Stephen Colletti On The ‘Laguna Beach’ Reunion & ‘The Traitors’

Stephen Colletti had no idea what he was signing up for when MTV came to his high school in 2003 to start casting for Laguna Beach. “It was really sold to us as a documentary about kids in high school,” he says. “In my mind, I thought it was going to be like a two-hour special or one episode of a bigger show, where every episode is about a different high school around the country.”

Instead, two seasons and 28 episodes later, he was a teenage heartthrob on one of the original reality shows. “I still don’t quite grasp that. It’s not something that I’ve spent a lot of time and thought over,” he says about the dreamboat label. We’re sitting at Snafu, a dive bar in midtown Manhattan, and as we chat, I’m 90% sure one member of the Tuesday evening happy hour crowd tried to take a not-so-subtle flash photo of him from across the room. Colletti doesn’t notice.

As he remembers it, at the time, his younger self had no idea what to do with the Laguna Beach fame. It was the early 2000s, years before the Read Entire Article