Heidi Montag rose to fame on the MTV series The Hills. She and husband Spencer Pratt are back for the reboot The Hills: New Beginnings, which is currently in season 2. In the past, Montag has said she was paid $100,000 for the last season of the original show, but she and Pratt blew through almost their entire fortune.
Heidi Montag has gone back to the Hills. The 34-year-old rose to fame as a cast member of MTV’s hit reality series The Hills. Now, more than a decade after the show ended its run, she and her husband (and fellow Hills cast member) Spencer Pratt returned to TV in the reboot The Hills: New Beginnings,currently in its second season.
Montag has come a long way since her early days as a reality TV star. She and Pratt have a son, Gunner, and own a business, Pratt Daddy Crystals. But she definitely has some regrets, including the way she and her husband managed their finances in their early days of fame. Though they were making tons of money from the MTV show, they blew through most of it in a short time, Montag has said.
Heidi Montag’s ‘The Hills’ salary
In a 2018 interview with In Style, Montag, who said she grew up “middle class,” revealed how much she and her fellow The Hills cast members were paid for appearing on the show.
According to Montag, her ex-BFF Lauren Conrad was “obviously” the highest-paid cast member. The other people on the show didn’t talk openly about money, she said.
“Everyone else was very hush-hush about their finances,” Montag shared. “It was a good paycheck throughout, but not crazy.”
During the early seasons of The Hills, which aired from 2006 to 2010,Montag said she earned $30,000 per episode. Toward the end of the show’s run, “we got $100,000 per episode,” she said.
Heidi Montag wishes she’d saved more of her money from ‘The Hills’
Montag also opened up about the financial ups and downs she’d faced since becoming famous. Though she was making a lot of money during her time on The Hills, she didn’t manage it wisely.
Her biggest money mistake was “spending all our Hills money,” she said.
“Back then, I was very impulsive and bought whatever I wanted … Going out to eat, trips,” she added. “We took so many trips to Cabo. I wish we listened to our parents and saved more. We’re still playing catch up.”
Montag also admitted that she wasn’t savvy about certain financial issues when she was younger.
“You don’t realize how little you’re actually making after agents and lawyers and taxes and managers,” she said. “You’re really making about 20% of your money, and then you have to pay taxes on the full amount.”
By 2011, reckless spending combined with the end of The Hills led to a major financial setback for Montag and Pratt. The couple’s $10 million fortune had gone down the drain, according to Money.com.
“It’s really easy to spend millions of dollars if you’re not careful and you think it’s easy to keep making millions of dollars,” Pratt said in a 2018 interview with the publication. “The money was just coming so fast and so easy that my ego led me to believe that, ‘Oh, this is my life forever.’”
New episodes of The Hills: New Beginnings air Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on MTV.
Then came The Hills, aka when Lauren moved to L.A. and was friends with (and then seriously-not-friends with) Heidi Montag. Reportedly, Lauren was paid $125,000 an episode and even had it in her contract that nobody could make as much as she did.
This immense value places her as the wealthiest cast member of The Hills. She is an American television personality with an excellent reputation in the entertainment industry. Conrad came to prominence after being cast in the reality television series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.
How Did Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt Lose Their Fortune? In 2013, the couple revealed to In Touch that they had spent the majority of their $10 million fortune and were forced to adjust their lifestyle. “We were immature and, we got caught up,” Spencer told the outlet at the time.
But the fame didn't last, and neither did the money. MTV cancelled “The Hills” after six seasons and the couple's relevance sharply declined. Despite the loss of their six-figure paychecks, though, the Pratts didn't slow down their spending, and they blew through their entire $10 million net worth.
A third job that appeared fake on The Hills is Heidi Montag working at Bolthouse Productions. Heidi later confirmed that she had, in fact, never worked in PR for Bolthouse, as was presented on the show.
So last week on The Hills, Lauren, Audrina, and Lo began discussing moving into a house together, and then this week — poof — they have a house! The real estate market in L.A. moves really fast, doesn't it? It must be because they were willing to shell out $2 million for their mini-mansion.
They later lived together in a house along with Lauren's high school best friend Lo Bosworth. While many fans were on Lauren's side throughout the series, fans who have rewatched the show recently have found her behavior concerning.
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.
The fourth episode of the season, "This Is Goodbye", which aired on May 18, 2010, marked the final appearance of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt from The Hills. Pratt was kicked off the show after threatening to kill a producer of the series.
Following the end of The Hills, Heidi continued to work in reality TV by appearing on competition shows including I'm a Celebrity … Get Me out of Here!, Celebrity Big Brother, Celebrity Wife Swap, Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars 2 and The Mother/Daughter Experiment: Celebrity Edition.
She told Us Weekly magazine: "I cut out a lot of carbs. I had bread once a day, and I cut down on sugar and alcohol. I also made sure to get a little bit more sleep, which is a big deal. "I worked out five to seven times a week, only for an hour, because with mom life, that's all I had.
Cavallari is being paid $90,000 an episode, which is almost as much as Conrad was making: $125,000 an episode (or $2.5 million a year), according to a person with knowledge of the show's contracts.
19 year old Lauren has the opportunity of a lifetime: to move to L.A. with her best friend, Heidi, so they both can attend The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.
Audrina Patridge, who has a net worth of $5 million according to Celebrity Net Worth, made several other bombshell revelations in her new book, which also includes her time spent on The Hills.
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