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The once-tight friendship between Audrina Patridge and Brody Jenner is estranged, as we know, after her hookup with him and ensuing feud with Jayde Nicole.

But believe it or not, the once inseparable Brody Jenner-Lauren Conrad duo is no longer attached at the hip, either. LC has distanced herself from that crew.

"I haven't seen much of her since she left the show," he admitted to E! recently. "I ran into her out and about a week ago just by chance, but that's it."

"She's off somewhere. Uh, Indonesia? I don't know, maybe on her honeymoon?"

Lauren is happily dating Kyle Howard, but there is no engagement we know of.

Guess that's his way of saying he has no clue what she's up to. We know Lauren has been busy with her book tour, but she apparently hasn't been texting.

As for Kristin Cavallari, who will be replacing Lauren Conrad on The Hills this upcoming season (and who Brody also used to date), she's shaking things up.

"Kristin's obviously a little bit more opinionated, and she comes in there and likes to stir up the pot," Brody Jenner says. "Lauren is much more docile and she likes to just let things cruise by, to roll with it. It's a different kind of energy."

With all the fighting that goes on among the Hills regulars, will there ever be peace and quiet for the bickering bunch? Maybe. But with who?

"There has definitely been some reconciliation," Brody said. "I can't tell you who it was with, but there is some drama that has been put to an end."

Making the rounds promoting her straight-to-DVD movie Van Wilder: Freshman Year and reminding everyone that she will be on this fall's season of The Hills, Kristin Cavallari wants everyone to know she doesn't really care about the latter.

Despite having begun her reality TV career in 2004 on Laguna Beach, Kristin hates watching herself on TV, and aspires to be a successful, versatile film actress.

"I want to do movies that are #1 at the box office and also indie ones that are dark and miserable," she said. "I see myself with a career like Cameron Diaz."

Don't hold your breath for that. Kristin Cavallari does admit that going back to being a reality star is not exactly a step in the right direction. Contrarily ...

"I haven't been able to audition for anything since, contractually, MTV won't let me. But I'll tell you this - I've gotten more phone calls about going on other shows since. ... But doing The Hills has made me want to act so badly."

"I need a challenge and kinda feel like The Hills is taking me a step backwards. But that just makes me want to act that much more and try that much harder."

Kristin Cavallari says joining the The Hills is really little more than a promotional vehicle for her mediocre films, and more importantly herself. [Photo: Fame Pictures]

"It was a really hard choice for me. MTV's been asking me to do it for years. I want to be an actress 100 percent, but with Van Wilder: Freshman Year coming out, I thought this would be an exciting way for my fans to reconnect with me."

"They haven't seen what I've been up to since Laguna Beach. I thought it would help and, after all, this is what made me famous in the first place."

There's a fat paycheck in it for her too, of course. Who can complain getting $60,000-plus per episode to read cue cards and booze it up at clubs?

At least she's got her priorities in line. We already miss Lauren Conrad, but look forward to seeing all the staged drama Kristin brings to the table.

As fans of The Hills know, Kristin Cavallari is joining the cast this fall to stir up trouble. But Brody Jenner tells TV Guide Magazine not to expect any drama between himself and Cavallari, despite the fact that they used to date.

“Kristin and I have been friends for years and years and years,” he said at the launch for the new OP ad campaign in Los Angeles on July 7. “We used to date back in the day, and we have kept very close as far as friends go, so she’s great. ”

That doesn’t mean everyone gets along as amicably.

“You ever watch Laguna Beach?” asks Brody Jenner with a chuckle, referring to the show that starred Kristin and Lauren Conrad. “You know what she’ll bring.”

Missing, of course, from the next installment of the MTV reality soap is its original narrator, Lauren Conrad. Brody Jenner admits he misses LC big time.

“It sucks without Lauren,” he says. “It’s a bummer. The Hills isn’t The Hills without Lauren, in my opinion. But we do what we do and just continue on."

"She’s really enjoying her time off right now, and spending time with her boyfriend, and hanging out at the beach and relaxing. She certainly deserves it!”

The hotness that is Brody Jenner and Jayde Nicole. [Photo: Fame Pictures]

With LC out of the picture, it seems Kristin Cavallari's big nemesis will not be Jayde Nicole, Brody's current girlfriend, but co-star Audrina Patridge.

Jayde Nicole is quick to praise Kristin, actually, and says the new season is The Hills times a thousand: "What we filmed so far is absolutely insane.”

“Kristin doesn’t get along with Audrina. I don’t really think anyone on the show gets along with Audrina,” Jayde, who also hates on Audrina, said.

“I think it has something to do with Kristin coming into LA all of a sudden, and everyone just welcomed her. So maybe Audrina’s jealous of that.”

Whatever the reason, the two are clearly not big fans, as evidenced by The Hills preview featuring Kristin screaming "You f*%ked with the WRONG girl!"

Team Audrina or Team Kristin?

Lauren Conrad has left the building, leaving Speidi to rule the roost.

But it looks like yet another Hills feud may be here to take its place.

Brody Jenner has been attempting to end the Twitter-initiated drama between his girlfriend, Jayde Nicole, and fellow Hills costar Audrina Patridge.

Unfortunately, his efforts failed.

"I've tried, trust me," the reality hunk told E! News last night at the launch of the new OP campaign at Mel's Diner in West Hollywood. "I've put a crowbar to it, and that doesn't work. So, not too sure if there's any hope, but we'll see."

It doesn't sound like Jayde Nicole has any intentions of patching things up with Audrina. "Our drama is real," Jayde said, clearing up any confusion on how she feels.

"I really don't want to film with her, to be perfectly honest."

Brody has made it clear his feelings lie with Jayde, and Audrina Patridge is back with Corey Bohan. But still, there is no love lost between the ladies.

One person Jayde can't get enough of, however? Brody's ex-girlfriend Kristin Cavallari, who was brought on the show to replace the retiring Conrad.

"I love her," the Playboy model said. "She's a supersweet girl, she's really cool, she's down to earth, and she just doesn't care what people say."

"She doesn't take crap from anybody, and I definitely think she will be good for the show. Just from the couple of things we've filmed so far, it's been insane!"

"I've been like, 'Can you please put this episode together so I can watch it?'"

In fact, Brody Jenner hasn't come between the gals: "So far, so good," Jayde said. "But it's only been a couple of weeks, so I guess we have yet to see!"

Whose side are you on, Team Audrina or Team Jayde?

Fans of The Hills wondering why Lauren Conrad didn't say a word when Spencer Pratt called her to apologize on The Hills now have their answer:

She wasn't even on the other line.

Interviewed on The View this morning, LC was asked about the call from Spencer Pratt, in which he said he was sorry for spreading the sex tape rumors about Conrad and asked her to please attend his upcoming wedding to Heidi Montag.

Fake, fake, fake, Lauren Conrad says.

Put on the spot, Conrad hesitated briefly before throwing the show under the bus, but ultimately did so, admitting her contempt for the program that made her a star for the past five seasons, and expressing no regrets about leaving it.

That the show is about as "real" as Heidi Montag's rack is hardly news, but this is the most blatant admission by a cast member yet. Here's the interview, in which Lauren discusses her new novel, L.A. Candy, and Stephanie Pratt's bulimia ...

You knew it was going to take a Herculean effort from someone to end Jon and Kate Gosselin's reign of seven consecutive weeks on the cover of Us Weekly.

Turns out Stephanie Pratt was up to the task.

The Hills star and sister of Spencer Pratt opens up for the first time in the new issue of the celebrity news tabloid about hating her body and her terrifying secret struggle with bulimia - sparked, she says, by good old-fashioned peer pressure.

And because Stephanie Pratt is quasi-famous from a reality show (or at least a popular MTV show masquerading as reality), we know who said peers are.

The 5-foot-7 she-Pratt reveals she began the bulimic ritual - binge, then purge - after watching a Hills scene she shot with Lauren Conrad back in 2007:

"I was horrified. I remember saying, 'I can't believe how huge I look walking over to Lauren,'" she reflected on the agony of filming next to her pal LC.

She then asked co-star Audrina Patridge, "What looks better, 'shirt on or off?'"

Audrina's response: 'On.'"

That hurts. Says Stephanie Pratt, "The producers never put pressure on us to lose weight," but adds, "It's embarrassing working with skinny girls."

Hopefully Asher Roth can write a song or do something to comfort his girl.

Former star of The Hills and recent Dodgers pitcher Lauren Conrad may have said her goodbyes to the reality show that made her famous, but that does not mean she can't still laugh at the faux drama with the rest of us.

LC herself stopped by Saturday's "The Hills: A Staged Reading," put on by the Upright Citizens Brigade, and enjoyed the show alongside fans and comics alike.

Even better? Private Practice star Kate Walsh played the role of Conrad, the recently retired Hills beauty and leading lady, and Lauren couldn't get enough.

Throughout the evening, Walsh performed an uncanny impersonation of Conrad's trademark facial expressions and infamous lines from The Hills, including:

• "Tell me if he's cute 'cause I'm drunk."
• "You're a bad person. That's reality."
• "I want to forgive you, and I want to forget you."

The real Lauren sat just rows away, laughing at Walsh ... and thus herself.

Lauren Conrad was the butt of many jokes on Saturday, but you know you've made it when Kate Walsh impersonates you on stage. [Photos: Fame Pictures]

The Upright Citizens Brigade, a renowned improvisational theater group in NYC and LA, kept the mood light, offering this amusing (and truly accurate) introduction as it prepared to lampoon The Hills and its cute, catty stars:

"You've seen Shakespeare, you've seen Mozart, now experience the work of the greatest geniuses of our time. It's Heidi vs. Lauren and it's really, really important."

We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

MTV recently enlisted the services of Laguna Beach alumna Kristin Cavallari to drink, party, hook up, drop f-bombs and wreak general havoc on The Hills.

The cost? Just $63,000 per episode.

According to Life & Style Weekly, the new replacement (and former high school adversary) of Lauren Conrad will earn that sum beginning next fall.

LC was reportedly netting $65,000 per episode from the "reality" show.

An insider says of Cavallari, who had not been heard from in three years, but magically appeared as the central character in the lives of The Hills stars when MTV desperately decided to resurrect her after Lauren Conrad said she was leaving:

“They needed someone new and fresh, who also came with a buzz and a name that was recognizable. Kristin was the obvious choice. She wanted money. You don’t have to pay the other girls that kind of money, but for Kristin you had to pay up.”

Apparently. But the rest of the cast is all for it.

“She’s so fun and crazy. Kristin’s not afraid to put anything on camera. She’s not going to hold anything back," said plastic co-star Heidi Montag.

She's is already making her presence felt. Click to enlarge more pics of Kristin Cavallari filming The Hills and leaving Club Delux in Hollywood:

[Photo Credits: Fame Pictures]

After a brief trip to St. Maarten for some Speidi-esque staged bikini pics, Kristin Cavallari returned to the familiar territory of SoCal to film The Hills.

The "new cast member" (who knew you could simply pluck one out of the air on a "reality" show) was seen dining out and hamming it up for the cameras ...

LC who? Kristin Cavallari is the new (old?) face of the MTV hit.

While Lauren Conrad is now off The Hills, some of her friends who remain on it say Kristin is out to change the entire dynamic of the show.

"[Kristin] is here to create as much drama for the show as possible, and she doesn't care how she does it," the annoying Stephanie Pratt confessed.

As the promo says, the bitch is back.

Click to enlarge more photos of Kristin Cavallari out, about and being filmed for an upcoming episode of The Hills, which will air this fall:

[Photo Credits: Fame Pictures]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Lauren Conrad.

Making a grand, staged entrance at Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag's wedding, Kristin Cavallari was introduced as Lauren's replacement on The Hills Sunday.

In mere minutes of screen time, LC's former Laguna Beach rival has already left her mark and positioned herself as the star of the show's upcoming season.

Kristin Cavallari is even billed as such in a new trailer for future Hills episodes, when we will see her befriend Stacie the Bartender (yes, Spencer's girl), flirt with Justin-Bobby of all people, and loudly declare to someone, “You f%&ked with the wrong girl!”

As the promo itself proclaims, "The Bitch is Back" ...