Gavin Beasley Says The Hills is Scripted

Gavin Beasley gave an interview to Best Week Ever yesterday making the claim that The Hills is entirely scripted. I thought something wasn’t right. It seems to take them hours to setup the lighting, get the hair and makeup right, setup the scene, turn those pages … pages? OMG it is scripted. Here’s what Gavin said:

On being set up with Lauren:
“Then in August I got a call from my agency to go to a casting call for Teen Vogue, and Lauren and the camera crews just so happened to be there. She remembered me from our shoot, and the next thing I know, a producer’s asking me to ask Lauren for her number, and I’m signing release forms and being shot for The Hills. They wanted me to ask her about the runway show, how long she had worked that day, when would she get off, stuff like that.”

On meeting Lauren’s ex Brody:
“Like, they totally set up the BBQ scene for Brody and I to meet each other and talk because, as they said, ‘the audience would get a kick out of seeing ‘the ex’ talking to ‘the new guy’.’ So they rent this house in Malibu for a set, bought a bunch of food and drinks, and just filmed us hanging out. Brody would talk all this sh*t, then be like, ‘Sorry about that, we’re just trying to make good television.’”

On his “date” with Lauren:
“I honestly had a really hard time talking to her – she’s kind of a conversation killer, and when the cameras are rolling, all conversation is kept firmly on the surface…. In fact, the most interesting thing I got out of her was that she isn’t allowed to eat ice cream because her trainer told her she can’t.”

All shows, reality shows included, have a good amount of scripting. The only show that has little or no scripting is COPS. Unless they pay people to act like idiots, run from them, pee in the street, yell profanity (bleep bleep bleep), and pass out while smashing their head through a wall. If people really knew how boring it was to be rich and privileged we might just be satisfied being ordinary. If that happened how would people like Britney ever get rich and famous? That’s Heidi Montag showing off her fake breasts below, and Lauren Conrad above pretending to be super duper excited about her latest shopping trip.