Brody Jenner ‘refused’ to shoot The Hills: New Beginnings in an isolated house out of town due to COVID-19 ‘forcing producers to allow filming in LA’
- Jenner allegedly refused to leave Los Angeles to film The Hills: New Beginnings
- Producers on the MTV show were reportedly keen to head to a location
- The idea was to film in a house where the cast would stay in quarantine bubble
- But Brody put his foot down and refused to shoot outside of LA, it was claimed
- The producers had to ‘bend’ even though they were concerned with COVID-19
- Now production on season two is set to pick up within weeks in Los Angeles
Brody Jenner allegedly refused to leave Los Angeles to film The Hills: New Beginnings.
Producers on the MTV show were reportedly keen to head to a location such as Colorado or Montana and film the new season of the show in one house where the entire cast would stay in quarantine bubble but the 37-year-old star refused, sources told TMZ.
According to the outlet, production on season two is now set to pick up again within the next two to four weeks in Los Angeles.
Looking fab: Brody Jenner allegedly refused to leave Los Angeles to film The Hills: New Beginnings
The Bachelorette for example has been filming its upcoming season in an out-of-town quarantine bubble at the La Quinta Resort in rural California.
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation and Big Brother also isolated its cast in a single house in order to safely film in the pandemic.
The insiders said that Brody’s representatives began discussions with the network early in August and insisted he would only film in LA.
Brody is claimed to have felt this way because the show’s entire premise is based around the cast’s lives in the city, not in a random location elsewhere in America.
Back at it: Producers on the MTV show were reportedly keen to head to a location such as Colorado or Montana to film in a quarantine bubble
He also allegedly told the network he would be willing to wait to resume production on season two – which was shut down after just three episodes because of the Covid-19 pandemic – until a vaccine for the virus is found.
MTV continued asking Brody to change his mind, but he refused, with the network eventually agreeing to his demands because they need him for the show.
According to the outlet, production on season two is now set to pick up again within the next two to four weeks in Los Angeles.
Throwback: Brody is pictured with co-stars Stacie Hall, Kristin Cavallari, Audrina Patridge, Whitney Port, Lauren Conrad, Adam DiVello and Stephanie Pratt on the original The Hills
Although the son of Caitlyn Jenner has reportedly not officially signed is contract for the season, he is expected to do so soon.
If Brody does agree to appear in the new series, it could show him looking for love as last month his three-month relationship with Briana Jungwirth ended.
Briana has four-year-old son Freddie with One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson.
According to TMZ the pair decided to go their separate ways after the ‘romance fizzled out’ between them, which is believed to be down to things ‘getting too serious too fast.’
The good ole days: Brody and Lauren Conrad attend the TAO Hospitality Suite at The Venetian in Las Vegas in 2007