Perhaps a better analogy for Social Heights, the in-production series (supposedly set to air on Bravo!) about New York's YA jet set elite, would be, "The Hills meets The Real Housewives of NYC."
Possibly-employed fameball Kristian Laliberte rounds out the cast of 20-something unnecessary men, women, and twins who begged agreed to have their lives documented by a film crew — of one.
"Another guest overheard the soon-to-be reality stars dueling over the mock-fights they were staging. They’re already pretending to be people they’re not before they’re fed their story lines. Tell me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a “reality” show?
OshKosh B'Gosh, this show sounds unironically exciting. A real fight about who gets to fake fight?
We'd love to roll our eyes and say "another one of these reality shows about entitlement?," but that anyone is still questioning the integrity of reality shows proves there's still a market for young person angst wrapped in a trust fund.
Oh to be a blogger who yearns to cover Fashion Week! The semi-annual two week party with fancier clothes than usual is also where the power struggle between the old guard (fashion houses and their PR agencies) and the new regime (us Web 2.0 types) goes down. The two warriors clash, negotiate, and, on the dozens of occasions we've heard about, go home together. Mostly, the furor between the two erupts over credentialing — the clipboarding process where a publicist says yes or no to media outlets who want to cover their clients' shows. These days, as the DNC and RNC saw, bloggers sees themselves entitled — equally, if not more so — to the same lavish treatment and access as the established players, like those who produce their content on actual paper. Except the publicists, who are paid to promote and protect their clients' image, are wary about the wayward things a blogger might post. And the fact that she could criticize a runway show in real time, as the models are still walking. This is scary. Which is why publicists like Kelly Cutrone, of fashion PR firm People's Revolution and The Hills regular, don't want to deal with this shit. CONTINUED »
As if the cast of The Hills wasn't annoying enough, now come reports of the idiots' wages per episode (spoiler alert: they're overpaid).
In a world where Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox are raking in seven-figure salaries for a single movie, it should come as no surprise that LC makes a cool $75,000 per episode — totaling over $1.4 million for this season alone. Spencer and Heidi are a close second with $65K per episode; Audrina, $35K; Whitney, $20K; Brody and Lo (!!), $10K.
Need more evidence that MTV's The Hills is one big piece of scripted reality programming that has veered completely away from organic plotlines?
How about showing Whitney at a party Lauren threw for Audrina's birthday, then having Whitney ask Lauren about the party in a later scene because, supposedly, she wasn't there? [Pink Is The New Blog]
Get ready to ingest the cyanide capsules you were given complimentary with the purchase The Hills box set: Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, the debatable "stars" of the show, want to get married on live television. Wish you hadn't heard that? Then go back to sleep and pretend its all some terrible, terrible dream, wrought forth because of last night's season four premiere. Then wake the hell back up because the future Mr. and Mrs. Pratt want to broadcast their fake-love in the most tacky way possible.
Of course, this has been their plan all along. As recently as May, Montag was on Us Weekly laying the groundwork for their reality wedding. And nothing this twosome gets involved with happens without a reality camera crew.
If there was any conceivable way these two could invite the paparazzi into Heidi's womb when she inevitably gets knocked up, you know they would be all over it. We have it on good authority they're already trying.
Too much time has passed since Heidi Montag's latest assault on music, and luckily for us the "singer" decided to release a new single just in time for tonight's season premiere of The Hills. The new song is called "Overdosin" and makes us want to follow the title's lead.
Ugh, LC. What's to say about the unnecessary star of The Hills (season premiere next Monday you guys), except that she sucks and yet is endlessly fascinating the way the minutiae of those mean girls in high school were endlessly fascinating. Except those girls wore American Eagle or Abercrombie & Fitch and had run-down Toyotas, and LC has a $3,000 Chanel bag, and last season bought herself a house for $2.36 million dollars. MainStreet.com — the mix up of celebrity and finance — thinks "Being L.C." costs some serious change, but the hair, styling, clothing, and goodies are usually provided by MTV or marketers looking to attach themselves to her "brand," part of which involves getting dolled up enough to look gender-ambiguous.
Please stay on the other coast, LC; in New York, even the cast of Gossip Girl would knife you for charging nearly $200 for this literal sack of crap you call a clothing line.
LC, the star of the number one show (used in Jihad-training videos on why America is the great devil) The Hills, wants to branch out. She told on E! Online, “I love Gossip Girl, I just love it. It’s so gossipy and superficial. It’s amazing.” She want on to mention that she'd like to do a guest-spot, ala Lydia Hearst last season. The problem is Hearst, while not exactly Katherine Hepburn, has never given viewers reason to think that she plausibly can't act, and LC has spent her teenage and early adulthood proving that she is incapable of any emotion besides pouting and having really shiny hair (that's her favorite emotion). After the jump, our two favorite examples of LC trying to convey a sentiment ….
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Baldwin Hills, the teen-focused reality show that is marketed as BET's answer to Laguna Beach and The Hills, premiered with a respectable (for BET) 1.5 million viewers on Tuesday. As 2007-2008 BET premieres go, the show comes in second place after Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is, meaning troubled R&B stars are more compelling to BET viewers than upper-middle-class kids and their overbearing parents. But how do Baldwin Hills' second season premiere numbers compare to its counterpart at MTV?
"People like Zach and Cody, That's So Raven, and then Miley, so it was like my daughter just turned six, she just finished kindergarten and she knows all about High School Musical, which is really a tween Grease, if you think about it.
"Then what happens for these girls, their next installation is, guess what, The Hills. And they're just old enough to start watching MTV, they're hormonally in place, and they see these four young, beautiful girls who really in my mind are a continuation of a Disney princess, because they live in a world that most people will never live in. And, on top of that, you pick up the extra market of people who do live in that world who want to see themselves reflected back, like the fashion and entertainment people who kind of watch it like it's something like they can't really believe that they're watching, but they are watching and they're enthralled because they can't believe they're watching what they're watching but they're also narcissistic because they see their own world reflected back to them.
"And then there's a sub-group of people that are drawn in by their wives. And I know this because when I go out of town or something, people come up to me, like a 40-year-old guy who's an engineer who is like, "Oh, are you on The Hills? I told my wife that was you, I knew that was you." And I say, "Well why do you watch The Hills?" And he says, "I don't know, I like to watch TV with my wife and she started having me watch it."" [MB]
In May, Times television fabricator Alessanda Stanley referred to The Hills star Heidi Montag as a "feminist hero." Now, Lauren Conrad gets her own (incredibly accurate) misnomer: "an avatar of synergy." That's how academic Mark Andrejevic, who wrote something called Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched, describes Conrad, for her fusing entertainment and advertising together into one easily consumed product. Andrejevic is talking to Forbes about how MTV's most successful television show has produced a troop of ladies who are brands unto themselves, launching fashion lines and scoring endorsement deals while cameras chronicle their normal lives. But soon, with Hills creator Adam Divello spinning off the show, it won't just be the ladies who are earmarked for synergy. CONTINUED »
Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag ruined one of the most beloved children’s characters at an AIDS benefit yesterday in LA. Barney would have been infinitely cooler had he eaten the reality show losers, so now he’s kind of dead to me.
When Lindsay Lohan starts downing shots of tequila with The Hills' Lauren Conrad, it's hard to tell who's social standing sank. [R&M]
Somehow the travails of Buzz Bissinger v. Will Leitch, Jared Paul Stern v. Ron Burkle, Page Six v. Vanessa Grigoriadis, Cathy Horyn v. Giorgio Armani, Dale Peck v. Rick Moody, and Leonard Wieseltier v. Andrew Sullivan get boiled down to what's going on between Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag: CONTINUED »
END OF DAYS The Hills has been renewed for a fourth, 19-episode season of fictionalized drama. [Us]
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