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Were you Team LC or Team Kristin? While perhaps not as iconic a question as "Which Sex and the City woman are you," for fans of MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, one of the network's first experimentations with narrative reality that premiered ten years ago this Sunday, it was an important one. During that first season, Lauren "LC" Conrad and Kristin Cavallari were the dominant forces, two high school girls pitted against each other over a boy – the devious but dreamy Stephen Colletti.
Yet to many fans, the Laguna girl they wanted to be most was neither of the leads. It was spunky sidekick Lauren "Lo" Bosworth. Throughout that first season, Bosworth acted as a mixture of sounding board for Conrad and an audience surrogate. Her commentary was always sharp, and she was never afraid to share her thoughts. She was so beloved that she could make a mock pronunciation of Stephen's name quotable.
For Bosworth, whose MTV career included five seasons of The Hills after Laguna ended, it's hard not to be amazed by what all became of what cast members originally thought would be nothing.
"When we signed up to do the show, we thought we were doing a show called True Life," Bosworth tells The Wire, referring to the one-hour docudrama series that still airs installments irregularly on MTV. Since The O.C. was wildly popular at the time, it made sense for the network to take advantage of the trend. "We didn’t expect anything more than that."