For years, Kristin Cavallari made trouble and brought drama as the resident mean girl of “Laguna Beach.” Now she’s ready to return to reality television, and she’s taking Lauren Conrad’s place on, “The Hills.”

You can also see Kristin in “Van Wilder Freshman Year” which is out on DVD.

Kristin Cavallari Blowing Kisses From a Balcony in Malibu

It’s a clothes call for Lauren Conrad!

One month after the 23-year-old designer announced that she was taking a hiatus from her upscale clothing line, the Hills star reveals that she is launching a brand-new apparel line for Kohl’s department stores.

“It is a California chic line,” she tells Usmagazine.com of the new brand, called LC Lauren Conrad. “It is a little more casual. They are basically trying to take that California style and make it accessible everywhere.”

The line — which will consist of only apparel at first but may expand to include shoes, jewelry, handbags, intimates and sleepwear — will be available in October exclusively at Kohl’s stores and on the store’s website. The prices will range from $20 to $60.

“We are very excited to announce our partnership with Lauren Conrad, a pop culture icon whose style resonates with our contemporary customer,” Don Brennan, the senior vice president of Kohl’s, told Us in a statement Monday.

He added: “We are confident the LC Lauren Conrad collection brings customers both the contemporary style and the world-class brands they want at a price that delivers incredible value.”

So why did she decide to take time off from the Lauren Conrad Collection — which is more expensive and only available in select boutiques — to create the national Kohl’s line?

“It was just kind of a battle I had because I wanted to do a higher-end line — I wanted to do a contemporary line — but I was also very aware that the reason I was able to do it at such a young age was because of fans that have supported the show and have supported me,” Conrad tells Us. “So this was my way of being able to still do what I love and work with a great company and also make it accessible to the fans that made it possible in the first place.”

Plus, the star admits that she has shopped at the store.

“My family has always shopped at Kohl’s, so I’ve always known about them and I think that they do a really great job,” Conrad says of the franchise, which has also partnered with designer Vera Wang.

Conrad’s personal collection will be back next spring, and she tells us that fans could pair styles from both of her lines.

“I like having more of an eclectic style where you mix high ends and more affordable pieces,” she says. “It’s great to be able to go to a store like Kohl’s and get really good classic pieces and mix them into your wardrobe.”

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Lauren Conrad may have one more season left on “The Hills,” but she won’t actually be filming anything from this point on — an insider says all of LC’s antics are already in the can.

According to our source, Conrad’s contract with MTV expired in March; the star celebrated the end of her reality life with cast members at a party at L.A. eatery Beso last month. But that bash was her last “real” day of filming — and producers soon had the task of coming up with enough Conrad footage to keep fans happy through the entire season.

Their solution? Taping as much LC as they could before she left for good.

“The producers would make Lauren react to a lot of potential scenarios, because they’re not yet sure how the finale will play out with the other characters,” says our source. “They would literally give her directions like, ‘Now react to Stephanie Pratt being pregnant!’ Lauren would just giggle and go for it. She also had to pretend to react to a fake story line about Audrina and Brody hooking up.”

A rep for MTV said both the contract and filming allegations are untrue. “We couldn’t cut a show with Lauren’s fake reactions,” said the flack.

Either way, Conrad is reportedly relieved to be over “The Hills” and heading far away. “Now that she’s finished out her contract, Lauren is completely done with the show,” says the source. “She’s already capitalized on her success — she’s taken this ride as far as she can.”

If Lauren is glad to be done with “The Hills,” her co-star Heidi Montag is doubly glad to be done with Lauren.

“We don’t need her,” Conrad’s frenemy sniped recently. “We’ll miss her — I just don’t know if we need her.”

LC’s nemesis added, “I know she hasn’t been wanting to be doing this for a while, and [the life she really leads] is not on camera. So I think it’s a closing chapter for her. [Lauren’s] gotta leave the dramas to the pros!”

From the looks of things, LC won’t have any problems passing the torch.

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“The Hills” will no longer be alive with the drama of Lauren Conrad - at least, after the fifth season.

The producer of the MTV reality series confirms Conrad is leaving “The Hills,” and that season five, premiering March 30, will be Conrad’s final appearance.

Liz Gately says Conrad wants to move forward and lead a more private life. Gately plans to give the 23-year-old fashion designer a big send-off, and is evaluating how to continue with the show following Conrad’s departure.

“The Hills,” which debuted in 2006, has followed Conrad as she struggles with man problems, career drama and friendship fall outs.

MTV’s cameras began rolling on Conrad when she was a high school student on “Laguna Beach” before graduating to “The Hills.”

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Pussycat Dolls perform at “The Hills” season 4 finale.

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Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag

Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge

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After all the moving in and the fallings out, the first proposal and the post-engagement lull, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag eloped last Thursday in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Now that they’ve made it official, what will their marriage mean for the show that has chronicled their relationship over the past four seasons?

Will the next season of “The Hills” feature footage captured during Speidi’s wedding ceremony? What have Heidi and Spencer been up to since they tied the knot? To find out, we reached out to executive producer Liz Gateley.

While she couldn’t tell us everything, she did say that the couple’s married life will figure prominently on the series’ upcoming fifth season, and that cameras are still down in Mexico, documenting the couple’s honeymoon. There’s still no word on when new episodes of “The Hills” will be ready for air, however.

“MTV is currently filming Heidi and Spencer in Mexico, as we were expecting to capture them on vacation,” Gateley told MTV News. “Fans will be able to see the exclusive footage from the ceremony in an upcoming episode, and we will continue to follow the newlyweds’ relationship as it plays out in real life.”

While most fans of the show seemed to question the wisdom of the marriage, and their family appeared shocked by the elopement, some celebrities and fellow “Hills” stars congratulated the couple on Tuesday.

“They obviously adore each other and are very committed to one another,” Audrina Patridge told People. “I do think it’s very romantic that they eloped.”

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Lauren Conrad is gearing up for her second run at L.A. fashion week with her self-titled clothing line, and the reality starlet is opening up about a fire scare, friendships in the media, Whitney’s spin-off show “The City” — and why she may be ready to say adieu to “The Hills!”

“It’s coming to a point where I love this show so much, but I’m ready to kind of walk away,” Lauren admits of her hit MTV show. “I’ve been doing it for five years now. Five years on TV is a really, really long time.”

The fashion designer recently had a scare in the wake of the wildfires burning their way through Southern California. “Where I have my production offices — there were fires all around them and there was no electricity. My entire collection was there and they couldn’t get to them.” L.C. said. “They actually just got into the factory and were evacuated again but they luckily had all of the samples with them.”

The former “Laguna Beach” girl also dished on how the media attention has affected relationships with her gal pals, saying, “It makes it more difficult. It’s more difficult when not only everyone knows about your problems, but they make them worse because things escalate and things get twisted. It’s hard to have an actual friendship be torn apart in the media.”

Most recently, Lauren has been dealing with media flack after rumors swirled that she hooked up with BFF Audrina’s ex-beau, Justin Bobby. While L.C. and Audrina haven’t gone into details about the rift, Patridge recently revealed to “Extra” that she was done with the motorcycle-riding bad boy, stating, “We aren’t together anymore.”

Lauren’s former friends are the least of her worries on the eve of her second fashion week runway show. “I’ll be stressed up until it’s done,” Conrad admits. The fashionista picked the final hair and makeup looks at Warren-Tricomi Salon in Los Angeles for tonight’s show. “The whole show I wanted to do really girly — I wanted to have fun with it.”

Conrad also dished about fellow designer and friend Whitney Port, saying, “Whitney and I have opposite styles. They’re different styles, different lines, and different price points.” As for Port’s upcoming reality show, “The City,” Conrad commented, “I’m so proud of her for this next show. I think that in ‘The Hills,’ she never really let them film her personal life… She hasn’t really experienced the whole ‘put your personal life on TV’ thing.”

So will Conrad make a cameo on “The City?” The starlet responded, “Not that I know of. That’s Whitney’s deal. I’ll be watching.”

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