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Cast members from Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County reunited Thursday to promote their upcoming Roku Channel special, which will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the hit MTV reality series.
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Lauren Conrad, Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti were among the original cast members who attended a private screening and Q&A session at Shutters on the Beach Hotel in Santa Monica to promote The Reunion: Laguna Beach, which premieres April 10 on The Roku Channel. But Conrad and Colletti also found time to hop on a viral TikTok trend before joining their cast members onstage, strutting through the hotel hallway to JENNIE and Tame Impala’s “Dracula” remix.
Conrad and Colletti were joined by Laguna Beach fan favorite Talan Torriero as they each lip-synced a line from JENNIE’s verse on the track, with a camera following them as they walked.
Fans immediately blew up the comments after Torriero posted the clip to his Instagram account. “This is what dreams are made of,” read one comment, while another wrote “My Millennial heart loves this for us.”
Colletti also commented on the clip, writing, “It’s @laurenconrad‘s world and we’re just living in it.”
Tame Impala first released “Dracula” in September, as the third single from their album, Deadbeat. After playfully teasing a collab on social media, JENNIE officially hopped on the “Dracula” remix in February. The remix — and TikTok trend — helped “Dracula” surge on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it’s since peaked at No. 25, becoming JENNIE’s highest-charting single to date as a solo artist.
As for Laguna Beach, it’s been 22 years since the show first premiered on MTV, chronicling a group of high school friends in the small Orange County town. The show ran for two seasons with the original cast before introducing a new group of students in season 3. And while the cast members helped to promote JENNIE’s song on Thursday, the series featured a memorable musical moment of its own, with Hilary Duff’s “Come Clean” serving as the official theme song of the MTV hit.
While you can rewatch episodes of Laguna Beach with a subscription to Paramount+, the Laguna Beach reunion is a Roku Channel exclusive. You can watch The Reunion: Laguna Beach through your Roku TV or Roku device, like this 4K streaming stick below.
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The Roku stick gets you all your favorite streaming apps in one place, plus access to thousands of hours of free TV shows, movies and specials on Roku, like The Reunion: Laguna Beach. This Roku device (at right) lets you watch content in 4K quality, and comes with a remote that features voice control capabilities, so you can call up programming, adjust volume and change settings all through your voice. The Roku streaming stick is compatible with most TVs and plugs in easily via USB.
In addition to Cavallari, Conrad, Colletti and Torriero, the reunion special features Lo Bosworth, Trey Phillips, Christina Schuller, Dieter Schmitz, Jessica Smith and Alex Hooser, bringing the cast back together for the first time on camera, to reflect on the friendships, hookups and wildest moments from the show.
As Conrad told the audience at the screening event, “It felt like an exciting thing to get everybody together, adding that “enough time has past for us to have a good perspective.” As for what fans can expect from the reunion special, Conrad teases that “It was a wild, weird, cool experience, and I’m glad everybody came back.”
