Brody Jenner Was ‘Thrilled’ When ‘The Hills’ Reboot Was Canceled

Even Brody Jenner wasn’t too happy about “The Hills: New Beginnings.”

The 38-year-old reality star rose to fame on the 2006 MTV series “The Hills” and starred in the revival of the show from 2019 to 2021.

However, Jenner was relieved when the network canceled the show in January.

“I was so excited,” Jenner revealed to People earlier this week. “To be honest, yes. It just wasn’t the same experience. It was very stressful. There was a lot of manipulation involved. It was too much”.

The DJ is ready to drop a new repeat podcast of “The Hills” I call “It was real?” soon with his former co-stars Audrina Patridge and Frankie Delgado.

Jenner admitted that many elements changed the series and he changed too.

“I was at a completely different point in my life and what they sold me, on the show in general, was not what they were producing,” he noted.

“I’m like, ‘Dude, I’m 37 years old. I don’t go out to the clubs every night and I go out chasing girls in the clubs. That’s not me anymore.’”

Jenner said the show was opting to bring in a new celebrity.land cast, but things quickly went south.

“At first we had been told that, ‘Hey, we’re going to do a new ‘Hills,’ and we want you to be involved, but we’re going to hire a new, younger cast,’” Jenner said. remembered. “They said they were going to hire the new, younger cast like they are doing now when they originally hired us. I was like, ‘Oh, that’s great.’ They’re going to hire a new, younger cast, ‘you guys are going to come in as the OG’s. It’s not going to be focused and centered around you guys.’”

However, Jenner added, “That’s not what happened.”

“We went to do the show and it was like, ‘No, it’s just you guys,’” he said. “We had offered them a lot of different young people. I offered brandon [Thomas] Leeward, which was great for the show. I had a bunch of people I gave to and they just didn’t take it. They’re like, ‘No.’”

The “Princess of Malibu” star noted that “they put a lot of pressure on us to drive [the] history,” but it was hard to do since they weren’t the same young adults living life in Los Angeles.

“So that was a bummer, because we needed a younger cast to be in there,” Jenner sighed. “I didn’t mind going in and out and filming and living our authentic lives from where we were, at the time, but everything else felt very forced and pressured.”

The original “The Hills” premiered in 2006 and ran until 2010. It focused on “Laguna Beach” star Lauren Conrad as she navigated through high school and then the world of “Teen Vogue” couture alongside her friends and love interests. Conrad did not return for “The Hills: New Beginnings.”