016) and Bullet (2014), according to IMDB.

He was famously a member of Gotham City Improv in New York for many years and performed with them off- and off-off-Broadway.

Charlie Shanian’s short Le Chase – which he wrote and co-directed – won the Best Sound award at the ReelHeART International Film Festival in 2006.

Did Charlie Shanian Remarry?

Following his divorce from Tori Spelling, many people wonder – did Charlie Shanian remarry?

The answer is yes. Tori Spelling’s first husband, Charlie Shanian, remarried following their bitterly traumatic divorce.

Who did Charlie Shanian remarry? Charlie Shanian married Elena Shanian with whom he’s currently happily married.

The couple have two kids.

Together, they are building a life filled with love, companionship and mutual respect.

There are few details about Charlie Shanian’s second wife Elena Shanian online. The only thing we can say with certainty is that they are happily married and enjoying life with their two kids.

Divorce with Tori Spelling might have been painful but things seemed to have worked out pretty well for Charlie Shanian!

As for Tori, after breaking Charlie Shanian’s heart in the most brutal way possible, she attempted a reconciliation years later for her reality show, ‘True Tori’.

She revealed on True Tori that she hadn’t seen Charlie since dumping him unceremoniously during a meeting in her therapist’s office in which she announced that she was leaving him for McDermott.

Whilst their meeting wasn’t filmed for her show, Tori Spelling was seen crying as she left her reunion with Charlie Shanian.

“He told me how he felt. It made me feel sad that he had to come to grips with what I said. …He’s a good man,” she said at the time.

Spelling later shared with McDermott the emotions she felt after leaving her meeting with her ex-husband.

“It felt like family, safe, nurtured by, and then it felt like a loss. I remember how safe I felt with him. When I left I just suddenly felt really alone and I don’t know why,” she cried.

Charlie Shanian did remarry and Tori Spelling had a long marriage with her cheating partner, Dean McDermott.

However, all bad things must come to an end and in 2023, Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott split after he cheated on her – the same way she cheated on Charlie Shanian previously.

Charlie Shanian Instagram

Charlie Shanian is on Instagram @cshahnaian. A very private man these days, Shanian has set his account to private.

Net worth

Charlie Shanian is an American actor, writer, and producer with a 2023 net worth of $1.9m.

Shanian, the first husband of American actress and reality TV star Tori Spelling, is best known for his role as Deputy Mike Moran in the TV series 10-8: Officers on Duty.

Charlie Shanian’s net worth is calculated from his career earnings as an actor, writer, and producer.

According to IMDB, Charlie Shanian has appeared in three tv shows and one short as an actor – Charmed in 2002, 10-8: Officer on Duty in 2003/2004, Le Chase (a short he wrote and directed) in 2006 and Tyranny in 2010.

The award-winning French farce, ‘Le Chase’ was directed by Scott Teems and Charlie Shanian with Tori Spelling as executive producer of the film.

As a writer/director, his credits include the aforementioned Le Chase, So Notorious (2006), No Complaints (2009), Bullets (2014), The Redemption of Henry Myers (2014), The Swap (2016) and Color My World with Love (2022).

As we already noted, Charlie Shanian earlier in his career wrote a rom-com play titled Maybe Baby, It’s You. It was co-written by Shanian and Shari Simpson.

It’s synopsis reads: “Maybe Baby, It’s You is a comedy about the search for that most elusive of entities, the soul mate, and told in a series of 11 vignettes that cover ground from the first kiss to the not-so-golden years of marriage.

“We take a raucous ride through male-female relationships with two searchers with a laundry list of must-have qualities for a mate that swiftly dwindles down to “warm and breathing” as the only prerequisite,”

Tori Spelling

Tori Spelling and Charlie Shanian had a whirlwind romance after meeting while performing in Shanian’s play, “Maybe, Baby It’s You.”

They got married in 2004, Spelling cheated with co-star Dean McDermott in 2005 and by 2006 they were divorced!

Two years after his divorce from Tori Spelling, Charlie Shanian penned a lengthy essay for GQ that described how their marriage ended.

Recounting what it is to be “a modern-day cuckold” – a married man whose wife strays – for the April issue of GQ, the writer-actor said that at the time his marriage dissolved in 2005 he didn’t exactly know what had gone wrong – it wasn’t until he picked up a copy of PEOPLE in which Spelling had divulged her side of the story that he discovered what had gone wrong.

“She picked a fight with me at a party, told me she needed ‘time and space,’ and was gone before I could comprehend what had happened.” he recalled in the GQ article.

After her disappearing act, Charlie Shanian said Tori Spelling e-mailed him to request they meet at her therapist’s office, where the therapist: told him “(Tori) was not happy when she was alone with me; she didn’t want to have children with me; she’d only married me because I loved her and took care of her; she had purposefully shown me only 10 percent of her true personality; and, oh yeah, while in Canada, she’d cheated on me with her latest Lifetime-movie costar.”

After this devastating reveal from her therapist, Spelling brutally added, “I hate it when you sing in the car.”

Shanian said he wept after discovering all this and also finding out his then-wife was already living with Dean McDermott!

Tori Spelling & Dean McDermott in the 2000s — Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott in the 2000s

“The article read like scenes ripped from one of her Movies of the Week – the lovelorn wife trapped in an unhappy marriage, forced to run into the waiting arms of her also-married lover in order to find true happiness,” he says. Most painful of all, he says, Spelling declared, “She was never in love with me.”

Tori Spelling would enjoy a long marriage with Dean McDermott of about close to two decades. However, after Dean admitted cheating on Tori in 2013, the couple tried to hang in there but eventually split in 2023.

Tori Spelling had five kids for Dean McDermott before their split.