Lauren Conrad and Stephen Colletti jump on a Zoom call to announce Laguna Beach virtual reunion  

She recently enjoyed a mini-reunion on a podcast with her The Hills castmate, Whitney Port.

And on Saturday, Lauren Conrad teased a full scale reunion with the cast of another reality TV series in which she starred: Laguna Beach.

The 34-year-old reality TV star was joined for the Instagram announcement by former castmates Stephen Colletti, Trey Phillips and Dieter Schmitz. 

The announcement took the form of a Zoom call between the MTV alums, in which they discussed how to best to encourage people to vote in the upcoming US elections.

Finally, Conrad revealed that their plan was to partner with Good to Vote for their virtual reunion.

In the video’s caption, she explained, ‘If we can get 500 of you to register to vote—or simply check your registration—we will host the first-ever Laguna Beach cast Reunion!’ 

‘It takes minutes to register, and even less to check! Even if you think you’re already registered, please check to make sure!’ concluded the fashion designer and author.

Laguna Beach ran on MTV from 2004 until 2006, before Conrad moved onto that show’s spinoff series, The Hills.  

Whitney Port continued her discussion with her former castmate Lauren Conrad in part two of her Dear Media podcast With Whit posted on Tuesday.

35-year-old Whitney and Lauren appeared together on MTV’s The Hills for four seasons and five seasons, respectively, of the six-season Laguna Beach spin-off famed for fabricating storylines.

‘Their job was to, like, make things out of nothing and make us think things that were not actually happening,’ Port noted. 

‘And I feel that had an affect on me trusting other people.’

Conrad admitted she initially agreed to shoot The Hills in 2006 because she ‘was broke’ and starring in MTV’s Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County was ‘the easiest money I ever made.’

‘Most of the people that I [keep in touch] with are from Laguna. So Dieter [Schmitz] I talk to all the time. I don’t see anybody anymore but when I did, I see Stephen [Colletti] like at holidays and stuff and I’ll usually see like Christina Schuller,’ the Laguna Beach native revealed.

‘Because, obviously, I live in my hometown, it’s more seeing people that I grew up with who I also filmed a show with. For me, especially now, being married with kids it’s really important that I’m in a good place. My happiness is my family’s happiness. It’s all a balance.’  

The blonde twosome might have had mixed feelings about the stigma of being a reality star, but they certainly both enjoy watching Big Brother.

‘Oh yeah, my husband and I are like big Big Brother people. Last summer, we went to like the live taping,’ Lauren laughed.

‘We nerd out, we do the after hours, we do the podcast and the blogs. Like, we’re invested. I have a Big Brother fantasy league!’

Whitney and her husband of nearly five years – former The City associate producer Tim Rosenman – have been ‘obsessed’ with the CBS reality competition for ‘a couple years’ 

‘I love that so much now I can text you about the episodes!’ Port gushed.

‘This season [22] is having a slow start and I’m like waiting for it to pick up.’

The LA-born socialite and Conrad also agreed that there’s no way either of them will ever join the trendy Chinese app TikTok.

‘I’ve had so many meetings with different people and they’re like, “You really need to post more. You need to be more real,”‘ the designer and cosmetics CEO explained.  

‘And they’ll send me examples, and it’s like a 17-year-old TikToking. I was like, “I could be that person’s mother. I’m not doing that.”‘

Whitney replied: ‘Same! I’m sorry, TikTok, but I refuse to have a TikTok account. Like, I can’t. Like there’s only so much I can do. I’m doing City reaction videos on my YouTube. That’s enough.’

Lauren revealed the guilty pleasure Instagram account she follows is Game of Thones alum Emilia Clarke because she’s ‘literally just like smiling and drinking dark liquor. She’s just the happiest thing ever.’

Conrad also dished on her guilty pleasure snack – Ben & Jerry’s dairy-free ice-cream – because she’s lactose intolerant and her son Liam has a dairy allergy.  

Port – who suffered a miscarriage at six weeks gestation in July 2019 – has been divided on whether or not to give birth to a sibling for her three-year-old son Sonny because of breastfeeding and exhaustion.

Lauren has two sons – Liam James, 3; and Charlie Wolf, 11 months – with her husband of six years, former Something Corporate guitarist William Tell.

‘My experience was pretty similar to yours. I did not enjoy being pregnant. I was grateful to be pregnant. I sort of had this guilt every time I was like, “I feel so big and uncomfortable, everything hurt, I had heartburn for six months. Like every single day, if I drank water I got heartburn. I was so uncomfortable,’ Conrad explained.

‘But I’ll say this, the second time around you appreciate things in a different way…My second trimester I was uncomfortable but it’s like, “Oh I’m never going to have this again.” … With a second, you’re not as worried and you appreciate the little stuff more because you know how quickly it goes by.’