Ever noticed that almost every reality star is FROM L.A.? You may not have noticed if you didn’t go to school with ten of them — but we did and we are here to take you on a deeper look at all the L.A. Natives from Beverly High, Crossroads (Spencer Pratt, Roxy, Whitney Port), Buckley (Paris Hilton, Kim Stewart, Nichole Richie), Malibu (Brody Jenner, Chad Rogers) and somewhere deep in Calabasas (Kim Kardashian) who have single-handedly created a world of reality shows between them and their friends. Maybe you put it together that Kim Kardashian’s brother, Brody Jenner, went to school with Spencer Pratt who also went to school with Whitney Port, who was best friends with fellow classmate – Roxy! Or even Nicky Hilton’s boyfriend has a semi-scripted MTV show “Hard Times” all of a sudden. Don’t blame yourself for not knowing! It’s all very incestuous!

OBVI, Paris Hilton is where it all started – the riegning queen of reality TV from which all other reality shows sprang (we are only talking L.A. Based – forget about Real World, game shows, and survior). Originally meant to be cast with sister Nickey, and then Kim Stewart, Nicole ended up filling in with Paris on the Simple Life in 2004.

I credit Untitled Management’s Jason Moore who was masterful with turning her from a Bolthouse party girl to a branded household name and got her the gig. Look for his NEW book coming out about Paris called “Controlling Chaos”

Paris Hilton
Show: Simple Life
Parents: Father Rick Hilton is co-founder of residential brokerage Hilton and Hyland.
High School: Buckley, Paris also went to the Palm Valley school in the Desert.

Nicole Richie
Show: Simple Life
Parents: Lionel Richie
High School: Buckley

The suscess of the two L.A. heiresses on the road inspired E!’s  Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive which was basically the Simple Life meets City Slickers, but not so good.

Alex Quinn, promoter
Show: Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive
Father: Anthony Quinn

Courtenay Semel
Show: Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive
Parents: Courtnay Semel’s dad is Terry Semel, former CEO of Yahoo, LA Dodgers, and Warner Bros. She also has a brother named Eric Semel, an entrepreneur. Reportedly involved in relationships with Tila Tequila and Casey Johnson.

During this time, Paris’ childhood friend, Brody Jenner and his older brother Brandon were coming of age in Malibu and decided to get in on the game … together with their good friend Spencer Pratt, they created the show ”The Princes of Malibu”  for Fox, which premiered on July 10, 2005. The series followed around the three boys who threw parties and had outdoor screenings on jumbo screens at the mom, the former Miss Tennessee USA Linda Thompson, and her husband, David Foster’s, house in Malibu.

Then came Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County … no L.A. people here but another mix was beginning to brew … Brody Jenner started dating fellow reality TV personality Kristin Cavallari. Brody appeared on the show as her boyfriend from time to time and would be along his buddies Frankie Delgado, Ryan Cook, Spencer Pratt and Taylor Mosher.

Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County introduced us to Lauren Conrad, then “LC” who won the spin-off show “The Hills” where L.A. Natives Whitney Port, Spencer Pratt and his sister Stephanie became cast members.

And shortly thereafter Brody’s step sisters, Kim, Khloe and Kourtney got their own show … Keeping up wtih the Kardashians on E!

Brody Jenner:
Show: Princes of Malibu, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, The Hills
Parents: Bruce Jenner, former Miss Tennessee USA Linda Thompson, briterh: Brandon. Step father – David Foster.
Brody Jenner went to Malibu High, then Crossroads. His mother is Linda Thompson, former Miss Tennessee and used to live with Elvis Presley before marrying Bruce Jenner. Later married uber music producer David Foster. His older brother Brandon also went to Malibu High.

Spencer (& Stephanie) Pratt:
Show: The Hills
High School: Crossroads
Spencer Pratt grew up in the Palisades and went to Crossroads, as did his sister Stephanie. His father is a dentist. He went to USC for a couple of years, but dropped out and created “The Princes of Malibu.” He also used to manage a few people including Brody Jenner and rapper Ya Boy (“We Run LA”).

PRISM owner Jared Najjar used to be the financier behind Brody and Spencer’s success. They had all started a jewelry company called Archangel with their friend Taylor Mosher (also on The Hills).

Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian
Show: Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami, The Celebrity Apprentice (Khloe)

High school: Marymount High School (Kourtney)
Parents: Robert Kardashian, attorney, Bruce Jenner married their mother Kris.

The Hills dragged on with Specncer/Heidi, Hedi/Lauren, Audrina/Justin Bobby drama, leaving room for Whitney Port to be mildly interesting and get her own show, “The City”, with Kelly Cutrone, and also managed to get her best friends from  high school (Crossroads) cast, Roxy Olin.

Soon Kelly Coutrone – the boss of them – will have her own spin -off show “Kell on Earth” … whatever – I’ve talked and emailed with her plenty of times – she even offered me a job once – and she is not that bad. Seriously.

Whitney Port
Show: They City
High School: Crossroads

Roxy Olin
Show: They City
High School: Crossroads

Various other shows with L.A. Natives include:

Million Dollar Listing – Chad Rodgers, Josh Flagg AND Madison!

DJ AM Gone Too Far

Seth Binzer aka Shifty Shellshock, Celebrity rehab season 1

David Weintraub, Sean Stuart, Randy Spelling, “Sons of Hollywood”

Tori Spelling, Show: “Tori & Dean Home Sweet Hollywood”

Taylor Jacobson (Beverly Hilss High), “The Rachel Zoe Project”

Ania Migdal, Nick’s girlfriend and sales associate on Sunset Tan

Shayne Lamas (“Leave it to Lamas”, new show on E!) is Lorenzo Lamas’ daughter, went to Malibu High. First captured fame as winner of The Bachelor

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