The Hills

While Heidi Montag was at Kitson selling her clothes like hot cakes, L.C.'s line was hanging on the clearance rack. Then LC happened to walk by.

It looks like LC's fashion designing career could be as fake as "The Hills"!

Sources close to the Lauren Conrad line tell us LC's claim that she's involved in every step of the design process is overstated. We're told, "You never see her picking out fabrics, or in the cutting room, or even at the drawing board. She's not the designer, the only step she's involved in is the promotion."

We're also told the clothing line mainly is fashioned by Sherri Roozrak-Wood, a former designer for Tart. And surprise! LC's clothes look an awful lot like some of the old Tart designs.

Our spies were at Kress nightclub last week, and they tell us they overheard LC tell an aspiring designer that she wished she knew how to sketch. Cuts you up!

We talked to LC about the claims made, and she tells us, "These claims are ridiculous. Anyone who knows me knows how important designing is to me and how much time and devotion I put into my own line. I am and always have been the sole designer of the Lauren Conrad Collection."

We didn't believe it when we saw the video of the couple we love to hate as they went house shopping yesterday in the Bu. They looked at two homes: the aforementioned $12 mil beach house (also for rent for $90k a month) and a 10,000 sq. ft. estate with an asking price of more than $15 mil.

So we thought it was a big publicity stunt, until we called the realtor who showed the property. Sandro Dazzan says they're "serious buyers," although he doesn't think they'll pull the trigger right away. Dazzan stunned us when he said they can afford the $12 million beach house right now, but that they're "at least six months" out from being able to afford the bigger house.

Hey Audrina, Frodo wants his foot back.

Audrina Patridge and Lauren Conrad took these filthy pics in a LifeStyles photo booth at a beach house in Malibu -- where Audrina could have used some sort of foot rubber to keep from spreadin' the nasty.

Paging Tinactin!

In a WNYW interview with Lauren on the red carpet right before Tuesday night's "Paws for Style" charity event, Anne Craig let the dog out of the bag -- and LC's freaked-out reaction was priceless!

The organizers of the event say L.C. should have known all along she was supposed to walk the carpet (she never did).

Even with Heidi's "Hills" payday and Meg's massive beer fortune, the two hit up the paps for the $5.50 valet charge. Not very Republican.

Lauren Conrad might spend her life around some really big bitches, but lil' ones just won't do.

Sources tell TMZ that LC got $20,000 -- yeah, we know -- to make an appearance and walk the runway at Animal Fair mag's "Paws for Style" event last night in NYC. She did the whole red carpet thing.

But, when it came time to do the runway, our spies say she threw "a hissy fit" and "stormed off" in tears, refusing to prance down the catwalk with a dog. We're told LC claims she didn't know anything about the walkin' the dog.

Audrina from"The Hills" may be catty but she's not homeless!

Reports swirled yesterday saying the reality star was moving out of LC's pad, after moving vans were spotted outside the house they share. But TMZ has learned that the moving vans were for prop furniture for a photo shoot Lauren was doing. Apparently everything "The Hills" girls do is fake.

We're told that the Hill's version of "The Hills" is going to start shooting in the end of August, and that the Beltway babes could make the O.C.'s girls look, like, totally mild. Besides web consulting guru Katherine Kennedy, the names you may be hearing a lot more of are Sophie Pyle, and sisters Krista and Alexa Johnson -- who all call themselves the "Blonde Charity Mafia" because of their philanthropy work.

No guys have been cast yet -- but they're "looking." As for what these girls will be paid to have their lives exploited 24/7, we don't know a dollar amount ... but we're told it's "enough."

TheDirty.com has unearthed a contract that shows Audrina will make $10k for two hours worth of "work" at a nightclub in San Diego -- and by "work" we mean she has to show up and stand there.

Even with an escort of four to five security guards and a police officer, it was an insane crush that even Britney couldn't compete with.

But when it came to those pesky Lauren Conrad hook-up rumors, he wasn't so forthcoming.