Heidi Montag is Crested Butte’s native daughtergone vixen.
The star of MTV’s hit reality show “The Hills” mixes it up every episode with her villainous boyfriend/fiance Spencer Pratt (a.k.a. “Satan himself”) and former BFF, Lauren Conrad.
Montag is a regular on the pages of fanzines, had a spread in March in Stuff and is the cover girl on this month’s Maxim for a story called “Access Heidiwood.”
Montag, 21, who grew up in Crested Butte, is the daughter of Darlene and Tim Egelhoff, who own and operate the popular and upscale Timberline Restaurant. Montag was back in the Butte this summer to shoot an episode with Pratt — and the couple was spotted in the Butte last week, again with MTV shooters.
Says Maxim in the intro to a revealing Heidi pictorial: “(She) looks like a St. Pauli girl but has somehow become one of the most talked-about and controversial stars on television.”
Best question in the Maxim interview: “Were you surprised that the tabloids made such a big deal out of your nose job and breast augmentation?”
She remembers being a kid in Crested Butte. “I always wanted to perform. When I was little, I’d flit around in giant sunglasses in a pink Barbie car, saying, ‘Hello, darling. I’m Heidi.’ ”
The “L.A. Bimbo” is working on an album (“I’m taking my time to make sure it’s a classic.”) and plans to go on tour. And she’ll be back on “The Hills” this spring.
Almost, almost famous.
Breckenridge lift operator Andrew Ingram gets on the tour bus Tuesday with the Lenny Kravitz tour. Well, it’s more like a plane.
Ingram won the “Get on the Bus With the Love Revolution Tour” contest by writing an essay about love. That puts him with Kravitz (playing the Paramount Tuesday night) on flights to St. Paul, Minn.; Chicago; Philadelphia; and Detroit. Ingram flies back to Denver on Jan. 30. He has to get home to work at Breck, and he has new roommates moving into his digs.
“I have no idea what to expect,” he says. “I’ll go with the flow.”
Get Shorty.
As this column enters its 20th year, I remember the first one, where I wrote about a Carbondale rancher, a story told to me by the late Clint Tomson. “His name was Shorty and he was 6-foot-7. Before he came to Denver for his first stock show, I offered to help him make reservations for a hotel room. ‘Heck,’ he says, ‘I don’t need a room. I’m only going to be there a week.’ ”
City spirit.
Channel 9 sky-watcher Kathy Sabine had a baby boy Friday afternoon. Matthew, born about 2:30 p.m., was 6 pounds, 7 ounces, and 20 inches; everybody’s healthy and happy . . . In Jason Elam’s book “Monday Night Jihad,” he writes on page 124 that the best pastrami sandwich in Denver is at New York Deli News. I agree — and so do a lot of readers who are bringing in the book, like Orange Crush coach Red Miller and Glenn “Lumpy” Hyde . . . Sez who: “I’m actually a drama-free person.” Heidi Montag
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