Was Heidi and Spencer's separation real?
Why did Justin Bobby wear combat boots to the beach?
And why is Lo done with the rest of the cast?
Keep watching to learn if you were fooled.
It may be hard to remember now, but Heidi Montag and Lauren Conrad always had a tumultuous
friendship.
They may have finally cut ties after the sex tape rumors, but the besties had a blow-out
in the very first episode.
For those who need a refresher, in the series premiere, LC landed her first major assignment
at Teen Vogue, assisting at the Young Hollywood Party.
Everything seemed to be going off without a hitch until Montag showed up uninvited,
snuck into a VIP area, and had a very public fight with her then-boyfriend.
As a result, LC almost lost her internship.
Basically, the storyline was pretty iconic and basically set the scene for the rest of
Heidi and Lauren's doomed friendship.
While nearly costing someone their job is grounds for a bestie breakup, there's a reason
the friends didn't cut ties until years later.
This storyline was totally staged.
While Montag told i-D that the first season was "pretty real," she also revealed,
"[T]here were a few setups — I didn't crash Lauren's Vogue party or certain things like
that."
As far as reality TV heartthrobs go, Justin "Bobby" Brescia quickly gained a following
for his irresistible bad boy persona.
There was something so deliciously early aughts about Justin Bobby's two first names, his
motorcycle, his penchant for eyeliner and black nail polish, his rock band, and the
fact he wore a beanie regardless of the weather.
In many ways, he was a heady mix between vintage Carson Daly and Johnny Depp, before the divorce
drama, of course.
Brescia is basically the ideal archetype of a television bad boy, so much so that it's
hard not to scream "he's never going to commit" at Audrina Patridge through the TV.
Out of all of Brescia's quirks, he's mostly remembered for one thing, and that's when
homeboy wore combat boots to the beach.
It was spitfire truth from Lauren Conrad, who rattled off the insult after he allegedly
ditched Patridge.
"Homeboy wore combat boots to the beach."
Sadly, the boots were a one-time thing.
In an episode of the podcast "Reality Life with Kate Casey," Brescia admitted he chose
the peculiar beachwear because he wasn't actually planning to go to the beach, saying,
"They called me on my off day and asked me to actually shoot some scenes and I was with
my boys riding Harleys."
Brescia also claimed he never ditched Patridge.
Producers reportedly had the star bring her own helmet to make it look like they were
riding together, but that wasn't the case.
Not every storyline on "The Hills" was fake.
For instance, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have been married for over a decade, share
one child, and are trying for another baby together.
They really fell in love and really tied the knot on the show.
However, according to an Instagram post Montag shared in 2021, a good "90%" of the series
was fake.
In particular, all of the onscreen fights she had with her husband were apparently just
for show, despite the fact that he often acted kind of shady.
In 2008, Spencer and Heidi officially became known as "Speidi".
The marriage marked the end of Montag's longtime friendship with Conrad, as the show's star
refused to trust her former BFF's new husband.
But the marriage also seemingly imploded shortly after the pair said "I do."
A year after walking down the aisle, Montag filed for a separation.
However, that never actually happened.
According to multiple reports, the pair faked their whole split, which ended in their reconciliation
and vow renewal, for the sake of getting press.
Basically, it was a classic Speidi move.
Though Lo Bosworth was a tertiary character on "The Hills," she was also one of LC's oldest
friends, or colleagues, at least.
The pair first appeared together in "Laguna Beach," before graduating high school and
moving on to the spin-off.
Today, Bosworth is pretty far removed from the rest of the cast.
She runs a successful wellness company called Love Wellness and opted out of the "New Beginnings"
reboot.
In fact, she even slammed her former castmates over the new series, because she's seriously
over it.
According to Bosworth, the cast were never really her friends to begin with, which could
be why she was allegedly willing to throw Kristin Cavallari under the bus for a Birkin.
Bosworth said during an episode of the "Lady Lovin'" podcast,
"I don't want any association with any of those people.
The dissociation from all those people is what I'm hungry for [...] I think everybody
actually feels that way about their coworkers, which is really what the 'The Hills' was.
[...] It was a job.
A j-o-b."
In other words, LC was nothing more than Bosworth's work wife.
Heidi Montag moved to Hollywood with Lauren Conrad, but the former Teen Vogue intern became
increasingly enthralled with her boyfriend, Jason Wahler.
No-one's forgotten; LC became the girl who didn't go to Paris because of Wahler.
In Conrad's absence, and without many connections in the area, Montag ended up forging a friendship
with Audrina Patridge.
The friendship was real, but the first meeting was a total setup.
In an interview with i-D, Partridge revealed that when she was cast for the show, she had
never seen "Laguna Beach," and certainly never met the people who were about to be her co-stars.
Instead, she caught the eye of producer Adam DiVello when he was scouting locations for
the show.
She was sitting poolside at the apartment complex that Conrad and Montag moved into
in the first season.
From there, Patridge met with a casting director, and landed the part of one of Lauren and Heidi's
first LA friends, and the rest is history.
"This is my first new friend in LA."
Though the circumstance was completely staged, the friendship blossomed organically on camera.
Producers made sure to keep Montag and Patridge separated for two weeks before filming so
when they met by the pool, it was their very first introduction.
Luckily, it worked out, and Patridge and Montag have stayed friends ever since.
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