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4:09 pm - 04/29/2008

Are They For Real? Why MTV's 'The Hills' is the Show You Love to Hate - or Hate to Love



It's a chilly spring night in Los Angeles when I arrive at Don Antonio's Mexican restaurant to join the End of Western Civilization for nachos and chicken enchiladas. The EOWC, of course, is Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, a.k.a. Speidi, the fabulously toxic power couple of The Hills — the real-ish MTV reality drama about L.A. twentysomethings praised as "the most influential show we've ever had" by MTV president of entertainment Brian Graden — and watching the fair-haired lovers stroll through their beloved Don Antonio's feels like seeing Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe walk into the Stork Club back in the day. That is, if Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe were, instead of a sports hero and a legendary sex symbol, the irresistible villains of a maddeningly addictive TV show in which nothing ever really happens.



We take seats at a dimly lit corner booth, and you can almost hear the text messages being tapped underneath nearby tables — omfg spencer n heidi r here!!! Spencer, 24, who's wearing a black Don Antonio's polo and a wispy blond goatee, rattles off a grande order without consulting the menu. Heidi, a 21-year-old mane of blond highlights dressed in a blue sweater and white sweatpants, tucks her tiny head into his shoulder.

"I wish I got to see what you saw today," Spencer says.

He's referring to this afternoon's cover photo shoot attended by Heidi and her three Hills castmates: Audrina Patridge, 22, Whitney Port, 23, and the show's protagonist, Lauren Conrad, 22, with whom Heidi has been engaged in an ugly feud. Once best friends and roommates, the two women have spent the past year and a half bickering back and forth in celebrity weeklies — a rift that, depending on whom you talk to, stems from either a Lauren sex-tape story that Spencer and Heidi leaked to the press (Lauren's version; they deny it), or Lauren's jealousy of Spencer and Heidi (their version; Lauren denies it), or Spencer's overall control-freakiness, or a cabal of genius MTV executives secretly pulling ratings/goosing strings behind a curtain. Whatever the case, the shoot was the first time Heidi and Lauren had been photographed, and not Photoshopped (as MTV has been forced to do), together in more than a year.

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[info]nodisrespect 29th-Apr-2008 08:17 pm (UTC)
the hills is boring now. i stopped watching.
[info]louboutin_red 29th-Apr-2008 08:26 pm (UTC)
me too
[info]__pixelsurgeon 29th-Apr-2008 08:48 pm (UTC)
oh i know!
they dont leave you wanting more at the end of their episodes anymore.
it just....ends lol
[info]totes_adorkable 29th-Apr-2008 08:57 pm (UTC)
mmm sawyer
[info]justa9url 29th-Apr-2008 09:56 pm (UTC)
iawtc
[info]hiphopopotamous 29th-Apr-2008 08:18 pm (UTC)
the most influential show mtv ever had was the osbournes - what the fuck is this guy on?
[info]panicsm12 29th-Apr-2008 08:28 pm (UTC)
haha i agree
[info]beaute__exquise 29th-Apr-2008 08:39 pm (UTC)
Why the Osbournes? I'd say Real World or Yo MTV Raps.
[info]chilloutedgar 29th-Apr-2008 09:38 pm (UTC)
probably because that was the beginning of celeb-reality.
[info]gaspworthy 29th-Apr-2008 08:18 pm (UTC)
It's so realistic.
[info]dublinthecat 29th-Apr-2008 08:54 pm (UTC)
omg i LOVE yr icon!!!!
[info]cluelessraf 29th-Apr-2008 08:18 pm (UTC)
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHIQWEU8UASKJDSKFJDFLK;J0[U32IDEKJKDFJ;DASFADFJD;ASKFDFJDAS...

pure fug.
[info]lalalilo 29th-Apr-2008 08:19 pm (UTC)
how the fuck is that first paragraph almost all one sentence
i couldnt read it
[info]magwildwood 29th-Apr-2008 08:22 pm (UTC)
i know, what the fuck was with that sentence?
[info]disco_balla 29th-Apr-2008 08:19 pm (UTC)


ooooh guuuuuuuuuurl. don't ever do that again.
[info]colormebadd 29th-Apr-2008 08:27 pm (UTC)
chris crocker
[info]dropkiss 29th-Apr-2008 08:31 pm (UTC)
IAWTC x100
[info]miss_splendid 29th-Apr-2008 09:39 pm (UTC)
MTE!
[info]love_dior22 29th-Apr-2008 09:52 pm (UTC)
holy shit, cut the hair like him and it's twins :)
[info]caseadilla02 29th-Apr-2008 10:22 pm (UTC)
i had to make an icon out of it
[info]inkykels 29th-Apr-2008 10:41 pm (UTC)
EXACTLY.
[info]jesusnachos 29th-Apr-2008 08:30 pm (UTC)
chris crocker 4 real
[info]dnfrommn 29th-Apr-2008 08:31 pm (UTC)
I dunno, this is how I read that picture.

[info]icutandpaste 29th-Apr-2008 08:35 pm (UTC)
WHAT DID SHE DO TO HER FACE?!


[info]obvious82 29th-Apr-2008 08:53 pm (UTC)
i loled. but her body is BANGIN
[info]jusjellus 29th-Apr-2008 11:54 pm (UTC)
lol.
[info]vendettavv 29th-Apr-2008 08:19 pm (UTC)
Annie Leibovitz manipulated them into doing this
[info]beaute__exquise 29th-Apr-2008 08:40 pm (UTC)
lol
[info]jesusnachos 29th-Apr-2008 08:48 pm (UTC)
lmao
[info]baby_phat_honne 29th-Apr-2008 08:49 pm (UTC)
Win!
[info]omgjakesaid 29th-Apr-2008 10:57 pm (UTC)
hahaha
[info]jusjellus 29th-Apr-2008 11:55 pm (UTC)
lololol
[info]ella5767 30th-Apr-2008 02:22 am (UTC)
lmao @ your icon
[info]lalalilo 29th-Apr-2008 08:19 pm (UTC)
and LC is so fucking bustedddd
[info]gaspworthy 29th-Apr-2008 08:19 pm (UTC)


This is basically the image that runs through every guy's head when I tell him that I go to an all women's college and I live in the dorms.
[info]hangthemj 29th-Apr-2008 08:21 pm (UTC)
lol
[info]disco_balla 29th-Apr-2008 08:22 pm (UTC)
LOLOLOLOL
[info]shanny_w 29th-Apr-2008 08:26 pm (UTC)
rofl!
[info]foreverxfu 29th-Apr-2008 08:51 pm (UTC)
me too! which one are you at?
[info]gaspworthy 29th-Apr-2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
Hollins University.

I couldn't get into any of the 7 sisters :(.
[info]xx_rapunzel_xx 29th-Apr-2008 09:18 pm (UTC)
i hear ya.... i live in an all girl's dorm on campus and my friend is like "ZOMG THERE MUST BE ORGIES IN THERE ALL THE TIMEEEEE" and i'm just like :: shakes head ::
[info]larrylurker 29th-Apr-2008 09:29 pm (UTC)
I can almost guarantee you that it is far more sexual than that image.

lol
[info]scorpionbreeze 29th-Apr-2008 09:40 pm (UTC)
Hahaha, I got that a lot too. Trying to counter-act that with, "No, we live on the same floor with the nuns." never seemed to help.
[info]cor_nie 29th-Apr-2008 10:36 pm (UTC)
Oh my god. I could not imagine going to an all girls college. I'm too happy with my University of Cincinnati boys.
[info]daylight_spool 29th-Apr-2008 10:54 pm (UTC)
That was like how in my drawing class the teacher was like, 'We're going to do some life drawing and have a nude model come into class' and this idiot Neanderthal athlete/frat bro was all excited. Yeah it was funny when it was - of course - an older shapely woman. Goddamn some people
[info]condenast 29th-Apr-2008 08:19 pm (UTC)
Yup, it's official. I like Heidi better then LC when I'm not watching The Hills.

Does anyone know what time the world is supposed to end today?
[info]misspinkkate 29th-Apr-2008 08:21 pm (UTC)
me too me too
[info]sellmeheaven 29th-Apr-2008 08:21 pm (UTC)
same here, and i'm pretty ashamed to admit that.
[info]louboutin_red 29th-Apr-2008 08:26 pm (UTC)
iawtc
[info]tonguemastaofjc 29th-Apr-2008 08:40 pm (UTC)
I hope after I get to vote for David Cook on American Idol..

Isadlyagree.. :(
[info]obvious82 29th-Apr-2008 08:53 pm (UTC)
IA.
[info]magwildwood 29th-Apr-2008 08:20 pm (UTC)
to be honest, LC's the only one who looks decent in these photos
[info]cherrybug 29th-Apr-2008 08:20 pm (UTC)
audrina is my new thinspiration

GYM GYM GYM!
[info]louboutin_red 29th-Apr-2008 08:26 pm (UTC)
mine is leighton from GG...
[info]totes_adorkable 29th-Apr-2008 08:50 pm (UTC)
is she really that super skinny? maybe i haven't seen enough pics of her.
[info]love_dior22 29th-Apr-2008 09:53 pm (UTC)
Mine too! She has my ideal body.
[info]jusjellus 29th-Apr-2008 11:56 pm (UTC)
oh dear.
[info]kerrence 29th-Apr-2008 08:20 pm (UTC)
the most influential show we've ever had" by MTV president of entertainment Brian Graden — and watching the fair-haired lovers stroll through their beloved Don Antonio's feels like seeing Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe walk into the Stork Club back in the day


I stopped reading right there because my lunch was coming back up.
[info]autophanous 29th-Apr-2008 08:29 pm (UTC)
same here.
[info]msjaznc 29th-Apr-2008 08:40 pm (UTC)
ia!
[info]phillymademe 29th-Apr-2008 08:20 pm (UTC)
i wish they would all go far far away.

"Who were Paris and Nicole before they weren't friends?

what?
[info]xx_rapunzel_xx 29th-Apr-2008 09:20 pm (UTC)
hahahah i'm not into twilight at all, but your icon made me laugh :)
[info]jusjellus 29th-Apr-2008 11:57 pm (UTC)
iawtc X100000000000000000000!
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