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Heidi Montag is heading overseas.

“The Hills” star says she and her boyfriend Spencer Pratt will soon be taking a trip to Iraq where she plans to perform for U.S. troops. Who knew they were part of her fan base?

“It’s very important to me and important to Spencer to support the troops and go over there,” the “Higher” singer told “Extra.” But although she’s released three pop songs, Montag’s music hasn’t exactly been a hit in the States.

Montag says her late brother Eric O’Hara, who once fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, has inspired her to take the trip. O’Hara, 24, a veteran of combat missions, died in March during an accident at a hotel in Steamboat Springs, Colo., where he worked.

Seems the couple has received some additional inspiration from Meghan McCain, the daughter of presumptive Republican candidate John McCain.

“I think Meghan McCain is helping organize Heidi and our Iraq trip,” said Pratt. “Her dad definitely has some pull with the military. I think she’s going to put that together for us.”

Montag is best known as the “frenemy” of Lauren Conrad on the hit series, “The Hills.”

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Senator Barack Obama may not have an “e-mail relationship” with Scarlett Johansson, but rival Senator John McCain — or at least his daughter — has certainly struck up a friendship with a Hollywood celebrity — who’s none other than Heidi Montag.

The Hills star, who has voiced her support for the Republican presidential hopeful, has been in close contact with Sen. McCain’s daughter, Meghan.

“She’s very sweet,” Heidi tells Extra. “We have a lot in common.”

That includes their support of the troops. Meghan is trying to engineer a trip to Iraq for Heidi and fiance Spencer Pratt.

“Her dad definitely has some pull with the military,” Spencer says. “I think she’s going to put that together for us.”

Heidi is determined to entertain the troops overseas as her late stepbrother Eric O’Hara served in the 82nd Airborne Division. He wasn’t killed during duty, but passed in a freak accident back home in Colorado.

“My brother was an airborne ranger in Afghanistan and Iraq,” she says. “It’s very important to me and important to Spencer to support the troops and go over there.”

Visits to stationed soldiers aren’t the only plans in the works for the couple everyone loves to hate. The two are currently creating their “top secret” video game and Heidi’s still hard at work with her clothing line, Heidiwood.

While archnemisis Lauren Conrad’s clothing line may have been dropped, Heidiwood most likely won’t suffer the same fate.

“It’s selling really well,” the 21-year-old says. “It’s one of the #1 selling celebrity clothing lines.”

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Spencer Pratt has apologized to Mary-Kate Olsen for calling her the “less cute (Olsen) twin,” after she joked about his bad temper during a late-night TV appearance.

Olsen upset The Hills star when she recalled high school memories of Pratt during a recent appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, revealing he was a star soccer player who often flew into a rage on the pitch.

Pratt immediately proved her right by attacking Olsen in the media.

But now he admits he let his emotions get the better of him: “I apologize for getting caught up in trash talking, but she brought up an emotional subject when she mentioned the soccer stuff.”

Pratt tells Us Weekly magazine he has nothing but the utmost respect for his old school pal: “I’m secretly jealous of her. I want my face on a lunchbox, too.”

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