20. You may thank The O.C. for actuality hits like Laguna Seashore, The Hills and The Actual Housewives of Orange County.
“You are welcome, America. Yeah, the unintended legacy,” Schwartz joked. “You realize, I’d have appreciated to have a chunk of the Actual Housewives franchise, that is for positive…You realize, imitation is the sincerest type of flattery, I suppose is the expression, and so are actuality exhibits based mostly in your present. I am flattered.”
21. Brody and Bilson dated for many of the sequence’ four-year run, breaking apart throughout the filming of the ultimate season, which ended with their characters getting married. Years later, Brody would marry Leighton Meester, the star of Schwartz’s different hit teen cleaning soap, Gossip Woman, within the crossover of followers’ desires!