u/PeaceandLove73

Still trying to work out the timeline for The Hills :)

February 1, 2007 - Lauren's 21st birthday, pictured on The Hills. Lauren and Heidi are friends again, having recently gone on a girls' trip together. Spencer is present at the birthday party and gives a toast. Everyone seems to be getting along decently well.
February 14, 2007 - Lauren makes Heidi spend Valentine's Day with her instead of Spencer. This pisses Spencer off (rightfully). Shortly after this, Heidi moves in with Spencer.
April 2, 2007 - Lauren refuses to let Spencer attend The Hills Season 2 wrap party in NYC. This makes him and Heidi angry, and his anger probably motivated Spencer to leak information to Perez Hilton a few days later.

If everything was fine as of February 1, what happened between February 1 and April 2 that made Lauren say she refused to be at a party Spencer attended? Any thoughts?

As we know from the "Was it Real" podcast, Season 2 was put together all out of order and it's hard to follow exactly what happened between Lauren, Heidi, Spencer, and Brody.

We know for sure that Heidi and Spencer reconnected on September 28th at the Area Club opening after taking a break from each other over the summer. We also know (from People magazine and other celebrity sightings) that Lauren, Heidi, Spencer, and Brody were all hanging out during the month of October 2006 and that Lauren and Brody went on at least one real date (Brody confirmed on "Was it Real" podcast that they started out genuinely exploring romantically but then it quickly became a showmance).

October 19, 2006

So when did that change? It seems like it all went down in the first 9 days of November 2006.

Heidi's mom's birthday is November 3rd. We know (again, from the "Was it Real" podcast) that Heidi was planning to fly home for her mom's birthday (possibly a few days before November 3rd -- I'll guess November 1st) and then changed her mind and decided to stay in LA. This was the night that Spencer and Brody went clubbing with playmates, which Heidi was in on. We have footage of very real interactions that night:

Lauren happy to see Spencer and shouting \"Spencer! Surprise!\"

Lauren being flirty with Brody

Jen Bunney's birthday is November 9th. This was the night that Jen was worried Lauren would be mad that Spencer and Brody were there. It was also the night that Spencer and Lauren had that infamous confrontation outside the club. We have footage of very real interactions from that night:

Brody to Jen: \"Why would Lauren be mad at you?\" Jen: \"You!\"

Lauren and Spencer's confrontation happened at Jen Bunney's birthday

So in the few days between November 1st (guesstimate) and November 9th, Lauren completely changed her mind about Brody and Spencer.

Spencer and Heidi's story is that Lauren changed her mind because Brody dumped her. They've maintained this in interviews from 2007 until present day. Here's a 2007 article where Spencer talks about it: https://nypost.com/2007/09/02/everybody-hates-spencer/ "Lauren stopped liking me when the double dating stopped. It happened the night she and Brody ended. The next morning, on camera, she surprises Heidi with, “I don’t like Spencer.”'

Lauren, on the other hand, said on The Hills and in deleted scenes that she didn't like Spencer because he treated Heidi poorly and seemed to want to humiliate her.

Lauren telling Heidi that Spencer is going to screw her over

What is most likely is that Lauren caught on that Spencer and Brody were using Heidi and her to get famous. Perhaps the playmate night was what tipped her off to that? Brody admitted on the "Was it Real" podcast that he hooked up with one of those playmates -- maybe that's what Spencer and Heidi thought Lauren was upset about? Maybe he told her at the playmate night that he just wanted to be friends behind the scenes? What are your thoughts?

According to Heidi on the "Was it Real" podcast, Brody and Lauren took a break from each other after they didn't work out romantically. However, by November 29, 2006, Lauren and Brody were friends again and I believe she was dating Greg Carney:

November 29, 2006

Lauren and Brody had a lunch on The Hills where they talked about not being ready to date. Brody's hair was cut in the scene, so it was after the November 1st playmate night. My theory is that after they became friends again, the producers made them film a scene talking about how they both just got out of relationships and need to be single for a while to keep up the drama/tension of their on-screen flirtation:

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My theory is also that this is why Lauren got mad at Jen Bunney (later, closer to Christmas 2006). Not because Lauren actually liked Brody, but because Spencer (in his "Operation Upstage Lauren" as he called it) had decided to create an onscreen storyline where Jen stole Brody from Lauren, and Jen went along with it. Lauren had already looked dumb on screen with Stephen (Kristin) and with Jason (Jessica), and she was furious that now Spencer was arranging for it to happen a third time, this time with her best friend. Spencer also secretly filmed Jen or Heidi calling Lauren from Brody's condo and asking if she would care if they hooked up, and Lauren was furious about being secretly filmed (and Heidi and Jen allowing it). Lastly, Lauren was angry because Jen said she never kissed Brody and other people (Heidi, Brody) said they did kiss. We'll never know if it happened or not, lol. We know this was close to Christmas 2006, because we see in deleted scenes that Jen was still in the picture when they were putting up the Christmas tree, but then in another scene Lauren said she was no longer buying Jen a Christmas present.

What are your thoughts?

Why was Lauren so mad when Brody got a girlfriend while she was in Paris?

Why did Lauren uninvite Spencer from The Hills wrap party season 2?