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I love subtlety. “Teen Vogue” editor-in-chief Amy Astley was at the Ralph Lauren fashion show during Fashion Week, explaining that she didn’t “fire” Lauren Conrad from her internship but she really fired Lauren Conrad from her internship. Lauren and “The Hills” co-star Whitney Port interned at “Teen Vogue” on their “reality series” but got the pink slip at the end of this season. Astley says “I just thought it was time for them to try something new. An internship is a short thing, and I just felt it was time for them to move on a little bit.”

Editor Lisa Love was a little less fake, and answered questions about whether it had something to do with LC and Whitney’s partying. “I think that’s really why Teen Vogue had had their moment with them — it went into another zone.” A zone of fake ass people! Love acknowledged that the show is about as real as Heidi Montag’s boobies. “”They shoot reality and somehow it’s changed in the editing room to appeal to things, I don’t know,” she said, acknowledging that Lauren and Whitney were great interns “in the beginning”. Before they realized that had hired two chicks who were there to be taped answering the phone once, and then would be leaving to buy shoes and go to the club. MTV isn’t the most reliable employment agency.