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Jason Wahler connected Friendship With Kristin Cavallari After Laguna Beach
Let's spell back, backmost to the beginning.
In 2004, a squad of MTV producers turned up astatine a Southern California precocious schoolhouse connected the hunt for the close radical of charismatic teens to beforehand their latest brainchild: Laguna Beach, a real-life, docu-soap mentation of Fox's runaway-hit play The O.C.
"We're sitting determination successful class, and implicit the regular announcements they announce, 'Okay everyone, MTV's here. They're going to formed a world amusement connected Laguna Beach. If you're interested, motion up successful the quad astatine break,'" Christina Sinclair (née Schuller) recalled to Time successful 2014. "And I deliberation for immoderate 18 twelvemonth old, that's a imagination travel true. It's similar Grease—when they accidental they're going to movie their prom and it's going to beryllium connected nationalist television. Oh my gosh, I person to bash it!"
In a pre-Kardashians, pre-Real Housewives world, what the web was after was reasonably groundbreaking—a glossy-looking, caller signifier of world TV that simply followed a radical of intriguing subjects astir waiting for them to marque bully television.
And, aft weeks of scouting, erstwhile they stumbled upon outspoken blonde inferior Kristin Cavallari, her dreamy elder fellow Stephen Colletti and his champion person Lauren Conrad, the perpetual girl-next-door who'd been harboring a concealed crush, 1 improvement exec sent backmost connection to the network: They had it.
Months later, connected Sept. 28, 2004, Laguna Beach debuted, captivating some 3 cardinal viewers with the exploits of the well-off teens who inhabited the picturesque coastal California municipality and mounting the signifier for each Bravolebrity that would follow with The Real Housewives of Orange County premiering successful 2006 arsenic Laguna was wrapping its 3rd season.
By then, manner pupil Conrad had already headed to The Hills, anxious to capable up the blank leafage earlier her, a determination that unearthed a existent taste improvement that introduced the satellite to the likes of Speidi, Justin Bobby and that ever-iconic phrase: "You cognize what you did!"
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Suddenly we were each buying up Team Heidi and Team Lauren tees from Kitson and then-presidential campaigner Barack Obama was joking astir however he'd usage his powers to extremity the feud betwixt Conrad and Heidi Montag.
It was, successful a word, wild. No wonderment Conrad later confessed to Hills costar Whitney Port that she "just kinda needed a cleanable interruption for a infinitesimal to kind of emotionally recover."
We, however, necessitate nary specified respite. And with Colletti, Jason Wahler and Talan Torriero marking the 20th day with a celebratory TikTok, respects indispensable beryllium paid.
So plaything by the surf shop, bust retired your favourite achromatic conduit formal and spot what your favourite MTV alums person gotten up to successful the past 2 decades. Because portion everyone's changed and they've grown, you're ever gonna person that radical of friends that you tin travel backmost to.
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Lauren Conrad
Literal LOL at Teen Vogue's Lisa Love telling Lauren, "You'll ever beryllium known arsenic the miss who didn't spell to Paris." (A enactment really lifted from Vogue's Anna Wintour, a 2019 Hills deep dive revealed.)
More than a decade after that admittedly questionable determination and her consequent divided from Jason Wahler, LC has earned a fewer much laudatory descriptors: New York Times best-selling author; co-founder of The Little Market, with a ngo to empower pistillate artisans worldwide; and, of course, manner designer, her Kohl's Line LC Lauren Conrad conscionable the commencement of her present wide-ranging manner empire.
Now agelong past fights extracurricular Les Deux, she married Something Corporate rocker and instrumentality schoolhouse grad William Tell in a 2014 Pinterest wedding of our dreams. In October 2019, their 2nd son, Charlie Wolf Tell, joined older member Liam James Tell.
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Kristin Cavallari
Everyone's favourite atrocious miss went from being a (well-compensated) s--t-stirrer to full-on brag with her palmy manner brand, Uncommon James opening its 3rd brick-and-mortar determination successful Dallas successful 2021.
Rounding retired her increasing empire: a Chinese Laundry footwear enactment and 3 cookbbooks. Teammates for 10 years, she and retired NFL quarterback Jay Cutler welcomed sons Camden Jack Cutler and Jaxon Wyatt Cutler and girl Saylor James Cutler before splitting successful April 2020.
Now going back, backmost to the opening with dating aft a September 2024 divided withMontana Boyz subordinate Mark Estes, "I've gone connected a batch of dates successful the past fewer years," she told E! News successful 2023, "but I don't similar a batch of radical and I don't [think I'm] picky. I conscionable deliberation it's due to the fact that I don't person clip for bulls--t anymore."
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Jason Wahler
The nonmigratory atrocious lad of Laguna Beach and The Hills ran into nothing but trouble after his clip connected the world series: drugs, DUIs, fights, arrests…you sanction it. It wasn't until helium appeared on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew Pinksy that helium yet cleaned up.
Jason went connected to marry girlfriend Ashley Slack, a narration helium claims is his archetypal sober one, and helium and "the astir beautiful, loving, benignant and caring pistillate I know" welcomed daughter Delilah Ray in August 2017 and lad Wyatt Ragle in June 2021. The founder and proprietor of Widespread Recovery, he continues to beryllium unfastened about his struggles, both while helium was on The Hills: New Beginnings and during his YouTube series, JAWS Diaries with Jason & Ashley Wahler.
Now surviving successful Nashville, "Kristen is idiosyncratic we've gotten precise adjacent to since we moved to Tennessee," helium told E! News successful 2023. "We drifted apart, we were doing our ain things. I got mislaid successful my ain satellite and she was engaged having a household and kids, but she is idiosyncratic that is simply a beloved person who has been precise supportive successful this process."
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Stephen Colletti
Now that he's done giving america caller material for our LC-Kristin-Stephen emotion triangle instrumentality fic, Laguna's nonmigratory heartthrob is focused connected gathering a beauteous solid acting career. He was a recurring castmember connected the CW's One Tree Hill for 5 seasons and starred as Taylor Swift's love interest in her "White Horse" euphony video.
He besides had a impermanent gig arsenic an MTV VJ on Total Request Live (the original, not the reboot). Among his latest: the 2018 TV movie Hometown Christmas and Hulu's Everyone Is Doing Great, with former OTH costar James Lafferty.
As for helium and his Back to the Beach podcast cohost Kristin? Definitely dunzo, Stephen proposed to NASCAR Reporter Alex Weaver successful November 2023. "We inactive request to constrictive things out, truthful it's a batch of enjoying our engagement, but besides figuring retired what precisely privation to do," helium explained to E! News successful March of the readying process.
And portion he'd "absolutely" emotion to invitation erstwhile castmates LC and K.Cav, "There's going to beryllium a batch of radical that I grew up with invited if we bash that," helium said. "We besides mightiness conscionable person a very, precise intimate wedding wherever we mightiness not person a batch of people."
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Lo Bosworth
Truthfully, LC's BFF would similar to beryllium excluded from this narrative. When an exec gauged her involvement successful returning to The Hills, "I was like, 'F--k no!'" she recalled on a 2018 episode of her Lady Lovin' podcast. "I don't privation immoderate relation with immoderate of those people. The dissociation from each those radical is what I'm bare for."
Which, to beryllium fair, sometimes that happens erstwhile you alteration careers. Now based successful NYC, The International Culinary Center grad and The Lo-Down writer founded Love Wellness, a enactment of idiosyncratic attraction products for women, successful 2016.
Aside from Lauren, she precocious told E! News, "I'm not successful changeless interaction with a ton of radical from the show, but it's been 20 years. I don't cognize a batch of radical that are inactive connected a day-to-day ground with radical that they went to precocious schoolhouse with. But I'm precise affable with everybody and, if I saw them, I'd tally up to them and springiness them a large hug."
Because she's got a batch of emotion to give.
"I person grown into the beingness that I ever dreamed for myself," she told E!. "I've achieved a lot. So, for me, it's conscionable astir maintaining my presumption quo: Happy, healthy, household and large spirits, and walk a batch of clip with radical that I attraction about."
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Talan Torriero
Enjoying the briefest of flings with K.Cav, the romanticist exploits of Laguna's "ladies' man" remained successful the spotlight arsenic helium dated Kimberly Stewart and Nicole Scherzinger. But helium settled down for bully erstwhile helium met now-wife Danielle Torriero at an L.A. barroom connected her 21st day successful 2009.
Decamping from Cali to her autochthonal Nebraska wherever they're gathering "their imagination home(stead)" on a 0.87-acre lot, the 2 wed in June 2014 and welcomed son Bronson successful October 2017, girl Hudson successful December 2020 and youngest lad Anderson Tito successful June 2023.
"I said, 'Who the hellhole is that?'" Talan reflected to E! News of their archetypal meeting. "I ended up talking to her and she said she was from Nebraska. I had nary thought wherever the hellhole that was. Yet present I am, 14 years later, surviving successful Nebraska."
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Trey Phillips
Turns retired that play 1 runway amusement was conscionable his archetypal measurement into the satellite of fashion. After leaving Laguna, Trey made the leap to New York City and Parsons School of Design. Graduating successful 2010, the manner plan and renewable vigor large hung astir the Big Apple, scoring a occupation arsenic an subordinate decorator astatine Vera Wang and spent clip successful London.
Founding Motion Illustrated successful 2023 ("I’ve spent implicit a decennary designing and illustrating for immoderate of the biggest names successful fashion. Now, I privation to stock my ain imaginativeness of benignant with you," helium shared connected his site), the creator keeps a comparatively low-profile connected societal media. He has, however, shown the occasional glimpse of spouse Kasumi.
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Dieter Schmitz
Lauren and Stephen's bestie near the Beach down for his aboriginal successful hospitality and edifice management, presently moving arsenic a VP for Choice Hotels International.
He's inactive choky with his high school crew, though, Lauren, "proud groomsman" Stephen, Trey and Loren Polster turning retired for his 2016 Monterey, Calif. wedding to Isabell Hiebl. The pair, who telephone Austria a "second home", welcomed their archetypal child, son Nico Josef Schmitz, successful September 2018 and girl Leni successful March 2023.
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Jessica Smith
KCav's Laguna Beach pal has largely stayed distant from world tv aft her tally connected the MTV amusement ended. Following a little instrumentality to notoriety, acknowledgment to a 2007 DUI arrest, she settled into a quiescent beingness successful Texas with her husband, Michael Evans, "the astir kind, patient, strong, amazing, loving and ridiculously handsome quality I've ever met," arsenic she put it connected Instagram, and their 4 children.
Though she has her ain blog and Amazon shop, mostly, arsenic she jokes connected Insta, she's conscionable 'trying not to suffer a kid."
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Alex Murrel
Long gone are the days of Alex battling Jessica for Jason's heart. Marrying Kyle Johnson successful 2014 (Morgan Olson and bridesmaids Alex H. and Taylor Cole attended), they've since welcomed three boys: Levi in 2016, Kase in 2018 and Rome successful April 2021. Making usage of her communications grade from California's Chapman University, she co-founded MOX Agency, a social media selling business, successful 2014.
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Morgan Olsen
When Morgan signed connected with MTV successful 2004, she had nary visions of stardom: "I thought it would beryllium a amusive acquisition to bash with friends, and besides a mode to seizure my precocious schoolhouse acquisition connected film," she told Time. And nary magnitude of fame was going to deviate from her program to find a bully Mormon antheral to settee down with.
Two years aft graduating from Brigham Young University successful 2008, the humanities and journalism large joined Joel Smith. "I did the things I deliberation I would person wanted careless of being connected a TV show: postgraduate college, travel, get married, and commencement my vocation successful New York and present Los Angeles," she said of her Minnow Swim brand. Now stationed successful South Carolina, where she opened a caller Charleston showroom, the decorator is ma to Theo, Georgia and Julian.
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Casey Reinhardt
Though she wasn't an archetypal castmember of Laguna Beach, Casey's accomplishment to the world bid was a memorable one. Since then, she's launched a successful foray into the satellite of confections by opening Casey's Cupcakes successful Orange County. She adjacent won Food Network's Cupcake Wars in 2011.
Her location life, meanwhile, is conscionable arsenic sweet. Wed to Sean Brown (a comparative of the late Nicole Brown Simpson) since August 2015, they stock daughter Kensington and sons Sean Brown Jr. and Conrad.
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Taylor Cole
Not rather 3 years after Alex stood up in Taylor's October 2015 wedding to real property investor Kevin Simshauser, the friends recovered themselves expecting conscionable 8 weeks apart. Welcoming daughter Tatum September 2018, Taylor gave commencement to son Cole in January 2020 and lad Olson successful August 2022. The laminitis of Taylor Cole Holistic Nutrition also shares picture-perfect outtakes of her beingness connected Insta.
This communicative was primitively published connected Monday, Sept. 28, 2020 at 12 a.m. PT.
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