SPEIDI vs. LAUREN CONRAD
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In honor of the occasion, I thought I’d show you a little something that will make SURE you want to drink heavily and that you won’t care WHAT kind of water-beer they’ve colored green and charged you $12 to guzzle:
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That lady is thinking, “Oh, my stars, are they REALLY sucking face instead of grabbing a ladle and serving some food for charity? Is THAT why they’re here? Homeless people don’t want saliva in their soup. I don’t know whether to slap them stupid or take notes for my grandchildren.”
** Edited to add: Apparently, that IS Spencer’s grandmother? Just goes to show how tedious and terrible I find The Hills — I watched and STILL did not recognize her, so clearly, I was tuned out. Let me revise my impression of her internal monologue: “Oh my stars, are they REALLY sucking face instead of grabbing a ladle and serving some food for charity? Is THAT why they’re here? Homeless people don’t want saliva in their soup. I don’t know whether to slap them stupid or ask Heidi to suck his ratty beard off his face.”
And so it goes. Spencer and Heidi may not always wear the worst clothes, but his icky goatee and contempt for her family, plus their joint insistence on proving publicly that her collagen-inflated lips implants won’t burst under pressure, make them a fugly sight to behold indeed. They exist solely for rich photo opportunities, it seems, and every single one of them involves reminding us that they are Truly In Love:
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Such tender care, making sure the light hits her face in the most flattering way possible! Santa Claus is totally thinking that his only wish for Christmas is to get these passionless yokels off his bench.
However, lest you think that PDAA (public displays of adequate affection) is their only crime, do not forget that Heidi a) wore this; and b) brought us the heinous Heidiwood line of clothes — some of which looked like crappy knockoffs of what were already bad ideas — thus adding her to the collection of “celebrities” who’ve tried to inflict their grossitude on the masses.
Joining her in that aim: opponent Lauren Conrad. Although her eponymous clothing line is priced significantly higher, L.C.’s first fashion show looked more like something you’d see walking off the H&M Web pages. And for her big moment at the Emmys, where she designed the Statue Girl’s gown as well as her own, she pumped out something about as plain as wrapping a curtain around her torso and gluing a rhinestone to it.
Not to mention: What the hell is this?
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Remember that scene in Spaceballs where Mel Brooks gets beamed into the next room, and his head accidentally materializes on his body backwards so that he’s gazing down at his own derriere, and it’s all lumpy and weird because clearly the prop department stuffed his pants? That is all I can think of when I see these unflattering, boxy, awful pants. Flight attendants get more figure-friendly trousers, and theirs are practically flame-retardant.
So, to borrow a structure from Tyra Banks’ dismissals on ANTM, who stays? Lauren, the girl who TRIES to be high-fashion but usually fails, or Speidi, Satan’s own Barbie and Ken dolls, whose clothes end up being beside the point to how annoying they are? Does a vote keeping them in the contest validate their existence, or do they truly deserve to face off against SWINTON and send Lauren Conrad home with a free pass? Times are tough; so is this decision.
Comments (197):
Oh, please. Like there is any comparison.
Speidi by a mile. A horrid black cesspool where one’s soul should be is the world’s worst accessory. Bleah.
Couples that make out all the time while getting their pictures taken freak me out, so you can guess who I voted.
Tough one. I had thought I’d vote for LC, but when you throw the noxiousness of Heidi’s constant, seemingly asinine accessory (Spencer) into the mix, then the scaled tip heavily in the opposite direction. Also, while LC’s “clothing line” was lacking in imagination and, um, talent, it was not as heinous as the Heidiwood eyesores. So, points for Speidi.
seriously? I just can’t stand for Speidi to get any more fame! I just.. the loathing. The depthless loathing.
Speidi, all the way. Fug on the inside is worse than any clothes you can put on.
This is kinda a throwaway, because neither of these options has enough gumption to take on SWINTON.
Speidi all the way. Beyond the plastic surgery, Teen Wolf creeper beard, and staged photo ops, it’s the THEME-y-ness (not even a word…see what you do to me Speidi) that makes them far fuglier than LC could ever dream to be.
The woman in that photo IS Spencer’s Grandmother, who was featured in the last season. Just FYI.
I have now safely internalized the shape of her kissface jawline.
I think this was said at last year’s fug madness, but Speidi is so fug of SOUL that they have to win on that point alone. The fact that they make me vomit no matter what they are doing (or wearing, even though that is usual heinous as well) is more than enough to put them over LC. SWINTON should have fun stomping all over their chance at more fame in the next round anyways lol.
Seems like Speidi has bad taste and tastes bad– Conrad is just a little off.
Speidi all the way, but I agree with Ingrid. No one stands a chance in this bracket against all that is SWINTON. Then again, I thought Chloe would reign supreme last year too… maybe anything IS possible?
Speidi must practice that kiss at home in front of the mirror. It’s exactly the same in every photo. They make my stomach turn. FUG.
Speidi, hands down – if for no other reason than they’re a bit icky.
Speidi, because they’ll face off against SWINTON. Their grossness cannot compete with her freakish sort-of awesomeness.
I think everybody from The Hills is annoying, but I would have to agree that Heidi and Spencer are a special brand of nausea. Spencer in particular. *Shudders* Sort of makes the clothes a moot point.
Funny thing is, she doesn’t have to take notes for her grandchildren because I’m pretty sure that IS her grandchild. Isn’t that Spencer’s grandma? Yes, it’s reallly sad that I know that
But not as sad as their pseudo love.
Lauren Conrad. I hate Speidi too much to see them win even Fug Madness. I keep closing my eyes trying to wish their existence away.
Speidi gets this one, if only for her fugly boots and their creepiness.
But, Beware to Speidi. Swinton is not as forgiving as LC.
Speidi may be FUG on the inside, but really so is LC and her highly interesting fashion line is fug on the outside something awful. I don’t care about Speidi enough to give them a vote anyway.
Sure, Lauren’s clothing lines are not the most exciting, but Heidi has terrible style and taste. And I agree that she is both fug inside and outside. Not to mentions Spencer’s creepy fleshtone colored beard.
Speidi-man, Speidi-man,
Doing everything a speidi-can.
Watch it lurch, watch it hunch,
Watch it while we lose our lunch.
Look out, here comes the speidi-man.
Had I more time, I’d come up something even more snarky
Ha! Just goes to show how little The Hills holds my attention. I wouldn’t have recognized her in a million years!
Famewhoring at this level is a crime against fashion and nature. Speidi is the fugliest of them all. LC is just a weak pretender to the fug throne. Speidi FTW in this match-up and for Prom King and Queen of Hell.
Definitely Speidi. LC’s line, while uninspired, could never compete with the boundless fug that is Heidiwood. I just hope everyone’s visceral hatred of Speidi isn’t enough to effect their contest with SWINTON!
Speidi are the more egregious offenders here by far, simply for the sheer aggressiveness of their fug. It’s one thing to be bland and derivative but quite another to forcefully cram tastelessness and tack down our throats and eye-holes. LC fails in a sedate way that elicits only “zzz…wh-huh? oh, pants…well, y’know, you tried, girl” with a shrug and a half-hearted pat on the shoulder. Speidi’s willful fug is a cheap and active attempt to destroy any elegance or innovation in the vicinity, so violently cruddy it makes me think they actually hate the very concept of fashion.
I agree that Speidi are fuglier, but the idea of having to look at even one more photo of them made me vote for LC. She is at least easier on the eyes…and the stomach.
I’m not sure it’s even worth voting – whoever wins is going to be crushed by SWINTON. I went with Speidi on account of them being slightly less boring. Only slightly though.
It’s Spiedi all the way! Not only do you get two for the price on one, but even when they’re dressed ok (not that I’ve ever seen that), their souls are fugly!
Speidi, by a landslide! I can’t even look at Spencer as a person; I see him as one, big, heinous, re-occurring accessory. And I feel that having a grossly bearded accessory is worse than anything LC could throw at us.
zut alors!! I know anything since Jan 1 isn’t supposed to count, but its not possible for this not to cloud my judgement:
http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2009/01/fugcer_and_fugdi.html
Heidi wears what she wears just to get attention. Lauren should know better with her choices…which makes her the bigger fug. ALSO, the more you vote for Speidi, the more we will be forced to look at them. No more votes for Speidi!
I voted because I had to. However, I must say that I don’t think either one deserves to face off against the awesomeness that is SWINTON.
Everyone is so certain SWINTON will prevail against these two, but I have to express my concern. While SWINTON may be a bit…odd, she’s still kind of amazing and fantastic, whereas Speidi encapsulates all that is repulsive in this world. I fear that we GFY readers may become torn between our secret love for SWINTON and our seething hatred for Speidi.
I wholeheartedly confess to voting for LC just so I would not have to look at Speidi again. HATE!
I’m voting for LC because I cannot stand to give one more tiny drop of attention to Speidi. And poor LC is really trying to work the fashion thing–how awful to be beat out of the fugly race by Speidi! Let’s give LC the chance to SHINE!
having never ever watched the hills or any of its spinoffs, i am going only on having seen heidi’s music video for “overdosin” which, is a mirical in and of itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVC6T5-Ax9I
However, I picked LC, only because her clothing line made me way more angry. but no, NO Clothing Line, can ever ever ever compare with the Sev’s for fugliness.
Okay, Speidi is a public menace, but is it really because of the FASHION? This is all about the clothes, ladies (and gentlemen?), not about who we loathe.
Although LC’s positively random use of the word ‘shady’ is somewhat irksome, I am convinced that a certain ‘baddie’ wrestler has based his persona on Spencer. That, and the fact that in the UK, his surname (Prat[t]) is a synonym for idiot is more than enough evidence for me to vote Speidi.
And I hate Spencer’s raggy beard.
I didn’t want to vote for Speidi. I really didn’t – even dignifying their ham-handed celebrity publicity tactics with a vote seemed wrong somehow.
And then I took a trip through the year’s archive, and had apparently gleefully glossed over how atrociously bad so very many of the things Heidi wore were -> Plus, as others have had, Spencer is an accessory best left on the shelf.
In comparison, Lauren Conrad only rates a yawn.
Kristin, I think your fear is misplaced. SWINTON will eat these two for breakfast.
Or turn them into earrings.
Heh, I totally heard that last paragraph in Tyra’s voice. I don’t want to give them any more attention, but Speidi are just fugly through and through.
I cannot validate Speidi’s existence and attentionwhoring ways, so LC by default.
I’m worried about SWINTON too—was hoping she’d get at least to final 4 but it’s going to be tough against these two.
Spencer’s heinous whiskers + all that PDAA makes me wonder how many times a day Heidi coughs up a whisker hairball.
NEXT.
i’m torn. spencer and heidi are definately worse. but i don’t know if i have it in me to vote them in for ANYTHING…..
I voted for LC, simply so that I can continue to ignore the existence of the other two (I can’t even bring myself to say their names).
I don’t watch the Hills… But I had to cote for Lauren. Speidi ham it up to the max, and I believe they full well know how ridiculous they are, and play it up. Lauren however, seems to think the sun rises and sets with her, and she’s just too cool for it all. Taking yourself way more seriously than everyone else does is much more fug to me than obviously staged photoshoots any day.
I didn’t know who to choose as I find all three of them incredibly vapid, so I chose Lauren because of Heather’s awesome Spaceballs reference.
The look on her face here:
http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/05/fugliwood.html
is all I need to vote Speidi.
However, I also point your attention to the flesh-colored puber-beard, her eponymous collection of DEB clothes, and the fact that he made her mother cry. There. I said it.
My thoughts: while LC tries to do something worthwhile with her time, albeit failing, Speidi are ass-clowns who should be removed from the public eye. Therefore, Speidi is more fugly in my book.
I only voted for LC because I don’t want to have to look at Speidi any more. EVER! AGAIN!
I could have designed better clothing than LC when I was in my mother’s womb and my eyes and hands had not yet developed. Awful. That being said, her boring nature pales in comparison to the vomit-inducing duo that is Speidi.
Kristen: who says our love for SWINTON is secret? Let’s be honest with ourselves, we would love her to pieces if she wore a papier-mache dress with the image of Saddam Hussein on it. She would describe it as some kind of thought provoking analysis of U.S./Arab relations , and we mere mortals would simply drool over her fabulocity. I see her going all the way this year, for sures.
As far as how I voted, I voted for LC because the thought of giving Speidi anything but a one way ticket to Satan’s shopping mall gives me the dry heaves. Besides, both LC and Speidi’s clothes suck.
Are any of those people talented in any way or is what they do worthy of recompense? Tilda will blow them away with her eyelashes. silly children….
You know those fan-powered dancing inflatable tube men–the kind one would see on the roof of a Smoothie King? That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw Lauren Conrad’s pants. Unlike the pants, the dancing Smoothie King guys at least are fun, kinetic, and made from bright, supple fabric.
I still pride myself on never having seen an episode of “The Hills.” That being said, the nausea I choked back looking at anything Speidi related made it worth the fug and worth the vote. Besides, a one-inch inseam does not a pair of shorts make.
And thus the annual battle: do I vote for the more hated or the more fugly? I heart SWINTON so much…should she win or lose? Clearly, the fodder for much delightful procrastination…
LC – Was there another name there? Sorry, couldn’t see it through my thick veil of denial.
100% Speidi because I believe fugness is not represented solely by what one wears but also by what one is seen doing in public. Besides, if I have to see one more photo of Satan and the Antichrist making out, I may stab my eyeballs out!
The downside to voting for Speidi – the deserved winner of the play-in game, is that I will have to look at them AGAIN. But Lauren, at least she tries. She fails miserably, but she tries. Spencer and Heidi are just vile.
I voted for Lauren, simply because I couldn’t bear to choose Speidi over her (or anyone else, for that matter), for any reason.
I just can’t stand the thought of giving Speidi even 1 line more press (good or bad), LC at least holds a speck of interest, sort of…
must vote lauren so speidi do not get MORE attention!
I had to vote for LC, only because I dont think that Speidi should win anything!
Who ARE these people??
Speidi by a long shot, if only because LC bores me, and boredom does not constitute fug in my book. It must make me shout out “WHY would you DO that?” Which Speidi do (does?) on a regular basis.
Incidentally, never was there a man with such a terrifying appropriate last name.
I dunno about this one. I could say at least LC’s trying for something, but that’s even sadder. When I was little I wanted to be a fashion designer. I carried around a big binder of ugly clothes I drew, but even I had the sense not to include any berets in my collection. I’ll give it LC because she allowed me reminisce about my childhood, which is always fun.
Speidi? Oh, the humanity. Or lack there of.
Every time I see Speidi, my body involuntarily convulses in a dry retch type deal. It’s painful. And so are they.
Speidi for sure.
LC – hideous and tragic her clothes may be, can’t hold a Fug Candle to Speidi.
Can’t wait to see SWINTON eviscerate the Fugly Two.
Got to go with Lauren Conrad on this one.
Heidi looks like a cross between a pageant contestant and a Playboy bunny. Speidi it is.
If if weren’t for GFY I’d have never heard of any of these people …
Speidi – if only for that heinous dollar store kissy kissy fest they tried to pull off a few weeks ago. I still taste bile in my mouth from that.
All the other evidence doesn’t hurt their case, either.
Speidi – Spencer’s facial hair alone could win it for them!
The Dollar Store photo shoot sealed the deal for me too!
lauren gets the vote just so i won’t have to look at speidi again.
78% of you are gross. I’ve had to adblock that grotesque Speidi shit…do they spend their lives with their faces stuck like that? Disgusting. Spencer, keep it in your pants and Heidi, have some dignity for once in your sad little life.
Lauren all the way.
voted LC.
I’ve gotta say, her fug seems to be natural clueless-ness, while I would like to think that Speidi does their thing as a purposeful, over the top fugness.
SO, since I choose to believe that they are play-acting for the $$, that makes their fug moot and disqualified!
Speidi just because the stupid beard. Really Spencer, just because you can some-what grow it doesn’t mean you should do it.
I mean, sure, Lauren is boring and unoriginal, but Speidi (and in particular, Heidi) is just so trashy that it’s no contest.
GOOD LORD i love fug madness. it begins, it BEGINS!!!!
i’m so jealous of you guys who haven’t heard of them. wish i lived in that world.
I only voted for Lauren Conrad, who is quite all right and not terribly fugly, only because Speidi does not deserve attention.
In spite of LC’s irritating smirk and utterly tragic sense of fashion, I have to go with Speidi. I find them repulsive.
Okay – so Speidi wins this easily. That Lauren girl is sad but nowhere near a match for Speidi’s hideousness on every possible level.
The problem is that they are a thousand times fuglier than SWINTON could ever be. SWINTON is really kind of fabulous. In a decidedly non-Debbie Boone way, she lights up our lives with her total fashion craziness AND WE LOVE HER FOR IT.
In my local Fug Madness Betting Pool of Carbs I felt lucky to get SWINTON and picked her to go to the finals. If the vortex of cheap tackiness that is Speidi beat her, I’ll lose out on the greatest chocolate cupcakes in the world and blame YOU.
Do not fail me, Fug Girls and Fug Voters.
the fact that they are called “spiedi” grosses me out enough to vote for them. his nasty facial hair and her sub par nose job don’t help either!
ugh. i only voted for l.c. because i really really really need speidi to GO AWAY.
i think i contracted something infectious just by looking at the pictures…
While both parties are annoying I don’t think, dare I say it, either are particularly fug. I mean, come on, there is WAY more fug out there. These guys aren’t even junior varsity fug, they’re frosh squad.
That’s why they’re only in the play-in game.
I hate to ever vote for speidi for anything buuuut I had to, JUST to see SWINTON unleash her mighty white witch powers on spencer’s wannabeard.
They shall be the first victims of her highness (literal, not royal).
LC takes it, if only for those hideous, inexplicable pants. Ugly fashion is one thing, but there is no excuse for eliminating one’s feet entirely.
Although Laurens style is a bit unoriginal and can be boring. I think most of the time she still manages to look good and that’s what counts.
Spedi are 100% fug all of the time. And they’re in on in together! They’re a super double fug team! Two heads should be better than one, but not in their case.
Spedi wins.
Thankfully, The Hills isn’t on i Sweden so I’ve never seen Speidi walk and talk (something I treasure), but they still win over that Boring Blonde Girl. Tough race though.
I had to vote LC simply because the quicker Speidi gets booted, the faster I go back to pretending they don’t exist.
Please make them go away.
Speidi wins the contest – flesh colored beards beat out bad pants. In addition, a fake wedding, leather rings because of the economy, and general loathsome behavior beats most of Lauren’s aesthetic. Sadly they will be trounced by SWINTON, knowing the future is fun!
Speidi is clearly an example of the adage there is no such thing as bad press. The fact that their antics continue to garner press attention annoys me. I had to vote for L.C. because while Speidi certainly deserves to be labeled fugly they just don’t deserve anymore attention. Plus the less I have to look at Spencer’s flesh colored beard the happier I will be!
I think if you vote for Speidi, you’re only encouraging them. I hate everyone associated with the Hills and wish they would just disappear already.
I can’t make myself vote for Speidi. I don’t want to have to see them smooching ever again.
Please, like either of them have a shot against SWINTON, but in all seriousness I’m torn. Both choices are tragic for very different reasons. Personally I think Speidy is far more vile than LC, but I do not want to give that pair any more attention. Ick!
Looks like Speidi has a healthy lead. (Or should that be “healthy”, since their very appearance in the brackets is enough to start a nausea epidemic?)
I’m voting for the Diarrhea Duo not simply because they are fug of soul, although that is definitely a factor. No, it’s more surface-y than that. They DO wear fugly fashions, and they DO fug up their faces and bodies with ungodly forms of cosmetic surgery and faux-beard growth. Also, people, they can BREED. And there is nothing fuglier than the mere thought of that possibility. Now I’m going to go weep in a dark corner for awhile.
Fug of soul absolutely, but come on, the monstrosities Heidi puts on her body on a daily basis – not to mention what’s she’s actually done to it – put her and her tragically bearded partner in crime squarely in the sartorially fug column. Lauren’s biggest sin is just being boring, rather than offending my eyes at every given chance.
I forgot about the Heidiwood reconnaissance mission! That was hilarious.
Speidi for sure.
Heidiwood? No thanks.
Spencer the hairy handbag? Double no thanks.
What happens if I hate both LC and Speidi? They don’t even compare to the creepy yet fabulous SWINTON.
Everybody hates Speidi, but in this case they are legit the worst dressed of the two options. Consistently Lauren looks cute or boring or both, they usually look trashy.
I’m just sad that whoever wins is going to knock SWINTON out of the competition in the first round, she doesn’t stand a change against either of the Hills (have eyes) nightmares
i had to go against the popular current and vote conrad. sure- speidi has all the flash, the obvious over-the-topiness, and the general puke factor, BUT i think that is precisely why conrad is actually far fuglier. in the sad comic-drama that is her “life” aka, the hills, she is held up before america like she truly has merit, like she deserves to come out on top, that we should care about her, when, in fact, girl is fucking boring ten times over, and has been whining about the same crap for like five years, and just pretty much sucks all around. which in my opinion is fare more vile to me than speidi- the more we vilify speidi, the more we are inherently propping conrad up on her own putrid cloud of superflous self-worth. they are two heads of the same gross-ass coin, but at least speidi is fun to hate. lauren conrad isn’t fun in any way, shape, or form.
I actually made a little collage in MS Paint yesterday of a couple fug outfits of each competitor. Though Speidi annoys me significantly more, I just can’t comprehend this aesthetic LC constantly aims for and usually fails to achieve. So she gets my vote.
OH GOD.
I personally think that Speidi deserve to be sent home, but…Speidi are more fug by a MILE.
Definitely, neither of their clothing lines are as bad as Fugoë Fugigny for Fugening Fugemony (thus setting the record for highest density for replacing syllables with “fug”), but…Heidi’s, I think, is more heinous by a mile.
At least LC’s just uninspired. Heidi IS inspired…by the streetwalkers on Sunset.
And Spencer is just gross. And the two of them together are even grosser – I mean, making out with your SO in front of your GRANDMOTHER?!
…ah well. SWINTON will destroy either of them anyway. Speidi it is. As much as I dislike seeing either of them, I don’t know if I could make Lauren the sacrificial lamb.
The happy thing is, I don’t even need to let my abhorence for Speidi influence my decision! I can judge them on the clothes alone!
Heidi’s clothing line was much fuglier than Lauren’s, hands-down.
LC. She’s actually less fugly, but you can’t make me vote for the… things – I’ll vote against them.
…wow, my last comment sucked. Department of Redundancy Department, anyone?
Also, by “either of them” in the last sentence, I meant Speidi. In the sentence before that, I meant between LC and Speidi. OOPS.
i just don’t want to see speidi anymore than i absolutely have to. they make me a little ill and, at least LC seems to enjoy her fugs. i’ll vote for a happy fugger any day.
Neither can win against SWINTON, so it really doesn’t matter. BUT: I cannot vote for Speidi, so to LC gets my vote.
LC by a mile. All three are vile and tasteless, but only one of them has the audacity to say that her ugly crap is worth hundreds of dollars.
I don’t get the seedings this time around.
I’m highly disappointed that Barton got a top seed, because she is just so NON. And as absent and unproductive as the Peldons.
And I’m sad and perplexed that BAI is not given more respect as Reigning Champion Super Alien High Priestess.
In this fight, I’m going with Lauren becasue Speidi are soulless trolls and I don’t want them on my lovingly printed out bracket page, but I agree it hardly matters because none of them have the FugOomph to take on the higher-ups.
I seriously considered voting for LC simply to save my eyes from further pictures of Speidi…but they truly are FUG thru and thru.
Speidi by a landslide! You know, I have never seen “The Hills” or whatever show these people are on, but looking at Heidi just makes me really, really annoyed. Lauren Conrad is just sort of…blah.
I hate Speidi and don’t want them to win anything or get more attention. Down with flesh-colored facial hair!
I’m irritated by the fact that I even know who Spencer and Heidi are.
Have to go for Speidi, just for the sheer heinous quotient. Strategically, I’d like to think we’re feeding them to the lions in the later rounds. A sacrifice, if you will, to the great and powerful SWINTON, et al.
How I love the Fug Madness–thank you, sistahs!!!
LC! Isn’t it so much worse to take yourself as seriously as she does and fail so miserably, than to so obviously (as in Speidi’s case) not take yourself seriously and only seek the superficial, and manage to be important (to someone… Nana?)
LC. Definitely.
I voted for Speidi to be the human sacrifice for SWINTON.
Putting aside their inner fugliness, I can’t forget the eye-searing tackiness that is Heidiwood.
“Have to go for Speidi, just for the sheer heinous quotient. Strategically, I’d like to think we’re feeding them to the lions in the later rounds.”
Heeey! I like that!
Speidi hands down for the skeeve-factor. Poor Lauren, I think her fashion sense will catch up to her one day (and smack her off the back of the head for some of her poor choices) and she’ll be better.
I feel that Lauren will progress, where Speidi chose each other so it is reasonable to assume that their fashion choices will not improve. FAIL.
Spencer and Heidi are incredibly annoying and superficial individuals, but at least they can dress decently most of the time. This is about fashion, which Lauren Conrad claims to know something about (Avon even picked her as a hawker in their Mark “magalog”. SHAME on you, AVON!), yet Miss Conrad proves quite often she doesn’t, so I’m having to vote for Lauren to go to her certain demise against SWINTON.
SWINTON is going to win it all, baby!
I almost voted Speidi, but changed at the last minute because I realised I’d be falling into the trap of giving them the attention they crave. It’s not the clothes that make them so icky, it’s the ickiness.
In Lauren’s case, it’s the clothes that make her interesting.
Seriously? LC doesn’t even come close. Her clothes and show, while perhaps not the fashion world’s ideal, to me were just fine. Not the best, but certainly not the worst.
Whereas everything about Speidi just reeks of… Well, just reeks.
LC’s pants. Same as these from the Ghost Whisperer? THEY LOOK IT.
(yes, commenting again. I can’t help myself.)
http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/01/the-fug-fuggerer.html
Ack. That is the link that I forgot to paste. Ghost Whisperer. LC pants. That one. Dear lord, how is it only Tuesday?
I voted for L.C. because all three of these people are actually clones of the same person. You cannot fool me HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!!!!! I know there is a conspriracy to take over the work with vapid, trashy dressing, smooching clown clones.
Speidi does not deserve to share a bracket with the mighty SWINTON. I voted LC. SWINTON will turn her into a fug roadkill on the fashion road, but at least I can sleep at night knowing I voted LC instead of Speidi.
See here’s my dilemma:
Fug implies ugliness. And I think SWINTON – while occasionally totally whacked out – dresses for her rather dramatic and androgynous looks. It’s not that it’s ugly (well, okay, sometimes it is), it’s just that it’s not mainstream. She wouldn’t look right in the same stuff most people would.
(This doesn’t mean, however, I dearly wish she’d just hire a make-up artist and costume designer from some of her movies to do her red carpet looks.)
I’d love to heap accolades on SWINTON, but I don’t think winning Fug Madness is one of them. Fug is different than off-the-beaten-path.
Speidi on the other hand? They represent the worst of vapid, plastic looks that Hollywood churns out today, which makes them – to me – intrinsically fugly.
Bai Ling is still a front runner for me
I just wanted to say that I can no longer look at or think about Speidi without the phrase “oily machinations” somewhere in the back of my mind. Thank you, Fug Girls.
speidi is the one of the most horrible things i’ve ever seen. i hate them and don’t think they deserve to share a bracket with the amazing SWINTON. but they are so awful that i couldn’t be able to sleep at night if i didn’t vote for them. and at least lauren conrad can look cute every once in a while. they are tacky all the time.
See, I think L.C. is just boooooring in the way she dresses so to me that doesn’t necessarily equate to a fug. A yawn? Yes. A fug title? Nah. Now, Speidi on the other hand pretty much always look ridiculous and fugulous. I’m with the other posters in not wanting to give attention to where it’s not due, but I can’t bring myself to say that L.C. outfuggs them. I just can’t.
Speidi. No question. L.C. could, with a lot of work and an amazing stylist, has potential to be somewhat cute and well dressed, while these two are so tacky and annoying they define fug. In fact, they give fug a bad name. And what is up with all the kissing? Seriously? However, who wins will get crushed by Swinton. She is a league of her own.
@ Toni, re “Fug implies ugliness.”
Yeah, I feel that there are two streams of Fug. Outrageous sparkly insane fantastic BAI Fug, and greasy mopey depressing ungainly SEV Fug. Strangely, I feel equally comfortable using the word *Fug* for both styles, and they both earn it.
I guess when I vote, I do vote for the people that make me happy. The Phoebe Prices and BAI’s of the world. I love to see the crazy.
When someone makes me feel sick, like greasy Dr. SunkenTits, I don’t so much enjoy the fug as much as I try to go to my happy place and erase the oogy visual.
Hmm. As SWINTON is likely to steamroll any competition, I think I’ll go for Speidi. Simply for the petty joy it will give me to see them blasted out of the water. It’s the little things that get you through the day, really.
DAAAANGIT I just wrote a whole thing out…but the site said I didn’t get the captcha right and deleted everything when I came back. Though not as poetically worded:
Ok, so BASICALLY I’m a Fashion designer, in this for life (I’m 22 and have been drawing for about 20 years, always Fashion). Celebs who create lines because they can just to get money annoy the snot out of me, and for Lauren to get her internship basically handed to her because of fame, then create a line of prepped-to-sell celebrity-approved clothing anyone could recreate from patterns (and fabrics) at JoAnn’s…it makes me loathe the industry. I study design because I want to make women feel and look beautiful, and as long as I can pay my bills, I don’t care about “the money”. Silver spoon-fed Lauren gets a job no sweat when most of us have run ourselves ragged with extensive Emails and Applications, and then does SO MUCH with that knowledge? Gag.
HOWEVER, I know virtually nothing about Speidi (ha, “Spidey”, like Spiderman), and even with all of my Conrad complaints, I still say their duo is far greater of the two evils.
Regardless, SWINTON would destroy both (all three?) of them as a mere appetizer in this showdown.
It has to be Speidi. L.C is much less aggressively and deliberately horrid, and I’m pretty sure that Spencer’s beard is actually hair plugs. Think about it. It. Never. Changes. It’s just consistently, nastily ratty…kind of like a sportscaster’s scalp. Plugs. Totally. I hate to say this, but there is actually hope for L.C.
Easy one….even though LC can’t design clothes well, she typically dresses okay. Speidi on the other hand, consistently makes me want to upchuck with the constant kissing and amazing fugwear.
Wow, so I did not parse the santa photo correctly the first time I looked at it – I thought santa was a separate photograph, and was in fact Speidi sucking face in some kind of bizarre two-person santa costume. Which will give me nightmares tonight, no doubt.
I hesitated — yes, I know, incomprehensible, but I’m just keepin’ it real here — for a moment because those blue slacks? trousers? smokestacks-with-a-crotch? on Lauren were so very very fugly and the kissy-kissy photos didn’t seem nearly so fugly. But oh, no, Speidi wins lips down. (As in, Please, God, put the lips down!)
hmmm, speidi are way ahead and yet the comments suggest there are quite a few lauren protest votes. might there be trolls afoot????
also, i am okay with speidi winning IF AND ONLY IF the post of the speidi/SWINTON showdown is done lagerfeld conversation style. with SWINTON struck dumb. literally.
kisses, fug girls, y’all rule!
I voted for the original matriarch of Laguna Beach : L.C. What is incredible is that her image appears when you look up “beef curtains” on Google. So it’s a pity vote and I’m trying to deny the sheer existence of Speidi…SWINTON will grant my wish and eat 1, 2, 10, 100 of them alive.
i have to admit, LC’s irritating mental vacancy is really eating at me. but this is two against one. and speidi is more horrendous than the sum of it’s (their?) parts.
I have to say I’m disappointed in the play-in round. Last year it gave us the Little Peldon that could…no one wants to cheer for this year’s winner. SWINTON will crush them!
I hovered over the Speidi button and I just….couldn’t do it. I couldn’t risk validating the heinousness. So I wussed out and chose LC instead.
Perhaps I am not fit to make the very important decisions facing me in fug madness.
Does it really matter? They are both horrible and equally deserving of this “honor”.
Woah! This is actually pretty tough and as hot as LC is she looks really awful here. Heidi’s hot too, she could do better.
I think Speidi could win solely on their ridiculous election-themed summer.
Speidi hands-down. LoCo’s blue dress, while boring, isn’t really heinous. It hid her bra, was not zebra-striped or hot pink, and pairing it with formal shorts wouldn’t really affect how it looked since it would cover up the formal shorts anyway. Even leggings couldn’t kill this one.
None of the above, however, could be said about Speidi.
The more of Speidi we see, the worse off the world is. But adhering to the rules, one must vote for them. Poor Lauren, with her pretty smile and her well-intentioned “fashion.” She’s due some kind of attention. Just not sure what.
there are lots of people who are “fug of soul”; i think that’s for another site. as said above, though, i don’t think anyone from “the hills” has a chance of beating swinton.
swinton v. chloe will be a toughie!
Puhleez. This is Fug Madness, right? Not Bore Madness. LC is like Ambien for the Fashion Insomniac, but Speidi puts the Ugh in Fug by a mile.
As vapid as LC seems, I actually think her clothing line (albeit overpriced) consists of nice basics that normal people would actually wear. And Speidi, though simply awful twin slices of the humanity pie, don’t seem to *dress* that badly either. Tough call. Hopefully both set will be knocked out of the running early!
I experience a visceral “blech” at the idea of casting any sort of vote for Speidi, even if I were voting for them as the worst people to ever exist in the world. But of course, it’s Speidi by a mile. I’ll overcome the nausea at clicking any button next to their name for the sake of truth and justice.
Lauren Conrad is just boring. Speidi is a crime against humanity.
I voted for Lauren, but I’ve been thinking about it, and like the real life play in winners it doesn’t matter who wins this round, because it is their destiny is to be lunched on by whoever they face. So it would be fun to see SWINTON make a snackrifice out of Speidi. I imagine it would be like that time Homer swallowed the wedding cake bride and groom. Mmmmm…pointy.
While I have been completely unimpressed by Lauren Conrad’s collection (minus this dress http://www.shopbop.com/brittney-dress-lauren-conrad/vp/v=1/845524441832378.htm?folderID=2534374302082052&fm=browse-brand-viewall-shopbysize which I sadly think is adorable) there has been nothing in her collection that inspires me to watch a season of Rock of Love. Which is the main comparison that Heidwood’s clothing scream; can’t you just see Daisy, Heather, or Ashley dying to get their hands on that zebra print jumpsuit?
Speidi makes me shudder, it wins!
In some pictures it looks like LC has a little glint in her eye, almost like a tongue-in-cheek, she is just having a good time. Speidi never has that as far as I can tell. Their fugly is waaay serious, creepy serious.
Everyday, I ask myself why Speidi exists. Okay, well not everyday. But a lot. I’d love to see them win this competition but that’d give them more attention we could all do without.
i did try to be fair, but despite all of lauren’s terrible outfits, speidi’s USA $1 store spree outfits totally puts them over the top. HA! nice unintentional double entendre there.
i really enjoy that speidi is one entity. as is brangelina. well done, fug girls, well done.
You know, LC never had a chance. Theres just so much doucheyness… and teeth! Seriously, everytime Spencer smiles I get flashbacks to that scene in ‘It’ where Pennywise is all ‘EVERYTHING FLOATS DOWN HERE!’
Plus it’s going to take some teamwork to take down SWINTON. Bitch’s fierce. Word.
Ugh, both choices make me nauseous. Why not let SWINTON take on all 3 and just put them out of our misery??
I cannot believe I’m saying this, but in this contest all I can think about are (is?) THE CHILDREN. And I feel like a win to “Speidi” tells teenage girls, “Yes, you DO look like a retarded hooker in that,” as well as saying, “And by the way, you look like an ass (or a retarded hooker) fastened to that boy like that.”
Not that I’m any fan of LC, but at least she has a job, and wears pants.
Lauren IS boring, and Spencer and Heidi ARE fug, but I don’t think either of them have the fug guns to take them to the championship. I mean, have you SEEN some of the people they would be up against? Even on a good day, in all their tacky,tacky glory, Speidi doesn’t have half the crazy/fug SWINTON, Posh, or Phoebe Price have. They may have stayed in the game for this round, but I’m going to just say it now…Sorry Speidi, you will not be Paris Hilton’s New BBFug.
I feel guilty for voting for Speidi only because if they win they will turn it around and believe its a good thing and its not!
I love Lauren Conrad so I’m a little biased… but clearly Speidi is way more fug!
Heidi’s endless anorexic displays, her stick-figure limbs jutting out of tiny size-zero dresses, live in my memory years after the original atrocities were committed. LC is merely annoying, a poor dresser at times, but Heidi will wear an American flag as a dress and still smile brightly. Heidi/Speidi/Spender FTW!
What to know what is NOT the hottest accessory for spring? A flesh colored beard.
I would vote for Speidi on the basis of Spencer’s Creepy Flesh-Colored Beard alone. That is fugceptionally fugly.
Speidi is just pure fug, there’s no way around it. Lauren Conrad’s most common sin is being boring. Hideous vs. boring–come on, it’s a shoe-in!
I went Speidi. Couldn’t help myself. I feel bad for Heidi because when I look at her I think she’s one of Hef’s girls. Does Spencer have a job/education under way? Just wondering what he does with his life..He has way to much time to plan evil and feel victimized.
I want to see SWINTON take down two people in one go. I vote Spedi.
please dont give the horrid pair anymore attention – it has to be LC all the way!
At least Santa’s enjoying himself. Although one has to wonder whether under that beard he’s really thinking to himself: ‘OH FOR F***K’S SAKE, NOT AGAIN’.
I was going to vote for Lauren, I truly was. I had my mouse over her little blue button and everything, but to be honest my heart wasnt really with it.
Because even though there clothes arent as bad, there is just something truly FUG about spiedi. They give you that dirty feeling inside, like you have just been poured head to toe in mud.
Also, if they have another one of those ‘SURPRISE, LOOK WE ARE DOING CHARITY WORK AND WE ARE SOOOOOOOOO IN LOVE’ photo shoots, i am going to gag over there entwined bleached blonde, fake tan heads.
haha plus i think i owe them. Spencers last years Friday night live interview (or whatever show it was) still makes me chuckle.
Team Spiedi, but SWINTON is going to SLAUGHTER them.
Surprised at the overwhelming Speidi vote – at least she has a theme, sure it’s cheap hooker but it’s still a theme, Lauren’s lot is …what? cotton t-shirts and slightly longer cotton t-shirts that are apparently dresses?
Maybe not having a clue who/what these people were prior to reading go-fug tips the balance but I’m going for the one who actually takes herself seriously
speidi wins because of that nauseating dollar-store photo op a couple of weeks ago. that was so gross.
I actually didn’t think LC’s Emmy-statue-girl dress was that bad. Speidi, however, makes me want to gouge my eyes out in an Oedipal fury. “WHY?! WHY DO YOU EXIST???”
Someone should let Heidi know that asshats are NEVER in style!
Speidi – I think they are still in the running for hypocrites of the year over at Deceiver’s march madness. Let’s make them ‘winners’ all over the ‘net.
Lest we forget that Speidi’s overall disgusting-ness prompted the creation of an article of clothing during last years Fug Madness sporting the slogan “I Blame Spencer”, which I still do for most of the world’s major problems…
in Speidi’s case, PDA is totally an accessory…to the crime. Yuck.
Speidi by a mile, I’m afraid.
It’s gotta be Speidi. I didn’t want to give them the satisfaction of giving them even MORE publicity, but they’re just so wrong. And I secretly want them to go up against SWINTON, so she could eat them alive.
Speidi all the way simply because Heidi’s weave is just that bad to me.
I’m glad I can say I have never watched “The Hills”, thank goodness for the remote. I catch a glimpse of these fugs every now and then in a magazine or here.
LC is a boring fug,environmentally wasting fabric that some true designer could be using to make something we MIGHT actually buy and wear. Those blue pants she has on, jeez, did she work as a back up for Britney’s circus tour? It looks like she is wearing stilts under those fugly pants, where are her feet and shoes?
Just letting Speidi come out of my brain to a typed thought makes me want to throw up alittle in my mouth. Let these two fuggers carry on a bit and watch SWINTON sweep through with her glorious goddess like aura and send these fuggers to back to grandmas house and let her slap the s**t out of them for awhile maybe even ground them from leaving the house till they stop their fugging stuff in front of cameras. There are worse fuggers in this bracket.
Lauren’s clothing is just a little plain and uninspired. I admit, I once contemplated buying some on Hautelook, but was just like “meh…” Whereas if I’d seen the same thing on the rack at Target I probably would have been like “Wow, this is cute…totally worth $24.99, and not a penny more!” But Heidi is pure fug, even without Scruffy McSleaze on her arm! Did we all the wedding “dress”? It looked like a little girls’ nightie that was in the process of mutating into a frilly lampshade. And I hate when barbie-doll type try to pull of the whole ethereal maiden thing. Does not compute.
Shiver…must…vote…Speidi…even…though…it…hurts!
Despite the overwhelming urge to vote for Speidi based on fugliness of soul, on cruise trough the archives was enough to tip the scales in their favor based on clothes alone.LC is just boring, uninspired fug. Speidi is FUG. Heidi just looks wrong and worse still with sleazy flesh coloured beard permanently attached to her hip. yuck.
They will all be corn before SWINTON’s sickle.
Oh, Speidi…, by far, if only to see it beat down by The Swinton. But I do wish we could take up a collection to by LC some feet.
I had to go with Speidi, because they are vile. But I also find Lauren Conrad and the fact that she is famous for being a vapid ‘tard vile, so I don’t want her to think I was voting *for* her. No! Lauren, your time will come to meet the SWINTON. But Speidi is slightly ahead of you in the fug stakes so you’re off the hook, for now…
It looks like Speidi are going to take it by a landslide, but personally I want to forget they exist, so I voted for Lauren. Lauren dresses like every sorority girl on my college campus and has the gumption to call herself a designer.
This is a classic inner fug vs. outer fug battle — choosing between the fugly souls of Speidi, who would certainly be wearing leggings along with Katy Perry’s Grammy get-up against LC, who lacks an inner life, but manages to combine mom jeans and stilts in a startling way. My vote? LC all the way. Speidi doesn’t deserve the attention.