MTV apparently will be looking for another magazine partner for its hit series “The Hills” next season. The show’s second season ended with Lauren Conrad and her partner in crime, Teen Vogue intern Whitney Port, going to Paris to assist then-senior editor Kimball Hastings as he covered the Crillon Ball. Port is listed as West Coast fashion contributor and Conrad as intern in Teen Vogue’s March issue, the same one where the Crillon Ball coverage will appear, but, according to a spokeswoman, their presence will cease to exist after that. “The girls have moved on from Teen Vogue,” she said, declining to say whether or not Teen Vogue will be part of the series next time (which probably means it won’t be). The two partners benefited greatly from cross-promotion — Teen Vogue featured both girls on its August 2007 cover, a top seller for the year, and Conrad by herself on its June/July 2006 cover. An MTV spokeswoman did not return calls for comment by press time.

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The Gauntlet III is the 15th season of the Real World/Road Rules Challenge and the third of the Gauntlet series. The teams will be in the format of The Gauntlet II, designated Veterans and Rookies, based on the number of prior Challenge seasons on which each cast member has competed.

After each team challenge, the losing team captain would be sent to the Gauntlet, where they would face an opponent of the same sex and same team who was voted into the Gauntlet by the opposing team. Gauntlets alternated between males and females.

Filming took place south of the border in sunny Mexico. The host once again this year is BMX Biker TJ Lavin. The season premieres on MTV January 23rd, 2008.

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Lauren and Brent Bolthouse (ya know, Heidi’s boss) meet for a meal at the Newsroom Cafe.

When we last left The Hills, Heidi Montag announced she needed time “to think” alone and then walked out on fiance Spencer Pratt. The season finale ended with fans wondering what was next for the couple most viewers love to hate.

In an exclusive interview in the new Us Weekly on newsstands today, an often tense Montag and Pratt explain why their engagement ended, and claim they are still together – but with no plans to wed.

Says Montag,”We’re just going back to being boyfriend and girlfriend…” as Pratt interjects without mockery, “…when our relationship was flawless.”

So where is Montag’s engagement ring? “I turned it into a pendant,” she says. “It wasn’t my dream ring. I don’t like what it represents. I might sell it.”

As for Lauren Conrad? When asked if she might be laughing at them, Montag tells Us, “It would be really sad if she did, but her opinions don’t affect me at all. She’s not a part of my life anymore.”

Meanwhile, Pratt says he’s sorry: “I need to accept that Heidi wants her princess wedding and that she is the boss.” Montag, for her part, doesn’t sound ready to give up quite yet: “I have a high tolerance for pain. I’ve lived with Spencer.”

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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.”

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