Coming clean. One year after the success of Fox’s The O.C., MTV took a look at the actual town, launching Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County in 2004.
The reality show focused on the personal lives of then-high schoolers Stephen Colletti, Lauren Conrad, Kristin Cavallari, Lo Bosworth and more.Conrad led the first season as the narrator, as the main story line focused on a love triangle she found herself in with Cavallari and Colletti.
Season 2, after Conrad went away to college, Cavallari took over as the narrator. When her season ended, a new group was introduced.
Meanwhile, the show landed its first spinoff, The Hills, following Conrad and her best friend, Heidi Montag, as they took on life in Los Angeles and tried to make it in the city
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