MTV’s popular reality show, “The Hills,” is being called out for its lack of, well, reality.
The “Laguna Beach” spin-off starring Lauren Conrad is accused of staging an airport scene in L.A.
The evidence? A series of photos posted on celebslam.com.
The photos show Spencer Pratt dropping fiancée Heidi Montag off at LAX – then supposedly picking her up after her trip as the couple embraces.
But the photos were shot on the same day and just a short time apart, according to celebslam.com.
And Spencer and Heidi are wearing the same pants and shoes in each photo – having changed only their shirts. That calls into question the time element – and whether the airport scene was staged for convenience sake.
An MTV spokeswoman said yesterday that Montag actually took her “last-minute trip” the weekend of Sept. 28 – and that the airport scene was re-shot last Friday (Oct. 5) to “put the trip into context.”
“It was a pickup shot that in no way affected the storyline,” she said.
The LAX brouhaha follows on the heels of comments made by “Hills” executive producer Adam DiVello to TV Guide.
DiVello was describing a scene from earlier this season, when enemies Conrad and Montag ended up at the same club on the same night.
“It wasn’t planned on our behalf, but it is a little fake,” he said.
“This is no different from any other reality show,” said the MTV spokeswoman.