It’s no big secret that MTV’s “The Hills” was scripted. But now, the show’s former bad girl Kristin Cavallari, is admitting that her feud with Lauren Conrad was very real.
In a recent appearance on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live,” Cavallari called the popular reality show “pretty fake,” and admitted she had a string of “fake relationships” and “fake fights.” What wasn’t fake, however, was her animosity towards Conrad – her former “Laguna Beach” co-star, romantic rival, and “Hills” star.
Fans first saw Cavallari and Conrad as rivals on “Laguna Beach” when the two were still in high school, and their love triangle with Stephen Coletti was a central plotline on the show. While both women seemed to have a clear distaste for each other, Cavallari admitted to “Watch What Happens Live” host Andy Cohen this week that producers may have had a part in their constant fights. “I feel like [the producers] put things in our heads,” she said. “We were 17 and 18. They made it a lot worse than it was.” The rivalry was still alive and well, apparently, when Cavallari took over for Conrad as the protagonist on the “Laguna Beach” spin-off “The Hills” for its final two seasons.
During her appearance on “Watch What Happens Live,” Cohen challenged Cavallari to say three nice things about her rival. Cavallari conceded: “She is a very pretty girl — I know she said the same thing. She’s very successful. And we actually have had a lot of really fun nights together, so she can be a lot of fun.”
When Conrad appeared on the same show in October, she was given the same challenge. She had complimented the new mom (Kristen’s son Camden was born August 25th) on losing the baby weight so fast. “She is a very pretty girl,” Conrad added at the time. “There’s a lot of nice things! I was just trying to get more specific. She dresses really nicely.”
Still, despite all the drama, Cavallari does have fond memories of the show. “It was fun,” she explained, saying that sometimes fake is better than real, even in the “reality” world. “Because [when] you’re acting, it was more fun for me.”