Not only did Heidi Montag repeat an outfit at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, she offered more fodder for the boring war with Lauren Conrad to continue. "After hearing about Conrad’s earlier rants, Capitol File magazine thought it best to create a separate VIP area for Pratt and Montag when they arrived at the Newseum afterparty. But the bitterness apparently remained. After potty-mouthed celebrity DJ Pete Wentz (of Fall Out Boy) gave multiple shout-outs to the couple, Conrad called it quits and headed out." Then again, Wentz also "kept it classy by shouting, 'I just want to thank my girlfriend's vagina!'" So, yeah.
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt did end up attending the White House Correspondents Dinner, even after turning down MSNBC's invite, an invite they denied ever extending. (They were the invited guests of Fortune.) Except Heidi committed the ultimate faux pas. No, she didn't flip-flop on her John McCain endorsement — she wore the same outfit she sported for an event just a week earlier.
AGAINST ALL ODDS Spencer Pratt says he is 100 percent sure that a Lauren Conrad sex tape existed, despite her denials and the awkward segments on The Hills where she alludes to why she's not friends with Heidi Montag anymore. Sadly, this news comes on The Tyra Banks Show and is only relayed by Us Weekly, who Spencer supposedly inked a deal with. [Us]
While ABC News is bringing Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Ashlee Simpson, and Pete Wentz as its guests to the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday, MSNBC thought it was bringing Us Weekly conspirator Heidi Montag. That was until Montag's boyfriend and manager Spencer Pratt demanded a pair of first class plane tickets for their travel. MSNBC refused, though they claim to have never invited Montag; "We are not having, nor did we invite, any celebrities to sit at our table." One Montag source says, "It wasn't 'A-listy' enough." Huh. Because in addition to ABC's roster, Donatella Versace, Rupert Everett, Pam Anderson, Jeff Koons, Kerry Washington, Karl Rove, Mark Penn, Hayden Panettierre, John Cusack, Claire Danes, Rob Lowe, Marcia Cross, Tracey Ullman all didn't think the event was below them.
Which weekly glossy just signed a mega-million-dollar contract with a certain annoying celebrity couple? The deal is the magazine will get exclusive interviews with the couple, but in turn they need to break up (again), get back together (again) and actually get married.
Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are said to be working over MTV for their own Newlyweds-esque show. Fiance and manager Pratt wants the world to see the real Heidi primadonna that she is, not the contrived one she acts like for the cameras. [P6]
I’ll come right out and admit it: My hatred for Heidi Montag knows no bounds. Out of any reality TV character — even Spencer Pratt — she is by far the most vile human being I have ever witnessed, what with her absolute disregard for reality and her lame attempts at rewriting history. Things hit rock bottom the other night, when my roommate had to sit and listen to my hour-long diatribe detailing how happy I would be if Heidi were to get hit by a bus.
Like everything Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt related, news that they're relationship is on the rocks this week is a perfect opportunity to plug the two different Las Vegas hotels they're staying at: She's at the newly opened Palazzo and he's at the Hard Rock.
Stay tuned for a list of every vodka brand they imbibe and every store and restaurant they visit.
Oh wait, too late: People mentions they dined at Dos Caminos and CUT Steakhouse.
Who's surprised to find these "candid" Pacific Coast News shots of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt spending Easter with her neice pop up on Us Weekly? It's as if they had no idea the photographers would be there … when they phoned them in. [Us]
Say what you will about Lauren Conrad’s clothing line — at least it looks quality. And it’s obvious she created every design herself and put her heart and soul into the collection.
Keep that in mind as you view Heidi Montag’s new line, not-so-creatively titled “Heidiwood,” that she most certainly did not have a hand in creating. Also? The line looks like something on the sale racks at Forever 21.
Today, for three or four hours, Heidi Montag will warrant your sympathy. For once. [TMZ]
Even if you hate Paula Abdul, and there are plenty of legitimate reasons to do so, you still have to respect her for admitting her new video sucks. According to a source, "She doesn’t think it’s Heidi Montag-bad, but she’s still trying to pretend like it didn’t happen."
Oxford English Dictionary editors, take note:
Heidi Montag \adjective\ Hi-DE-Mon-TOG
:Of or relating to a bad music video
Us Weekly co-conspirator Heidi Montag pops up on this week's cover, albeit in a small box, to share her reaction to the horror that was her music video. Though the video, shot by sorta-boyfriend Spencer Pratt, made it to No. 7 on iTunes, Montag says the brutal reviews brought her to tears. CONTINUED »
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collegium \kuh-LEG-ee-um\ noun
: a group in which each member has approximately equal power and authority
Heidi and Spencer never felt like they were in a collegium with Lauren because as the narrator, she has more power over the show.
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• Heidi and Spencer really believer her post-USSR "Higher" video was great art. This is what MTV does to the kids.
• The polls say that Jews don't like Obama. How could that be? The media loves him. CONTINUED »
Here's the new Heidi Montag single. We imagine that this song will sell because the music industry isn't taste driven, though probably not to anyone who caught that Radiohead reference here.
For those who want to avoid bleeding ears and eyes, the video feels like it was produced in Russia immediately following the fall of communism. It's as if fake breasts and blond hair were the truest form of expression.
No offense to the Russians.
NO ALARMS AND NO SURPRISES On Super Bowl weekend, Sunday Styles is bereft of its happy couples from Ivy League colleges and/or schools that cost as much Ivy League ones, and must turn to trends. The latest: celebrities living it up in Vegas, where they given freedom to pimp themselves on their own terms. “In Vegas, I don’t have to worry about photographers waiting outside my house every day because they can’t wait outside my hotel room,” Spencer Pratt says. His girlfriend, Heidi Montag's thoughts on the matter, or any matter whatsoever? Silence. [NYT]
• Cookin with Coolio is even more absurd than we had imagined.
• Finally, an answer for P.C. liberal democrats: MoveOn.org endorses Obama. CONTINUED »
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt might be running the most lucrative faux celebrity relationship in Hollywood. Not only are they said to be pocketing cash for cooperating with photo agencies like Pacific Coast News, but we're also hearing they're under the sheets with the celebrity weeklies.
A tabloid operative with direct knowledge of the situation insists Us Weekly paid the couple a "HUGE fee, around $15,000" in exchange for shooting them for the "Why I Called Off My Wedding" cover story.
It's on the books as a "location fee," we're told, which would allow Us to hold up its public persona of not paying for stories or access, while getting the shoot through accounting's spreadsheets.
An Us Weekly top editor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, flatly denies the charge: "No, we didn't" pay, says the staffer. "Make-up was taken care of by us," but there weren't even any travel incidentals to pay for, since "I think we shot at his house."
Which is true; the photos were taken at Spencer's house in the Palisades. (Wenner's money managers might be wise, then, to question any such "location fee.") And it's also a little perplexing that any magazine would have to pay to shoot Heidi and Spencer — those two will sell their first through fifth born for a cover, or even a quarter-second of footage on a VH1 countdown show. But that's the rub.
Is Pacific Coast News just the latest paparazzi agency to be fingered for colluding with celebrities? We're hearing very good information that the agency cut a deal with The Hills' Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. PCN gets access the couple, staged shots, and thus a leg up in selling their photos to tabloids, while Heidi and Spencer get to be seen in positive light. Oh, and pad their pockets with a cut of the revenues.
A PCN exec we reached out to hasn't returned comment, but one knowledgeable source also says PCN had a similar financial arrangement with cash-starved Brandon Davis, who would ensure shots of him and Mischa Barton were captured by the agency's photogs. (So the rumor goes, Brandon began running out of photo-worthy activities with Mischa. Thus, there's a pic of them playing croquet.) Mischa, who was once thought to be just a pawn in Brandon's photo escapades, is now said to be in on the deal herself; following her DUI arrest, a tearful Mischa walking her dogs in Greystone Park appeared, credited to PCN.
PCN has also acknowledged to industry sources we spoke with that they have a "business relationship" with Spencer, but didn't elaborate. Heidi has been overheard talking about her own deal with "Matt at PCN" to shoot her exclusively.
So how much do these photos enrich this unnerving reality twosome? A two-page spread inside a celeb weekly can snag "at least" $5,000 gross, according to one paparazzi source, but the percentage Heidi and Spencer take home isn't known. But their lengthy photospread on UsMagazine.com, as exhibited here in a PCN photo, probably paid for a teeth whitening or two.
Of course, none of this is entirely "news," as most photo agencies secure exclusive or semi-exclusive relationships with any number of celebs and reality starlets. Not that standard industry practices aren't worthy of our attention, of course.
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