Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag | 39

Diss and Tell

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.2 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

When The Hills first hit MTV in 2006, Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag were inseparable – blonde fashionistas chasing LA dreams together. But in season 2, Heidi’s new boyfriend, Spencer Pratt, enters the scene, creating major tension between the two besties. The show's drama spiraled around this friendship rift, pulling viewers in with shouting bar fights, sex tape rumors, and iconic one-liners. But what fueled such a bitter betrayal, tearing their friendship apart? And how was the show itself manipulated to create such a volatile onscreen rivalry?

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to Dis and Tell early and ad-free right now.
0:05.4	Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.4	Matt, it's the early aughts.
0:17.7	Baby doll tops are in, eyebrows are out, lacrosse, huge, Hollister and Abercrombie, the ultimate wealth signifiers.
0:27.3	What reality show are you watching in this time period?
0:31.4	I watched so much reality TV, but I liked competition shows.
0:36.2	Ah.
0:36.8	So American Idol, Hell's Kitchen, loved that early on.
0:41.3	Gordon Ramsey screaming at people.
0:43.3	So You Think You Can Dance?
0:45.0	Remember when we just had dancers on TV?
0:47.5	Remember when we let them exist publicly?
0:50.7	Yeah.
0:51.2	Okay, so you weren't spending too much time on like MTV or VH1.
0:56.4	You were not invested in teen drama.
0:59.3	Not as much.
1:00.9	Okay.
1:01.8	Well, I ask you this because our feud today is going to center around, I should say people, but I almost want to say characters from The Hills and Laguna Beach.
1:12.9	Yes.
1:13.6	Two shows that I was a little bit too young to watch when they came out, and then I never really caught up.
1:19.5	But as an adult, I've started to educate myself on.
1:22.3	Mm-hmm.
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