Burying the hatchet. Laguna Seaside: The Actual O.C. alums Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari had one of the well-known feuds of the early 2000s — however it might have all been made for TV.
“We had a difficulty with one another, but it surely had been squashed [by the time filming started],” the Little Market founder stated whereas talking with Cavallari and her cohost and former Laguna Seaside costar, Stephen Colletti on Dear Media’s “Back to the Beach” podcast in November 2022. “I feel what occurred is [producers] sort of noticed this as, like, a place to begin. After which they ran with it.”
Conrad continued: “I imply, I don’t assume we had been, like, finest mates. However we had been like, ‘It’s high quality.’”
The Very Cavallari alum agreed, including that the Laguna Seaside producers determined to play up the stress between her and Conrad. “My tackle it’s, you and I by no means actually had any beef,” she defined. “Actually. I imply, clearly there was, like, just a little fact to what occurred with the three of us. However I felt like MTV coming stored it alive and made it method worse than it ever would have been.”
Throughout the first season of the MTV actuality present, Cavallari and the L.A. Sweet creator often butted heads over their love triangle with Colletti. “I feel one among my takeaways from wanting again [at the show] is I’m like, ‘[Kristin and Stephen are] actually candy [together].’ You guys had been in love and also you had a relationship,” Conrad stated on “Again to the Seaside,” including, “Who wasn’t cheering for that [relationship]?”
Colletti, for his half, stated he thought the present’s modifying viewers’ perspective of the state of affairs. “It’s utterly tilted, since you’re the narrator,” he advised Conrad. “And we’re wild and it’s this hurricane. And, candy Lauren, you guys must root for her.”
The One Tree Hill alum has beforehand opened up about how rewatching Laguna Seaside made him upset on the method his relationship with the Unusual James founder was portrayed onscreen. “I had an enormous drawback with this as a result of look, clearly they created this present round this love triangle and there’s moments the place you and I had been damaged up and so they had realized about Lauren and I hooking up and being superb mates,” Colletti stated throughout an August 2022 episode of “Again to the Seaside.”
He continued: “And, you understand, clearly, stuff occurred at sure occasions. however at no level ever every time we had been collectively, you understand, would I step out on you in that method. They usually actually paint [it like] that’s what I’m doing all through the present — which I’ve an enormous drawback with.”
On the time, although, the previous MTV VJ did admit that the present’s editors had been “genius” for the best way they crafted the drama between him, Conrad and Cavallari. “It’s a must to hand it to them, they actually crafted this storyline in a method that I feel that’s what made audiences actually engaged,” he stated.”
Hold scrolling to relive all of Conrad and Cavallari’s ups and downs by the years: