Is the rest really still unwritten? Reality TV cameras haven’t been following Lauren Conrad for more than a decade, but that doesn’t stop fans from wondering about her status with her former Laguna Beach and The Hills costars.
“I stopped filming and then I just kind of needed a clean break for a minute to kind of emotionally recover. I took some time off and then obviously moved out of L.A,” Conrad told former castmate Whitney Port on her “With Whit” podcast in 2020. “It was one of those things where I was like, ‘OK, well, this isn’t like a healthy space for me anymore.’ I need to kind of, like, live my own life and do this. I kind of, like, removed myself from that whole scene. Really.”
The fashion guru was a staple on MTV for years after Laguna Beach, which also starred Stephen Colletti, Kristin Cavallari, Lo Bosworth and more, premiered in 2004. Following two seasons of the high school series, Conrad landed a spinoff titled The Hills, which she appeared on for five and a half seasons from 2006 to 2009. The show, which also starred Heidi Montag, Audrina Patridge and Port, ended in 2010 after Cavallari took over for Conrad for the final episodes.
Conrad told Port that she is closer with her former Laguna Beach costars — a.k.a. her real-life high school classmates — than those on The Hills.
“So Dieter [Schmitz] I talk to all the time. I don’t see anybody anymore but when we did, I see Stephen,” she told Port in 2020, citing the coronavirus pandemic as one of the reasons for the distance. “During holidays and stuff, I’ll usually see Christina Schuller or Morgan [Smith].”
Conrad confirmed that she and husband William Tell, with whom she shares sons Liam and Charlie, relocated to Laguna Beach.
“I live in my hometown. It’s more seeing people that I grew up with, who I also filmed a show with,” she said.
When MTV rebooted The Hills in 2019, Montag, Patridge, Port and more signed on, but Conrad had no interest.
“I honestly haven’t seen it,” she confessed to Entertainment Tonight in 2021.”I think it’s great. I’m glad that they were able to do it again. … I actually don’t really watch any reality television. It’s a little triggering for me.”
Scroll through for a breakdown of Conrad’s status with her former castmates:
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Inside Lauren Conrad’s Friendships With ‘Laguna Beach’ and ’The Hills’ Costars: Lo Bosworth, Stephen Colletti and More
Is the rest really still unwritten? Reality TV cameras haven’t been following Lauren Conrad for more than a decade, but that doesn’t stop fans from wondering about her status with her former Laguna Beach and The Hills costars.“I stopped filming and then I just kind of needed a clean break for a minute to kind of emotionally recover. I took some time off and then obviously moved out of L.A,” Conrad told former castmate Whitney Port on her “With Whit” podcast in 2020. “It was one of those things where I was like, ‘OK, well, this isn’t like a healthy space for me anymore.’ I need to kind of, like, live my own life and do this. I kind of, like, removed myself from that whole scene. Really.”The fashion guru was a staple on MTV for years after Laguna Beach, which also starred Stephen Colletti, Kristin Cavallari, Lo Bosworth and more, premiered in 2004. Following two seasons of the high school series, Conrad landed a spinoff titled The Hills, which she appeared on for five and a half seasons from 2006 to 2009. The show, which also starred Heidi Montag, Audrina Patridge and Port, ended in 2010 after Cavallari took over for Conrad for the final episodes.Conrad told Port that she is closer with her former Laguna Beach costars — a.k.a. her real-life high school classmates — than those on The Hills.[jwplayer KhwRaRvQ-zhNYySv2]“So Dieter [Schmitz] I talk to all the time. I don’t see anybody anymore but when we did, I see Stephen,” she told Port in 2020, citing the coronavirus pandemic as one of the reasons for the distance. “During holidays and stuff, I’ll usually see Christina Schuller or Morgan [Smith].”Conrad confirmed that she and husband William Tell, with whom she shares sons Liam and Charlie, relocated to Laguna Beach.“I live in my hometown. It’s more seeing people that I grew up with, who I also filmed a show with,” she said.When MTV rebooted The Hills in 2019, Montag, Patridge, Port and more signed on, but Conrad had no interest."I honestly haven't seen it," she confessed to Entertainment Tonight in 2021."I think it's great. I'm glad that they were able to do it again. … I actually don't really watch any reality television. It’s a little triggering for me.”Scroll through for a breakdown of Conrad’s status with her former castmates:
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Talan Torriero
“Lauren‚ or LC if you will — she and I have always been Instagram besties. We're always sharing parent tips or commenting on each other's photos,” Talan told Us in November 2022. “[But] we're married, we're older, you know, it's just, like, we don't have time to even see each other.”
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Alex Murrel
“[A lot of us] moved to L.A. right after the show ended and when we graduated. And so I'm sure shortly thereafter, like, when she did The Hills and things like that I had hung out with Jen and Heidi, Lauren a little bit. But I haven't really spoken to her in a very long time,” the Laguna Beach season 2 star told Us in November 2022. “It's been years and years and years.”
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Lauren Olsen
“Probably way back, like, 2006!” Olsen, who went by Alex Hooser when she was on season 2 of Laguna Beach, told Us in November 2022. “She was more of a friend that was in the group that we partied with and ran with. We weren't ever really direct friends. But after the show, I think it was in between when Laguna ended and when she was doing The Hills, I would see her out in Los Angeles because I moved down there for a bit.”
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Jason Wahler
“It’s been a few years now. I haven't spoken to her in a while,” Conrad’s ex, who appeared on Laguna Beach, The Hills and The Hills: New Beginnings over the years, told Us in November 2022. “But it seems like she's doing good and her family and everybody's is doing really well.”
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Heidi and Spencer
The couple never mended fences with Conrad after Montag and her former roommate had a falling out over Pratt.
“Lauren and I have not spoken,” Montag told Us in June 2022. “Now that we’re both mothers, I think we see how unimportant so much of the drama is. Also it really makes you have a tighter group of friends, and you don’t really have time to chit-chat or have long-term acquaintances. We are just on such different paths at this point. I would hope there is more mutual respect.”
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Lo Bosworth
“I’ve lived on the east coast for more than 10 years so we don’t chat super frequently but definitely still friends ❤️,” Bosworth wrote in June 2022 via TikTok.
That November, however, Conrad revealed during her “Back to the Beach” podcast appearance that she hasn’t spoken to Bosworth “in a minute,” adding: “She’s in New York. … She’s doing well.”
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Audrina Patridge
Patridge revealed in 2016 that she didn’t stay in touch with Conrad. “I’ve talked to Kristin, I’ve talked to Heidi and every now and then I see Brody. I haven’t talked to Lauren since the finale,” she said. Three years later, Patridge echoed her remarks, telling Entertainment Tonight that she hasn’t spoken to Conrad since 2010.
In her 2022 memoir, Patridge accused Conrad of being “controlling” in friendships and alleged their mutual agent would give her costar deals that the Choices author was offered first. “I blamed my agents for this, but it still wasn’t great for my friendship with Lauren,” she wrote.
Patridge also revealed that the pair crossed paths shortly before the July 2022 book release: “Recently I took Kirra to see Disney on Ice and ran into Lauren and her sweet son. We said hello and chatted for a minute before moving on.”
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Whitney Port
The two women reconnected for Port’s podcast in 2020, but the City alum revealed one prior she hadn’t previously kept in touch with Conrad.
"I didn't talk to her, but I feel like I talked to someone that knows her and I think she was still really excited for us all to do it. And she's in such a different place in her life, you know?" Port told ET in 2019 about Conrad’s potential reaction to The Hills: New Beginnings.
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Brody Jenner
“I haven’t talked to Lauren for quite some time. It’s been, I don’t know, years,” Jenner told ET in 2019.
When asked about Conrad and Cavallari by Hollywood Life that same year, he made it clear there was no bad blood. “I love both of those girls,” he said. “It would’ve been nice to have them [on season 1 of The Hills: New Beginnings].”
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Stephen Colletti
The exes keep in touch.
“Conrad and I, we’re usually down there around the 4th of July and she’ll host people. She does a great job hosting, shocker!” the One Tree Hill alum told Us in 2018.
After launching “Back to the Beach” — a Laguna Beach rewatch podcast — with Cavallari in 2022, Conrad joined for an episode that November, revealing that she and Colletti text often.
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Kristin Cavallari
Conrad and Cavallari were never friends, but the Uncommon James designer said via the “On The List with Brett Gursky” podcast that the virtual reunion with the cast of Laguna Beach in 2020 wasn’t awkward between the two former rivals.
"So much time has passed and what we went through was so silly and it was so high school that I'm pretty sure we're both over it at this point," Cavallari said in October 2020.
The two women apologized to each other for past name-calling and made it clear there was no bad blood when Conrad joined Cavallari and Colletti’s “Back to the Beach” podcast in November 2022.
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Stephanie Pratt
Spencer’s sister is one of the few former Hills costars that Conrad keeps up with via Instagram.
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Christina Schuller
During a September 2020 interview on “Dear Whit,” the designer named Schuller as someone she sees “during the holidays and stuff.”
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Morgan Smith
Conrad also told Port that she runs into Smith during the holidays.
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Dieter Schmitz, Trey Philipps and Loren Polster
Conrad and Colletti reunited with several of their former classmates in July 2021. “Sure do love these peoples,” Schmitz captioned the group shot from Laguna Beach at the time.
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Frankie Delgado
"Lauren's a really close friend of Jennifer's," Delgado told ET in 2019, referring to his wife. "She's a sweetheart. I think she wants what's best for us. I think she's that kind of person. She wishes me the best."
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FAQs
Even though the former best friends don't appear to be as close as they once were on Laguna Beach or The Hills, there doesn't seem to be any bad blood between them (at least none that they're electing to talk about publicly, which is their right).
Does Lauren still talk to Stephen? ›
The couple never mended fences with Conrad after Montag and her former roommate had a falling out over Pratt. “Lauren and I have not spoken,” Montag told Us in June 2022.
Are Lo and Kristen friends? ›
Lauren Conrad, 36, and Kristin Cavallari, 35, say there's no bad blood between them — and there hardly ever was. Conrad reunited with Cavallari and co-star Stephen Colletti, 36, on the most recent episode of the pair's “Laguna Beach” rewatch podcast, “Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen.”
Did Lauren and Stephen ever hook up? ›
And Stephen was broken up with Kristin when he hooked up with Lauren, who explained, "I don't think I realized you guys were boyfriend and girlfriend. I didn't know you guys had a whole relationship. So then we started hanging out again." But Lauren and Stephen never dated—at least not during high school.
Was Lo in Lauren's wedding? ›
Because Lo Bosworth is still besties with LC, did indeed go to her wedding, and can now be relied on to give us all the gossip from the super Pinteresty nuptials. Speaking to The Huffington Post, Lo revealed that she can't actually remember all that much from Lauren's wedding to William Tell.
Did lo not like Audrina? ›
Lauren "Lo" Bosworth also told Us Weekly in 2016, "Audrina wasn't friends with us in real life, ever. She just never had much interest in forming a genuine relationship ... But I would not say that there was ever a real-life feud or animosity."
Why don t Lauren and Kristen get along? ›
The hookup between LC and Stephen happened before MTV started filming, so any residue beef between LC and Kristin over the prior hookup had been dealt with by the time the cameras were rolling. "We got into it and then made up," LC added "I mean, I don't think we were best friends.
Did Talan and LC hook up? ›
Talan, who starred in the first two seasons and recently found himself entering the nostalgic chat when Lauren and Kristin revealed that they had both hooked up with him during their infamous love triangle saga with Stephen.
Are any of the Laguna Beach cast still friends? ›
The final episode of Laguna Beach: The Real O.C. aired fifteen years ago, but that doesn't mean the cast has drifted apart. “They're all my best friends still,” Alex Murrel exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, November 1, about her former costars and classmates.
Are Audrina Patridge and Lauren Conrad friends? ›
Lauren and I were never really friends again.” Patridge says she and Conrad have not been in touch since the latter left “The Hills” halfway through Season 5 after three years of leading the unscripted hit.
"Yeah, I think it was done when they started filming," LC agrees. "It was like a week before they started filming. We got into it and then made up... And it was fine."
How long were Lo and Scott together? ›
After nearly two years of dating, Lo and Scott called it quits in December 2010.
Are Lauren Conrad and Whitney friends? ›
But in the end, it's great these two are still friends. I only wish they had recorded this pod from the Teen Vogue closet, just like the old days. Listen to part one of Whitney Port's conversation with Lauren Conrad here.
Did Lauren Conrad really date Jason? ›
Jason Wahler
The Hills: New Beginnings star dated Conrad for one year from 2005 to 2006. The pair split between seasons 1 and 2 of The Hills, following the summer that the designer chose to skip her Teen Vogue internship in Paris and stay in Los Angeles with Wahler. The exes remain friends.
How long did Lauren and Brody date? ›
Lauren Conrad and Brody Jenner Never Dated!
It seemed like there were real sparks between Lauren and Brody when he joined the show in season two, but those were actually just friendly vibes. As Lauren told Us Weekly, "We were always more friends than anything.
Did Heidi go to Lauren's wedding? ›
So, it made us a bit sad (probably too sad, but please don't judge us) that Lauren went and got married to William Tell last weekend and Heidi wasn't stood at her side as maid of honour. In fact, Heidi wasn't even THERE. It's a modern day tragedy.
Did Audrina go to Lauren's wedding? ›
Lauren Conrad, Brody Jenner, Audrina Patridge Attend The Wedding - (Video Clip) | MTV.
Who from The Hills went to Lauren's wedding? ›
Lauren Conrad: Married William Tell in September 2014. The Location: Santa Ynez, Calif. The Guests: Not only did Conrad have nine bridesmaids—including Lo Bosworth and her sister, Breanna Conrad—but her guest list also included former co-stars Stephen Coletti and Frankie Delgado.
Did Audrina sleep with Brodie? ›
“I would say that the hardest part of it was having to live that fake reality and not being able to say, 'I didn't screw every girl on the show,'” the host of Sex With Brody said. “I didn't have sex with Jen Bunney. I didn't hook up with Audrina [Patridge]. I didn't hook up with any of these girls.
Did Audrina really sleep with Brody? ›
Audrina tells Whitney that the two of them made out, but nothing more happened. Brody has talked about the kiss to his friends on the show and in the media. In an interview with Us Weekly, the MTV personality shared, "Audrina is a great kisser.
Audrina has most likely had Botox to her forehead and glabella (in between the eyebrows) as you can see she has a smooth forehead, lifted eyebrow arches and a limited frown/expression.
Did Lauren and Brody ever hook up? ›
In 2014, Brody confirmed that he and Lauren "had to pretend like we were dating, but we never dated" during their time on The Hills. While appearing on MTV's The Hills: That Was Then, This Is Now special two years later, Lauren admitted that she did have "a crush" on Brody, though they had "zero chemistry."
Are Stacie and Kristen really friends The Hills? ›
How Did Kristin & Stacie Become Close Friends? Stacie Hall, aka Stacie the bartender, was initially featured as a "friend" of Spencer's that Heidi didn't want him hanging out with. Then, she showed up again as Kristin's BFF.
Why did they cancel Laguna Beach? ›
Ultimately, MTV canceled Laguna Beach after Season 3 wrapped. According to The Los Angeles Times, the network wanted to pivot out of creating shows targeted at high schoolers. Following Laguna's cancellation, most of its stars went on to college and now live away from the camera.
Did Kristen and Talan date? ›
Throughout her time on Laguna Beach, Cavallari got involved with two more reality personalities: Talan Torriero and Matt Leinart, who would later go on to play in the NFL.
Who is Talon from Laguna Beach married to? ›
Talan has gone on to marry Danielle Torriero, and the couple shares two kids. Lauren is married to William Tell and they share two sons. Stephen confirmed his relationship with TV personality Alex Weaver, while Kristin split from her ex Jay Cutler in 2020. They share three kids.
Did the cast of Laguna Beach drink alcohol? ›
What's in the red cups? The entire cast was obviously under the legal drinking age at the time and some, like Kristin and Talan Torriero, weren't even 18 yet. So at parties and bonfires, the stars were always seen with red plastic cups, but their contents were unknown. "We never showed them drinking.
What does Jessica from Laguna Beach do for a living? ›
Now, she's Jessica Evans.
She has her own Amazon shop, but she has mainly stayed out of the spotlight since completing her time on the show.
What celebrities went to Laguna Beach High School? ›
It made Laguna alumni Lo Bosworth, Kristin Cavallari, Stephen Colletti, and Lauren Conrad into celebrities.
Why does Lauren Conrad's voice sound different? ›
“I destroyed my voice when I moved to L.A. There are polyps all over my vocal chords (sic) because I was in a lot of loud places,” stated Conrad in an interview with Marie Claire magazine. From her description, it appears Lauren has fragile vocal cords that are prone to injury.
'It's what led to me moving out of the pool house out back when I lived with her and Lo [Bosworth]. ' Fans will remember the tension brewing between the trio, which led to Audrina leaving their home in season four.
Why did Audrina get divorced? ›
However, Patridge filed to divorce Bohan — citing irreconcilable differences, due to an alleged violent outburst — in September 2017 after less than a year of marriage. Bohan denied Patridge's claims of abuse. She was granted full legal custody of their daughter. The pair finalized their divorce in December 2018.
Are Lauren and Heidi still friends? ›
“Lauren and I have not spoken,” the “Superficial” singer exclusively told Us. “Now that we're both mothers, I think we see how unimportant so much of the drama is. Also it really makes you have a tighter group of friends, and you don't really have time to chit-chat or have long-term acquaintances.
Did Kristin date Brody? ›
"I dated Brody when I was 18, right after Laguna Beach, actually, and that's it," she spilled on Bethenny in 2012. " And then on the show, on The Hills, they had us 'dating' for a few episodes." The pair dated on and off for almost a year before calling it quits in 2006.
What is Lauren Conrad doing now? ›
Lauren Conrad is now a mom and an author.
Lauren has her own clothing collection with Kohl's and has published both nonfiction and fiction books, like "LA Candy" and "The Fame Game."
Are Kristin and Brody still friends? ›
"We're still good friends though." A lot has changed in the romance department for both Kristin and Brody.
Did Audrina really work for Epic? ›
In 2006, she rose to prominence after being cast in the reality television series The Hills, which chronicled the personal and professional lives of Patridge and friends Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag and Whitney Port. During its production, she was cast in positions with Quixote Studios and Epic Records.
Did Audrina really date Spencer? ›
The show shared a producer with The Hills, and according to Spencer, they worked together to produce a scene to elevate the television drama. Spencer claims he was never actually going on a date with Audrina.
Who is Whitney Houston best friend? ›
Robyn Crawford, Whitney Houston's longtime best friend and business associate, revealed that she did have a sexual and romantic relationship with Whitney Houston early on.
Are Stephanie Pratt and Lauren Conrad still friends? ›
Stephanie also mentioned how remains close friends with her former Hills co-stars, Lauren Conrad and Lo Bosworth.
"Unfortunately, one connection that didn't last was my relationship with Lauren, who doesn't really talk to anyone from the old cast," writes Audrina in the book. "There are reasons that she and I aren't friends anymore, and there was a lot of turmoil between us that we couldn't talk about on-camera at the time.
What happened to Lo on The Hills? ›
In an Instagram post in 2021, Bosworth opened up about a traumatic brain injury she suffered two years prior. "I was at a restaurant in lower Manhattan (which shall remain nameless because accidents happen) and while sitting in a banquet had one of the swinging kitchen doors fall off it's hinges and on to my head.
Are Brody and Spencer still friends? ›
As for Spencer and Brody's relationship, the two have never been closer. Spencer recently updated his followers about their friendship and had nothing but positive things to say about his former co-star. Everyone can thank Spencer for clearing things up.
