Lauren Conrad, Kristin Cavallari’s Ups and Downs By way of the Years

Burying the hatchet. Laguna Seaside: The Actual O.C. alums Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari had one of the crucial well-known feuds of the early 2000s — however it might have all been made for TV.

“We had a problem with one another, however it had been squashed [by the time filming started],” the Little Market founder mentioned whereas talking with Cavallari and her cohost and former Laguna Seaside costar, Stephen Colletti on their “Again to the Seaside” podcast in November 2022. “I feel what occurred is [producers] form 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, greatest mates. However we had been like, ‘It’s fantastic.’”

The Very Cavallari alum agreed, including that the Laguna Seaside producers determined to play up the strain 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, somewhat reality to what occurred with the three of us. However I felt like MTV coming stored it alive and made it manner worse than it ever would have been.”

Throughout the first season of the MTV actuality present, Cavallari and the L.A. Sweet creator steadily butted heads over their love triangle with Colletti. “I feel certainly one of my takeaways from trying 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 mentioned on “Again to the Seaside,” including, “Who wasn’t cheering for that [relationship]?”

Colletti, for his half, mentioned he thought the present’s modifying viewers’ perspective of the scenario. “It’s fully 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 manner his relationship with the Unusual James founder was portrayed onscreen. “I had an enormous downside 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 they usually had realized about Lauren and I hooking up and being superb mates,” Colletti mentioned throughout an August 2022 episode of “Again to the Seaside.”

He continued: “And, you recognize, clearly, stuff occurred at sure occasions. however at no level ever every time we had been collectively, you recognize, would I step out on you in that manner. They usually actually paint [it like] that’s what I’m doing all through the present — which I’ve an enormous downside 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 manner that I feel that’s what made audiences actually engaged,” he mentioned.”

Hold scrolling to relive all of Conrad and Cavallari’s ups and downs via the years: