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It solely took 18 years, however Kristin Cavallari and Lauren Conrad, aka two-thirds of the Laguna Seashore love triangle that preoccupied many a millennial’s life within the mid-aughts, have reunited. They’re now again collectively for an apology-filled dialog that ought to lastly squash the Group Lauren/Group Kristin rivalry as soon as and for all.
In case you haven’t been maintaining, Kristin and her highschool ex-boyfriend Stephen Colletti have been co-hosting a Laguna Seashore rewatch podcast referred to as Again to the Seashore. It’s been surprisingly enlightening up to now, as they’ve revisited Season 1 of the MTV actuality cleaning soap and spilled on what was “actual” and what wasn’t (spoiler: quite a bit wasn’t).
On the newest episode, which dropped Tuesday morning, the pair reunited with Laguna and The Hills fan-favorite lead Lauren, aka LC, to speak via all their highschool drama. Lauren, after all, was Laguna’s Season 1 narrator and the angel to Kristin’s satan (not less than, based on MTV’s savvy editors), who pined for Stephen amid his tumultuous, on-again off-again relationship with Kristin.
However apparently all that’s up to now now, as a result of Kristin and Lauren kicked off the dialog by cheerfully reminiscing about going to a home social gathering in L.A. post-Laguna.
“We had a lot enjoyable collectively! I simply need everybody to know: We’ve had a handful of actually nice instances collectively,” Kristin mentioned.
Lauren agreed, telling Stephen, “As quickly as you left, it was nice.” Kristin concurred: “You had been the issue, Stephen!”
In line with the three of them, Lauren and Kristin had gotten right into a struggle at a faculty dance, shortly earlier than MTV confirmed up at their highschool to forged and movie Laguna Seashore. Every part had been roughly smoothed over by the point the cameras began rolling, however the producers apparently took the Lauren-versus-Kristin storyline and ran with it.
“My tackle it's, you and I by no means actually had any beef,” Kristin mentioned to Lauren on Again to the Seashore. “Clearly there was a little bit fact to what occurred with the three of us, however I felt like MTV coming stored it alive and made it manner worse than it ever would have been.”
“I believe it was accomplished after they began filming,” Lauren agreed. “That is what I bear in mind: I bear in mind all the things occurred after which was it Formal? It was just like the week earlier than they began filming, we obtained into it after which made up. … And it was wonderful. They usually got here and… I don’t assume we had been greatest associates, however we had been wonderful.”
“We by no means had a difficulty with one another,” Kristin mentioned, to which Lauren countered, “I imply, we had a difficulty with one another, nevertheless it had been squashed.”
The 2 then rehashed all of the drama that occurred in the course of the gang’s spring break journey to Cabo, the place Kristin drunkenly danced on prime of a bar, whereas Stephen jealously appeared on and repeatedly referred to as her a slut earlier than turning to Lauren for consolation.
“My greatest remorse watching it, I referred to as you a slut. I’m so sorry,” Lauren mentioned to Kristin, after explaining that she had lately rewatched some Season 1 episodes in full for the primary time. “I couldn’t consider I did that. As a result of I believe the place I’m at now, I'd by no means name one other girl that, or woman. And it was for me probably the most embarrassing second, like, oh gross.”
“Nicely, thanks,” Kristin mentioned. “I referred to as you a slut in a later episode and I used to be going to apologize to you additionally. … I mentioned some actually dumb stuff. And my factor is, after I watch it now, I’m like, I wasn’t assured in any respect. I used to be really so insecure, and I took it out on you in plenty of methods. And I'm sorry for that, as a result of I mentioned some horrible issues.”
(It ought to be famous that Stephen did, fortunately, apologize profusely to Kristin in an earlier episode of Again to the Seashore, after they’d rewatched the Cabo episode. As a result of he absolutely shoulders among the blame there.)
Lauren then added: “In watching this, we had been all so judge-y [about] you. I used to be doing the very same factor all week.”
“Thanks!” Kristin replied. “That was my factor, I used to be like, I used to be not the one one dancing on a bar.”
When requested how she thought she was portrayed on the present, Lauren—who presently runs a clothes line and resides again in Laguna Seashore together with her husband and children—spilled some tea about how she wasn’t simply pathetically pining over Stephen her whole senior yr of highschool, regardless of what we noticed on TV.
“I believe they took a small piece of me and used it. Like I’m typically form of off in a nook simply, like, creepily watching you guys, which is form of embarrassing,” Lauren mentioned. “And the factor that’s humorous is, Season 1 was principally our senior yr. And I had a number of boyfriends throughout this time. Which I’m like, I really feel so unhealthy for them in the event that they ever watched this. They had been like, ‘oh man, she’s simply going after this man.’”
When Kristin famous, “They actually hammered the love triangle residence,” Lauren agreed, saying, “They actually did. They didn’t need me to have the rest.”
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Stephen later chimed in, saying, “It’s utterly tilted since you’re the narrator and [Kristin and I] are wild and it’s this hurricane. And candy Lauren, you guys have to root for her.”
Amongst different juicy tidbits from the episode had been that all through filming Season 1, Lauren was apparently “hooking up with Talan [Torriero],” to which Kristin exclaimed, “All of us had been!” Elsewhere, Lauren and Stephen chortle about how they dated for 2 weeks within the seventh grade; Lauren roasts herself for layering her tank tops (who amongst us?!); they usually all agree that Trey Phillips got here out the most effective of any of them. Additionally they tease the opportunity of planning a much bigger occasion for the 20-year anniversary of the present, which might be developing in 2024.
Earlier than then, nevertheless, Kristin and Stephen confirmed they’ll be again to recap the second season of Laguna on Again to the Seashore after a brief break. Up to now, their Season 1 recap episodes have included visitor appearances from former forged members Phillips, Christina Schuller, Morgan Olsen, and Dieter Schmitz—plus sequence creator and government producer Liz Gateley—so we’ll be patiently awaiting information on who will be part of them for the second batch of episodes.
And fortunately, the primary two seasons of Laguna Seashore (we don’t acknowledge the disappointing third season on this home) can be conveniently hitting Netflix this Friday, Nov. 11, so there can be loads of time to binge-watch earlier than Kristin and Stephen hold going baaaaack… again to the beginnnnnning.