Spencer Pratt knows what he did to land in Lauren Conrad’s bad graces.
While The Hills viewers were led to believe a sex tape rumor cemented his status as the MTV reality series’ primary villain, Spencer alleged that the demise of her onscreen romance with Brody Jenner was the real catalyst of their feud.
“Brody couldn’t fake-date L.C. anymore,” he said in an E! News exclusive preview clip from the May 6 episode of Amanda Hirsch‘s Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast. “He wanted to start getting some real clout. He was out in the club scene, there was a lot of opportunities, and then once the fake dating ended and he wasn’t down for that, she wanted her wing woman back.”
Of course, that wing woman was Lauren’s then-BFF—and Spencer’s now-wife—Heidi Montag, who initially tried to maintain both relationships. However, the reality star said one fateful occasion marked a turning point for the fashion designer.
“The final end game was—they didn’t show this—but she made Heidi go out with her on Valentine’s Day when we were official,” he continued. “Wouldn’t let her leave till like 4 a.m. They’re f–king having breakfast pizza together and [Heidi’s] like, ‘I gotta go back and see Spencer.’ And [Lauren] turned it into this big thing.”
So when Heidi moved out of the apartment she shared with the Laguna Beach alum in the season two finale, Spencer alleged the moment was meant to be much more conclusive.
“[Lauren] thought that with Heidi getting in the U-Haul and leaving, she thought she got Heidi off the show,” he alleged. “That’s what people don’t get. That was her saying, ‘Bye b—h, you’re off my show.’”
But in the end, the couple—who wed in 2009 and share sons Gunner, 7, and Ryker, 2—did remain as part of the cast and opted to embrace their antagonistic personas.
“The deal was, ‘You better make them look like the worst people on the earth,’ which we are aware of,” he added. “They’re, at that point, paying so much you’d be stupid not to go along with it. So that’s what happened.”
Not Skinny But Not Fat with Spencer Pratt drops May 6 on all podcast platforms and May 7 on YouTube. For more on what the stars of The Hills and Laguna Beach are up to now, keep reading. (VG)
Lauren Conrad
Literal LOL at Teen Vogue‘s Lisa Love telling Lauren, “You’ll always be known as the girl who didn’t go to Paris.” (A line actually lifted from Vogue‘s Anna Wintour, a 2019 Hills deep dive revealed.) More than a decade after that (admittedly questionable) decision and her subsequent split from Jason Wahler, LC has earned a few more laudatory descriptors: New York Times best-selling author; co-founder of The Little Market, with a mission to empower female artisans worldwide; and, of course, fashion designer, her Kohl’s line LC Lauren Conrad just the start of her now wide-ranging lifestyle empire.
Now long past fights outside Les Deux, she married Something Corporate rocker and law school grad William Tell in a 2014 Pinterest wedding of our dreams. In 2019, their second son, Charlie Wolf Tell, joined older brother Liam James Tell.
Kristin Cavallari
The star of E!’s Very Cavallari and everyone’s favorite bad girl went from being a (well-compensated) s–t-stirrer to full-on boss with her successful lifestyle brand, Uncommon James opening its second brick-and-mortar location in Chicago last fall. Rounding out her growing empire: a Chinese Laundry shoe line and two cookbooks, with True Comfort coming out Sept. 29, a little more than two years after New York Times best-seller, True Roots.
Teammates for 10 years, she and retired NFL quarterback Jay Cutler welcomed sons Camden Jack Cutler and Jaxon Wyatt Cutler and daughter Saylor James Cutler before splitting in April 2020.
In 2021, Kristin filmed a cameo for The Hills: New Beginnings season two.
Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt
One of the more surprising reinventions saw The Hills‘ resident villains transform into dedicated parents to sons Gunner Pratt and Ryker Pratt, entirely self-aware of their place in the annals of reality television. Following an admittedly rocky season that saw them take their marital problems (either real or contrived for headlines) to any show that would have them—Celebrity Big Brother (UK version), I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here, Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars—they successfully lobbied to make Speidi famous again, spearheading 2019’s The Hills: New Beginnings reboot. “Reality TV is kind of a career for Spencer and I at this point,” Heidi explained to Vogue. Though, having learned from their years of overspending, they also have a few side hustles thanks to their podcast and his Pratt Daddy crystal business.
Lo Bosworth
Truthfully, LC’s BFF would prefer to be excluded from this narrative. When an exec gauged her interest in returning to The Hills, “I was like, ‘F–k no!'” she recalled on a 2018 episode of her 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.” Which, to be fair, sometimes that happens when you change careers. Now based in NYC, The International Culinary Center grad and The Lo-Down author founded Love Wellness, a line of personal care products for women, in 2016. In 2020, she told E! News, “I live such a different life now than I did 10 years ago.”
In March 2021, Lo shocked fans when she revealed on Instagram that she had secretly suffered a traumatic brain injury in an accident two years prior.
Brody Jenner
His original stint on The Hills saw him juggling purported romances with both Lauren and Kristin and set the tone for the interest in his love life that would continue even after he stepped off camera to lean into his work as a DJ. (His 2015 E! series Sex With Brody may not have helped things.) Though it appeared he’d found his forever when he wed now-Hills costar Kaitlynn Carter in a 2018 Indonesian ceremony, the two ended their romance in 2019.
He went on to find love with surfer Tia Blanco, with whom he welcomed daughter Honey Jenner in 2023.
Audrina Patridge
A reality TV pro at this point, Lauren and Heidi’s camera-ready neighbor followed up her Hills gig with a 2010 spin through the Dancing With the Stars ballroom, her own VH1 series, Audrina and a short-lived hosting stint on NBC’s traveling series 1st Look. Now back on MTV with Speidi, Brody, et. al, she also dove into the world of designing with her Prey Swim line. And while she’s dated after her messy divorce from BMX biker Corey Bohan, revisiting an old romance with Ryan Cabrera and sharing an entirely unsuccessful dinner date with Justin Bobby Brescia, her number one these days is daughter Kirra Max Bohan.
Whitney Port
The girl who did go to Paris (except, not really, as she revealed to Vogue) enjoyed a brief stint in The City in 2008 before heading back to Los Angeles, with future husband Tim Rosenman, an associate producer on her NYC-based spinoff, in tow. A judge on the eighth cycle of Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model, she now juggles her Love, Whit line with Rent the Runway and With Whit podcast alongside her return to The Hills and her son SonnySanford Rosenman.
Stephen Colletti
When he’s not giving us new material for our LC-Kristin-Stephen love triangle fan fic, Laguna’s resident heartthrob is focused on building a pretty solid acting career. He was a recurring castmember on the CW’s One Tree Hill for five seasons and starred as Taylor Swift‘s love interest in her “White Horse” music video. He also had a temporary gig as an MTV VJ on Total Request Live (the original, not the reboot).
He and OTH co-star James Lafferty debuted Hulu series, Everyone Is Doing Great January 2021, before reuniting with Kristin for the Back to the Beach rewatch podcast two years later.
Jessica Smith
KCav’s Laguna Beach pal has largely stayed away from reality television after her run on the MTV show ended. Following a brief return to notoriety, thanks to a 2007 DUI arrest, she settled into a quiet life in Texas with her husband, Michael Evans, “the most kind, patient, strong, amazing, loving and ridiculously handsome human I’ve ever met,” as she put it on Instagram, and their four children. Though she has her own blog and Amazon shop, mostly, she jokes on Insta, she’s “just trying not to lose a kid.”
Jason Wahler
The resident bad boy of Laguna Beach and The Hills ran into nothing but trouble after his time on the reality series: drugs, DUIs, fights, arrests…you name it. It wasn’t until he appeared on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew Pinksy that he finally cleaned up. Jason went on to marry girlfriend Ashley Slack, a relationship he claims is his first sober one, and he and “the most beautiful, loving, kind and caring woman I know” welcomed daughter Delilah in 2017 and son Wyatt in 2021.
The founder and owner of Widespread Recovery, he continues to be open about his struggles, both on The Hills: New Beginnings and his YouTube series, JAWS Diaries with Jason & Ashley Wahler.
Stephanie Pratt
Originally brought in to face off with Lauren, she befriended her instead, leading to seemingly unending drama between Stephanie and brother Spencer. Following years across the pond appearing on UK reality fare such as Celebrity Big Brother and Made inChelsea—and one 2015 memoir detailing her struggles with bulimia, crystal meth and staying out of trouble—she headed home to The Hills….to resume stirring up drama. After a scathing takedown of her castmates (she labeled sister-in-law Heidi “evil” and Audrina “crazy”), Stephanie announced she won’t be returning for season two.
Casey Reinhardt
Though she wasn’t an original castmember of Laguna Beach, her arrival to the reality series was a memorable one. Since then, Casey launched a successful foray into the world of confections by opening Casey’s Cupcakes in Orange County. She even won Food Network’s Cupcake Wars in 2011. Her home life, meanwhile, is just as sweet. Wed to Sean Brown (a relative of the late Nicole Brown Simpson) since August 2015, they share daughter Kensington Kelly Brown and son Sean Brown Jr.
Dieter Schmitz
Lauren and Stephen’s bestie left the Beach behind for his future in hospitality and hotel management, moving first to New York and, in 2019, to Washington, D.C. as general manager of the Lore Group. He’s still tight with his high school crew, with Lauren, “proud groomsman” Stephen, Trey Phillips and Loren Polster turning out for his 2016 Monterey, Calif., wedding to Isabell Hiebl. The pair welcomed their first child, son Nico Josef Schmitz, in September 2018.
