Lauren Conrad Confronts Heidi Montag: "You're a Bad Person"

[Us Weekly] - The ongoing feud between Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag finally comes to blows on Monday’s episode of MTV’s The Hills.
In an exclusive sneak peek (see video below), Conrad, 21, confronts her former BFF Montag, 21, at a Beverly Hills Declare Yourself event, about allegedly spreading those nasty sex tape rumors. "You think it's OK for someone to say those things about people, and go on and think it's funny?" Conrad demands, as pals Audrina Patridge and Whitney Port stare on in silence.
"I had nothing to do with you and anything that you've done with your ex-boyfriend!" Montag fires back, never denying involvement.

"You can keep saying that and make yourself think you're a good person, but you're a bad person!" Conrad seethes.

Montag and her beau Spencer Pratt have also recently had their share of sex tape drama. For more, click here and don't forget to log onto Usmagazine.com's Hills Extra for all things Lauren and Heidi.

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Is Lauren and Heidi's Feud Staged?

[Hollyscoop] - MTV's hit show 'The Hills' has been getting a lot of heat lately about the authenticity of the show. Star magazine is now reporting that Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag have ended their public feud and they're actually buddy-buddy. The girls were spotted right before Halloween getting in Lauren's black Mercedes. "They were laughing, hugging and being very affectionate with one another," says the source. "There were no MTV cameras around," the source adds. "This seemed like the real deal. I saw Heidi coming to visit Lauren at her apartment without her fiancé Spencer Pratt." So why hide the friendship? Their feud has done wonders for their ratings. In next week's episode Lauren and Heidi meet up 'to talk' and Lauren tells Heidi, "I want to forgive you, and I want to forget you." This feud has even got me hooked on the show this season, but this is the first season I've watched the show. Are you guys already over the drama or is it still a guilty pleasure?

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Beverly Hills Hotel Immune to Lauren Conrad's Charms

Don't expect to see reality TV riff-raff like The Hills star Lauren Conrad at the Beverly Hills Hotel's newish Nineteen 12 bar anytime soon. According to a recent guest there, doormen at the bar—where a vodka tonic will set you back an unsavory $18—have been given a strict edict by management: No trash.
"When the guy with the guest list was giving someone in our party a hard time, he said, 'I'm sorry, but we're trying not to let in people like Paris Hilton and Lauren Conrad,'" laughs Radar's source. (For the record, neither was present at the time). "They've actually hired a ton of security guards to enforce it." Finally, the great city of Los Angeles is home to a place where A-listers like Russell Crowe can sip on $96 glasses of champagne without being bothered by the hoi polloi!

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Lauren Conrad Helps Shine Light on Darfur Crisis

Lauren Conrad is trying to raise awareness of the current crisis in Darfur. Alongside Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, Desmond Tutu, Barak Obama, Jessica Biel and others, each star in their own 30-second public service announcements about Darfur.

The clips are part of a social action campaign for the feature film documentary Darfur Now, which follows six people trying to bring an end to the crisis. Watch LC's 30-second announcement here.


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Jason Wahler Finally Does Time...In a Seattle Jail

[E! News] - Jason Wahler is finally doing some time for a crime.

The reality-TV bad boy turned seemingly remorseful wannabe actor checked himself into jail in Seattle Thursday afternoon to serve time in connection with his April bust for making a drunken scene in a hotel lobby.

Although Wahler, 20, was sentenced to 30 days for assault, criminal trespass and underage drinking, his legal camp is looking to get him out in 20 days, or possibly as soon as next week.
"Jason is taking full responsibility for his previous actions," Wahler's publicist, Siri Gaber, said in a statement obtained by E! News.

"He has been through rehabilitation, done community service and has been attending AA meetings. He would like to be an example to young people to make them realize that there are consequences for bad behavior."

The Seattle City Attorney's Office said Wahler is due in court Monday, but did not have any immediate information on the nature of the hearing.

Wahler was accused of punching a security guard, spewing racial and homophobic epithets and passing out in the hallway of Seattle's Waterfront Marriott Hotel in the wee hours of Apr. 8.
A month later, the Laguna Beach and The Hills star's two-month jail sentence in a separate case, for battering—both verbally and with his fists—a Los Angeles County transportation worker last year, was suspended while he entered a 60-day in-house rehab program.

After completing treatment, Wahler told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in August, he continued with outpatient therapy, attended anger-management counseling, went to four Alcoholics Anonymous meetings a week and voluntarily sought out a racial-tolerance class.
For his court-ordered community service, Wahler pulled maintenance duty at a Laguna-area church mission—in a part of Orange County that might actually qualify as real—and spoke at local high schools to warn students about the perils of both drinking irresponsibly and of brazenly flouting the law in general.

And perhaps even more importantly, according to what he said to Post-Intelligencer, Wahler deleted about 75 percent of the numbers that were in his cell phone before he started rehabbing.

"It's like your parents always told you," he said. "Choose your friends wisely."
At least one number was too important for Wahler to toss, however. He popped the question to 19-year-old Katja Decker-Sadowski, a tennis player at USC, during a housewarming party they threw at their shared L.A. abode on Aug. 25.

No date has been set, but Decker-Sadowski has a four-carat emerald-cut sparkler to show for it.

Lauren Conrad Befriends A Dog...No, She's Not Made Up With Heidi

The stars came out in their dozens last night for the 10th anniversary 'Express Yourself' fundraiser event in Santa Monica, California. With Daniel Powter (remember him?) on the list of the night's performers, the event, sponsored by Target, was in benefit of the P.S. Arts programme to restore arts education to public schools.

Alongside our very own Lauren Conrad, the red carpet was littered with celebs including supermodel Petra Nemcova, ex-Friends star Lisa Kudrow, and Sex and the City's Kristin Davis.

Pictured right is LC, looking gorgeous as usual, posing with a pooch at the event last night.

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Lauren Conrad - Not Just Another Celebrity Putting Out Another Clothing Line

[Mercury News] - Lauren Conrad wants you to know she's not just another celebrity putting out another clothing line. Really.

Despite being Orange County's best-known reality TV star, Conrad says, fashion is something she's had her heart set on, even before starring in MTV's "Laguna Beach: The Real O.C." and now "The Hills," which follows Conrad's pursuit of a fashion career.
Conrad's eponymous clothing line recently made its online debut with 10 pieces for fall. A full launch with a bigger collection will come this spring.
"Fashion is something I've always wanted to do, ever since the sixth grade," the 21-year-old says in her trademark husky rasp.

In person, Conrad appears a polished version of the archetypal California girl: sun-kissed skin, blue (sometimes green) eyes with strong brows, and flaxen hair tied in a loose ponytail.
While she posed for a photo shoot at her working studio in Santa Monica, just two days after presenting an award to Justin Timberlake at the MTV Video Music Awards, chatter with her publicists revolved around Britney's comeback performance and the evening's fashion hits and misses.

"Your dress was sooo cute," they cooed, referring to the white and silver sequined sheath Conrad designed herself. Conrad also designed the strapless teal bubble dress she donned for the Teen Choice Awards in August. She's been able to ride the wave of her reality TV fame and continues to raise her profile: She's the spokeswoman for mark, a line of makeup for younger women by Avon, and is working on a handbag collection with Linea Pelle. During the shoot, Conrad's publicist asked whether Conrad was up for being on the cover of Shape magazine. In a swimsuit. "With a week's notice?" Conrad asked dubiously. "I'm going to need a month or two to prepare for that."

The media exposure isn't slowing down any. She was on the cover of the October issue of Seventeen magazine and is a regular fixture in US Weekly and is often mentioned on PerezHilton.com. Still, it's the clothing line in particular that signifies the start of what she hopes to be a lasting career. "This is something I want to continue to do, long after the show ends," she says.

The Lauren Conrad collection is filled with slinky jersey dresses and flowy tops, and each piece looks like something Conrad would wear either to the beach or out to dinner. That's exactly what she intended. She says she decided to use her name for the label because all the fashion designers she admired, like Phillip Lim, Diane Von Furstenberg, Marc Jacobs and Cynthia Vincent, had clothing collections in their names, too.

Each garment in her collection is named after a friend, so there are dresses named after her "Hills" co-stars, like the Audrina and the Whitney. "The clothes really fit my personality. I like comfortable, beachy clothes that can also be dressed up, too." Moving from Laguna Beach to Hollywood has influenced and changed her style a bit. In high school, Conrad says, girls lived in Juicy Couture sweats and designer handbags.

"O.C. is definitely a lot more casual and label-oriented," she says. "I used to wear only tanks and jeans but now I love dressing more girlie and wearing more dresses. There's a lot more mixing it up in L.A., more of an anything goes style." Churning out her own line of apparel was a "really cool" process that allowed her to use what she's been learning at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (she's majoring in product development) and what she's picked up while interning at Teen Vogue.

She's aware of the opportunities and doors that have opened because of the show. MTV has partnered with Conrad for her fashion line for two years. After that, the line will belong exclusively to her. "Right now, I'm just trying to build up the brand and build up the image," she says. "The real test will be whether women out there who will buy my clothes." The limited fall collection will only be available online at Shoplaurenconrad.com., but the spring collection will be available at Shopbop.com. and selected specialty retailers. Prices range from $40 to $180.