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Stephanie Pratt Recalls Fooling Club Bouncers On ‘When I Was 17’

In this week’s episode, which airs Saturday at 11 a.m., the ‘Hills’ starlet recalls posing as a married woman to get past ID checks. By Mawuse Ziegbe Stephanie Pratt appears on “When I was 17” Photo: MTV News Many OMG moments on MTV’s “The Hills” went down in Los Angeles’ most exclusive nightclubs. Way before castmember Stephanie Pratt waded into the show’s drama, she learned how to navigate the city’s nightlife. On the latest episode of “When I Was 17,” which airs Saturday at 11 a.m., Pratt remembers that she didn’t let a little thing like her age get in the way of clubbing. “When I was 17, all of my friends were 21 and going out to clubs on school nights, and I obviously wanted to go with them. So, I’d get to clubs, and I had such a baby face at 17, and [bouncers would] be like, ‘There’s no way you’re 27,’ ” Pratt said. The reality star, who was 17 in 2003, says that with a little sophisticated banter she was able to wriggle past the velvet rope. “I had ‘borrowed’ my mom’s cocktail ring and I used to wear it on my wedding finger and say to the doorman, ‘You are just such an angel, I’m actually married!’ ” Pratt explained. “And they’d be like, ‘Oh, well. In that case, come right in.’ ” Pratt’s buddy Mike said the sneaky tactic reflects the starlet’s deeply held desire to make the scene. “Stephanie is gonna get what she wants. So if she wants to get in that club, she’s gonna do whatever it takes,” Mike said. Once Pratt got past the velvet ropes, she would have another issue to deal with: sleazy guys. “The worst part is that I would get hit on at these clubs and I really thought I was just being really nice and I’d be like, ‘OK, it was so fun talking to you for two hours,’ ” the “Hills” star continued. “They’d be like, ‘You’re not gonna come home with me?’ and I’d be like, ‘Oh, like a sleepover?’ I was just so na

Slash Promises New Velvet Revolver Will Be ‘A Lot Heavier’

‘When we started working with Scott, we started to lighten things up,’ the guitarist says of former frontman Scott Weiland. By Kyle Anderson Slash Photo: MTV News Other than taking a short break to play some riffs for Rihanna , top-hatted guitarist Slash spent the better part of last year working on his solo album, which many fans took as further proof that Velvet Revolver was no more. The supergroup — made up of Slash, fellow Guns N’ Roses alums Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, Wasted Youth guitarist Dave Kushner and Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland — produced a pair of well-received albums. Then Weiland went back to STP, leaving Velvet Revolver without a frontman. Still, despite the group having been mostly quiet for the last two years, Slash says they fully intend to push forward — and the group even has some songs ready to go. “As soon as we got off the road from the last tour and parted ways with Scott, we got together and wrote half a dozen really great, sort of heavy metal pieces of music,” Slash told MTV News. “It’s a lot heavier than what Velvet Revolver has put out, so I’m dying to put out the quintessential Velvet Revolver record.” Slash said the new material better matches the group’s original intentions. “When Duff and Matt and I first got together, we wrote a ton of material that never saw the light of day, and that was all very heavy,” Slash explained. “It’s definitely our natural way of doing things. But when we started working with Scott, we started to lighten things up a lot, and we progressively got lighter. As much as I love the two records we did do, one of the things that was progressively more and more frustrating was the direction the band took.” Slash’s self-titled solo effort, released in April, features an eclectic mix of guest appearances, from Fergie to Iggy Pop to Kid Rock to former Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy , who’s currently fronting the guitarist’s touring band. And according to Slash, he wasn’t the only Velvet Revolver bandmember with more than one iron in the fire. “I’ve been doing this record, and there’s a tour and Duff’s been playing with Jane’s Addiction, so everybody has been pretty busy,” Slash said. “But at some point early next year, we’re going to reconvene and take a good serious look at everything that we’ve got.” In the meantime, Velvet Revolver remain a band without a singer — but not for lack of trying. “This next record will be us doing what we want to do without making any concessions to anybody,” Slash declared. “Which is why it’s taking so long to find a singer, because we want to find the guy who can front that band and not something we have to conform to.” Who should be the new Velvet Revolver singer? Share your thoughts in the comments! Related Artists Velvet Revolver Slash

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Heart’s Nancy and Ann Wilson to Release ‘Red Velvet Car’ Album in August

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — The wait is over for Heart fans. The first ladies of arena rock, Nancy Wilson and Ann Wilson, will drop their new album, Red Velvet Car , on Aug. 31, label Legacy Recordings announced Wednesday. read more

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Lindsay Lohan Gets Stuck Behind Velvet Rope

Poor Lindsay Lohan. The actress attempted to hit new Hollywood hot spot Trousdale last night but was held up at the velvet rope. And not just for a minute…security had the…

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Selena Gomez: Team Shia and Team Jacob

Selena Gomez insists it’s not easy for her to choose between Team Jacob and Team Edward. “That’s hard,” she said last night at the Onitsuka Tiger party for her…

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No More Beer-Toting Visitors for Audrina Patridge

Audrina Patridge’s alleged stalker will have to stay on his side of The Hills for good. The reality starlet and her brother, makeup artist Mark Patridge, appeared in court this…

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Kristin Cavallari Explains "Vanilla" Sex With Brody

Listen up, boys. If you want to get close to Kristin Cavallari, you better not be boring in bed. Remember how The Hills’ new queen bee said in the new trailer that sex with..

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So You Think You Can Flash Your Crotch on Family Television? Um, You’re Right

We can hear it coming…no, not Mary Murphy’s hot tamale train. The FCC fallout! (Seriously, if they’re still arguing over a nipple shield, we can only imagine how drawn out this…

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Report: Dennis Hopper Rushed to Hospital

Dennis Hopper’s reportedly taken an uneasy ride to an emergency room.

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