{"id":290582,"date":"2020-04-07T14:45:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1138395"},"modified":"2020-04-07T14:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:45:33","slug":"the-hills-whitney-port-recalls-freaking-out-during-her-and-lauren-conrads-first-scene-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/the-hills-whitney-port-recalls-freaking-out-during-her-and-lauren-conrads-first-scene-together\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hills&#8217; Whitney Port Recalls &#8220;Freaking Out&#8221; During Her and Lauren Conrad&#8217;s First Scene Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.375796178344\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"25.68152866242\">\n<p>When&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/whitney_port\">Whitney Port<\/a><\/strong> says she &#8220;never wanted to be on TV,&#8221; she means it.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds fake, but Whitney says on her <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/stay-home-with-whit-spilling-my-secrets\/id1462706458?i=1000470733568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podcast<\/a> <em>With Whit<\/em> that when she joined as&nbsp;a member of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1050203\/parenthood-public-family-feuds-and-65-000-crystals-how-life-has-completely-changed-for-the-hills-cast?query=the%20hills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Hills<\/em> cast<\/a>, she &#8220;didn&#8217;t really know what I&nbsp;was getting myself into.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She explains that as a college student at USC she&nbsp;was just looking for an internship that would elevate her resume to the next level. Having worked at&nbsp;<em>Women&#8217;s Wear Daily<\/em> that summer, she decided to pursue an internship at&nbsp;<em>Teen Vogue<\/em> for the fall, except there was one caveat. &#8220;They said we&#8217;re actually accepting applications but only for people that are only interested in being on camera,&#8221; the 35-year-old shares. &#8220;I thought, &#8216;Okay, whatever.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Port says she figured she&#8217;d be on the camera &#8220;here and there&#8221; and the end result would be &#8220;nothing too crazy.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But boy, was she wrong. She begins to do screen tests, interviews, meetings with&nbsp;<strong>Lisa Love<\/strong> and next thing she knows &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lauren_conrad\">Lauren Conrad<\/a><\/strong> walks in.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.143631436314\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13.355013550136\">\n<p>At this point in time, the MTV show&nbsp;<em>Laguna Beach&nbsp;<\/em>was already on the air and had launched Lauren, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kristin_cavallari\">Kristin Cavallari<\/a><\/strong> and others to fame. So upon meeting Lauren, Whitney &#8220;realized&#8221; she was in for something big. She recalls, &#8220;I&nbsp;knew who she was and I thought, &#8216;Whoa, I am on her spinoff show\u2014this is insane!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was like freaking out. I was so fan-girling,&#8221; she jokes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.767810026385\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191015\/rs_634x1024-191115091836-634-Whitney-Port-JR-111519.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Whitney Port\" alt=\"Whitney Port\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Dsanchez\/4crns\/wcp \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25.857142857143\">\n<p>From there, the star says, &#8220;The rest is history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And despite her apprehensions about becoming a reality TV star, Whitney says she&#8217;s used to it now. &#8220;I&nbsp;don&#8217;t want confrontation, i&#8217;m scared of it, but I feel like I&#8217;ve found my place a little,&#8221; she explains. &#8220;I can get in there if I want to and I feel totally fine not getting involved as well.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once the show ended, Whitney reveals she &#8220;hadn&#8217;t kept in touch&#8221; with the cast from both&nbsp;<em>The Hills<\/em> and&nbsp;<em>The City<\/em>, but insists it was &#8220;nothing personal.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the star left the show with so many &#8220;special&#8221; and &#8220;major&#8221; memories, like dating&nbsp;<strong>Jay<\/strong>, who she was &#8220;so into&#8221; and going to Paris for fashion shows.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To hear more behind-the-scenes secrets, listen to the full podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/stay-home-with-whit-spilling-my-secrets\/id1462706458?i=1000470733568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1138395\/the-hills-whitney-port-recalls-freaking-out-during-her-and-lauren-conrad-s-first-scene-together?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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It sounds fake, but Whitney says on her podcast With Whit that when she joined as&nbsp;a member of&nbsp;The Hills cast, she &#8220;didn&#8217;t really know what I&nbsp;was getting myself into.&#8221; She explains that as a college student at USC she&nbsp;was just looking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-23 18:53:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}