Kristin: Lauren Isn't Trashy Enough For MTV

On both MTV's Laguna Beach and The Hills, Kristin Cavallari was portrayed as Lauren Conrad's arch nemesis. But, to speak to Cavallari today, she would say very little that was portrayed on The Hills resembled her actual life.

"Yeah, in high school," Cavallari tells Zap2it when we asked her about her supposed rivalry with Conrad.

"We're very friendly with each other," she says. "The last time we saw each other was The Hills wrap party. We hung out all night. We're very friendly. I don't have her phone number. I don't call her. But when we see each other, we're very nice."

Cavallari, who will be guest starring on Wednesday's (Feb. 16) episode of The Middle on ABC, says that she was surprised to hear that MTV canceled Conrad's reality show before it even aired. But, while she expressed that she didn't expect that Conrad's show would be killed by the network, she says she can understand why.

"To be honest I think that 'Jersey Shore' is so freakin' hot," she says. "The ratings are unbelievable. And I think that, unfortunately, TV is getting trashier and trashier. Lauren's very sweet and very nice. That's not always that very entertaining."

Credit: Jethro Nededog for Zap 2 It

MTV Cans New Lauren Conrad Realtiy Show

Last fall, MTV announced that it was reuniting with Lauren Conrad, star of the network’s Laguna Beach and The Hills, for another reality series focused on the young star’s burgeoning fashion line. But EW has EXCLUSIVELY learned why the Conrad series has been passed on by the network. “We decided not to go ahead with the show,” says David Janollari, EVP, Head of Programming for MTV. “She did do a pilot. There were talks about whether we could somehow manage to put together a special based on that footage but that’s also a big question mark based on her interest in that and the finances. We love her! We would love her on our network!” The proposed series was not a glossy reality soap like The Hills but much more documentary style. It was also noticeably absent from MTV’s Upfront this week. Says Janollari, “It was a great attempt but it just didn’t feel like a perfect fit for us now.” (The news of Conrad’s show not moving forward was first reported by blogger Rob Owen.)

UPDATE Lauren Conrad has sent EW a statement regarding MTV’s decision:

“We sold a show to MTV, filmed it and are really proud of the final result. MTV felt the subject matter was too high brow for their audience and offered me the opportunity to change the show by incorporating more of my personal life. We agreed going into the project that this show would be an aspirational one, focusing on my career and my goals and not my personal relationships. We delivered the show that we sold and are sorry MTV didn’t feel their viewers were savvy enough to appreciate it.”

Credit: Entertainment Weekly

Brittany Snow Works At The Grove For MTV

Brittany Snow was spotted getting to work shining shoes at The Grove as she did a shoot for MTV yesterday afternoon, January 14, 2011.

Credit: Zimbio

Photo by Bauer Griffin

Whitney Port: 'The City' Has Been Cancelled

Whitney Port and pals won't be living life in the big city anymore! The Hills alumna confirmed that MTV has axed her spinoff show The City.

"As of right now it doesn't really look like we're doing it anymore," the 25 year-old Whitney Eve fashion designer said on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show Monday. When asked if the reality series could move from MTV to another network, Whitney said, "No, at this point it's not."

But Whitney, ever the optimist, is handling the cancellation well. "I'm working on some other things," she said. "It's okay, one door closes and another opens."

Credit: Star Magazine

Whitney Port: 'The City' Has Been Cancelled

Whitney Port and pals won't be living life in the big city anymore! The Hills alumna confirmed that MTV has axed her spinoff show The City.

"As of right now it doesn't really look like we're doing it anymore," the 25 year-old Whitney Eve fashion designer said on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show Monday. When asked if the reality series could move from MTV to another network, Whitney said, "No, at this point it's not."

But Whitney, ever the optimist, is handling the cancellation well. "I'm working on some other things," she said. "It's okay, one door closes and another opens."

Credit: Star Magazine

Is Taylor Swift Kanye's therapist?

Good article on NPR.org about Taylor's performance.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/09/13/129825153/taylor-swift-is-sure-kanye-west-can-get-to-heaven-despite-interrupting-her


"Ultimately, Swift and West demonstrated that while they may have come off as adversaries last year, they have a great deal in common. Primarily, they both suffer from a bizarre disorder where what is supposedly intended as a gesture of generosity toward someone else inevitably spins out into a celebration of self. For him, this meant complaining about the pain of being a guy who can't stop acting like a jerk, and for her, it meant blowing up a moment of probably intoxicated rudeness into a major moral failing, just so that she could dramatically offer absolution."

What'd you think?
~Steph Geezy~
Quoted source: NPR.org

Kanye West performs Runaway at 2010 VMAs

To be honest, ever since Kanye performed his song "Hey Mama" at the MTV Video Music Awards a couple of years ago, I have always looked forward to him performing on the show. I was especially excited for his 2010 VMA performance due to all the drama preceeding him. He took the stage after an amazing introduction by Aziz Ansari. Aziz explained to the audience that he had no idea what Kanye did last year to Taylor Swift, and when someone explained it to him, he proceeded to laugh hysterically and said "I don't understand why everyone is so mad, that sounds hilarious!" Here is the performance that followed, with Kanye manning an Akai, he played all the beats, samples, and melodies. "Let's have a toast for the douchebags."

2010 MTV Video Music Awards - More VMA Video

http://www.mtv.com/videos/?id=1647213

Regardless of how you feel about him, the song and performance is great.

~Mark~

OMFG - HUH-HUH, HUH-HUH Beavis & Butthead Set to RETURN??

"REVIEWniverse has exclusively learned from an anonymous source that Mike Judge is currently outlining 30 new episodes of his iconic animated comedy Beavis and Butt-Head for its native network...."

".....Even better news for fans is that, should this come to pass, Judge plans on retaining the show's original ghetto-tech aesthetic, right down to the faded color palatte. The source also reveals that theExtract director intends on keeping B and B's format identical to its original sketch-videos-sketch incarnation, but with more contemporary music clips for the cartoon slacker-duo to skewer."

Posted by: S (steph_your gossip grrrl)

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Be A MTV Movie Awards Red Carpet Insider

Celeb style awaits one lucky fashionista on the red carpet at the MTV Movie Awards and the chance to be up close and personal could be yours. Last week, Coca-Cola and MTV launched the nationwide search for one person to get behind the scenes coverage at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards as the "Movie Awards Insider."

Time is of the essence, registration goes through midnight EDT on May 17th!

This is not a random drawing. Registrants need to prove their movie knowledge and on-screen personality to enter. They have to make their case in 250 words or less saying why they are worthy of working side-by-side and behind-the-scenes with MTV’s News correspondents.

Once selected, the Movie Award Insider will join the MTV News team in L.A and receive guidance and mentorship on how to capture exclusive behind-the-scenes content- what an amazing opportunity for the winner! The Insider will get to cover the following:

- What’s going on in days leading up to the awards
- Interviews with show nominees, presenters, and MTV talent
- Backstage happenings during artist performance rehearsals
- After-party!!

In addition, Coca-Cola and MTV will choose 10 more entrants (each get a +1) to be flown to Los Angeles to attend the awards – doesn’t get much better than that!

Here are specific details and logistics:
To register: http://mtvcokeinsider.com/?r=1

Eligibility: This Contest is open to legal residents of the forty-eight (48) contiguous United States and District of Columbia who are at least eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of entry.

"Daria: The Complete Animated Series" has been unleashed on the universe!

"The eight-disc set includes all five seasons of "Daria," plus special features like cast interviews, the two "Daria" movies, and the show's original five-minute pilot. Overall, watching "Daria" is like getting in a late '90s time capsule. It's a Generation X show made at a specific moment in time when Britney Spears and 'N Sync started to eclipse Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, and rock in general. This show makes us oh-so nostalgic for the latter."

Go to Amazon.com to order your DVD set.
See more information HERE

~Steph Geezy~

More Outrageous Claims By You-Know-Who

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are shopping another rumor around town claiming  they are fuming at MTV for the network's "inappropriate requests and lies" ...one request involving family abuse. Of course they are claiming to just be "a source."

Spencer posing as "a friend" of his told X17online exclusively:

MTV has been asking them to do inappropriate things for the show. They've wanted Spencer to play up his aggressiveness for ratings, and he doesn't want to do it. For Season 5, MTV producers even asked Spencer to hit his own sister Stephanie.

The drama doesn't stop there! X17online has also learned that "a female producer in Season 5 shoved Heidi from behind and that pissed off Spencer. When he confronted that producer, that's when MTV said Spencer threatened the producer. She was supposed to be fired, but was allowed back as a producer for this season."

Seems as though the Pratts aren't feeling the love on set from co-stars either. They also say Kristin Cavallari has been publicly bashing them - claiming they're no longer filming this season of The Hills.

The mystery caller aka Spencer Pratt denies these claims telling us:

Heidi and Spencer are definitely part of the this season, just not much considering the circumstances. Kristin Cavallari has been making comments about them because she is just jealous. Heidi is doing a movie with Jen Aniston and Nicole Kidman and Kristin's new movie went straight to DVD.

Credit: X17 Online

OMFG - MTV Drops 'Music Television' From Logo.

(Logo courtesy MTV)

"On Monday, an enormous cultural shift took place (or rather, was finally solidified) in a subtle and quiet way. MTV's new logo will no longer feature the words “Music Television” underneath the iconic “M” and its accompanying tag-like “TV.” The logo, created in 1981 by designer Frank Olinsky, is one of the most recognizable the world over, and has become a signifier of the nonconformist attitudes of the teens and young adults who grew up with the network and its myriad music videos — Generation X, as we call them, and to some extent Generation Y."

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"And this week it was made official, surprising absolutely no one but creating tiny wittle pangs of sadness in the hearts of those who knew it in its glory days (don’t cry for the network: thanks to shows like “Jersey Shore,” it’s enjoying its highest ratings in some time). Some might argue that its long-time format has become irrelevant, that with the Internet becoming the ultimate music source MTV simply has to adjust to the times and move on. This is in part true. But the crux of the matter lies in the cracks of that statement: Thanks to the digitization of our world and the communicative “freedom” created by the Internet, every aspect of popular culture, not just music, has become spread so thin as to be almost totally unreadable. What is music anymore? That Music Televison no longer knows is a scary augury of things to come."

Check out the Quoted Source: Creative Loafing

Posted by: S (steph.gossipgrrrl_)

OMFG(uess who's back?) - Jersey Shore is Back For More!

((In this image released by PictureGroup, from left, Jenni “J-Woww” Farley, Pauly Delvecchio, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, and Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi of the MTV show "Jersey Shore" pose during rehearsals for the Spike TV "Video Game Awards 2009" at The Event Deck at LA Live in Los Angeles, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. (Photo by Mark Davis/PictureGroup for Spike TV))

It is now official that the entire cast of Jersey Shore will be returning for a 2nd season on MTV. The cast was in negotiations for weeks about the dollar amount they each would be receiving per episode. They are suspected to have now gone from earning a few hundred dollars per episode to $10,000 per episode. So get your fists ready to pump and your hair ready to pouf!  

((Source: everyone talking about it.....MTV...TMZ...E! News, etc....))

&&

 Here is a pic of The Situation & Snooki @ The Grammys!

(Credit - Snooki's Twitter)

~ ~ ~ posted by: S

Jersey Shore Season Finale Tonight!

"The summer is almost over on Jersey Shore, and after a bunch of romance, romance that turned into love triangles, parties, random girls invited to hot tubs, Snooki's mother, and Atlantic City, the MTV reality show is coming to a close. There is also a one-hour reunion after the show."

Catch Jersey Shore tonight on MTV.





Quoted source: EW.com
~Steph Geezy~  or

Jersey Shore Nickname: S-Pop!

"The Snook"

While guido wannabes are blocking out 25 minutes of their morning routine to achieve the perfect Pauly D hairstyle, the ladies are also trying to achieve the perfect Jersey Shore look.

Salons from Seaside Heights to El Lay report that girls are coming in and requesting the ultra teased 'do of pint-sized guidette Snooki. The look has already been dubbed "The Snook".

Read more: CocoPerez: Jersey Shore Style Is Taking Over!
http://cocoperez.com/2010-01-14-jersey-shore-style-is-taking-over/?from=PH







~Steph Geezy~

Stephanie Pratt Not Fired From The Hills

Today a rumor popped up that Stephanie Pratt has been fired from The Hills, but Hollyscoop can report exclusively that it’s false information.

Star magazine reports that Stephanie was fired by MTV from the reality show as a result of her DUI arrest. The source said, “Producers like cat fights and broken romances, not drama that involves breaking the law. Stephanie just became this major mess and was too much of a liability.”

The insider claims Stephanie worked out a deal with the network to make it look like she was leaving on her own terms. “The show is her only identity. To avoid public embarrassment, her MTV bosses allowed Stephanie, 23, to make it seem like she was quitting over drama with bad girl Kristin Cavallari,” said the source.

But Hollyscoop spoke directly with Stephanie’s rep, who told us exclusively, “As of right now Stephanie is still in negotiation for a 6th season on The Hills with MTV. We have not heard anything from the network about her leaving. Stephanie was not on the last 4 episodes of the show for this most recent season due to her having to take some time off to handle her DUI. This story is false.”

Like we said before, if Stephanie does decide to leave the show, it’ll be on her own terms!

Credit: Hollyscoop

Kanye's Lame-ness on the VMA's

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Heidi Montag: Twittering Away In The Bahamas

HeidiMontag "At my interview for mtv" about 20 mintues ago from TwitPic

HeidiMontag "View from our room at the Bahamas!" about 40 minutes ago from TwitPic

HeidiMontag "Best croissant ever!" about 1 hour ago from TwitPic

HeidiMontag "im getting ready with my glam squad for my mtv interview in the Bahamas" about 2 hours ago from mobile web

HeidiMontag "wow my first performance is tomorrow!!!!! wow im so excited for Miss. Universe make sure to tune in!" about 2 hours ago from mobile web