Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari’s Ups and Downs Through the Years: ‘Laguna Beach,’ Reality TV Feuds and More

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Burying the hatchet. Laguna Beach: The Real O.C. alums Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari had one of the most famous feuds of the early 2000s — but it may have all been made for TV.“We had an issue with each other, but it had been squashed [by the time filming started],” the Little Market founder said while speaking with Cavallari and her cohost and former Laguna Beach costar, Stephen Colletti on their “Back to the Beach” podcast in November 2022. “I think what happened is [producers] kind of saw this as, like, a starting point.

And then they ran with it.”Conrad continued: “I mean, I don’t think we were, like, best friends. But we were like, ‘It’s fine.'”The Very Cavallari alum agreed, adding that the Laguna Beach producers decided to play up the tension between her and Conrad. “My take on it is, you and I never really had any beef,” she explained. “Really.

I mean, obviously there was, like, a little truth to what happened with the three of us. But I felt like MTV coming kept it alive and made it way worse than it ever would have been.”During the first season of the MTV reality show, Cavallari and the L.A.

Candy author frequently butted heads over their love triangle with Colletti. “I think one of my takeaways from looking back [at the show] is I’m like, ‘[Kristin and Stephen are] really sweet [together].’ You guys were in love and you had a relationship,” Conrad said on “Back to the Beach,” adding, “Who wasn’t cheering for that [relationship]?”Colletti, for his part, said he thought the show’s editing viewers’ perspective of the situation. “It’s completely tilted, because you’re the narrator,” he told Conrad. “And we’re wild and it’s this hurricane.