Audrina Patridge informed People Magazine that the hit MTV "reality" show The Hills would in fact be returning for a 5th season despite speculation that this season would be its last.

“There is going to be a fifth season,” Patridge tells PEOPLE. “We just found out.”

Patridge, who recently filmed the thriller Sorority Row with Rumer Willis, adds that — despite all the drama — she and her costars have a good time filming the show: “We have fun with each other and we’ve stuck it out this long, so we might as well do another one.”

But Patridge admits that the cast’s divergent interests have made filming difficult.

“At one point, all of us were like, ‘No, we don’t want to do another season,’” she says. “I wanted to do more movies, and Whitney moved to New York and she’s doing her own spin-off. And Lauren’s dating [My Boys actor] Kyle [Howard] but he can’t be on the show because he’s on another show, so that makes it hard.”

Something else that wasn’t easy: Recent buzz that Conrad had a fling with Patridge’s sometime-boyfriend Justin Bobby.

“It was really hard — one of his best friends that told me that, and I called Lauren and she hangs up on me,” Patridge says of the rumor, which turned out to be false. “And then once I sat them down and talked to them, I was like, ‘Okay, this is all I needed!’ You’ll see it on the show. It was very emotional.”

This is all a nice PR spin way of saying that the cast of the show explored their other options, realized they had none, and figured they should grab whatever money MTV was willing to throw at them before they ultimately decide to pose for Playboy and then fade into obscurity.

I'd also like to add that Audrina is even dumber than we all thought; she's still talking about the rumor involving Lauren and Audrina's ex-boyfriend even though it was already revealed that the publicity whore made the whole thing up herself. Did you ever consider that Lauren hung up on you because she heard you started the rumor in the first place? Like, OMG!

Oh well, I shouldn't complain; at least the girls on the show are nice to look at if you can get past the vapid emptiness of their existence (my penis says no problem). Here's Audrina taking her new titties out for a test drive in a bikini earlier this year.