Lauren Conrad Quits ‘The Hills’

Lauren Conrad is not coming back to The Hills after the fifth season, the producer of the MTV show has confirmed.

Liz Gately – the producer on all five seasons of The Hills – says that Conrad will not be back because she wants to live a more private life. The first episode of The Hills’ fifth season premieres on March 30, and Gately says that the show will definitely give a large sign-off to its star.

I don’t watch The Hills, so it’s tough to say what the dynamic will be once Conrad departs.  But Gately says that the producers will reevaluate the fate of the show once Conrad leaves.  The thing to take away from this is that Conrad leaving The Hills just months after Whitney Port left the show doesn’t automatically mean that it’s dead.  Audrina and Speidi (or whatever their stupid couple name is), who don’t figure to have any future after The Hills, are probably in favor of sticking around as long as possible.