Nausea overcomes me heading into the season finale of The Hills. Today I read that Lauren Conrad doesn’t understand the popularity of the show, telling Entertainment Weekly, “People are just obsessed with other people’s lives. I don’t know whether it’s kind of a way to escape their own, or something to follow.” And here we are, the Royal We, preparing to review the show’s Season Three finale. What has MTV scripted for us tonight?

Reality TV seems to be doing anything it can to shed the first word in its name. TMZ reports that a source inside ABC’s Dancing With the Stars says Marie Osmond’s recent fainting spell – which she attributed to the poor air quality following October’s southern California fires – was scripted.  Another popular reality show, MTV’s The Hills, has come under heat recently for being scripted, something its centerpiece, Lauren Conrad, vehemently denied.