Rolling Stone Magazine from May of 2008 was all about the ladies of the Hills, the backstabbing, the relationships, the drama, and the unrealness that goes into the making of the hit MTV series. After 9 hours of photoshooting, there was nothing but chills in the air, due to the break up of the friendship between Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag. Lauren had called it good behavior that she & Heidi didn’t exchange words, because if they had it wouldn’t have been nice. Lauren considered that civil for her and Heidi. Getting into her at home life, they show Lauren as being a normal girl, her father even stated that they were very careful not to spoil her. In the intro of the Hills they show Lauren driving a nice BMV car, which wasn’t hers, her father even said that she never had a “nice” car, she had a car that had dents and scratches, just like any other typical teenaged car.
Here’s the real juicy part, the commonly asked number one question, if the hit reality show is real reality (this is where I got my blog idea started from)… as the article says, “You only have to watch five minutes of The Hills to grow suspicious. You see Heidi and Spencer arguing, and you see a camera shooting Heidi’s face over Spencer’s shoulder, and a camera shooting Spencer’s face over Heidi’s shoulder, and you wonder how that’s possible for an unscripted reality show”. It also continues to explain how the producers don’t just show up at the reality star’s homes, they talk to them in advanced to find out what they’re doing, when they’re working, and who they are seeing.
Way back when in Season 1 of the Hills when Lauren & Heidi move into their new apartment, Heidi introduces Audrina Patridge to Lauren, “her new best friend she met at the pool”. This is how Audrina really met Heidi…
“Audrina wasn’t even friends with anyone on The Hills: She was discovered lying by the pool of her apartment complex by DiVello, who was scouting the place Lauren and Heidi had moved into (fun fact: Tracy Morgan also lived there). “I was just laying out, and Adam said to me, ‘Have you ever thought of acting?’ He says he’s from MTV, and I was like, ‘No, no, no — I’m not doing one of those dating shows.’” Once assured DiVello wasn’t from a dating show, Audrina agreed to meet with other Hills producers: “You just go in and tell them who you are, where you’re from, where you work, who your friends are.” She was quickly hired. “I met Heidi first,” she says. But even that encounter had to be steered a bit, she explains. “They were so afraid we were going to meet without the cameras there. So they were like, ‘OK, you guys, we’re going to be there at the pool all day on this day, so please try not to go down there before.’”
The article is a really juicy article, as much as I would love to post the whole thing on here, I’ll attach the link. I love my daily intake of The Hills, it will always be my favorite show, whether if it’s real or fake, I just love the people in it, because people can relate to it. I’ll end this with a quote from Lo Bosworth (Lauren Conrad’s best friend)….”The editing room is a magical place for The Hills,” says Lo. “They really take little nothings and turn them into story lines.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/20526564
