Sweet Salaries in The Hills

OK peeps, I know this is super old news but I had forgotten about it until I was recapping this week's episode of The Hills with a friend. Way back in August, In Touch Weekly got a hold of the salaries for the stars of MTV's prima donna fashioned reality show. I posted the list below so you can see for yourselves. Keep in mind that these salaries are not annual. THEY ARE PER EPISODE.


Lauren alone makes $75,000 per episode and the rest of the cast follows suit. I used to think it'd be great to make $75,000 in a year. That's a decent salary! But $75,000 per episdode? Per Episode? Blood may come shooting out of my eyeballs! (to borrow a phrase from Glenn Beck)

Do they pay Lauren by how many times she paints her nails? Whitney by each facial expression and OMG? Spencer every time he offers a snide remark or by the length of his flesh colored beard? The Soup video below may prove both enligtening and entertaining on this point.

Lauren Conrad: $75,000 / episode
Heidi Montag: $65,000 / episode
Spencer Pratt: $65,000 / episode
Audrina Patridge: $35,000 / episode
Whitney Port: $20,000 / episode
Brody Jenner: $10,000 / episode
Lauren “Lo” Bosworth: $10,000 / episode
Stephanie Pratt: $8,000 / episode

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Whitney and The City

After The Hills on Monday, the MTV audience was treated to a preview of Whitney Port's spinoff show, The City. The show is scheduled to premiere on December 29 at 10pm. The Hills Aftershow talked to Whitney about the differences between The Hills and The City. Whitney says that NY has more sophistication and she has less drama.

On Whitney's show we'll view her life as she works for Diane von Furstenberg, dates boys and contorts her face into countless over-expressions. Hooray! I'm glad for Whitney and her new show. Of all the pretentious prissies on The Hills, she seems to be the most sensible and appears to actually work for a living. Imagine!

Whitney promises that her show will be very unique. Very unique? Sheesh, somebody get this girl an AP Stylebook. Well, I guess I forgive her even though very unique is my pet peeve #129.

Good luck, Whitney! See you in the Big Apple!

P.S. Watch out for Olivia, I can tell by the preview that she looks shady already.

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Rolling Stone does The Hills

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You may have already seen the Rolling Stone May issue with The Hills stars Lauren Conrad, Audrina Patridge, Heidi Montag and Whitney Port featured on the cover. The cover story online exerpt showcases Heidi's POV and MTV's success with the reality show. According to Rolling Stone, the big deal about this photo shoot is that it's the first time in over a year that Lauren and Heidi have been photographed together and not Photoshopped. RS Deputy Editor Jason Gay wrote the article and was on the set for the shoot. He phoned in during the last Hills aftershow and said that Lauren and Heidi were on set for about 8 hours and never spoke to each other. I would imagine in this case that silence is golden.

Head for The Hills

Tonight is the season finale of The Hills, MTV's most popular show. I'll definitely be on the couch watching. The girls from The Hills have been through a lot this season. Speidi remained in relationship limbo, Stephen Colletti (and yes I've been told that it's sad that I actually know his last name) made a cameo appearance, and Audrina and Justin Bobby are back together? Recently, Lo, Lauren and Audrina moved in together and Audrina was immediately banished to the guest house. Lauren and Whitney have left Teen Vogue and are working at People's Revolution together. Lauren and Stephanie Pratt have become fast friends but I think they are really frienemies. Tonight's episode however, promises to focus on the mounting tension between Lauren, Audrina and Lo. I'm sure plenty of drama will ensue.