I put the link to some of these photos in yesterday’s afternoon links, but as I look more closely at the photos, I really get more and more disturbed. What the hell did Lauren Conrad do to herself? I used to think LC was pretty, in a non-descript, “the American Kate Middleton” kind of way. Seriously, imagine LC with a dark brunette shade and big, fluffy curls. Duchess Kate, right? They have the same face, although thankfully, LC doesn’t wear raccoon eye makeup. LC does, however, play with Botox. That’s my only explanation for this waxy, puffy look to her once pretty face.

Don’t yell at me, okay? Don’t start in, “You shouldn’t be saying that, you don’t know, maybe she’s just retaining water” or my favorite, “She looks the same.” No. Look at how her face used to look one year ago:

And here’s her face now:

Puffy. Waxy. Botoxy. Kardashian-like. She’s 25 years old! There’s no reason for this. Stop the madness, LC. I get that she’s went through a major breakup a few months ago (she split with Kyle Howard because it wasn‘t going anywhere), but she’s been out and about, dating up a storm – she had a fling with Derek Hough (meh) and now she’s making out with Chace Crawford. That’s not the best, but she could certainly do worse, and at least she’s out there. Now she just needs to stop with whatever is going on with her face.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

You know I barely care about Lauren Conrad, right? To me, she’s the even more worthless version of Kate Middleton. I only say that because Kate and LC look so much alike, not because LC and Kate have so much in common otherwise. Anyhoodle, it’s not that LC offends me – she’s the milquetoast of the current crop of reality show freaks. She seems to put her head down and actually try to do something other then “get drunk” and “hook up.” So I was actually pleasantly surprised to see this photo shoot with Teen Vogue – even though LC isn’t the best role model for young women, she’s totally not the worst either, and the photo shoot is very wholesome and nice. It’s just… the Photoshop on her face is ridiculous. She’s a young, pretty girl. You didn’t have to ‘Shop her to look like an alien. It’s particularly noticeable to me on the cover shot, and the photo where she’s holding the dog. That’s not what her face looks like AT ALL. Sigh… the full Teen Vogue article is here, and here are some highlights:

LC on her new show: The opening scene of Lauren Conrad’s yet-to-be-titled new documentary-style reality show will feature hundreds, if not thousands, of screaming fans gathered at one of her book signings. It’s a far cry from the blind eye producers of The Hills turned to its leading lady’s megastardom. “For the first time, they’re going to actually acknowledge the fame that comes along with the show,” Lauren says. And that’s not the only thing that’s different this time around. “It’s not going to revolve around my personal life,” she says adamantly. In other words, her boyfriend, Kyle Howard, will not be making any cameos, and her office—not her apartment—will be the home base. “Filming the last two shows, I never had the opportunity to show everything I was working for,” she says. “This time the focus is going to be on my job, and while that’s still personal to me, I will also have a part of my life that can be mine.”

On her giant sunglasses: “I still wear giant ones even though glasses are shrinking,” she professes, “because I have a jack-in-the-box face. It’s like when people would carry huge bags because they were convinced they made them look thinner.”

On her clothing lines: Skeptics will argue that Lauren doesn’t have to overcome the typical hurdles a young designer faces (i.e., visibility, cash flow, connections), to which she admits, “I would agree.” But, she notes, “I would also say that I’ve sacrificed and worked very hard to get where I am now. So whereas someone just getting out of fashion school may have to struggle for years to have the opportunity to start a clothing line, I’ve been working every single day since I was seventeen toward this. I’m also faced with different challenges,” she says. “I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn’t work hard to get where I am.”

On the hardships of The Hills: “Being on a show like that is a lot more than people think. You’re thrust into the spotlight. There’s all this pressure to act a certain way. It’s hard to adjust. You have to decide early on whether or not you’re willing to do that.”

Her new show will be grittier: “I watch a little reality now, and while I know it’s been partially ruined for me because I’ve been through the process, I think the format has become too beautiful and perfect. It doesn’t look or feel real anymore,” she says. “One of the inspirations for this show is The September Issue. It’s going to be filmed more like a documentary.” She explains in tech-speak: “The Hills was shot with three or four cameras; things like entrances and exits were reshot; and if there were sound issues, we were asked to repeat what we just said.” (Some people would argue the faux reality depicted on The Hills extended far beyond just that.) “This show is going to have a smaller crew, and they’ll just be following us around. It’s going to have a rougher feel, but I think the end result is going to be more true.”

[From Teen Vogue]

Well… she’s probably smarter than I give her credit for. And she is one of the few “success” stories coming out of reality programming. For some reason, younger girls just eat up whatever LC dishes out. What is it about LC? Eh.

Photos courtesy of Teen Vogue.

You’ll have to excuse my ignorance, but I don’t watch The Hills. Whenever I catch a glimpse of it, I’m filled with rage and I end up yelling at the television screen. It’s not even that I find Lauren Conrad or Audrina Patridge or any of the other people (whose names I don’t want to learn) that disgusting. It’s that I find the idea of this kind of faux-reality entertainment disgusting. I watch shows like House (which was really good last night, wasn‘t it?), NCIS, 30 Rock and The Office - you know, shows with good writing, interesting character development, and a more solid basis in reality than The Hills.

So that’s my rant. I don’t know why the show is popular, and I don’t why The Hills cast members are so popular, and I really don’t know why they’re getting paid so much to wander around and be vapid. If that makes me an old fart, so be it. But these new revelations about their salaries has my blood boiling. Lauren Conrad is exiting The Hills after making $125,000 an episode. Kristen Cavallari is starting off with a $90,000 an episode salary. Make. It. Stop.

As the hit MTV show returns, Nicole LaPorte exclusively uncovers payday drama: Kristin makes $90,000 per episode compared to Spencer’s $65,000 and Audrina’s $100,000. Plus, Spencer spills on his co-stars and view our gallery of reality TV salaries.

As of Tuesday, as any tween worth their Juicy Couture jeans will tell you, “The bitch is back”—i.e., Kristin Cavallari is joining the MTV docusoap The Hills as its resident diva. She’s replacing Lauren Conrad, who’s been the good-girl star of the series until she started complaining of Hills fatigue and decided, after five seasons, to leave.

It won’t be Cavallari’s first reality-TV stint (hence, why she’s “back.”). Her fangs were first bared on Laguna Beach, the precursor to The Hills, which followed Conrad and her posse of hot and fabulous friends when they were “regular” high-school students in a town that makes Malibu look like the slums.

The Hills, which debuted in 2006, caught up with Conrad when she moved to Los Angeles and found a new group of hot and fabulous friends—including the infamous, and beyond blond, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, aka “Speidi,” as the tabloids have anointed the couple—whose lives are just as surreal: Despite entry-level jobs in fashion and media, they all live in opulent apartments, drive fancy cars, and eat out at chic restaurants. Oh—and they can afford plastic surgery. (Think Sex and the City for the barely legal.)

After Laguna Beach ended, Cavallari tried to leverage her own 15 minutes into something more: becoming a “real” actress. But that didn’t pan out as planned—most of the roles she landed were in direct-to-DVD releases, such as Van Wilder: Freshman Year—and so now she’s returning to reality TV. Through her publicist, Cavallari declined to comment.

The move may seem counterintuitive, or like a kind of consolation prize. But that’s hardly the case, considering that MTV is so desperate to keep The Hills—its highest-rated show by a mile—alive and thriving that it’s shelling out major dough to the cast, marking a paradigm shift in the business: Reality TV as the cheap alternative to scripted programming? Not anymore.

Cavallari is being paid $90,000 an episode, which is almost as much as Conrad was making: $125,000 an episode (or $2.5 million a year), according to a person with knowledge of the show’s contracts. Conrad’s deal stipulated that no other star’s salary could match hers while she was on The Hills, but those of supporting cast members Audrina Patridge, Lauren “Lo” Bosworth, and Montag come close: $100,000 a show. As for Pratt, his rate is a slightly less at $65,000 per show, because he only joined as a regular in 2008. (In comparison, the stars of The Real Housewives series receive a reported $30,000 a show.) In the case of Brody Jenner, Conrad’s BFFWB (Best Friend Forever With Benefits), he takes in $45,000.

And that’s just what they get paid for doing their day job. The Hills and its stars have become such a name brand—in certain circles—that Cavallari and Co. receive between $20,000 and $25,000 for personal appearances—which last no more than two hours—at events such as club and gallery openings, according to Mike Esterman, a celebrity booking agent. When Speidi showed up at a Valentine’s Day gala in Las Vegas, Pratt and Montag each took home $30,000. And Montag’s recent Playboy cover shoot—she graced the September issue of the magazine—earned her $375,000 plus a generous chunk of royalties, despite the fact that she didn’t take it all off.

[From The Daily Beast]

CB wants me to point out that The Hills stars are actually making a lot less than other “primetime stars” like Hugh Laurie ($300,000 an episode), Charlie Sheen ($350,000 an episode) or Ellen Pompeo ($200,000 an episode). Also, the voice talent on a show like The Simpsons get huge salaries, just for their voice work – something like $400,000 per episode. What’s interesting about that is when you consider The Hills’ advertising demographic – advertisers are probably paying through the nose to get ads on new episodes, just because The Hills’ viewership is young, dumb, upper-middle-class, and will buy anything. If you look at it that way, MTV is probably making a bigger profit from their hit show than any network – and perhaps the reality stars deserve even more money. Gah!

Lo Bosworth, Audrina Patridge and Stephanie Pratt are shown filming The Hills on 9/18/09. Credit: WENN.com

Maybe I just don’t get it. Maybe I’m not “cool” or “hip”. Maybe I just don’t “get” someone like Lauren Conrad, a “reality star” or “a vapid succubus feeding on the rotting corpse of insanely boring faux-entertainment”. I’m okay with not getting it. I’m okay with rolling my eyes whenever Lauren Conrad’s name is mentioned. I just don’t understand why she exists. Or why I know her name. Or why a care even a little bit, just enough to know that I can’t stand her and what she represents. I know in my heart that the girl is probably harmless. Hating her is like hating the proverbial dumb kitten. All I know is that her interview in Shape Magazine hasn’t helped matters one bit.

Lauren starts out by doing something gross – she refers to the “extra” weight she gained when she first started dating Kyle Chandler as her “boyfriend layer”. I suppose “the boyfriend layer” was the two pounds she gained from eating two pieces of pizza while out on a date once. No fear, though, because she quickly realized that she and Kyle could spend their time together working out. Thus, the cover shot in a bikini. My take? Lauren has always had a pretty, athletic, healthy figure. I’m not sure why she’s trying to sell it like she’s just lost a lot of weight, or she just got healthy. She looks fine. Whatever.

They don’t call them love handles for nothing! Former “Hills” star Lauren Conrad admits in Shape magazine that she got a little “soft around the middle” early in her romance with actor Kyle Howard.

“I call it the ‘boyfriend layer’,” she says. “We were having more romantic dinners out, and I was exercising less.”

So how did the California girl reclaim her stunning bikini bod in time to make the magazine’s September cover? By hitting the gym with her honey.

“I just ask Kyle, ‘You feel like working out?’” she says, adding that they spend most of their together time outside anyway. “We like doing outdoor stuff: tennis, bike riding, kayaking, surfing, hiking. It’s more fun than hitting the gym alone.”

The tanned, golden-haired reality star spills how she found more confidence in her life after “The Hills,” which premieres without her on Sept. 29.

“People I thought I could count on were undermining me, and my self-esteem took a hit,” she says. “I’ve learned that you’ve got to stay true to yourself. It’s the only way you’ll be really happy.”

She’s got a lot to be happy about. Besides her boyfriend, she’s also keeping busy with her LC Lauren Conrad clothing line for Kohl’s. Her affordable line of jeans and blouses hit shelves this October.

She says, “It’s all about finding silhouettes that highlight the best parts of your figure.”

[From the New York Daily News]

Oh, poor LC. People were “undermining” her. That’s what happens when you live your life as if the world was a perpetual high school. LC goes on to say, “I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying ‘Let it go, Lauren, It doesn’t matter’ … [I] realized I had to stop worrying about what other people think. The next day I got a tattoo on my lower back that says ‘sticks and stones,’ because they may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Oh, she got a tattoo! I take back everything I ever said about her! She’s so hardcore.

Header photo from CoverAwards. Photo below is of Lauren in a bikini on 7/19/07. Credit: Fame Pictures. It’s not really fair to compare a heavily airbrushed photo with a normal one, though.

What would you do if Ryan Gosling hit on you? Would you A) Run straight over to your D-list boyfriend and whine about it or B) Take your clothes off and whisper “Take me, now, Ryan Gosling!”? If your answer was B, congratulations, you’re normal. If your answer was A, then you suck Lauren Conrad. According to Radar, Lauren Conrad was complaining to her boyfriend Kyle Howard that Ryan Gosling was trying to hit on her. Radar even has Lauren saying “Who does he think he is?” Uh… Lauren, honey, who do you think you are? That’s not all, though. Apparently, Kyle and his D-lister buddies got their panties in a wad and started chanting something about going to find Gosling to beat him up. Douchebags.

File this under one of the more bizarre conversations we’ve overheard:
Lauren Conrad and boyfriend Kyle Howard were whipping themselves into a frenzy Thursday night at Deluxe, where we just happened to be an earwitness.

Lauren claims that Ryan Gosling tried to hit on her and she told Kyle, “Who does he think he is? I’m with you. I would never…” At that point we couldn’t stop listening and Kyle said: “I know baby, if I was there I would have set him straight.”

But sadly, that wasn’t the end of it. Kyle then started chatting with a friend and suddenly there was testosterone in the air, and a lot of it. “Let’s go find Ryan Gosling. Let’s beat him up,” one of them said. And yes, it was funny that they kept calling him “Ryan Gosling” instead of just Ryan.

Of course we have no idea if Ryan Gosling did hit on Lauren, we only know what we heard. And there are many who would say if he did hit on her she should be flattered!

[From Radar]

“Suddenly there was testosterone in the air, and a lot of it.” Why do I think Ryan Gosling could have taken Kyle Howard and all of his little friends with very little effort? Oh, right. Because Ryan is awesome. And lovely. I can’t even imagine the audacity of someone complaining because Ryan Gosling might have hit on her. But, you know, I even doubt that. Ryan does seem to have pretty good taste in women, so it’s possible he just asked LC if she knew where the bathroom was and she was all “Oh my God, gross! I have a boyfriend, you know!” What a twit. Instead of wasting any more time on LC and Kyle, let’s just think about how lovely Ryan is…mmm…

Here’s Lauren Conrad leving Bar Delux in Hollywood last night. She looks like the type that’s easily grossed out, doesn’t she? Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline and Images thanks to INF Photo..

Heidi and Spencer Pratt seem to be willing to do just about anything to get away from the Costa Rican jungle and the set of “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!” – and just about anything else to get back there. They’re like that couple that keeps breaking up and getting back together, and you can’t help but wonder if it’s because the make up sex is so great or they’re just comfortable with each other. Because you can tell just from five minutes with them that it isn’t because the relationship is so great.

Heidi and Spencer first left the show after learning they weren’t going to be housed in the Four Seasons and would instead have to live with the rest of the celebrities. Then they came back, because what’s the big deal with some snakes and dirt beds when there’s attention to be had? Then they left again (jungles are gross), and now they’re coming back for the (hopefully) last time.

Heidi and Spencer Pratt just can’t get enough of the jungle.

After several attempts to quit before officially leaving I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! on June 8, the Hills stars are returning to the show again, Usmagazine.com confirms.

The newlyweds will join the entire cast of the NBC reality series on the June 25 finale, a network source tells Us.

The last time the Pratts were in the Costa Rican jungle, Heidi was rushed to a local hospital to be treated for a gastric ulcer after spending the night in the “Lost Chamber.”

When they return to the show, they will be joined by Heidi’s sister, Holly Montag, who made her debut on the I’m a Celebrity last week.

[From Us Magazine]

Honestly I don’t blame them for hightailing it after the spider-dropping night in the “Lost Chamber.” And I’m no doctor, but I’m close (webmd is my BFF), and I don’t think there’s any way you could fake a gastric ulcer. Not that I feel badly for Speidi by any means, but I get where they were they were coming from.
In related news, Lauren Conrad says that Spencer never really apologized to her for spreading those sex tape rumors. The producers just filmed him talking into a phone: she wasn’t on the other end.

Lauren Conrad says Spencer Pratt never apologized for spreading those sex tape rumors.

In an interview on The View Monday, Pratt said he agreed to apologize to Conrad to get her to go to his wedding with Heidi Montag, calling his apology a wedding gift for his wife. (On the May finale, Pratt is seen calling Conrad at work and expressing his regret.)

But when Conrad appeared on The View Thursday, she smiled, paused and rolled her eyes when asked about the incident.

“Did you feel like it was a sincere apology when it came from him?” Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked.

“To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t on the other end of that call,” Conrad replied. “That was filmed, and I wasn’t on the other end. So I didn’t even know about it until [it was on TV]. So, no, I didn’t get an apology. He lied.”

[From Us Weekly]

My first thought was, “I’d be really pissed if that were my wedding present.” But then I remembered that Heidi’s present to Spencer was a performance of her song “Sex Ed” – at their wedding. And since nothing could be worse than that, Spencer was really off the hook. “Off the hook” meaning the bar was set low, not “off the hook” like off the hizzle. Just wanted to clarify.

So when do the baby rumors start?

Photos are from 5/23/09. Credit: Louise Barnsley/PacificCoastNews.com

After Lauren Conrad’s announcement that she was leaving The Hills, the start of shooting for the new season sans Lauren, and the craziness that is Heidi and Spencer on Get Me Out of Here… I’m a Celebrity, comes the rumor that Lauren is engaged to her boyfriend of one year, Kyle Howard from My Boys. While she has kept relatively mum about their relationship, not even mentioning him on her show, she gushed about him in a recent issue of Cosmopolitan. She gave the typical “I feel sexiest with him when I’m in sweatpants and no makeup,” line, but interestingly the article also said that she is “in no hurry to tie the knot.”

The engagement occurred, according to Star, in Malibu late last month.

Saying bye-bye to The Hills after three years has brought big changes to Lauren Conrad’s life. At the top of the list: her beau, My Boys’ Kyle Howard, 31, is now ready to take their relationship to the next level. He proposed, and Lauren, 23, accepted! “Kyle’s always been wary of the cameras that constantly followed her around and never wanted to be on the show,” a source close to the pair tells Star. She’s finally free of all that – and Kyle couldn’t wait to pop the question.” He found the perfect moment on the beach in Malibu in late May. “He said that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her,” says the source. “Lauren barely let him get out the words out before she said yes!” Both Kyle and Laruen, who’ve been dating for about a year, wanted to keep their happy news quiet until the hoopla surrounding her exit from the show died down, adds the source. “She doesn’t want her wedding plans to be overshadowed by anything – especially residual drama with her Hills castmates!”

[from Star, print ed, June 22, 2009]

Of course, it’s Star, so there’s always the chance that this is completely made up, but the detail that the engagement occurred last month makes me think it might be legitimate. Lauren keeps saying how quiet and private she wants her life to be, so not announcing her engagement would be keeping true to that wish. One thing is definite, though. If they ever do make it down the aisle, there won’t be any TV special about it. In Cosmo, she was quoted that the only camera that will be at her wedding is her parents’ camcorder.

Update Hollyscoop reports that it’s not true that Conrad is engaged and that her rep has denied this story.

Here are Lauren and Kyle at the first game of the NBA National Championship Tournament between the L.A. Lakers and Orlando Magic in Los Angeles on June 6th. Images thanks to WENN.com .

After Lauren Conrad decided she would leave The Hills, there was some talk that the show had no future. People would rather see Speidi’s antics in the tabloids than on their show, and Audrina is too vapid to carry it herself. Instead, producers decided to ask Kristen Cavallari (from the original Laguna Beach) to replace Lauren. It seems that it was a good decision, as Kristen is causing some show-worthy drama during filming. According to reports, she is making up one-liners and hogging the camera from the other actors – and the spoiled Hills stars are not pleased. Specifically, Speidi is predictably pissed off because they like the camera all for themselves. Tension between Kristen and the cast got heated at filming for Audrina’s recent birthday party, where Kristen fake-flirted with Audrina’s on-again-off-again boyfriend Justin Bobby.

Cavallari, who first became known as the bad girl on 2004′s “Laguna Beach,” made a bad first impression when she recently tried to steal the spotlight at Audrina Patridge’s 24th birthday party at L.A.’s London West Hollywood hotel, Starmagazine.com reports.

“Kristin was always making sure to yell out one-liners and hog camera time,” says an eyewitness.

When Cavallari began flirting with Patridge’s on-and-off boyfriend, Justin “Bobby” Brescia, the birthday girl reportedly lost it.

“Kristin was fake giggling and making it look like she liked him,” says a source. “Audrina started yelling at Kristin about how desperate she is and was clapping and yelling, ‘Keep it up! You’re such a good actress!’”

Adds the source, “Obviously, it’s not material they can use on the show, but Audrina didn’t care. She wanted to finally tell Kristin what she thought of her.”

But Patridge is not the only cast member fuming at Cavallari.

Heidi and Spencer Pratt are also angry about the new addition to the reality show, claiming Cavallari is stealing their spotlight.

“They feel like they worked their butts off for the show, and now Kristin just walks on and becomes the new star,” says a source.

[from NY Daily News]

Worked their butts off? They don’t even have to memorize lines. They get a scenario from the producers (typically, “talk about last night”) and just start twirling their hair and rambling on. It is partially due to these producer-created scenarios that Lauren decided to leave in the first place. In a new interview in Cosmopolitan, Lauren says that filming The Hills wasn’t fun anymore as more and more of the show became scripted. The final straw was when producers wrote Heidi into Lauren’s birthday party. On camera, the two made up in the finale of the fourth season, but after filming Lauren decided that enough was enough.

Lauren tells us that The Hills producers insisted on finding ways to bring the two together during season five. “What they didn’t get is that I didn’t want to fight with her anymore,” Lauren explains. It’s hard to look at somebody who used to be your best friend and say, ‘We can’t be friends. Too much has happened.’ I’m trying to move on, but they won’t let me. And when someone keeps pushing you into the same position, well… you get upset.”

What fans didn’t see was the aftermath. “After the producers did that, I disappeared. If they were disrespectful, I was going to be disrespectful back. I told them, ‘You can call me in a week. Think about what you did.’”

[from Cosmopolitan print ed. July 2009]

In the same issue of Cosmo, there’s a funny one-page spotlight by one of those “relationship experts” using photos as proof that Speidi isn’t really in love with each other (though inevitably in love with itself). Their proof? That Heidi is leaning away from Spencer in a few photos.

Lauren is also publishing a quasi-veiled autobiography called L.A. Candy about a girl who mores to Los Angeles and gets cast on a reality show. Some premise for a fictional novel by a reality star. CB says that she has read excerpts, and it’s pretty good considering that Lauren didn’t use a ghost writer. Maybe she has a future outside of reality after all.

Here’s Kristin Cavallari at Club Delux in Hollywood last night, and filming scenes for “The Hills” the day before. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

Lauren Conrad’s overpriced and uninspired clothing line has gone under. Representatives from the line cite the economy, cleverly sugar-coating the news with the promise that Lauren will use more “high-end” fabrics the next time around. Next time around? There really shouldn’t have been a first.

Lauren Conrad’s clothing line is on hiatus until further notice. Los Angeles sources say the MTV reality starlet, who’s wrapping up her last season on “The Hills,” won’t be producing any more seasons of her Lauren Conrad Collection, which launched in fall 2007. Some showrooms got a message from her camp saying, “In light of the economic climate, Lauren has decided to completely rethink her line.” As a result, shipment of the last spring and summer delivery has been canceled, the memo said. Page Six previously reported that the line wasn’t moving in stores like Kitson and Bloomingdale’s. “Lauren is going to revamp her line and design with more high-end fabrics . . . things she couldn’t do the first time around,” a source close to Conrad said. Her rep told us, “With everything going on in the economy and in her life, she wants to rework her line and offerings. She will make announcements soon.”

[from NY Post's Page Six]

It’s terrible that so many stores around the country and around the world are having to fold due to the economy. The fashion industry has been particularly hard-hit, with even designers like Vera Wang deciding to cancel runway shows. However, it’s hard for me to feel bad for Lauren’s line. In her world, a jersey and lycra maxi dress that looks like it’s from Target costs $280. If she wanted to revamp her line with the current economic climate in mind, she should just reprice her clothing. Kitson and Bloomingdale’s isn’t moving the merchandise because it’s overpriced and not particularly interesting, which makes sense – the clothes reflect the designer.

It’s not as if this is really going to affect her pocketbook, either. She’s got a novel, LA Candy, coming out, and her check from the next season of The Hills will be substantial. Don’t be surprised if this is the last you hear of her foray into fashion.

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