‘Hills’ tampers with ‘Reality’
Producers of MTV’s ratings juggernaut “The Hills” played matchmaker in Paris, hoping the young women on the “reality” show would hook-up with some Frenchmen for the cameras - and it worked.
Before Lauren Conrad and her Teen Vogue counterpart, Whitney Port, went to Paris to “work” at the Crillon Ball, producers were “frantically calling publicists to see if anyone knew any guys to set the girls up with in Paris. If they had a love affair there, then it would look better,” a source said.
One publicist came through, and the girls were set up with the band Rock & Roll, “the King Cobras of New Wave Rock,” who are set to star in the new Roberto Cavalli campaign this spring. And, at least for Conrad - who had been “flirting” with Brody Jenner, although spies say the two were never more than friends - the ruse worked.
“Lauren was filmed riding off with the guitar player, Matthias, on the back of his bike,” our source said. “They hooked up.” The band’s biggest hit is “Loser, Boozer, Jacuzzi-User.”
“The Hills” producers have admitted reshooting certain scenes in the past. A show rep declined comment this time around.
Meanwhile, at the show’s finale party in LA Monday, Heidi Montag left after walking the red carpet because Conrad, who’s been feuding with her all season, didn’t want Montag’s boyfriend, Spencer Pratt, there. Conrad accused Pratt of spreading a false rumor she had starred in a sex tape.
Montag and Pratt supposedly broke up at season’s end, but one source said, “That’s bull[bleep]. They are completely together.”
At the finale after-party at Koi, “We headed straight for the bar, and Spencer walks right by us from the bathroom back to his table with Heidi,” said our source. “Within five minutes they were hustled out because Lauren and her entourage were coming over to Koi and wouldn’t be in the same room as them.”
Later, Conrad was partying at the same table as Jenner and was apparently over-served. “There was a girl in the booth who was kinda slumped over. And it was Lauren,” we’re told. When executive producer Adam DiVello walked over to the table, our insider relates, “Lauren, in a really sad, drunk voice, says, ‘Can I please go home?’ ”
Asked if he and Pratt would ever be friends again, Jenner replied, ” [Bleep] that! I will never be friends with Spencer again.”
