Lauren Conrad says The Hills are alive with the smell of bologna! The fashionista — and now author of the young adult novel L.A. Candy – appeared on The View this morning where she confessed that the “reality” series that made her famous often features staged settings.

We couldn’t believe it, either! (Insert eye-roll here.)

The former series protagonist told the ladies that producers of the immensely popular MTV hit manufactured Spencer’s apology to her for his role in the sex tape rumors that hit the web in 2007. On today’s show, Lauren revealed that she wasn’t actually on the other end of the phone call.

“To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t on the other line of that call,” Lauren said. “That was filmed and I wasn’t on the other end… So I didn’t even know about it.”

Lauren added that she attended Heidi’s wedding because the two women were once besties.

“It’s a little hard to understand now, but a long time ago — years ago, we moved here together, we were best friends and we used to say – ‘Someday, at our wedding…’” Lauren recounted. “I felt like it was a few hours of my time and as much as I didn’t agree with it, I might some day regret not doing it.”

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