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Well with Arielle Lorre

184: Behind the Scenes Reality TV and Life After Laguna Beach with Stephen Colletti

Well with Arielle Lorre

Dear Media, Arielle Lorre

Alternative Health, Fashion & Beauty, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Arts, Personal Journals

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I'm talking to Stephen Colletti, star of MTV's Laguna Beach, CW's One Tree Hill, Hulu's Everyone is Doing Great and co-host of the new Dear Media podcast, Back to the Beach. We discuss how Laguna Beach came to fruition and what it was really like being the star of one of the first reality TV phenomenons. We also chat about what was real and what was fabricated, how the experience shaped his life and how he moved on and found purpose after the show. Finally, we talk about moving on from unhealthy habits learning how to be comfortable in your skin.

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:02.8

Hey, welcome to the Blond Files Podcast.

0:05.8

I'm your host Arielle Lori and I'm here to talk all things,

0:09.5

wellness. From how to achieve optimal health and well-being to the best beauty tips and everything in between

0:15.3

No topic is off limits and I'm bringing it to you real and unfiltered I know there is so much information out there

0:22.4

So I'm here to help you navigate it all.

0:25.6

Thanks for listening.

0:26.7

Let's get into it. Hi everybody welcome to the show

0:37.0

welcome to the show I have an exciting episode for you today. I am talking to Stephen Koletti who I'm sure many of you are familiar with. A lot of you probably had a crush on him in high school during the Laguna Beach days and he was just so

0:57.3

fun to talk to.

0:58.6

We had a great time, a lot of similarities even though obviously our lives are very different and it was really interesting hearing a lot of like the behind the scenes of reality TV and also kind of how that shaped him and how he moved forward from that.

1:16.8

And we just get into a lot of different topics today.

1:19.7

So of course, he was on Laguna Beach for two seasons he also was on one tree hill and then he has

1:30.2

written produced and co-starred and everyone is doing great which is on Hulu and now he and Kristen Kavalari are

1:38.4

Co-hosting a podcast on dear media called Back to the Beach and they are rewatching seasons one and two of Laguna Beach and then

1:47.1

spilling all the details and that's a Dear Media show. It's going to be out on the 19th.

1:52.7

So next Tuesday.

1:54.6

And yeah, in the episode today,

1:57.5

we of course talk about Laguna Beach

2:01.0

and he talks about like how that show came to fruition how he ended up

2:06.4

being on it what it was really like being the star of one of the first kind of

2:10.7

reality TV phenomenons it was such a huge thing in pop culture at the time. He

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