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Spencer Pratt hawks sex tape

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:21:00 +0000

Spencer Pratt just won't go away. With his clock of fame reading 14:59, the reality TV star is reportedly shopping around the one fool-proof ticket to stardom: a sex tape. This one, Pratt claims, features him with his soon-to-be ex-wife Heidi Montag.

Pratt pitched the tape earlier today to Vivid Entertainment -- the Warner Bros. of pornographic films and the same company that distributes the naughty homemade movies of Kendra Wilkinson and Laurence Fishburne's daughter.

Steven Hirsch, co-chairman of Vivid, tells TMZ, "We are in early negotiations to possibly come to terms for a deal."

“Speidi” calls it quits

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:31:00 +0000

Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards. Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren. Lucy and Desi (twice). Now Spencer and Heidi.

Heidi Montag, former star of MTV's hit "The Hills," has decided to divorce Spencer Pratt, breaking up the reality show entity known as "Speidi." Montage filed the papers Friday afternoon at a Santa Monica, Calif., courthouse, citing irreconcilable differences.

This comes six months after Montag filed for separation.

"The couple has agreed they would like their divorce to be finalized in a timely manner in an out-of-court settlement," Montag's lawyer, Jodeane Farrell, says. "Both parties are amicable with each other and over the possibility of finalizing their divorce."

Heidi Montag files for separation from Spencer Pratt

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:45:00 +0000

More than "The Hills" may be ending for two of its stars -- Heidi Montag has filed for separation from Spencer Pratt. She cited irreconcilable differences in a court document submitted Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif.

Montag and Pratt are stars of the MTV series "The Hills" and have been married since last April. The series is in its final season.

Montag's two-page handwritten filing does not offer any more details on the couple's breakup. An e-mail sent to an MTV spokeswoman seeking comment was not immediately returned.

The filing also doesn't indicate whether Montag intends to file for divorce, which would formally end their marriage.

Heidi Montag: The monster we created

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:04:00 +0000

Though America will never lack for celebrities who parlay our loathing of them into their bread and butter, no one seems to bask better in the spotlight of distaste these days than Heidi Montag.

The spoiled, bitchy and bottomlessly vapid MTV reality star with the tragically self-promoting husband, Heidi Montag is also a monster of our own creation: a woman who seems to exist solely to make the rest of us feel better about our relative depth of character -- and who, apparently, thrives on the negative attention.

Earlier this month, she released an unsurprisingly lackluster album with the poetically appropriate name "Superficial" and started filming a new season of her heavily scripted series "The Hills," all to the yawns of millions. Perhaps fearing that the dawn of a new decade might signal an end to our fascination with watching shallow people do questionable things, the 23-year-old then took to the cover of People magazine last week to show off her multiple cosmetic procedures -- including a horrifying 10 in one day: a brow minilift, nose-job revision, fat injections in cheeks and lips, chin reduction, neck liposuction, ear pinning, breast augmentation revision, liposuction, buttocks augmentation and a little Botox thrown in. In a grand gesture of stating the obvious, she confessed that the reason she put herself through enough work to look like she'd gone through a car window was that she's "beyond obsessed" with self-improvement. Then, just in case that didn't get our attention, the sculpted, pneumatically hootered blonde appeared on "Good Morning America" to tell us, in her Tin-Man-before-the oil-can-stiff-faced way, that "My main message is that 'beauty is really within.'"

The craziest thing you’ll ever read

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:55:00 +0000

If you've never seen the MTV reality show "The Hills," well, you're not missing much. Even as a former fan of some of MTV's reality television, I find it impossible to get into the show. The cast is not just dumb and obnoxious; their real sin is that they're just plain boring. But one couple from the show, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, have risen to fame. Now, they're using that celebrity to spread the gospel of radio host, 9/11 Truther and all-around conspiracy nut Alex Jones.

The two -- known in the tabloids as "Speidi" -- appeared on Jones' radio show last week after he found out they were fans of his. Big fans, apparently: Pratt spent quite a while listing all the Jones material he'd devoured recently, while his wife added, "We've been nonstop researching the Internet ... for information for at least a month, all day, every day."

The triumph of the uncelebrity

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:25:00 +0000

These last few weeks may go down in history as the tipping point when ordinary people replaced celebrities at the pop cultural whipping post. First sextuplet parents and reality stars Jon and Kate Gosselin fell to pieces before our eyes, then Kate's brother, Kevin Kreider, made a teary-eyed appearance on "The Early Show" to decry the fact that his nieces and nephews were being exploited and "viewed as a commodity." On Sunday night, awkward cat lady and overnight star Susan Boyle was taken to the hospital to be treated for "exhaustion" after her loss to dance group Diversity on "Britain's Got Talent." Then early this week, reality dilettantes Heidi and Spencer Pratt quit "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here" (twice), but allegedly called the whole thing a "mental fake-out to mess with the competitors" -- see also, yet another publicity stunt the likes of which formed the two-headed monster Speidi from the molten ashes of two unexceptional humans in the first place.

Heidi Montag, “feminist hero”

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:25:00 +0000

Speaking of kick-ass female heroines ... Heidi Montag is returning to our living rooms tonight with the premiere of the new season of "The Hills"!

Uh-huh, you read that right. You've spent all this time lamenting the lack of role models for today's girls, while surveying the stark pop culture landscape for a young woman with a sharp tongue, steel trap of a mind and the kind of self-confidence that could swallow alive the entire self-help section of Barnes & Noble. But -- sillies! -- that young woman was right before your eyes all along, flexing her feminist credentials by ascending the Hollywood it-list and occasionally putting her lying leprechaun of a boyfriend in his place, according to Ginia Bellafante writing for the New York Times:

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Who the hell are Heidi and Spencer?

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:15:00 +0000

It would seem the most incidental of choices: Before boarding a recent night flight across the Atlantic Ocean, I stepped into a newsstand at John F. Kennedy airport and left without buying a single glossy gossip magazine for my trip. Planes are my top favorite place in which to indulge in the brain-cleansing pleasures of People, US Weekly, In Touch, and even the occasional Star magazine. But on this particular flight -- on my way to an indulgent (if not brain-cleansing) vacation, no less -- all I could do was stare at my candy-colored cover choices, recognize in some dazed way that I didn't know what a Heidi or a Spencer was, and proceed to the register with only a bottle of water and the Atlantic Monthly.

By the time I boarded a return flight a week later, the next issue of the Atlantic Monthly was on the stands, bearing on its cover an image of embattled pop tart Britney Spears; it sat next to a new issue of US Weekly, whose cover bleated news of an interview with presidential candidate Barack Obama in which he refused to say whether or not he wears boxers or briefs; a few days later, US published an online interview with Camille Paglia, in which she held forth on Howard Wolfson, Harold Ickes and Hillary Clinton's "60 Minutes" appearance.