Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti Reveal Shocking ‘Laguna Beach’ Season 1 Salary
19.07.2022 - 18:41
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Emily Longeretta Let’s go back, back to the beginning.During the first episode of the “Laguna Beach” rewatch podcast “Back to the Beach,” hosts Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti divulged just how much money they were making for the first 11-episode season.“I think $2,500,” Cavallari said on the Dear Media podcast, which debuted on Tuesday.“I don’t even think it was that much. I think it was $2,000,” Colletti responded. “Lauren [Conrad] and I renegotiated for Season 2.
It was going to be our last season! We were like, ‘We’re out of here!'”“Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County” aired on MTV for three seasons from 2004 to 2006, following the lives of teenagers growing up in the California town. Much of the first two seasons (the third brought in a new cast) followed Cavallari, Colletti and Conrad’s love triangle. Each episode of the podcast, which has been ordered for 40 episodes, will dive into an episode as the duo watch the first time since it aired 18 years ago.
In the first intro episode, they opened up about how the show began and why they signed on to it at 17.“I honestly would have done it for free,” Cavallari said. “At that point, in high school, to me, it was more of a competition. Everybody wanted it and I was like, ‘I’m gonna get this show!’ I’m super competitive, that has not changed.
So, when they told us they were gonna pay us, I was like, ‘Oh, my God, great!'”MTV producers came to the Laguna Beach high school to cast the show, giving interested students 20-page packets to fill out. Colletti knew he wanted to work in the entertainment industry and wanted to host, so he thought he should get to know the MTV producers. While he doesn’t remember much about the questions asked, Cavallari recalls more.“It
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