Lauren Conrad Might be Returning to ‘The Hills’

It’s not just Heidi Montag who’s making news on the cast of The Hills.  According to rumors, the original focus of the MTV reality show, Lauren Conrad, might be returning despite a prior announcement that she was done being on camera.

“She kind of realized, especially in this economy, there’s not much else out there for her.  What else can she do that would earn as much?” a source tells the New York Post, adding that her Laguna Beach arch-nemesis Kristin Cavallari is set to join the cast as well.

Conrad said in early April that she actually thought season 4 would be her last, but she stayed on “hopefully give the show some sort of closure” which needed one more season. “I didn’t have that much conflict in my life over the last few months,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “I think I only cry in one episode.”

She added that she was in talks to turn her upcoming young-adult book series loosely based on her The Hills experience into a television drama (not that The Hills isn’t dramatic enough).  Her first novel L.A. Candy is set to hit shelves in June.

In other news, Conrad appeared on last night’s episode of
Family Guy, as she hooked up with Brian (yes, that’s the family dog), who was reeling from the news that ex-girlfriend Jillian was getting married.  “The idea in the episode is that they make fun of me for being dumb and then discover that I’m actually a genius, and that kind of a character I play [on TV], because America likes dumb people.”

Conrad’s potential future cast mate, 22-year-old Cavallari lived in Chicago with her mother before living in Orange County with her brother and father.  She and then boyfriend Stephen had a rather weird relationship before and during filming of Laguna Beach, as he was very close to childhood friend LC, and she hooked up with other boys.  After filming, Cavallari went on to finish her senior year at Laguna Beach High.