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Here’s What Really Happened Between Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag on ‘The Hills’
A sex-tape rumor, Spencer Pratt, and one iconic confrontation turned one of reality TV’s closest friendships into a feud lasting decades.
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Why Sarah Silverman Apologized for Joking About Paris Hilton at the MTV Movie Awards
Silverman touched on Hilton’s upcoming jail sentence during her monologue, and the former reality star was clearly not happy about it
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Photo by Michael Tullberg/Getty Images MTV Taps Hip-Hop Icon to Host 2026 VMAs As Show Returns to the West Coast for the First Time in Nearly a Decade
The 2026 MTV VMAs will be hosted by rap icon Snoop Dogg, who will helm the show from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 27.
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MTV 4 Reality Shows That Gen Z Could (and Should) Make Huge Again
From Room Raiders to Laguna Beach, these throwback reality shows could find a whole new audience with Gen Z.
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MTV How The ‘Hills’ Finale Pulled Back the Curtain on Reality TV’s Fakest Era
The Hills was one of MTV’s most-watched reality programs. But when fans began questioning what was real and fake, they went meta.
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Photo: Peter Kramer / Getty Images 4 Iconic MTV Shows From the 2000s You Definitely Forgot About
What a wild time to be a teen watching TV.
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That Time Jim Carrey Went to an Award Show in Disguise and Fooled Everybody
Carrey showed up to the 1999 MTV Movie Awards dressed like a chain-smoking hippie, and spoke to Samuel L. Jackson for 15 minutes without being recognized
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Photo: Mark Mainz/Getty Images Ashlee Simpson Still Cringes at This Part of Her MTV Reality Show 20 Years Later
We’ve all been there, really.
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Photo: Chris Polk/WireImage / Getty Images 17 Years Before Next Gen NYC, MTV Had Its Own Nepo Baby Reality Show
I guess not every music progeny can be Wolf Van Halen, Julian Casablancas, or Gracie Abrams.
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The 3-Minute Stand-Up Set That Got Andrew Dice Clay Banned From MTV
Clay defiantly recited his iconic dirty nursery rhymes at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, much to the chagrin of producer Dick Clark and the network executives
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Before ‘Jersey Shore,’ JWoww Tried Out for a Very Different Reality Show
JWoww says a prank audition for Paris Hilton’s show helped put her on the path to “Jersey Shore,” which would make her a huge star.
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MTV How MTV’s ‘The Real World’ Paved The Way for Modern Reality TV
Long before Survivor and Big Brother, MTV’s The Real World paved the way for modern reality television to thrive.
