
The remaining continues to be unwritten … or not. When The Hills first debuted in Could 2006, it regarded so much completely different than the revival, The Hills: New Beginnings. The MTV actuality present, a derivative of Laguna Seaside, adopted Lauren Conrad from Laguna to Los Angeles the place she moved in with Heidi Montag. Their “first good friend,” who additionally lived within the constructing — and later lived with Conrad — was Audrina Patridge.
Whereas attending the Style Institute of Design & Merchandising, Conrad rapidly landed an internship at Teen Vogue and met fellow intern Whitney Port. In the meantime, Montag left college shortly after the season started when she landed a job at Bolthouse Productions.
Throughout the third episode of the season, Conrad acquired a name from ex-boyfriend Jason Wahler. The pair had a nasty breakup throughout season 2 of Laguna Seaside when he kissed his ex. Nonetheless, after apologizing and promising he was a brand new man, the pair rekindled their romance and commenced relationship once more. In the meantime, Montag was in a relationship with Jordan Eubanks.
So, what about now? Though a number of the authentic stars — Patridge, Montag and Port, moved on to The Hills: New Beginnings, Conrad didn’t. Plus, many followers had been thrown off about whether or not the present was really actuality TV or scripted.
“All the conditions had been actual conditions. If it was scripted, I might’ve written even higher storylines,” creator and govt producer Adam DiVello instructed ABC in 2016. “We had been doing a whole lot of episodes about Audrina and [her on-off boyfriend] Justin Bobby [Brescia] … tons of repeated storylines. However you may’t make up a number of the issues which have occurred to them.”
Liz Gateley, who created Laguna Seaside, added that it was a bit more durable to push tales out throughout The Hills.
“After we did Laguna Seaside, we shot for six or seven months; February to August and we received six episodes so we had a month and every week per episode. As The Hills received extra common, the community began ordering 22 episodes and generally twice a 12 months we had been airing,” she shared. “We had been actually taking pictures year-round; the children by no means received breaks. We needed to produce an episode every week. We did push them and we did should make extra story occur in a shorter period of time. We kind of needed to determine it out as we went.”
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