Monday, October 29, 2007 || Talan Torriero on L.C., Laguna and Dating ‘Cougars’
Remember Talan Torriero, the Laguna Beach cutie who enjoyed many romantic entanglements on the show (including one with bad girl Kristin Cavallari) before dropping out in season two?The former reality star—and now actor—tells PEOPLE that those rumors about the show, and its spin-off, The Hills, being less than totally factual are, well, kinda true.
“They kind of found out who did what, who liked this person and who liked that person, and almost created characters,” says Torriero. “When you watch it, it has the dynamics of a real show. Laguna Beach was as real as all reality shows. And it was shot in a way that people thought, is this real or is this fake?”
The LB playboy, who appeared on a second-season episode of Kathy Griffin’s My Life on the D-List series and has nearly half a dozen upcoming movie roles (including the comedy Senior Skip Day with Norm McDonald and American High School, with the ex-Mrs. Ian Ziering, Nikki Schieler Ziering), also talked about his former Laguna friends and costars, Lauren Conrad and Jason Wahler.
On His Pals Lauren and Jason
Conrad, he says, is still a good friend, whose success with The Hills is very deserved.
“I talk to Lauren all the time. She’s one of my best friends,” Torriero says. “We had a time where we didn’t really talk, because we just fell out of touch. Recently, I ran into to her and we started hanging out again. She’s a great girl . . . The Hills is humongous . . . It’s definitely not a bad thing to be in your early 20s and have your own show on MTV and your own clothing line. She has a great future.”
As for Wahler, Torriero’s high school pal and Conrad’s trouble-plagued ex, Torriero says he doesn’t “really talk to Jason . . . At the end of the day, I know that he’s a great guy just from knowing him when I was a kid. We just all have different ways of dealing with hard times.”
On Dating Cougars
Torriero also talked about his famous girlfriends, rumored fling Tara Conner, who he calls a “good girl” who “inspired me a lot, because she’s a girl who was put under a microscope by the entire nation, if not the world, and she was able to overcome adversity.” As for being her current boyfriend, Torriero denies it, saying the Miss USA is “just a good friend.”
And the 20-year-old (who turns 21 on Nov. 2) also explains his appeal to “older women,” including Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger, 29, and one-week fiancée Kimberly Stewart, 28.
“You know what it is? . . . I matured a lot faster than other people. A lot of the girls my age, not all of them, like to play games and . . . I don’t necessarily like to do that,” Torriero says. “I think older women go on a date with me, and then they say, ‘Wait, how old are you again?’ And then they’re like, ‘Well I’m already dating you, I might as well keep dating you’ . . . I’m not necessarily going after cougars or anything. At the end of the day, it’s just about being happy.”
-people.com
Thanks Lauren :)
posted by Lysandra @ 8:41 PM
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32 Comments:
Good for him, I hope he makes it.
That's yet another unfortunate choice of lipstick for Lauren.
There was always something about Talan that sets him apart from all the LB boys. He walks to the beat of his own drums and you gotta give him props for being just the way he is and doing what he does. Glad to know he's still good friends with Lauren and hope he does well in his acting career.
nice interview - i always thought talan was a great guy (my fave after trey) but why does he look like crap here? is it the long hair?
I think it's great that Lauren has got back in touch with everyone from Laguna now her relationship with Jason is over
he is so freakin ugly.
i think the camera broke when he smiled.
he looks like crap here because he looks like crap everywhere. he is fucking ugly....
They both look like crap in those pics, but otherwise talan's a cutie!
I still cant stand Talan. I never really liked him to begin with. And to 11:22 ITA he is ugly.
he looks like clay aikon in dat pic
I never thought Talan was cute but he bangs all those Hollywood chicks. He must have a big u know what.
^ Yeah I don't get why so many pretty girls love him. He isn't very cute but, maybe he has an awesome personality. Who knows. Looks aren't everything. Well, sometimes they are. :)
I always liked Talan. Thought he was really nice on Laguna.
He may not be great looking but I've certainly seen worse,
He's ok.
It's good that Talan dates and doesn't just have casual sex ( LC )
Is that Talon or Clay Aiken? Not cute at all!
I thought Talan was ADORABLE on Laguna Beach, nice too. One of my fave scenes in LB 2 is was when Jason and Talan were playing basketball and talking about Lauren (before they hooked up) Both of them said she was a keeper awwww I also loved the scene w/ Talan & Jason (after Jason screwed up) and Talan gave him such good advice!
^ I know! Talan always had Lauren's back. Good to know they are still good buds.
Yup. Talan knows a keeper. It's funny because he couldn't say the same about Kristin.
Well he hooked up with lauren how many times? He seemed to be a little obsessed with kristin though.
^He was so obsessed he moved on to Nicole S. with no problem.
^ What does nicole have to do with it, he started dating her two years later anyway. Talan was obsessed with kristin during HIGH SCHOOL!
Actually, he was in love and obessesed with Taylor and felt compelled to hook up with Kristin on LB season 2. Huge difference. He really couldn't stand the girl though.
Taylor had that line when talking to Talan: "Then go be with a whore. Go be with Kristin." lol
And he was like "ok, bye taylor" and he never expressed interest in her again.
Yet he obsessed over everything Kristin did! Take me snowboarding! Take me to prom! Don't go see Stephen in san francisco! I made you dinner! Please like me Kristin?
And she was like: Nope.
^Get over it, Talans gotten better looking chics than Kristin will ever be. AND he and Lauren have rekindled their friendship. Kristin should take a page from the Lauren friendship book! Kristin has no long term friendships, because nobody can stand to be around her!
IA 12:33, and fyi 3:56 Kristin has a lot of the same friends she's had since she moved to LA, but she is in a long term relationship with her BOYFRIEND, so she is mostly with him. Maybe nobody can stand to be around you 3;56
12:23 you sound like a complete zero. How do you know Kristin has the same friends for 2 years? She's never photographed with anyone but her z-list boyfriend, so the only way you could know this info is if A)You know her personally or B)You're stalking her. Which one is it?? I bet I know the answer!! LMAO
^ Hey dumbass, I've seen recent pics with her shopping with a couple of those girls, chelsea and whoever, you psycho!
^Sure you have..did you take the pics of her while you were hiding in the bushes?? LMAO
^ your jealousy is really shining through. you seem like an obsessed psycho.LMAO
^Good comeback. Can't say the same for Kristin! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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