[The Hills' Lauren Conrad outside Live! with Regis and Kelly this morning; image via Splash]

Radar magazine puts Lauren Conrad, the Teen Vogue intern in reality show The Hills, atop the magazine's fashion industry power list. She beats out Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor. Well, not really. Wintour still has the power to make and break designers like nobody else. But one can pretend, for the sake of controversy.

• Vogue editor Lauren Davis's wedding to a rich foreigner is very important! It will be held on a private island! Each of the nine bridesmaids will wear a dress by a different designer! ""You can expect the entire young Paris Match, Hola and Hello crowds for this event," someone predicted. Care, care! [Page Six]
  

It continues to be so on between 'Hills' co-stars Heidi Montag and Lauren Conrad. When the two ran into each other at a Hollywood hotspot last weekend, some serious gauntlets were thrown down, says US Weekly. Lauren, Audrina and Lo totally had a dance off against Heidi and her peeps, OMG! No word as to who won, but we suspect they couldn't hold a candle to the "Saved by the Bell" kids during that dance-off-at-the-Max episode. [US]

• The producers of MTV hit 'The Hills' may sometimes manipulate storylines and tweak outcomes! Also, Lauren Conrad was drunk at the season finale afterparty! [Page Six]
  

On last night's 'The Hills' finale, it seemed at first that Lauren Conrad would be denied her second chance at going to Paris for Teen Vogue, while Whitney would get to make the trip which would somehow enable her to go home a princess! Princess, whee! But some ex machina intervened and Lauren was allowed to go too. Good thing she's been boning up on her Français: "Bonne nuit..." "Je m'appelle..." Go on, Lauren! Throw some shoes in a suitcase, remind yourself that everything goes with black, release your inhibitions and feel the rain! Oh and also Spencer and Heidi decided to give each other some space again, more.

On last night's episode of 'The Hills,' Spencer and Heidi continued to keep us all guessing and hanging about whether or not they'll get married. Will Heidi's tactical mistake—telling Spencer's sister, not Spencer, about her cold feet—derail their nups for good? Whatever, who cares! The real fun is, as usual, to be seen through the wide, darting, endearingly rodentish eyes of Lauren Conrad, who took her sometime boy-thing Brody to task for having a lot of sluts in his iPhone. Seriously, Brody, if you have more than one 'Amber' in your phone it means you have a problem.

It was bound to happen eventually and, last night, it did: 'The Hills' heroine L. C. faced off with her archnemesis Heidi at a party. Heidi made friendly overtures but Lauren wouldn't talk to her unless she apologized. But Heidi maintained that she hasn't done anything wrong! (She did. Sex tape, something something). There was a lot of meaningful blinking and music that told you how to feel. Then Lauren said two profound and true things: "Having your boyfriend do your dirty work for you doesn't make you innocent" and "You're a bad person." She may not be smart, but she is a good judge of character.

Yesterday's Page Six asks, "WHICH big TV star who dabbles in nightlife enterprise took his drunkeness to the next level? He was spotted sucking face with another guy in his car while hammered." Hmm! "Nightlife enterprise?" Well, we took a stab at it, now it's your turn.

Sort-of reality show "The Hills" is still keeping MTV alive! And its evil semi-star Spencer Pratt may be a prat but he is one smart cookie. When Heidi Montag, his inamorata, returns from lunch with Jenny, Spencer is sitting on the couch reading The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel, Benjamin Graham's classic 1949 guide to value investing. There's even a foreword by Warren Buffett! Anyway, according to Heidi, "Jen [Bunney] was telling me [Heidi Montag] that Lauren [Conrad] was saying Brody [Jenner] says that it was all Spencer [Pratt] who was spreading the sex tape rumors." (That would be the famed sex tape of Lauren Conrad and her once-and-current boyfriend Jason Wahler.) Pratt was once Brody Jenner's "manager-slash-publicist-slash-agent- slash-stylist! Deflection time! "He's such a little bitch!" says Pratt. Sure. Did Pratt fuel speculation about Conrad's sex tape? Almost certainly! But more importantly, was it a sound investment?

Guys! GUYS! Totes such hotness on "The Hills" last night! The gang all went out to Las Vegas to surprise Brody for his birthday and Lauren FULLY KISSED HIM? I think they may be getting back together! How great is that!? Lauren so deserves love!?! Meanwhile, Audrina TOTALLY THREW A BITCH FIT at her friends and some guy who is only wearing a towel because she thinks the rest of the girls are all, Don't date Justin Ricky Lee Harvey John Wayne Bobby, but you know what? They were just trying to be friendly to him. And also?!?

YOU GUYS. POOR LAUREN. OMG. So, on last night's "The Hills," Lauren's ex-BF Jason totally drops the "I do want you to meet my girlfriend" bomb on Lauren, even though it completely seemed like he and Lauren might get back together? And even worse? He's all, We're moving in together, come to our housewarming party? And then at the housewarming party, they're like, Oh, yeah, we're TOTALLY ENGAGED, and you could just see the hurt in Lauren's eyes and you SO wanted to give her a hug and maybe punch Jason! Why are guys such jerks? Also, Heidi's all trying on wedding dresses for her engagement to Spencer and then she find out HE HAS SO TOTALLY NOT EVEN TOLD HIS PARENTS ABOUT THE WEDDING. And she's like, Why? Are you embarrassed by me? And he doesn't say anything, but you can fully tell the answer is either, Yes, you're a total bitch or No, it's because I am secretly gay. Sigh. We, like, hate Heidi so much, but the look on her face is JUST SO SAD. So sad.

We're of two minds about "The Hills" star Lauren Conrad's new fashion line. Poorly-made cynical cashing-in by a brand-person-entity? Or the realization of a delicate young girl's lifelong dream? You've heard the con. Now hear the pro.

We're of at least two minds about "The Hills" star Lauren Conrad's new fashion line. Poorly-made cynical cashing-in by a brand-person-entity? Or the realization of a delicate young girl's lifelong dream? Herewith, the con. The pro follows.

"Reaching... for something in the distance... so close you can almost taste it... Release your inhibitions, feel the rain on your skin..." As I listened to my former coworker Doree's boyfriend sing along to "The Hills" theme song last night—serious, he's straight!—, I understood that I was in for a television experience like no other. That's right: last night was the first time I have ever watched an episode of the MTV scripted reality series 'The Hills!' How?

OH. MY. GOD. YOU. GUYS. Last night's "The Hills"? So, like, Lauren and ex-BF Jason are spending time together again and even though nothing's happened yet, it's like totally clear that it could? So they go to super-hot restaurant Ketchup? And who walks in right after them but HEIDI AND SPENCER? And everyone's like totally shocked even though this is a completely scripted drama? And there is like MAJOR uncomfortableness between them because HEIDI AND SPENCER SUCK? So the next day at work Heidi comes in and starts telling Elodie about it? And Elodie's all, Why do you think that is? And Heidi's all hurt and confused? Maybe she doesn't realize it's because SHE'S A TOTAL BITCH? Anyway, OH. MY. GOD.

The Hills' Heidi Montag is on the cover of the October issue of CosmoGirl, and the accompanying article (a Q&A with both Heidi and her boyfriend Spencer Pratt) is, we suppose, meant to set the record straight regarding Heidi and Spencer's relationship and their enmity towards Heidi's ex-BFF Lauren Conrad. But we came away from it feeling even more like Spencer has fully completed his takeover of Heidi's brain. Spencer is "smart, funny, sweet, genuine, and a great businessman. He's my dream guy!" Heidi gushes. "I could start crying right now when I think of being without Spencer." Crazy! Then they start trashing Lauren Conrad, and that's when things start getting really good.

After our post went up with the information that Hills "stars" Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port were in town for Fashion Week, a reader reported that Lauren was spotted at Joe's Pizza in Greenwich Village this weekend, "I think Monday." Also: Lauren "had a very large hickey she wasn't hiding, but perfect make-up and eyeliner." And a black quilted leather Chanel tote bag, and a billowy white sundress. Very interesting. The photos follow.

If you want to catch Lauren and Whitney from The Hills while they're in town this week, you'd be well advised to stay in the vicinity of anything Marc Jacobs. A reader reports that the show was filming at the Marc Jacobs casting yesterday, and another source with knowledge of the show's inner workings tells us that the pair flew in to New York from L.A. on Monday, and they'll mostly be hanging out at Condé Nast and Marc Jacobs. They'll head to Las Vegas for the VMAs on Sunday, and then will, reportedly, be back. Sightings are, of course, welcome.

Our slags over at ladysite Jezebel caught Lauren Conrad of "The Hills" "reality" show semi-fame rocking the name necklace a la Carrie Bradshaw. Proof positive of our "The Hills" is the new "Sex And The City" theory. What's more, we hear from inside MTV that "The Hills" is "the only thing holding up the channel at the moment. The online ratings/# of streams are THROUGH THE ROOF. But everything else is in the shitter. All of the programming meetings are about doing 'triage' on the programming schedule/lineup, and how 'America's Next Top Model' marathons are helping to 'stop the bleeding.'"