Lauren Conrad Decides to Stay in The Hills

Authored by Scott Goldberg on September 20, 2007 - 1:17pm.

Lauren Conrad says she nearly quit The Hills, until she realized she completely forgot what life without a reality show is like

In the October issue of Seventeen, Lauren Conrad (that’s LC, to you) of MTV’s The Hills says she almost quit the show because of the well-reported feud with Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. “I actually came dangerously close to not doing season three, because I really didn’t want to do the show with Heidi and Spencer,” she said. Then she realized she hasn’t lived life without MTV, cameras, and a reality television show in nearly a decade, so picturing her days passing like any Average Joe seemed really, really pathetic.

“I’m not who they are,” she went on to say. “I don’t stage my own publicity. I just kind of live my life and do my job, and I don’t want to be grouped with them.” LC, folks, does not stage her own publicity. She doesn’t do this reality show, nor the one that came before it, Laguna Beach, because she wants to. No. She does it because we, the public, demand it of her.

So after MTV persuaded LC to stick around, they also insisted Heidi and Spencer stay. And thank god for that. What would the show be without Heidi, who just embarked on her singing career (see it here), and Spencer, the SoCal badass with a penchant for calling his future father-in-law “bro.”

You can picture the meeting between LC and MTV’s producers:

LC: “I’m not doing the show. I can’t deal with Heidi and Spencer.”

MTV: “Hmmm…yeah…well, that’s not good news. But anyway, you signed your life away back when you started Laguna Beach, and, well, if you leave us now, let’s just say we have a lot of video tape of you doing things you’d likely never want people knowing about. Besides, you need us, LC. You know you need us.”

LC: “Ok…maybe you’re right. But I’ll only do the show if Heidi and Spencer get kicked off.”

MTV: “Yeah…hmmm…no, that’s not gonna work either. You’re going to do the show and so are they. But listen: We promise to do our very best to minimize the interaction between you three, m’kay?”

LC: “Ok, MTV. I trust you.”

Then, as only MTV would do it (and again, thank god for that), they artfully set up a scene in the latest episode where LC and Jason Wahler run into Heidi and Spencer at Ketchup in Hollywood.

MTV is like Don Corleone. You gotta love it.