14 DAY TRIAL // Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt of “The Hills” fame are back in the spotlight: on Friday, a new season of Marriage Boot Camp premieres on WE tv and they will be featured on it. Divorce is not an issue with them, but rather the fact that they can’t agree on starting a family or not.
The two were on The Today Show some hours ago to promote the new season of the reality series, and they broke the news that an agreement has finally been reached, so yes, they will be having a baby – not just yet, but later down the line.
Video of their sit-down is included below.
A bumpy road
From what Heidi and Spencer are saying, they couldn’t see eye to eye on the “having children or not” issue, because she was “baby crazy nutso” and he wouldn’t even hear about starting a family.
So when the chance to be on Marriage Boot Camp came across, they jumped at it not because of the money but because it offered them a way to find a solution to the problem.
Spencer honestly admits that he thought the show was “just for TV,” meaning that he would be required to put on the act he’s been putting on all these years, since he and Heidi became a thing. To his surprise, there was real counseling and a real boot camp there, so they did get the chance to talk it out and work through their problems.
A baby is the plan
“We have come to the place where I do want children,” Pratt says. “It took serious boot camp training to come to a compromise.”
Heidi confirms that they have a “deadline” for having a child, adding that she’s constantly trying to push it up by all means but to no results just yet. In other words, in Speidi-talk, this means that we should probably get ready for a baby announcement.
Even before these two started the promo tour for their new stint on reality TV, Heidi has been dropping hints about a possible pregnancy on social media, occasionally posting a pregnancy test stick with captions along the lines of “Sshh, don’t tell Spencer.” As if Spencer wasn’t immediately notified that he’d been mentioned.
A career built on selling their private lives
Then again, this is precisely the kind of thing that has kept Heidi and Spencer (otherwise known as the couple Speidi) relevant all these years. Granted, they’re many miles away from how famous they were some years back, when they also happened to be very rich, but they’re still in a position to command attention from the public, and because of it, money from TV producers.
After MTV wrapped up production on “The Hills,” these two constructed tabloid personas that engaged attention constantly: whether they made headlines for plastic surgery or blowing a fortune on crystals and cars and guns, pretty much their every move was deemed “noteworthy.”
Speidi saturation didn’t fail to appear, which meant they were demoted to B-grade reality stars and forced to do shows across the pond, like Celebrity Big Brother in the UK and specials for the channels here.
Celebrity Marriage Boot Camp is their big “comeback” on US reality television – and by the looks of it, both Heidi and Spencer are determined to give it their best. It is, after all, probably their last chance at it.