Kristin Cavallari, Stephen Colletti Reveal ‘Laguna Seaside’ Secrets and techniques

The reality behind the TV. Greater than a decade after their cut up, Laguna Seaside exes Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti teamed up for their “Again to the Seaside” podcast, which particulars their time on the MTV actuality present.

The sequence, which aired from September 2004 to November 2006, adopted the lives of a number of highschool college students at California’s Laguna Seaside Excessive College, together with Cavallari and Colletti in addition to Lauren Conrad, Jason Wahler and Lo Bosworth. For his or her podcast, Cavallari and Colletti rewatch outdated episodes of the present and reveal what was actually occurring behind the scenes — and what didn’t make it to air.

For starters, the duo clarified that they weren’t truly shut pals with everybody who was on the present. “We knew who everyone was,” the Very Cavallari alum defined through the “Again to the Seaside” welcome episode on July 19. “However we’re not hanging out.”

Colletti echoed that sentiment, explaining that most of the situations the teenagers discovered themselves in wouldn’t have occurred with out the intervention — and finances — of MTV. “For instance, within the first episode, this resort get together,” the previous One Tree Hill actor defined. “We didn’t have resort suite events the place anyone was simply, like, throwing out a bank card, reserving a collection.”

The Hit the Ground alum additionally famous that his romance with Cavallari didn’t play out in actual life the way in which that it did on the present. The pair, who dated on and off in highschool, seemingly cut up due to Colletti’s involvement with Conrad, however Colletti mentioned he was “uncomfortable” with the way in which the sequence portrayed the alleged love triangle.

“We dated for actual my sophomore 12 months, your junior 12 months,” Cavallari defined on the podcast. “And we had been collectively for, I believe, a bit of over a 12 months. And I might say that was truly in all probability the very best that we ever had been. … Earlier than MTV confirmed up.”

When the Balancing in Heels creator began her junior 12 months, she broke up with Colletti and moved on with Talan Torriero. “All of this occurred earlier than MTV got here,” the previous E! persona recalled. “After which when MTV did present up, they caught wind of what occurred. … You and I had been truly actually making an attempt to work on the connection.”

The duo’s romance by no means received again on monitor, however they’ve remained pals for the reason that present wrapped greater than a decade in the past. “We’ve at all times been in one another’s corners, at all times been rooting for one another,” Cavallari defined. “We’ve at all times actually cared about one another, which I believe is necessary.”

Maintain scrolling for the largest revelations from Cavallari and Colletti’s “Again to the Seaside” podcast.