Thursday, October 11, 2007 || Battle in 'The Hills'
Viewers debate about TV stars' redeeming, condemning qualities
Lauren Conrad is easily everyone's favorite character from MTV's "The Hills." From her days on "Laguna Beach" when it was her or the other girl - Kristin - to her current show, "The Hills" - and her battles with Heidi - Lauren easily wins over both these girls.
Why does everyone favor LC over Heidi? The question really is, why not? Look at Heidi's backstabbing ways, not only with Lauren but also with her former co-worker, Elodie. Heidi took Elodie's job promotion right out from under her.
Heidi began the first season with a bang and made it about halfway through the second season with friends. Now the list of people she can call friends is reduced solely to her tool-bag fiancé, Spencer. Even he has no friends left after he broke up with his longtime best friend, Brody. Meanwhile, Lauren still has friends - and plenty of them. Heidi and Spencer are a boring, unsociable couple, and there is not much to watch with a pair like that.
Lauren is simply the truest friend on the show. Yes, she can be a little too concerned with her friends' boyfriends, beginning with Heidi and now with Audrina, her current roommate. Who would not look out for her friends when they are dating tools like Spencer and Justin-Bobby?
Audrina, you can do so much better than Justin-Bobby. Has he ever washed his hair? It's disgusting. If one of my friends were interested in a guy who has sick hair, wore jeans tighter than me and was flat-out strange, I would tell her - and I would want someone to do the same for me.
Also in the fight over who is superior, one needs to take into consideration who has had more airtime. The answer, hands down, is Lauren.
She was one of the main characters on the first two seasons of "Laguna Beach." Where was Heidi during that time? No one knows - probably being teased for being flat-chested and having a weird nose. She made a small appearance here and there, but nothing really worth a lot of talk.
Also, "The Hills" is Lauren's show. MTV created "The Hills" to follow Lauren as a spin-off of "Laguna Beach," and Heidi is nothing but a tagalong who no one likes.
So what does Heidi do best when the attention is not on her? She causes drama to focus attention on her. She does this simply by spreading rumors, like about Lauren and Jason's alleged sex tape and other worthless drama.
Meanwhile, Lauren really could care less about Heidi. She does not provoke any drama and just tries to live her life. She does not cause drama like Heidi does, mainly because she has a life and hasn't driven away her friends. Lauren does not have time to create drama, but Heidi has time because - outside of work - all she does is fix her boyfriend's house décor.
Another aspect to consider when deciding what side to take is overall productivity - meaning school, jobs and career.
Both Lauren and Heidi came to Los Angeles to attend fashion school, which did not quite work out for Heidi. Even at the interviews, Lauren was very professional and made a great impression. In Heidi's interview, she openly discussed her love for partying and dislike for school.
Heidi's partying ways took priority over school, and she quickly dropped out when she got a job at Bolthouse.
In the beginning, the job was not full of the glam Heidi had pictured. However, she eventually was able to work her way up, but not without going behind Elodie's back to get there.
Meanwhile, Lauren, who is still in school, has an internship with a high-profile publication, Teen Vogue. She is jet-setting across the country, and the opportunities presented to her are endless. It is quite obvious that Lauren is a harder worker than Heidi and is more honest in her work.
One easily can see that Lauren should win in the battle against Heidi. She is a better friend, has more friends, is more successful and the star of her show. No one really wants the tagalong friend who is trying to milk her menial fame while she has it. If Heidi was not on the show, she would not be missed - we would no longer have to listen to her or her whiney boyfriend, Spencer.
Lauren's life makes a better show and is more interesting because she actually has a life and does things worth watching.
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Interesting article. She obviously watches the show.
Surprised she didn't mention Heidi whining like a child about getting Bella in season 1 and then giving her up because she was too much work.
Is this seriously from a college newspaper? If so, this makes me feel a TON better about our own school newspaper.
oviously an LC fan!ughh i hate LC fans!:p
Thanks for this one Lysandra! :)
Great article from someone who actually watches the show. I feel like a lot of editorial on hills are written about people who do not follow the show... therefore they are often ridiculing it.
^agree.
Great article!
HEAR HEAR!!! You go, girl!
I don't think this person really watches the show faithfully. They didn't seem to have any idea that a lot of the things they mentioned were MTV staged (Lauren's internship, the promotion fiasco with Elodie and Heidi (imo), etc.).
Great article Team Lauren all the way, Heidi is a loser who cannot sing at all and lives in a fantasy world in which she believes her a spencer will get married I give there sad relationship one more year and then guaranteed they will be selling stories on eachother as they are both scum
She told it like it is!
The author of this sounds like an 11 year old writing a report or something.
I totally agree that Lauren > Heidi, but this person doesn't seem to get that they edit the hell out of the show and that a lot of this stuff is set to make for good TV. She's taking the storylines waaay too seriously and she sounds kind of stupid for it.
totally agree 8:09!
She sounds stupid for voicing her own opinions?? For the record, she can write whatever she wants. She's just telling it as it is. If you don't like it, then arrest her and take her to writing school. Otherwise, you could... um, STOP READING.
^-----Seriously, right? why is everyone so critical on this site
^agree with 5:06.
That article is so juvenile is not even funny.
I wasn't saying she was stupid for voicing her opinions - read it again. I was just saying that the way she was blindly following all the storylines made her sound kind of stupid. IMO of course.
And obviously its not an option for me to arrest her and take her to writing school, so please don't tell me to otherwise stop reading. If I want to criticize something, why can't I? I didn't see any rules stating that we could only comment "OMGZ she rocks!" or whatever.
Look, if it was just some kid writing in a blog I wouldn't probably be so critical, but it is linked from a college newspaper (so she may already be in writing school!). Regardless, I guess I expected better quality of writing and was merely commenting on that.
you people are too critical and take these comments too seriously.
loved the article.
Loved the article and whether or not you liked the style of writing it was factual and true. Heidi has serious problems and if she doesn't get out of the limelight soon her problems are going to get worse. As soon as she "wakes up" and find she is one of the most disliked people in the media she is going to be devastated.
^ IA.
sorry, but I will have to disagree with you 9:14. I didn't find the article factual and true at all. The writer seems to be writing under the impression that the show is unerringly a reality show. We all know that the dialogue, etc. is real, but otherwise, the show is grossly staged (the situations they're put in, etc.). Best example I can think of is the mention of Lauren's internship at Teen Vogue. She totally did not earn that for being extremely talented and hard-working. Neither did Whitney.
3:41- How did Whitney not earn her internship? Whitney's been interning for 5 years or so. Obviously wayyyy before the show. Lauren might not have earned it but Whitney did.
isn't Whitney roommates with Christina from season 1? That just seems quite suspicious to me.
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