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Why Is Lauren Conrad Going on a Clothing Tour?
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Why is Lauren Conrad going on a "clothing tour"? What is a "clothing tour"?
—Morgan, Dayton, Ohio
It's a fancy way of saying that Lauren is finally getting up off of her C-list buttocks to sell her clothes.
For the blissfully uninformed—and how I envy you this moment—here's the news: Over the next few weeks, Conrad will visit four college towns, including Boston, Atlanta and Austin, to host fashion shows featuring her collection.
"Lauren Conrad will be attending each event," Bryan Carbone, marketing director for Campus Solutions Inc., which is helping to market the tour, tells me.
So why a Janet Jackson-style tour? I suspect a good deal of comeuppance...
Burning Q's: Dean's Other Girl & More Hills Haters
I've been watching the third season of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott on Oxygen. They keep saying their new daughter is their first little girl. Didn't Dean have a girl with his first wife, right before he left her for Tori?
—Debby
Good eye, kid, good eye. Dean McDermott and former wife Mary Jo Eustace adopted a daughter together in 2005, the same year that he began his relationship with Spelling. But McDermott no longer has any legal responsibility for the little girl, named Lola. So take the "first daughter" gushing as you will. I know I won't.
Got more Burning Q's? Let's go!
Burning Q's: Speidi Bashing & Bunches o' Thugs
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Just curious. How come you guys on E! Online are kinda mean to Heidi and Spencer? Not that I am a big fan of them or The Hills.
—S.S.
Quiet, you. Kindness only encourages them. And once people realize that the sex-tape trauma they've engineered is kind of tired, they'll have nothing, and Heidi will have to auction her breast implants on eBay for peroxide money. Is that what you want? Is it? Is it? Now, to more of your burning questions.
How many bodyguards does a celebrity usually have with them?
—Clare, Las Vegas
A-List Secrets: Gettin' Paid (a Whole Lot) to Party
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How much do celebs get paid to host evenings at the clubs? Us normal people can't go anywhere near the VIP section, so why pay them to be there?
—Lorna
Actually, it's a safety measure. You really don't want to get too close to the hot, sulfurous air being blown out of Heidi & Spencer's various orifices. Might cause third-degree burns. So listen up.
Top-name celebrities charge up to $50,000 for two hours work, according to Robert Tuchman, whose TSE Sports & Entertainment company does nothing but book celebrities for hosting gigs.
By top-name, we mean Lindsay Lohan and up, not Spiedi and down. See what B- and C-listers bank, and why you're not allowed anywhere near them, after the jump.
Burning Q's: Missing Aliens & The Hills for Real
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With all the hype on The Hills, I decided to check it out. It seemed kinda scripted to me—is it?
—A. Mendez
You've heard the hype, but you haven't heard this? Well, it depends on what you mean by scripted. Lauren Conrad has said that certain scenes are reenacted to make for cleaner storytelling. But officially, the show has no writers, Conrad says.
Whatever happened to the cast of Roswell? Obviously, Katherine Heigl is doing OK these days, but where did everyone else end up?
—Lady Bird
Burning Q's: Why Will and The Hills Roll So Deep
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Why do the photogs follow around the reality stars from The Hills but not reality stars from other shows, like The Real World? What's so great about The Hills?
—Julia, Berea, Ohio
The Hills gets higher ratings for MTV than The Real World. It's MTV's highest-rated reality show. In fact, among ankle-biters ages 12-34, the season-three premiere was the highest-rated cable telecast of the year to date. And oh: That stripper from this season's Real World doesn't have a personal publicist. L.C. does.
Now that we settled that, seems you people have tons more Burning Q's to quench, so here we go!
What exactly determines how much an actor makes? Is it really, "the bigger the celebrity, the more money you make"?
—Ashley, Orlando, Fla.
Do Whitney and Audrina Even Have Last Names?
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I've noticed that the world seems to be on a first-name basis with the girls from The Hills. I mean, do Whitney and Audrina even have last names?
—Becca, Madison, Wisc.
Now that's just silly. What about the New York Times, which never bows to trends and nearly always pairs an honorific with a last name, like Mr. and Ms. So and So? Take this here NYT review of The Hills written last month, which says that—OHGREATGOOGLY MOOGLYTHE
WORLDISGOINGTOHELL:
"The Hills...has continued to track the emotional warfare between former best friends Lauren and Heidi."
So. The whole world is on a first-name basis with those kids. Huh. Well, here's what's clear: The trend starts with celebrity magazines. When Us Weekly decides that someone is famous enough for first-name treatment ("Betrayed by Brody and Audrina"? Eek!), the editors are assuming that readers already know who they are.
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