Audrina Patridge is definitely not team Justin Timberlake as The Hills star revealed the pop star once shaded the show while she, Lauren Conrad, and Whitney Port stood on the VMAs stage beside him. In September 2007, the reality series was airing its third season, and its stars were on top of the world. The Hills premiered when reality television was still relatively new and set the bar for what a successful reality TV series looks like. While today's reality stars have hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers, they aren't necessarily being hounded by paparazzi like The Hills stars were. Back then, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt made every tabloid cover with their staged paparazzi photoshoots and reached levels of fame only the Kar-Jenners could compete with.
It was around the '90s and early 2000s that MTV made its switch from music videos to reality TV shows. The Real World aired on the network in 1992 and featured stars like Queer Eye star Karamo Brown. The show invited a group of adults to live in a new city in a home together while being filmed 24/7. The popular series is the longest-running in MTV's history and is credited with inspiring the modern model of reality tv that the world watches today. The Hills may not have ever had its moment to shine without The Real World popularizing reality television. These days, it's rare to find a single music video playing on MTV. Instead, the network has dedicated itself to reality shows like Teen Mom, Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, and from 2018 to 2021, they even aired The Hills: New Beginnings, a reboot of the original series.
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