Depending on whom you ask, Heidi Montag is the villainess on the hit MTV reality show The Hills. But ask Montag, and she’ll sing a different tune: She’s merely the outcast friend who is portrayed as the troublemaker by star Lauren Conrad.
Montag and company have been shooting Season 4 for more than four months in Los Angeles; the first of 19 episodes premieres Aug. 18. Montag reveals that viewers will meet her older sister, Holly, 24, an aspiring filmmaker who once lived with Montag and Conrad.
“Holly and Lauren were inseparable for a while,” Montag says., “but they stopped being friends when Lauren and I stopped being friends.”
Montag credits Pratt with saving The Hills from cancellation when he joined the series in Season 2 as the resident troublemaker. The two had met a year earlier off-camera. “I fell in love with him the second I saw him,” she says. “He’s the most amazing person to exist. Everything you could ever want in a best friend, soul mate and boyfriend.”
Nonetheless, they broke up repeatedly, and Montag changed her number several times so he couldn’t contact her. Asked whether they are engaged, Montag looks at Pratt and her naked ring finger and asks, “Where’s my ring?”
He says he’s saving up for a multimillion-dollar bauble.
Even though The Hills chronicles Conrad’s life (it’s the most-watched TV show among women 18-24), it’s her feud with Montag that’s grabbing most of the attention. The falling-out began when Conrad expressed her dislike for Pratt. Montag blames Conrad for telling co-star Audrina Patridge to drop her as a friend. All hell broke loose this past season when Pratt and Montag revealed that Conrad had supposedly shot a sex tape with ex-beau Jason Wahler.
“I don’t even want to talk about that,” Montag says. “There were rumors about a sex tape, but I had nothing to do with that. God knows the truth in all of this, and at the end of the day, that is the only thing that matters. Jesus was persecuted, and I’m going to get persecuted, ya know?”
Little coverage in celebrity magazines, which seem to chronicle every movement of this reality troupe, is given to Montag’s and Pratt’s Christianity. Montag identifies herself as “kind of non-denominational Baptist” and hopes to release a Christian album one day. Both she and Pratt read the Bible conscientiously. Montag even planned on devoting her life to God as a missionary in Africa.
“I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God,” says Montag, who grew up in Colorado with Holly, brother Sky, 15, and her since-divorced parents, Bill, a rancher, and Darlene.
Next month, she and Pratt are headed to Africa to “feed children and help build things.” Cameras will capture their trek, but not for the show. Pratt says it’s possible they could adopt a baby while over there, but Montag laughs off that idea.
“Not right now,” she insists. “I think we’d be married before we do that.”
A more likely scenario for the future, however: Montag and Pratt will wrap up their time on The Hills after this season and launch their own MTV reality series along the lines of Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica - Montag’s all-time favorite show.
Source: azcentral.com
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