Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, who are apparently still alive somewhere, recently dropped a BOMBSHELL revelation about their former MTV hit show The Hills:

It wasn't all what it appeared to be. Spoiler alert!!!!!

"I was hell-bent on being the bad-guy character on the show," Spencer Pratt confesses in a rare interview with Us Weekly. "I just got caught up in it."

"Spencer and I never fight like that," says Heidi, who married him in 2009 but only now "changed my last name to Pratt ... that's the biggest thing in my life."

Spencer is currently focused on getting his University of Southern California political science degree, not to mention making do with less money.

Emphasis on less. Not none. He denies he's in debt:

"I'm turning down paid appearances. We don't have celebrity-sized money anymore, but we're doing fine. I'm happy to be around normal people these days!"

And he still gets to see Heidi Montag nude. If you consider that a good thing. It's not quite as fake as The Hills, but still sufficiently plastic. Like 60-70%.