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Goodbye Speidi. Or just another Heidi and Spencer game?
Speidi is no more.
(Maybe)
Heidi Montag, the plastic surgery enhanced star of MTV’s “The Hills”, has filed papers for a legal separation from her husband of 14 months, Spencer Pratt.
Montag conveniently managed to get herself photographed leaving a Santa Monica court house on Tuesday clutching a bundle of papers which quickly made their way to the TMZ.com website. Montag, 23, cited irreconcilable differences for the split and, we’re told, “filed the legal docs in her own handwriting”.
Montag first moved out the home she shared with the scheming Pratt a couple of weeks ago saying she “needed some alone time.” But with no divorce or other papers to back up her claims, friends and much of the media weren’t buying the split and saw it more as a publicity stunt. Moreover, she moved in with her “Hills” friend Jennifer Bunney, with whom she just happens to be filming a new reality show about… relationships.
Despite some of the more outrageous claims about Pratt’s behavior from the Heidi camp (controlling, isolated her from friends etc.), Montag pointedly filed for separation rather than divorce. And separations can be undone.
Audrina Patridge talks about new slasher film “Sorority Row”
Hollywood starlet and tabloid favorite Audrina Patridge takes to the big screen in horror movie “Sorority Row,” which opens September 11.
She plays a sorority girl who ends up being the victim of a prank gone wrong — which later sparks a killing spree at the sorority.
She talked with Reuters about the film and her upcoming reality TV show on MTV, which you can read here.
In the video below, she shares what her favorite horror movies are, talks about her character in “Sorority Row” and dishes on bonding with her fellow castmates.
It turns out, Patridge said, that on the set there was none of the cattiness that colors “The Hills,” the top-rated reality series on MTV that made her a celebrity. Click below to watch the video.
In the article as printed through Yahoo News, the following exchange is reported:
> Q: Tell me about your new series.
> A: “My new show. Well, as soon as we’re done filming these bonus episodes for “The Hills,” then I segueway into the new show with (producer) Mark Burnett and I’m also going to be producing on it.
Please tell me that someone will discuss either with Laura or Patricia Reaney (listed as the editor) the word “segue”. Perhaps Miss Patridge said something like “seeg-way” but they still should have managed to get the word right. Thanks.
Audrina Patridge’s next role: burglary detective
Reality star Audrina Patridge from MTV show “The Hills” (that’s her on the left in the photo with co-star Lauren Conrad) has a new project – catching a couple who Patridge says broke into her home and burglarized her.
Patridge on Tuesday posted surveillance video at her Web site of a man and woman walking around in her home and grabbing a pair of bags. This comes after Patridge on Monday said she came home the night before and discovered that she had been burglarized. “Most of the items are replaceable, but they took off with a few very sentimental things too,” Patridge wrote.
In the surveillance video, the man and the woman do not appear all too menacing. At one point, they come across something that appears to surprise them, and the man doubles over with the kind of exclamation usually seen in teen girls. Then the two scamper off together out of the camera’s frame.
On her Web posting, Patridge has given the number of the Los Angeles Police Department in the hopes that anyone who can recognize the man and woman tip off investigators.
Acting roles have slowly trickled in for Patridge since she first appeared in “The Hills,” a show that has the look and feel of a television drama but is packaged as a reality show, with all the squabbles and naked ambition that come with that. Stay tuned to see how Patridge’s new crime-fighting role plays out.
“The Hills”: Can’t we all get along? “90210″ women can.
With Monday’s premiere titled “We’ll Never Be Friends,” it was clear that the fourth-and possibly final-season of MTV’s “The Hills” would not disappoint in the drama department. When we left off with the girls, the roommate situation with Lauren, Audrina and Lo was on thin ice. Last season’s final episode ended with Audrina telling a tear-jerked Lauren about how Lo had come between their friendship, and Monday’s season premiere ended much like that last episode.
Lo ditched Audrina’s birthday party to play with a puppy, and Audrina was understandably mad. When Lo tried to smooth things over, Audrina would have none of it, finally telling Lo: “We’ll never be friends!”
So what’s Lauren to do now? Between her new love interest Doug and job at fashion PR firm People’s Revolution, she was left to question how to navigate a torn home life where her two best friends and roommates hate each other. Will Audrina move out and join Heidi among Lauren’s spurned best friends?
It all brings to mind another pair of dueling young women on 1990s hit TV show “Beverly Hills, 90210,” Jennie Garth, 36, and Shannen Doherty, 37, who portrayed, Kelly Taylor and Brenda Walsh, respectively. Back then, Garth and Doherty engaged in cat fights on set and competed for celebrity magazine headlines off set.
Sound familiar “Hills” fans?
The CW network is launching a new version of the show about teenagers growing up in Beverly Hills called “90210,” and Garth and Doherty recently shot an episode together in their old characters for the new show. Word comes today that reuniting the two “wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be,” Garth told TV Guide magazine. ”We’re both grown women, both professionals,” she added. “Once we were working, it felt like a good fit.”
Since the original “90201″ went off the air, Doherty has been successful with the TV show “Charmed.” Garth also did some TV work and took time off to become a mother. More recently, she regained the Hollywood limelight as a guest contestant on “Dancing with the Stars.”
“Hills” star Lauren Conrad not one for acting
Reality TV star and fledgling fashion designer Lauren Conrad, 22, told celebrity television show “Entertainment Tonight” that her reality program “The Hills,” which will premiere its fourth season on Monday, will have plenty of personal drama in its new season – with a couple reconciliations thrown in the mix. The show, which follows the lives of young women in Los Angeles, will be all about real emotions, at least as far as Conrad is concerned because the California native said she can’t act. “I tried (acting) when I first moved to L.A.,” Conrad said to ET. “I took a couple of classes. Awful. Any opportunity you have to make fun of yourself I think is fun to do, but acting is an art and I don’t think I have a talent there.” Maybe it doesn’t matter. “The Hills” is, after all, a “realilty” show and while she admittedly can’t act, Conrad truly has her eye on designing clothes. She will attend her first Emmy Awards ceremony on Sept. 21, but for her acting. Conrad is designing gowns worn by Emmy presenters.
ET’s interview with Conrad airs on Wednesday night.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis)
