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.

Has Lauren Conrad had enough of life as a reality TV star?

Maybe.

“It’s coming to a point where I love this show so much, but I’m ready to kind of walk away…I’ve been doing it for five years now. Five years on TV is a really, really long time,”  Conrad, 22,  said of life on MTV’s “The Hills” and its predecessor “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County”.

Asked by Extra about the media attention on her relationships, Conrad said; “It makes it more difficult. It’s more difficult when not only everyone knows about your problems, but they make them worse because things escalate and things get twisted…. It’s hard to have an actual friendship be torn apart in the media.”

Is L.C. talking about her famous feud with former BFF Heidi Montag? Or her split with  boyfriend Jason Whaler a couple of years ago.

And if Lauren quits “The Hills”, could the show survive?

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.”

Maybe maturity helped time heal whatever wounds they once unleashed on each other, and maybe in the future, Lo and Audrina will be able to get along. Lauren would be happy. But until then, TV fans have “The Hills,” and the drama continues.

(Reporting by Jennifer Martinez)

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)

After her clothing line was yanked from all Los Angeles’ Kitson boutique stores, “The Hills” star Lauren Conrad is getting a new chance at showcasing her fashion design skills in a major way. The 22-year-old has been tapped to design a couture gown for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards trophy girls who hand out U.S. television’s top honors.

“When the show approached me, I was so excited,” Conrad said in an email to Reuters. “I love designing dresses and I can’t wait to see my own designs on the Primetime Emmy Awards.  The dress will be elegant yet simple with a Lauren Conrad Collection vibe.”

Conrad is a newcomer to the fashion scene and her eponymous clothing line, which was unveiled for the first time during this year’s at L.A. Fashion Week, has received stormy reviews. Kitson owner Fraser Ross even went so far as to describe sales of Conrad’s line at the boutiques as “lackluster” to New York magazine. Still, the Southern California casual-inspired dresses and tops are in high-end stores such as Fred Segal, Bloomingdale’s and Planet Blue. 

The Emmy  producers would seem to be smart by capitalizing on Conrad’s celebrity status and large following of fans.  “The Hills” is MTV’s highest-rated show, and Conrad regularly graces the front pages of celebrity gossip magazines. And she is just as coy about what her Emmy gowns will look like as she is savvy about dealing with her star status and the media.

When asked what the gowns will look like, she wrote: “You’ll just have to wait until Sept. 21 for the finished product.” The Emmys are given out in a nationally televised ceremony from L.A. on Sept. 21.

Meanwhile, another celebrity is trying her hand in the fashion world on a new cable reality TV series.  Forrest Whitaker’s wife and former model, Keisha Whitaker, will host a new reality show on cable TV’s TLC network named after one of the most popular questions at Hollywood red carpet events: “Who Are You Wearing?”

On each episode, four undiscovered designers will have the opportunity to create a red carpet dress for the celebrity guest judge of the week. Some celebrities who will be lending their red carpet prowess to the show are “Heroes” star Ali Landry, Laila Ali, daughter of boxer Muhammad Ali, and E! TV’s red carpet judge Melissa Rivers. The show premieres on August 22 at 10pm on TLC.