Looks like Lauren Conrad isn’t joining the bridal brigade after all.

Though the The New York Post’s Page Six reported that the 24-year-old MTV reality star is engaged to actor Kyle Howard, a rep for Conrad says there’s no truth to the rumor.

“I will tell you exactly what I told The Post,” her rep tells UsMagazine.com. “This is totally false.”

Dating since 2008, Conrad has kept her relationship with the My Boys actor, 32, away from MTV’s cameras — which was one of the many reasons she walked away from The Hills in 2009.

“By the time I had met Kyle, I had already perfected my ‘double life,’” she explained to Seventeen last year. “There was my TV life and my real life.”

Source: usmagazine.com

Giving herself a break from being blonde, Lauren Conrad acquired a brunette coif at the Chris McMillan salon in Beverly Hills yesterday (January 26).

The “LA Candy” author toted a Miu Miu handbag as she made her exit, looking lovely in a striped top and sunglasses.

Candid: Out at Chris McMillan Salon (Jan. 26, 2011)

She’s no stranger to a travel-intensive schedule, and Lauren Conrad was spotted arriving at LAX International Airport yesterday (January 12).

The former “Hills” babe looked to have her hands full as she chatted on her mobile phone while toting a handbag as well as a duffel.

Candid: At LAX Airport (Jan. 12, 2011)

Lo Bosworth is bringing out her inner Carrie Bradshaw for her new book. In “The Lo-Down,” out now, the former “Hills” star doles out advice about dating, and she admits that her opinions in the book aren’t much different from the ones she shared on the small screen.

“For me, on the show, I always found myself giving advice to my girlfriends and mostly advice about the men in all of our lives,” she told MTV News. “So writing a book about relationships was a natural next step for me. Writing the book and writing about my experience has been almost cathartic in a way, and it really feels like when you wake up with your girlfriends after a great night out and you talk about the night before and about all these guys. It’s really conversational. There’s good tips. It’s a fun read.”

Bosworth took all her past boy experience and channeled it into the book, but it was one particular relationship that left her with her best piece of advice. “I wrote the book coming off a pretty bad breakup, and I realized the most important relationship lesson I’ve learned so far is first, you have to believe in who you really are … and you can’t compromise who that person is. That’s what the book is really about,” she explained. “Get out there and live your life! Do something for yourself!”

While cameras are no longer catching her words of wisdom, Bosworth said some of her “Hills” pals have checked out the book. “Lauren [Conrad] has read it and Stephanie [Pratt] has peeked through it,” she said. “And they’re really excited!”

Conrad, of course, has several books of her own on the market, and Bosworth took her friend’s advice when it came to promoting the book.

“[Lauren] gave me a lot of advice — not necessarily about writing the book, but we have talked a lot about going on a book tour, and I was really anxious to go on a book tour,” she said, adding that she was afraid the book might not be successful. “She said to me, ‘You really almost have to have an alter ego. You have to be excited. You have to walk in the room confidently with a smile on your face and you can’t show how nervous you are. … What you put out there, it comes back.’ [My alter ego is] just really happy and excited, because I get nervous a lot. I’m a little more shy than meets the eye.”

Source: mtv.com

Ad.ly, which runs celebrity endorsements in social media, today announced the debut of its Consumer Influence Index.

The index – a top 10 list revealing which celebrities drive the most consumer traffic to advertisers’ sites – ranks Lauren Conrad as the most influential celebrity online for Q4, 2010 – followed by Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, and then rapper Snoop Dogg.

“If people are the new publishers, then people are the future of advertising, and celebrities are the new ‘prime time’,” said Arnie Gullov-Singh, CEO, Ad.ly, Inc. “That’s why we define influence as the ability to get people to visit places on the Web. This simple metric is essential to social media marketing. It’s how brands will decide where to spend their money.”

During the Q4 holiday shopping season, top Ad.ly celebrities distinguished themselves as tastemakers in entertainment, fashion, consumer electronics and more. The following celebrities drove the most consumer traffic to advertisers’ campaign landing pages, Q4 holiday promotions and more:

1.) Lauren Conrad – 9.4 times Ad.ly’s celebrity average
2.) Kim Kardashian – 8.7 times Ad.ly’s celebrity average
3.) Khloe Kardashian – 8.5 times Ad.ly’s celebrity average
4.) Snoop Dogg – 8.2 times Ad.ly’s celebrity average
5.) Kourtney Kardashian – 7.9 times Ad.ly’s celebrity average
6.) Paul Pierce – 7.9 times Ad.ly’s celebrity average
7.) Michael Ian Black – 7.4 times Ad.ly’s celebrity average
8.) Jenny McCarthy – 7.3 times Ad.ly’s celebrity average
9.) Lamar Odom – 7.0 times Ad.ly’s celebrity average
10.) Mark Cuban – 7.0 times Ad.ly’s celebrity average

Source: prweb.com