Lauren Conrad opens up about her decision to leave The Hills after five seasons in the newest issue of Us Weekly, on stands now. “You see us on the show and we appear to have semi normal lives, but if you watch any entertainment news show, half of the cast is being swarmed by paparazzi,” the 23-year-old says. “I’m excited to go back to having just one life, because there were times that I got them confused. But the decision to leave is still “bittersweet,” she says. “I’ve spent the last five years making every decision be about the show. People I date have to be able to film, the places I work have to let us film and the places I live have to have set lighting.” Conrad — who has branched out as a fashion designer and author — continues: “I loved doing it and had so much fun, but it came to a point where I had done it long enough.” Conrad has kept her growing relationship with My Boys’ Kyle Howard off the show, which she calls “very difficult, because when you’re with someone, they become a very big part of your life.”

Although she calls the cast and crew “family,” she admits it’s stressful being followed 24/7. “There have been some scenes — extra scenes that’ll probably never come out — of me getting upset and taking my mic off. I say, ‘I’m done!’ and lock myself in my room,” she says. “There was a time when I was really stressed, and I would get sick a lot. I think I was sick of all of season three!”

MTV cameras have been following Conrad since she was a high school student on Laguna Beach. Her last season of The Hills, which debuted in 2006, premieres March 30. Producer Liz Gately told the Associated Press they’re still figuring out how to give Conrad a big send-off — and how to continue the show without her.

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Melissa Rycroft, the victim of a shocking season finale twist on reality dating show ‘The Bachelor,’ appears today on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ to describe the feeling of being dumped on national television.

Fans of ‘The Bachelor’ were shocked when Jason Mesnick dumped his chosen fiancee for the runner-up, Molly Malaney, in the taped epilogue to this season’s competition. Rycroft, the original winner, explains to Ellen that her relationship with Mesnick had already soured by the time the dramatic ‘After the Final Rose’ special was filmed. “Once we got back, we both kind of sat in the real world, and we were talking about how [our relationship] was different,” she says. “He kind of gave up, and I couldn’t understand why at the time. Now I do – because I think there was someone else involved.”

“And that is where my feelings of betrayal came in,” she continues. “I knew on the night ‘After the Final Rose’ [aired], I wasn’t getting dumped. We had already ended the relationship and that was mutual.”

Rycroft shares that she was suspicious of the reasons for the distance between them. “I repeatedly asked him, ‘Is Molly involved in anything?’ And when they moved up the taping of ‘After the Final Rose,’ I was going, ‘Why did we move the taping up? What’s going on?’ I asked Jason, ‘Am I going to be blind-sided by anything? Is there anything you want to tell me?’ And he said, ‘No, gosh no.’ And the second I went out on that stage, he goes, ‘P.S. it is Molly.’ And I went, ‘Bastard!’”

“Being a girl, you get that feeling,” she says. “Anybody that’s been cheated on, you know. And being a woman, I got that feeling, because he just backed away from me, and I knew he had contacted her. There had been at least one contact that I knew about, where he was ‘checking on her,’ and so it was just in the back of my mind. I would just casually ask, ‘Are you talking to her? Have you talked to her? Tell me, just be honest.’ He kept saying no.”

Rycroft admits that she contacted Mesnick after the special aired to gain closure – though she wishes she hadn’t. She says, “I felt like I needed to apologize for getting that angry with him, but at the same time, I said, ‘I hope you know why I got that mad.’

Don’t count on a friendship blooming in the wake of the televised breakup. “Jason and Molly don’t quite have the characteristics of [people] I would want to be friends with,” she says. “On a level, they both did betray me. I understand it was a break-up, and I’m not mad about that. We all get broken up with, but to be lied to….”

Despite the feeling of betrayal, there is a silver lining for Rycroft. The dethroned ‘Bachelor’ winner says she is dating a new guy named Ty. “Because of the privacy and everything going on, we haven’t really been able to explore a new relationship, but now that everything is over, I’m so excited,” she says.

“I’ve known him for two years and kind of done the dating on-and-off. He has been my biggest rock and supporter throughout this whole process. He’s become my best friend.”

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What the crap!

According to Latina, rapper M.I.A. has named her newborn baby boy “Ickett.”

The boy was born Feb. 11. She described him as “healthy, fine, beautiful and the most amazing thing ever on this planet.”

The “Paper Planes” rapper famously performed “Swagga Like Us” with Jay-Z, T.I., Lil Wayne and Kanye West at the Grammys Feb. 8 — the same day she was due.

“Ickett” is the first child for M.I.A (real name: Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam) and her fiance, musician Benjamin Bronfman.

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