Brody Jenner Was Admittedly "So Stoked" The Hills: New Beginnings Got Cancelled
"There was a lot of manipulation involved."
Ashley Hoover Baker
June 28, 2022 1:28pm
Today is where Brody‘s book begins…
The Hills: New Beginnings babe, Brody Jenner, didn’t hesitate on sharing his excitement that his tenure on the lackluster MTV reboot has ended after only two seasons.
In an exclusive interview with
People, Brody explained his time on
TH:NB “felt very forced and pushed” which is why he was “so stoked” the show wrapped,
again.
What went wrong?
Brody confessed, “To be honest, it just wasn’t the same experience. It was very stressful. There was a lot of manipulation involved. It was just a lot.”
It appears to me that Brody got bait-and-switched by the suits at MTV.
“I was at a completely different point in my life and what I was sold on, on the show in general, was not what they were producing.”
“They had told us in the beginning that, ‘Hey, we’re going to do a new Hills, and we want you guys to be on, but we’re going to hire a new, younger cast.’ They said that they were going to hire the new, younger cast like they’re doing now when they originally grabbed us. I was like, ‘Oh, that’s great.’ They’re going to hire a new, younger cast, ‘You guys will come in as the OGs. It’s not going to be focused and centered around you guys.'”
Brody made it clear, “that’s not what happened.”
“We went in to do the show and it was just like, ‘Nope, it’s only you guys.'”
“We had offered them a bunch of different younger people. I offered Brandon Thomas Lee, who was great for the show. I had a bunch of people that I kind of gave them and they just didn’t take them. They’re like, ‘No.'”
Anti-aging:
Brody detailed that the network wasn’t interested in pursuing the cast’s authentic 30-something-year-old lives but encouraged them to recreate their early-aughts-antics.
There “was so much pressure put on us to drive [the] storyline.”
“I’m like, ‘Dude, I’m f*cking 37 years old. I don’t go out to nightclubs every night and go hunting for chicks in nightclubs. That’s just not me anymore.'”
“So that was kind of a bummer because we needed a younger cast to be on there. I didn’t mind coming in and out and filming and living our authentic lives of where we were at, at that moment, but everything else felt very forced and pushed.”
Then, of course, Brody mentioned the most essential element from the OG era that was missing from the reboot- the magic of Laguna Beach‘s and The Hills’ narrator, Lauren Conrad.
Respect.
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Category: Laguna Beach & The Hills, MTV Shows, Reality TV Buzz
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