Heidi Montag has claimed that she and Spencer Pratt’s fame was halted to catapult the Kardashians forward.
The reality star revealed that the E! network banned all coverage of her and her husband at the height of their fame.
Appearing on the Just Trish podcast, the 37-year-old shared her “conspiracy” theory about how they were sabotaged.
“E! banned us! So our stories and everything used to do the best. They would cover everything we’d do – we were bigger than the Kardashians on E! with our numbers and the likes on posts and everything,”
“So then the teams at E! decided to stop covering us and ban us, and they did that for like two years,”
“We were like, ‘Who do you ban?!” That’s ridiculous.”
Heidi continued: “My conspiracy is that it had to also do with the Kardashians, because that was [E!’s] reality show and that was the content and that’s when Kim started being really big, so they were like, ‘Forget Speidi.'”
The E! network banned The Hills following a public vote they put to their viewers at the time.
“If Heidi’s album went to No. 1, that would be a newsworthy thing. If they were to become parents, we’d see that as worth noting. If something did happen to them, physically, we’d probably cover that,” E! said in a statement at the time.
“But ultimately, we were looking at it more like avoiding stories about them walking down Robertson or going to dinner,” they continued.
“It was just a question of overexposure and wondering how much of the news about them was truly news or contrived. It just started to feel as if they had maybe jumped a shark in the past couple of weeks and it might be time to just take a rest.”
