Stephen Colletti sets the record straight.
On a recent episode of his podcast, “Back to the Beach,” the reality TV star told his co-host and ex-girlfriend Kristin Cavallari that he didn’t appreciate looking like an impostor while filming ” Laguna Beach’. .”
During the show’s early seasons, Colletti and Cavallari, who dated when they were teenagers, were seemingly involved in a love triangle with co-star Lauren Conrad. However, he claimed it was due to the way the show was edited.
“I had a huge problem with this because look, obviously they made this show around this love triangle and there are times when you and I broke up,” the 36-year-old actor told Cavallari.
“And [producers] I’d heard that Lauren and I were in touch and were really good friends and, you know, of course things happened at certain times, but at no point when we were together would I approach you like that.”
Colletti – who recently went Instagram official with his girlfriend Alex Weaver – added that seeing this superimposed version of reality “boiled his blood”.
Cavallari, who was only 17 when “Laguna Beach” first aired, added that “everyone on the show” was forced to fit into certain “boxes,” whether it suited their personality or not.
“They decided, ‘OK, this is what we make Stephen look like and I don’t care what’s really going on in his life,’ she explained. that same storyline.”
The former reality stars agreed that while the producers “filled in the gaps” with whatever storyline they wanted, it made for entertaining television.
“With the genius of their montage, you have to hand it to them. They really made this storyline,” Colletti said, adding that the people on the show “had no idea that they could pull certain parts of our sentences and then could put them together” to “create a storyline that fits their story”.
Meanwhile, the 35-year-old founder of Uncommon James felt like she was “always the bad guy” and had no way of telling her side of the story when the reality series aired in the early 2000s — well before the days of Instagram or Twitter.
She told Colletti, “They were so lucky we didn’t have social media at the time because you know I would have been all over the place saying ‘This didn’t happen here’ and ‘That’s not true.'”
In a previous episode, Cavallari also talked about how she was considered the “villain,” saying that the producers made fun of her from the start.
“I think [producers] I’ve clearly seen from the beginning of me that I was someone to speak my mind,” said Cavallari, who also appeared on the 2006 spin-off, “The Hills.”
“I had a strong personality. I have a strong presence and I think it’s much easier to manipulate and manipulate this villain role than any other personality type,” she continued.
Earlier, Cavallari told Vidak For Congress that she and Colletti had become very close while recording their new podcast.
However, she concluded that something romantic was brewing between them.