GETTING HIGH Whit, LC (Photo: Getty Images)

With The Hills bonus episodes premiering earlier this week, Lauren Conrad isn't just climbing aboard some hairy French guy's Vespa, she's also climbing higher and higher in online popularity, leaving ex-friend Heidi Montag far behind. Meanwhile, the sideshow race sees Whitney Port on the rise, as the Fame-O-Meter reflects Port's recent good press and the love Radar commenters have been showing her. Slate's Troy Patterson proclaimed Whit his "favorite among the girls" with the "hints of Modigliani around her doe eyes" while The New York Times said that until now she was "perhaps the best approximation of a Shakespearean mute that reality TV has ever produced." But mute no longer, it looks like Whitney isn't just escaping from Teen Vogue but also LC's shadow. Let the Fame-O-Meter explain ...

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