Deny it all you want, but you probably know who Audrina Patridge is, if only due to the sheer amount of hours MTV airs The Hills, on which the actress has appeared since 2006. Yes, the actress. Patridge, unlike her castmates on the show, was chasing the Hollywood dream, an aspiring starlet toiling away as an assistant at a photo studio.
"Right after I graduated, I moved straight to Los Angeles and just started going to auditions and castings," she says, fresh from a jaunt to Vegas for her brother's 21st birthday. "So I was laying out by the pool and Adam DiViello, the producer, approached me about this new show he was doing and if I was interested and blah, blah, blah. And he said he was from MTV, and I was like, 'Wait a minute, is this a dating show? 'Cause I'm not interested.' "
A couple of recent situations, including an Internet photo mini-scandal and a break-in at her home, would send most people running for, er, the hills. Yet Patridge, undeterred by these setbacks, is about to get a reality show all her own, with reality-super producer Mark Burnett.
"Once I was done with The Hills, I kinda wanted to be done and just focus on movies and acting, and that's it. Since it's going to be my show, I can incorporate all that into it. I'm also producing on it," she says. So, if you're still feigning ignorance about her identity, you won't be able to for much longer.Credit : Nylon Magazine
