UPDATE: Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee investigations into Donald Trump.
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Let the rain fall down — and stir the pot! Laguna Beach alum Alex Murrel broke down her high school love triangle with Jason Wahler and Jessica Smith, teasing that it wasn’t as real as viewers thought.
“It was very contrived. They knew that there was a storylines and they built upon those and timelines were split and cut apart,” Murrel, 35, exclusively told Us Weekly on November 1, noting that the same went for Kristin Cavallari, Stephen Colletti and Lauren Conrad’s onscreen drama during season 1. “Because it was shot like a soap opera pretty much, it was hard for viewers to, like, understand if it was reality or real.”
The Mox Agency cofounder raised eyebrows during season 2 of the MTV series, which aired in 2005, when she took Wahler, now 35, to their Winter Formal dance while he was still dating Smith, also 35.
Once the “Let the Journey Begin” podcast cohost and Smith called it quits on their romance, he quickly moved on with Murrel, but the marketing guru told Us the timeline wasn’t exactly what it appeared.
“It just kind of blurred those lines ’cause [the show] was the first of its kind,” Murrel said while promoting Laguna Beach‘s Netflix debut. “There was those [love triangle] story lines [and] things happened, but I think, like, with the editing, it really kind of piecemeal things together that maybe weren’t, like, a hundred percent.”
Following the show, which included a third season that aired in 2006, the teens grew up and found love outside of reality TV.
Murrel married Kyle Johnson in October 2014. The couple share three sons: Levi, 6, Kase, 4, and Rome, 19 months. Jason, for his part, wed Ashley Wahler (née Slack) in October 2013. The twosome share daughter Delilah, 5, and son Wyatt, 16 months.
Smith, who was one of
UPDATE: Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee investigations into Donald Trump.
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. The effortlessly meme-able star just opened up about her sexual preferences (nothing graphic, if you're at work!), and her favorite “role” is both surprising and totally understandable.On the Whoreible Decisions podcast, Palmer revealed that she's, pardon my French, a bottom. “I feel like, definitely, when I’m in an intimate space with someone, I’m very much so, like, ‘At your service,'” she said, self-identifying as a "sub." Palmer explains that because she's so “bossy” during the day, she likes to let her partner be the boss at night, per .
Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti are sitting down with Lauren Conrad!
A reunion nearly 20 years in the making! Lauren Conrad joined fellow Laguna Beach alums Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti for an episode of their podcast and spilled plenty of secrets about her time on the show.
Dishing on dad life! Laguna Beach alum Jason Wahler is opening up about the challenges of parenting his two children — daughter Delilah, 5, and son Wyatt, 16 months.
Coming clean. Laguna Beach star Lauren Olsen (née Hooser) used to go by “Alex H.” on the hit MTV series — but she no longer goes by the moniker.
This is growing up! Talan Torriero was known as one of the resident heartthrobs of Laguna Beach, so he thinks fans might be surprised to learn what he’s doing now.
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Team high school sweethearts? Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti’s former Laguna Beach costars are just like Us — with many of them shipping the exes.
Spilling the MTV tea! The Laguna Beach cast is opening up about how much of the early 2000s reality show was scripted — and how much of it was real.
The girl who didn’t go to Paris! Jason Wahler sounded off on ex-girlfriend Lauren Conrad’s choice to stay in Los Angeles with him — and skip a work trip to Paris on The Hills.
Jack Harlow was all game to roast himself during the Saturday Night Live monologue. The “First Class” singer took the stage of Studio 8H and didn’t waste any time poking fun at himself. Watch the monologue in the video posted above.