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Heidi Montag
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| Heidi Montag | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 15, 1986 |
| Genre(s) | Dance |
| Occupation(s) | Reality television celebrity Singer |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals |
| Years active | 2005 – present |
Heidi Montag (born September 15, 1986 in Crested Butte, Colorado[1]) is an American reality television celebrity best known for appearing on the MTV reality television series The Hills. Montag is also an aspiring singer.
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In the summer of 2005, MTV began filming the lives of Laguna Beach cast member Lauren Conrad and her college friends for her spin-off reality show, The Hills.[2] Montag's reality TV career began with a few appearances on season two of MTV's Laguna Beach. Montag's friendship with Conrad led to a featured role in The Hills, which premiered on May 31, 2006.[3] Montag was featured in the series sharing an apartment with Conrad while studying at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles. Montag left the Fashion Institute in fall of 2005 when she was hired as an intern at Bolthouse Productions.[4] According to Montag, she dropped out because she "did not find the school challenging".[5] Within two years, Montag was promoted from intern to event planner at Bolthouse, and has no plans to return to fashion school.[6]
Montag appeared in every episode of seasons one and two of The Hills, and appeared in season three, which aired on MTV on August 13, 2007.[7]
The nature of Montag's role in future seasons of The Hills is unclear since she is no longer living with Conrad. Despite a major role on the show, she did not appear on The Hills: Finale After Party, broadcast live from MTV's New York headquarters or The Hills: MTV Canada Finale After Show (filmed at MTV's Toronto studios).[8]
At The Hills: MTV Canada Finale After Show, cast member Audrina Patridge made it public that she no longer speaks with or sees Montag.[9]
Montag has discussed taking acting classes, saying she hopes The Hills will help her jump start a film career. She has expressed a desire to have appearances in "some movies" in addition to "a couple of hit albums".[10] In a recent Blender Magazine interview, Montag revealed her intentions of one day winning an Academy Award. [11]
As of February 2007, Montag is working on recording an album with producer David Foster (Brody Jenner's stepfather).[12] She describes the sound as "very fun, fresh, sexy" Montag danced as a child, thus reportedly plans to do "a lot of performing" in connection with the album. Additionally, she indicates that a lot of her songs "will be very sexual."[12]
It was also reported that Montag is on a one-song contract with Warner Bros. and not a full studio contract, as both Montag and her fiance, Spencer Pratt, had claimed.[13]
On August 16, 2007, Ryan Seacrest premiered Montag's song, "Body Language", featuring Pratt rapping, on his KIIS-FM radio show. Both Montag and Pratt denied the song was her intended first single with Pratt telling Us Weekly that the tune, "was a song Heidi and I were doing for fun. Never would I rap on her first single!"[13]
In December 2007, another track by Montag entitled "Touch Me" was leaked online.[14]
Despite dropping out of fashion school in 2005, Montag has reportedly been signed as the new spokesperson for Anchor Blue Clothing Company and will also design her own line for the company. The line will be called "Heidiwood" and will be priced between $10 - $60. [13]
Montag began dating Jordan Eubanks in 2005 and their relationship was featured on season one of The Hills. Montag broke off her relationship with Eubanks in the spring of 2006, a move that she has described as "the best decision of [her] life" and "something that [she] should have done earlier". [15]
In the summer of 2006, Montag started dating fellow Hills cast member Spencer Pratt, a former manager of Brody Jenner, who met Montag through Jenner's then-girlfriend, Laguna Beach's Kristin Cavallari. Season two of The Hills (which aired from January through April of 2007) focused on Montag's relationship with Pratt and its effect on her friendships with Conrad and Patridge. On The Hills' season two finale, Montag moved out of her apartment with Conrad to live with Pratt.[16]
In May 2007, Montag and Pratt announced their engagement.[17] Fans of The Hills have speculated that the engagement is fake,[18] a claim that both Montag and Pratt denied.
During The Hills season finale in December 2007, Montag and Pratt broke up. During a broadcast of Ryan Seacrest's radio show, Pratt revealed that he is "madly in love with Heidi and trying to win her back to marry her."[19] The fate of the couple's relationship will be revealed in a series of bonus episodes of The Hills that will air in spring 2008.[20]
After months of speculation and rumors, Montag admitted to undergoing a breast augmentation and rhinoplasty in April of 2007.[21]
- ^ a b NNDB.com entry for Heidi Montag
- ^ Rogers, Steve. "'Laguna Beach' star Lauren Conrad gets own The Hills MTV spinoff", Reality TV World, 2005-11-14. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
- ^ Heffernan, Virginia. "The Hills, a Follow-Up to Laguna Beach, Makes Its Premiere on MTV", The New York Times, 2006-05-31. Retrieved on 2007-03-27.
- ^ Tv.com Bio of Heidi Montag
- ^ Garfinkel, Jacki. "Interview with Heidi of MTV's The Hills", mediaVillage, 2006-08-02. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
- ^ The Hills episode, original airdate 2007-10-03
- ^ Nordyke, Kimberly. "Hills Rolling for Season Three at MTV", The Hollywood Reporter, 2007-04-05. Retrieved on 2007-04-06.
- ^ Powell, W. Andrew. "Ladies from The Hills descend on MTV Canada", The Gate, 2007-04-24. Retrieved on 2007-04-26.
- ^ Lauren Conrad, Audrina Patridge, Whitney Port, Jessi Cruickshank, Dan Levy. The Hills: MTV Canada Finale After Show [Internet]. Toronto: MTV.
- ^ Rocchio, Christopher (2007-02-15). The Hills star Heidi Montag says second season "much friskier". Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
- ^ "Will the Real Heidi Montag Please Stand Up?", People Magazine, 2007-11-13. Retrieved on 2007-11-15.
- ^ a b "MTV'S Heidi Montag Shows Off Her Own Hills", Us Weekly, 2007-02-06, pp. 5. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
- ^ a b c "Heidi and Spencer "Furious" Over Song Leak", Us Weekly, 2007-08-16. Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
- ^ {cite news | title =Listen to Heidi Montag's New Song!| publisher =Us Weekly | date =2007-12-13| url =http://www.usmagazine.com/heidi_montags_new_song | accessdate =2007-12-16}}
- ^ "Heidi Montag Is on Top of the World", Stuff Magazine, 2007-02-07. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
- ^ Model Volume: Female Models, Entertainers and Musicians (html). Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
- ^ "Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag Engaged!", US Weekly, 2007-05-23. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
- ^ Celebrity Babylon: Meet the Fakers! (html). Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
- ^ Parsley, Aaron; Keith, Amy. "The Hills’ Spencer Is Trying to Win Heidi Back", People, 2007-12-11. Retrieved on 2007-12-11.
- ^ The Hills to Return This Spring With Eight "Bonus" Episodes (html). Retrieved on 2007-12-11.
- ^ "Hills Exclusive: Heidi Confirms Plastic Surgery, Says She "Hated" Her Body", Us Weekly, 2007-09-26. Retrieved on 2007-10-17.