It’s been 10 years since the sun set on The Hills. The hit MTV series was the quintessential ‘00s show, providing some truly memorable television moments, including the infamous showdown at Les Deux, where Lauren Conrad screamed at Heidi Montag, “You know what you did!” But there have long been rumors that some of the on-screen drama was scripted, a claim creator Adam DiVello denied in a recent interview.
Heidi Montag says parts of ‘The Hills’ were totally fake
The Hills made Heidi Montag and her eventual husband Spencer Pratt famous, but she’s since said that many parts of the show were made up for the cameras.
Among the inventions? Montag told Buzzfeed in 2016 that her job at Bolthouse wasn’t real. That meant that when she got a promotion over a more deserving colleague, the subsequent drama was manufactured.
“I definitely did not get the promotion over Elodie!” Montag said. “She really worked there and I pretend worked there, so it was obviously a pretend promotion for her to be upset about. That whole plot was scripted.”
She also revealed that the house she and Spencer supposedly moved into in season 6 wasn’t their actual home and that MTV made it seem like cast members were making less money than they really were. Montag declared that the entire show had been “unfairly edited.”
Audrina Patridge also says some of her storylines were manufactured
Montag’s fellow castmember Audrina Patridge has echoed the claims that the show didn’t always stick to reality. She told Us Weekly that her “romance” with Montag’s future hubby Pratt was invented for the sake of the cameras. So was her feud with Kristin Cavallari over Justin Bobby. At the time, Partridge was actually in a relationship with someone else who wasn’t on the show.
“Yeah, it was really weird for everyone and then it just wasn’t genuine,” she said of the supposed bad blood between her and Cavallari. “It was really weird, and then whenever the producers kept wanting me to fight with her over him, I was like, ‘I’m not doing that! I’m not even with him! I’m with someone else!’ It really was hard with my real life and then my TV life.”
‘The Hills’ producer says the show was real
DiVello — who has since gone on to create the Netflix show Selling Sunset — objects to claims that The Hills wasn’t real.
“I get so pissed when people said that show was faked,” he told Buzzfeed. “Many, many crew members will attest to how many times I was yelled at by Lauren in the back room at Les Deux because Heidi showed up and we didn’t plan it. And then people were like, ‘Oh, the show’s so fake.’ It’s like, f*ck you!”
DiVello went on to dismiss Montag and her claims, saying they were just sour grapes.
“You’re always going to have a disgruntled employee at some point in time,” he said.
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Cutrone has appeared on three MTV shows: True Life; The Hills, on which she allowed Whitney Port and Lauren Conrad to film in her office; and The City, where she served as the professional and personal mentor to and consulted on Port's clothing line.
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.
'Unfortunately, one connection that didn't last was my relationship with Lauren, who doesn't really talk to anyone from the old cast,' she wrote. '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.
Today's OMG moment of the day: Whitney Port is throwing it back to the embarrassing moment when she fell while walking down the stairs in an Oscars gown. As fans remember, the reality star took a little tumble in 2014 while modeling Hilary Swank's 2005 Oscars dress by Guy Laroche.
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Aspiring PR powerhouses looking to live out their Hills and The City fantasies can now shed a single black tear. Ball-busting fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone has decided to permanently shut down the LA location of People's Revolution, the agency made famous by the hit MTV series and spinoff.
Stephanie joined the show during its third season and immediately set out to confront Lauren Conrad, the show's predominant protagonist. Later the two became friends and then co-workers at the PR firm People's Revolution.
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The Hills and its stars have become such a name brand—in certain circles—that Cavallari and Co. receive between $20,000 and $25,000 for personal appearances—which last no more than two hours—at events such as club and gallery openings, according to Mike Esterman, a celebrity booking agent.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
In a tell-all interview with Buzzfeed, Heidi spilled that she never really worked at Bolthouse, and never really got a promotion over long-time employee, Elodie.
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