A six-month courtship has led to the promise of a lifetime together for former “Laguna Beach” star Jason Wahler and USC tennis player Katja Decker-Sadowski. TMZ reports that the one-time MTV personality recently slipped a four-carat, emerald cut diamond engagement ring on to the college freshman’s finger, which he purchased at XVI Karats.

With the premiere of Newport Harbor tonight on MTV, we thought it would be nice to look back on our favorite Laguna Beach cast members.

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US Magazine reports: The Hills doesn’t premiere until Monday, but the drama is already in full swing!

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were “banned” from attending the MTV show’s post-premiere party Wednesday night in L.A., a show source tells Usmagazine.com, due to the couple’s escalating feud with costars Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge.

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Variety reports that MTV is overhauling their programming for the fall schedule & 2008.

“The Hills,” is back and will receive an 18-episode order, roughly double the number of episodes in its most recent season. It was also revealed that the third season would debut on Aug. 13.

“MTV has decided to order a fourth season of its hit “Laguna Beach”; it had previously considered not bringing it back.

Net is moving forward on a new season with an all-new cast. Series will be very much in the vein of the show’s first season — following a group of classmates in their final year (or, in some cases, two years) of high school.

While show won’t be shot at Laguna High, it is currently in production at another unnamed Orange County school — likely in Newport Beach — and could be on the air later this year.

Execs are still undecided whether to tweak the name to reflect the new locale or extend the franchise by keeping the “Laguna” title.”

Also confirmed Wednesday a series greenlight for docu series “The Life of Ryan,” about teen skateboarder Ryan Scheckler, the San Clemente native who is one of the sport’s rising stars.

Series will follow Scheckler in both his career and his family, particularly his relationship with his siblings, and will be on the air later this year.

In the ultimate form of personal self-expression, fans of MTV’s “The Hills” and“Laguna Beach” can now capture the ‘look’ of their favorite characters by going online and purchasing clothing and accessories worn by their favorite cast members or featured on the shows. Today marks the immediate launch of a new online store for MTV fans. The site — at www.seenonmtv.com — offer fans the opportunity to purchase identical items worn by their favorite stars, like Lauren Conrad of “The Hills.” And in a move that bridges the real world with the virtual, members of Virtual Hills and Virtual Laguna Beach can dress their avatars in branded clothing, and then get their hands on the real things via the MTV store – the first time any major media/entertainment company has extended the concept to a 3D world.

The MTV site are organized so viewers can shop for their favorite items by cast member, category (i.e., clothing, jewelry, handbags and luggage, shoes, etc.) and brand. They can also shop by episode. For instance, a viewer who has just seen the “Hills” episode “Apology Not Accepted,” which originally aired on March 19, can go online and purchase the Rebecca Taylor blossom print dress worn by one of the cast members.

The Hills section of the MTV site, for instance, features more than 500 products seen on episodes from the show’s first two seasons – everything from handbags and shoes, to electronics and earrings. The Laguna Beach area offers headbands, skirts, digital music players and more than 350 other products.

TMZ.com reports a porn company has put the brakes on an alleged sex tape featuring “The Hills” star Lauren Conrad and “Laguna Beach’s” Jason Wahler — because of the bad boy’s “severely disappointing” behavior. And apparently, according to our source, the tape is severely disappointing as well.

The alleged tape, news of which first broke on Perez Hilton, is “very vanilla” with “no hard core sex.” The source adds that LC and Jason are basically “messing around.” But SugarDVD tells TMZ they are retracting their previous offer of $500,000 for the tape, because of Wahler’s recent arrest in Seattle. “We refuse to support any person who feels that it is in any way acceptable to rattle off racial slurs and slanderous language about African-American people, homosexual people and the police department.”

Not only is Sugar pulling the offer, but they are reaching out to their network to discourage anyone from participating in a deal for this alleged tape.

According to TMZ.com “Heidi Montag, “Hills” star and Lauren ‘LC’ Conrad’s former BFF, says she had “nothing to do” with leaking the purported sex tape, which may or may not exist, supposedly starring LC and her troubled ex Jason Wahler.”

In the new issue of Us Weekly, Montag also says that the reason she never called LC after news broke of the sex tape, which may or may not exist, was because Heidi was in the hospital recovering from her nose and boob jobs! Priorities, people! When asked if the sex tape, which may or may not exist, does in fact exist, Montag said, “No comment.”

As far as her relationship with boyfriend/”Hills” resident slimeball Spencer Pratt is concerned, Heidi says, “It’s perfect. We have so much fun. I never knew I could love someone like this.” While Pratt chimes in saying, “I have never been so madly in love as I am with Heidi. She has the world’s greatest boyfriend.”

In a recent LA Time’s article about MTV’s new direction about being youthful and hip again, they asked about Laguna Beach’s next season situation.

The channel is so committed to the new strategy that even the future of the once-groundbreaking franchise “Laguna Beach” is in question. Gary Auerbach, executive producer of the teen docu-soap, said it was difficult to tell whether the show, MTV’s biggest launch since “Newlyweds,” would return. Whatever happens, the series will live online as the game Virtual Laguna Beach on vMTV.com, the network’s home for virtual gaming.

The same article talks about new shows coming to the channel, and one’s that flop this past year, including Maui Fever.

It also states that last week’s finale of The Hills did a great job of showcasing MTV’s new feel.

The after-show following last month’s finale of “The Hills” was a mishmash of media, combining a live studio audience, online instant messaging and a Q&A between the series’ cast and home viewers conducted via webcam.

TMZ.com reports that Lauren Conrad was caught in the middle of a hardcore flirting session with “American Idol’s” Chris Richardson outside of  LA’s Les Deux nightclub this past weekend.

With a so-called “Sex Tape” floating around, L.C. has time to make “nice” with a “Justin Timberlake” wanna-be.

Could there be true love in the air?