18 things you probably don't know about 'The Hills'

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Lauren Conrad was reportedly paid nan most.

Some reports from 2010 said immoderate formed members were paid upward of $100,000 an episode. 

Heidi Pratt (née Montag) told BuzzFeed successful 2016 that nan formed members were each paid different salaries.

"We wanted to do for illustration 'Jersey Shore' and merge together and each get a bigger paycheck, but everyone was a small spot excessively divided," she told nan publication.

Heidi added, "I mean, evidently Lauren sewage paid nan astir — it was her show."

Heidi said she has nary thought what happened to her emotion liking from nan first season.

Before gathering her now-husband, Heidi dated Jordan, who seemed bully capable and moreover talented her an adorable puppy for Christmas.

Jordan and his roommate, Brian, were reoccurring stars connected play one, but past they benignant of disappeared. 

"I don't cognize what happened to Brian and Jordan, honestly," Heidi told BuzzFeed successful 2016. "The canine that I was fixed connected 'The Hills' for Christmas is pinch my champion friend's family, and Bella lives nan astir posh, luxurious life successful this mansion by nan pool."

She went on, "I deliberation Bella has a amended life than moreover I do now."

Pratt didn't really activity for Bolthouse Productions.

Many plotlines from "The Hills" were manufactured for on-screen drama, and Pratt's season-one promotion astatine Bolthouse Productions was 1 of them.

"I decidedly did not get nan promotion complete Elodie," she told BuzzFeed. "She really worked location and I dress worked there, truthful it was evidently a dress promotion for her to beryllium upset about. That full crippled was scripted."

Pratt said her connections sewage nan stars into nan large clubs they partied at.

Even if formed members weren't of ineligible drinking property during filming, Pratt told BuzzFeed, "When we were each astatine Les Deux we were drinking immoderate we could get our hands on."

She continued, "We sewage successful because I did activity for Bolthouse and who doesn't want immoderate hot, young, nosy girls successful their club?"

Several formed members were apparently "scouted" to beryllium connected nan show.

Even though it appeared that Audrina Patridge organically became accelerated friends pinch nan stars, she was scouted by producers. 

They spotted her hanging astatine nan flat excavation and asked her to subordinate nan cast.

"[Executive producer] Adam DiVello told maine I wasn't allowed to spell to nan excavation for 2 weeks because they wanted america to meet connected camera," she told US Weekly successful 2016. "I had to support dodging nan excavation and lobby."

Similarly, Whitney Port was applying to beryllium an intern astatine Teen Vogue alongside Conrad erstwhile she was asked to subordinate nan show.

Next-door neighbour Enzo was a scripted kid actor.

Enzo, nan neighbor, was nan super-cute bane of Spencer's existence. But he wasn't really Heidi and Spencer's neighbor. 

"In play six [Spencer and I] allegedly moved into a house, which was Enzo's house, truthful he wasn't a neighbor. We were, you know, successful nan different portion of his house," Heidi told BuzzFeed. "And I deliberation we threw him a statement to adhd a storyline aliases thing — I'm not really sure."

The Pratts really lived successful a different portion of Los Angeles.

The stars had to recreate play for nan cameras sometimes.

In 2012, Conrad told Allure magazine, "I deliberation nan communicative they told wasn't a dishonest one. The measurement they did it sometimes was."

She continued, "They aren't going to beryllium location for everything. Sometimes 2 of their main characters will get into a fight, and that's important to nan storyline. The [producers] request that reenacted."

Similarly, Heidi told InStyle successful 2016 that Spencer didn't really propose to her connected nan beach, moreover though that's what they recreated connected nan series. 

That hostility betwixt Conrad and nan Pratts was existent though.

After their falling out, Conrad seemingly wanted small to do pinch her erstwhile champion friend.

Heidi told BuzzFeed, "So primitively erstwhile Lauren and I divided she didn't really want to movie together, and I would person to, like, find her astatine nan barroom and beryllium like, 'Hey, Lauren!' and she'd, like, tally away."

She added, "If I had to do 'The Hills' each complete again, I would decidedly person stood my crushed much pinch Lauren and conscionable person her beryllium much honorable pinch me."

Jason Wahler agreed that Conrad should've gone to Paris.

In 1 of nan astir iconic storylines of nan show, Conrad turns down a summertime internship pinch Teen Vogue successful Paris to walk clip pinch her on-and-off boyfriend, Jason Wahler, from her "Laguna Beach" days.

But not everyone was happy pinch that decision. 

"Even accumulation didn't want maine to day him," Conrad told Us Weekly successful 2016. "They were like, 'You're successful a caller city. Go meet a caller guy.'"

Justin "Bobby" Brescia reportedly dated Heidi's sister, Holly Montag.

After nan cameras stopped rolling successful 2010, Us Weekly reported that Justin "Bobby" Brescia was really dating Holly Montag.

But nan romance seemingly fizzled retired arsenic quickly arsenic it began.

Brescia said Patridge is to blasted for nan disorder down his 2 "first names."

Brescia told InStyle successful 2016, "My mediate sanction is Robert. My dad's sanction was Bob, truthful he was Bobby Brescia. When I was a kid, group would telephone maine Bobby because I look for illustration my dad."

He explained that he didn't want his commencement sanction to beryllium featured connected nan show, truthful he went by Bobby arsenic an "alias of sorts."

However, Patridge kept reflexively referring to him arsenic Justin, and earlier long, he ended up confusingly being known arsenic both.

Depending connected who you ask, not each nan friendships connected nan show were real.

Though Heidi insists she and Conrad were really friends, different friendships apt weren't arsenic adjacent arsenic nan reality show made them seem.

Per People, Patridge told Sweden With Love successful 2015, "We went our ain abstracted ways. We weren't each friends earlier 'The Hills,' and we were benignant of friends for nan show."

Lauren "Lo" Bosworth besides told Us Weekly successful 2016, "Audrina wasn't friends pinch america successful existent life, ever. She conscionable ne'er had overmuch liking successful forming a genuine narration ... But I would not opportunity that location was ever a real-life feud aliases animosity."

Both of Brody Jenner's large relationships connected nan show were mostly fume and mirrors.

"Brody and I were ever much friends than anything," Conrad told Us Weekly successful 2016. "It was 1 of those things wherever producers really wanted america to beryllium together, and we some knew we didn't person that benignant of chemistry."

She continued, "The magic of editing ever created a small much than location was."

Jenner agreed that they were ever conscionable friends. 

"Literally, we would movie a segment of america kissing and being successful this lovey-dovey scene, and past correct aft it'd beryllium like, 'Cut!' and we'd beryllium like, 'OK, bully to spot you,' and spell our abstracted ways," he told Entertainment Tonight successful 2011.

And though Kristin Cavallari did day Jenner, it wasn't while she was connected "The Hills."

Even nan iconic, slow mascara tear was edited to look much melodramatic than it was.

During a conflict complete Patridge's narration pinch Brescia, Conrad famously cried a single, mascara-soaked tear. 

"I was sad because I felt for illustration she didn't want to beryllium my friend anymore," Conrad told Us Weekly successful 2016. "I conscionable put connected excessively overmuch mascara, and it became a thing. They slowed it down for melodramatic effect."

Patridge besides told nan publication, "I conscionable wanted my ain house, my ain freedom. I didn't moreover announcement nan mascara until nan section aired."

The stars' weren't allowed to repetition outfits, and their glitter looks came astatine a beautiful steep price.

Heidi told BuzzFeed successful 2016, "During 'The Hills,' we were not allowed to deterioration outfits twice, truthful I asked [MTV] to proviso maine pinch a wardrobe, but apparently I had to bargain it each myself."

She besides told InStyle successful 2016, "During play one, each of my worldly was from thrift stores aliases hand-me-downs. When I started getting a small much money, I sewage into nan heels and nan Birkins."

She continued, "I had a million-dollar closet. It was insane."

There were respective celebrated faces you astir apt missed connected nan show.

From Lady Gaga to Kim Kardashian, nan show had nary shortage of "blink-and-you'll-miss-them" cameo moments.

Gaga concisely appeared connected play 4 earlier she was a large name.

Kardashian's season-three cameo ne'er aired connected nan episode, but it did show up connected MTV's "The Hills: That Was Then, This Is Now" typical successful 2016. 

Cavallari said that astir of her plotlines were fake.

The "Very Cavallari" prima told Us Weekly successful 2016 she was hired to play nan domiciled of nan "bitch."

"The money was nan logic I did it. Producers gave maine an connection I couldn't refuse," she said. "I'm gladsome I went backmost to [reality TV] because this clip I looked astatine it strictly arsenic a job, and I knew nan characteristic they wanted maine to play."

"Producers had a bunch of different storylines for her. She was expected to beryllium nan crazy, chaotic drama-starter," Patridge added. "When she and Justin started fake-dating, nan producers kept wanting maine to conflict pinch her complete him, and I was like, 'I'm not moreover pinch him!'"