Ever since the first reports of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt splitting up, Hills fans understandably assumed wondered if it was another big PR hoax.

Looks like it isn’t.

Almost two months after the plastic princess went to court seeking legal separation from the puppet master, the reality star has filed for divorce.

Heidi Montag cites the usual “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the pair’s split in a divorce petition filed in Santa Monica, Calif., Court.

“Heidi has amended her petition for separation and has filed a petition for dissolution of marriage from Spencer Pratt,” attorney Jodeane Farrell said. The couple has agreed they would like their divorce to be finalized in a timely manner.”

Hopefully Spencer Pratt finds comfort in his beloved crystals.

Adding that terms will be hashed out in an out of court settlement, Farrell said “both parties are amicable with each other and finalizing the divorce.”

The couple staged a sham wedding in Cabo in 2008, then tied the knot for real in April 2009 at a church in Pasadena, Calif., appearing happy.

Things went downhill fast, however.

Heidi Montag underwent 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day, fired Spencer as her manager, released terrible music, accused The Hills creator Adam DiVello of sexual harassment and became estranged from her family and so on.

For his part, Spencer Pratt has grown increasingly eccentric, and even admitted to being a fame whore and choosing his “career” over his wife.

Heidi Montag then and now. Enough said.

He echoed that sentiment yesterday to People.

“I love Heidi but our marriage was a show – it was part of The Hills world,” Pratt said after the divorce filing. “That world is on a sound stage.”

Referring to himself in the third-person, he adds: “It’s clear that reality TV-fame-loving Spencer Pratt does not fit with my ex-wife Heidi Montag’s ambitions for a motion picture actor/pop star career and being a single sex symbol for the world.”

“Some say if you can’t handle the heat get out of the kitchen, Well, Heidi couldn’t handle King Spencer’s fame so she got out of the marriage.”

Right. So basically, his stardom is just too enormous. Makes sense.

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Heidi filed for legal separation in June, citing irreconcilable differences but she and Spencer were soon seen together again in Malibu filming their reality show. Now she wants to make the split official.

“Heidi has amended her petition for separation and today has filed a petition for dissolution of marriage from Spencer Pratt,” Heidi’s lawyer told People. “The couple has agreed they would like their divorce to be finalized in a timely manner in an out of court settlement. Both parties are amicable with each other and over the possibility of finalizing their divorce.”

Spencer has already given a post-divorce filing interview to Us Weekly.

“Well, some say if you can’t handle the heat get out of the kitchen. Heidi couldn’t handle King Spencer’s fame so she got out of the marriage,” he said.

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have both kept an uncharacteristically low profile publicly since their separation, but what’s going on behind the scenes?

We know you were dying to know.

By all indications, Heidi was moving forward with plans to divorce Spencer, who even confirmed the end of the reality TV match made in heaven … or so we thought until comments by her model friend, Lauren Stone, after stopping by her pad.

She wasn’t the only guest: Spencer Pratt was there.

“I saw Spencer, he seems really normal. He actually showed us his new project he’s working on,” Stone said. “He showed both of us a clip of the movie.”

Lauren Stone just offered up some unexpected Speidi intel.

“I thought it was really funny. I think it’s about a lifeguard that’s trying to get girls. The lifeguard is kinda of like a douchebag type of guy, not too cool.”

Okay then.

Lauren Stone says she has no idea if a reconciliation between the two are in the works but “she didn’t even know they were going through a divorce.”

Her confusion isn’t unique among fans, websites and even the plastic princess’ inner circle. Heidi Montag has kept very quiet about her personal drama.

“I’m actually not sure what’s going on,” Stone said.

“She didn’t really go into many details about anything but the way she was acting it just seemed like she was really happy and free and just living life. She’s been gardening a lot and writing music and she seems to be really happy.”

For what it’s worth, Montag recently pulled out of a planned reality show with Jen Bunney and wants to get back to her roots, whatever that means.

What do you think? Heidi and Spencer’s breakup is …

The Hills is history. Now Heidi Montag’s would-be reality show is too.

We know this must be devastating news, but try to keep it together.

The star planned to pair up with pal and former Hills hanger-on Jen Bunney on the world’s worst reality show this year, but the Bun says that’s off.

Well, for Heidi at least. She’s still interested!

“I was supposed to do a reality show with Heidi, but it looks like some things have changed,” Bunney writes on her blog, which apparently exists.

Heidi Montag and Jen Bunney, pre-face realignment.

What’s more, she doesn’t know if “Heidi wants to be involved in reality TV at the moment with everything going on in her personal life (no we are not in a fight, and no Heidi is not “dropping” me to do reality shows with the twins).”

Bunney’s comments come amid rumors that Heidi Montag is shopping The Heidi Show with Hugh Hefner’s exes, Kristina and Karissa Shannon.

Amazingly, Jen may still move forward sans Heidi: “Since that recent development our original network and some others have offered to continue on with the show despite Heidi possibly not being involved, which I just recently agreed to.”

LOL. A Jen Bunney reality show? Honestly?

“I respect that she has a lot to deal with right now and have to decided to go ahead and move forward with it alone, since these opportunities have presented themselves (my hope is that she will want to be involved later on),” says Bunney.

“So I have already been to a few really productive meetings in the past few weeks, and the show is moving forward, looking to air this January.”

No way this ever airs. None.

Those of you with crushes on Meghan McCain need not get your hopes up after reading the headline above. Her new book is simply titled Dirty Sexy Politics.

The cover for the work was released Tuesday by the Daily Beast, a news and opinion website that the 25-year-old daughter of Sen. John McCain writes for.

The effervescent Meghan “writes about her experiences on the campaign trail, how the party veered so far off track, why she is still a Republican, and more.”

It’s cool Meghan McCain has a book coming out and it’ll be a good read. We just hope she didn’t ask Tila Tequila and/or Heidi Montag to write the foreword.

Here’s our first look at the cover ….

DIRTY, SEXY POLITICS: Meghan McCain covers it all.

A summary included with the book touts the younger, more attractive McCain as one of the most outspoken members of the Republican Party. Definitely true.

McCain, who is the creator of the website, McCainblogette.com, is also the author of a New York Times bestselling children’s book My Father: John McCain.

She is active on social networks such as Twitter, although she has scaled back on the picture posting after this hot, dorky photo caused such a stir last fall.

Follow this link for tons more Meghan McCain pictures!

Spencer Pratt is always plotting something, but the former star of The Hills says his impending divorce from co-star wife Heidi Montag is not made-for-TV.

Despite the fact that nobody has seen divorce papers and family and Hills co-stars are skeptical, Pratt tells People that the plastic pair have drifted apart:

“We love each other but I’m a fame whore and I’ll never grow out of it. [Heidi] knows that and doesn’t want that. She wants to hike, hang out and be calmer.”

Calmer? Isn’t she pitching her own show?

“I want every kind of press. She believes in bad press. There’s absolutely no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully.”

Sad, but true.

TICK TOCK: Are Spencer’s 15 minutes finally up?

Pratt, who with Heidi became known as Speidi, says his estranged wife “doesn’t want to be Speidi anymore. She wants to be Heidi Montag: the sex symbol.”

“She thought I’d burn out, but I’m still Spencer who went on The Hills to be famous. I still need to do stunts and take cues from Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.”

Spencer Pratt, who mentions he and his ex are “friendly,” says Speidi trouble is nothing new. “It’s been a constant battle since we got married,” he says.

“She would be like, ‘Are you really Tweeting that? Are you really doing that?’”

As for the next step, Pratt says he decided to grow a beard (which he debuted in last week’s failed party-crashing bid) and turn to art: “I’m switching it up.”

“I’ve already gone for the blonde, spiky-haired look. Now I’m going for the Hollywood producer look. I’m an artist now. I have an easel and everything.”

“I’m going for an art show and a gallery.”

We hear the show’s scheduled for 14:58 …

Talk about a battle of larger-than-life MTV personalities.

With Heidi Montag’s show The Hills ending its run this week (with no sign of the plastic princess) and Snooki’s hit Jersey Shore kicking off its second season July 29, the two ladies have somehow gotten themselves into a hilarious feud.

Asked by Perez Hilton if Jersey Shore would consider taking Heidi on, Snooki replied: “I will punch her in the face because I don’t like her. She had too many surgeries. She looks like an alien and guidettes don’t look like aliens, just saying.”

LOL.

“Guidettes don’t look like aliens.” - Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi

Asked if there’s a reason she hates Heidi Montag, she said: “I don’t know [if she said anything about me]. I don’t research Heidi because she’s nothing to me.”

Great stuff. Although when asked about her own pop culture relevance, the Jersey Shore star revealed her business model, which is quite to that of The Hills diva.

“I’m trying to do as much as I can right now. I have a clothing line coming out, then my hair [line] is Snook-it, [using] hairspray and a teasing comb,” she said.

“My book’s coming out about how I view the world.”

How Heidi views Snooki is pretty unfavorable after she caught wind of the Oompa Loompa’s feelings from Perez’s Tweets (click here to follow THG on Twitter).

She responded: “@PerezHilton for a girl who was punched in the face I would think she of all people would know that is not a funny thing to joke about.”

The ‘Tag added: “@PerezHilton You have also been punched so I would think you would understand that is crossing the line and I don’t think that is funny.”

Who would win in a fight?

Lauren Conrad is going rogue.

The L.A. Candy author says that for her next work of literary mastery, she’s planning a darker spinoff of sorts featuring one of her current characters.

“I’m going to take Madison from the book and do a darker series,” she said at The Hills finale party. “I already wrote a little bit and it was really fun.”

L.A. Candy focuses on Jane Roberts, a young woman who moves to Hollywood, gets a job with an event planner and eventually lands a reality show.

That all sounds vaguely familiar …

For Lauren Conrad, L.A. Candy is art imitating life. Or The Hills.

Like LC, Jane isn’t always happy with her fame and the attention it brings, while her friend Madison takes the opposite approach and just eats it up.

Again, feels like we’ve heard this somewhere.

“I think it would be really fun to do it the other way, with someone who loves it,” Conrad said. “Someone who loves fame and plays the game well.”

She certainly has enough real-life material to draw on.

Lauren is still working on the third book in the Candy series, but we’re already looking forward to reading the exploits of crazy Heidi Montag … er, Madison.

Truth be told, The Hills should have ended when Lauren Conrad left the show, and it came as no surprise that the series finale felt rather anti-climactic. A bigger surprise however, was that ending – after 20 minutes or so of staged goodbyes, an acoustic version of Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten,” and a delightful montage of memories stemming all the way back to some cast members’ Laguna Beach days, Kristin Cavallari gave Brody Jenner a tearful hug goodbye before she left for Europe (where in Europe? Don’t worry about it. Just Europe. The whole country) and the Hollywood backgdrop rolled away to reveal a studio lot, cameras, crews, and a blaring reminder that this show is no more real than most of Heidi Montag‘s body. The unexpected ending also proved to audiences that the people behind The Hills are a little more self-aware than we’ve been led to believe. Was that ending meta? Was it an attempt to admit the extent that the show is a product of scripted storylines? Do I really care? I can at least answer that last question with a resounding no.

On a side note, the trailer for Eat, Pray, Love makes me regret every negative word I’ve ever uttered toward the book… that I haven’t read. But yeah, that movie looks awesome. That trailer? Delightful. Well-done. A cinematic masterpiece in under a minute. It’s really brutal going from that back to The Hills. There’s a serious quality discrepancy going on.

Look, there’s a lot more I could write about this closing episode. I could mention how Lo drops “like” every other sentence but appears to be 23-going-on-a-30-something-housewife. Or how I’m pretty sure lifeguard tower #24 is actually in Venice, not Hermosa Beach, but Audrina is probably too dead behind the eyes to remember that she’s supposedly living in this model home. And Steph, poor Steph, well, the girl never quite figured out how to make her hair and make-up look quite as nice as the others. An A for effort, sweetie! And finally, much like the average show gracing the airwaves today, this episode culminated with closure for the central romantic couple, even though I don’t care much about Kristin or Brody. I am somewhat curious to know what Stacie the Bartender is up to. Think she’s still working at The Dime? But I found the finale, minus the surprise twist ending, miserable, and I’m too exhausted by its supreme inanity to comment further.

The truth in all of this is that lives were made (see: Lauren, Whitney Port), lives were ruined (see: Speidi) but the real fallout was on America. The Hills changed the development and understanding of reality TV, changed the meaning and presentation of this genre as a whole, and set the course for more like-minded spectacles on television networks the country-over. It’s the show I’ve loved to hate, but feel nothing but relief that it’s finally ended its tenure. May all those starlets fall back into the recesses of an unexamined, camera-free existence.

P.S. Hey Brody – when your bizarre relationship with Avril Lavigne comes to an end, call me.