Altho the season finale of MTV’s The City doesn’t air until later on tonight, In Touch Weekly magazine is providing a bit of a spoiler for the show that might not even air on tonight’s episode. Because reality and “reality TV” have a funny way of intersecting, this news might prove spoilerish for upcoming eps of the show but because life waits for no TV show, I suppose it’s worth reporting now … Whitney Port and her NYC paramour Jay Lyon are dunzo!

“The City’s” Whitney Port and her reality show boyfriend, Jay Lyon, have called it quits, a friend of Whitney’s reveals to In Touch. “They broke up on Monday,” said the friend. “Whitney did it over the phone, she was basically just not happy for a while and decided she really wanted to end it. Jay said they should talk things over, but it seems her mind is made up.” The couple agreed to take a break while Jay toured with his band Tamarama, as shown in this week’s episode, but later reconciled. “The episode that aired on Monday was filmed over a month ago. They got back together after that, but now Whitney has dumped him for good,” says the friend. The couple met and began dating last summer when Whitney began filming MTV’s “The City” and moved to Manhattan. They had been dating ever since. “There was no cheating or anything like that, she’s just finally fed up,” the friend says. “She asked her close friends for advice and thinks it’s best her and Jay both go their separate ways. He’s not going to change and she’s just sick of it.”

To be honest, I have a very hard time believing any showmance that is heavily featured on reality TV is actually real (consider Lauren LC Conrad was “dating” Doug Reinhardt on The Hills but was really dating actor Kyle Howard off screen) so this news of Whitney and Jay’s dunzoness doesn’t really smack of any sort of, well, reality. We know that The City was picked up for a second season and perhaps producers thought it would behoove the series to have Whitney a single lady in the city so that they can exploit Sex and the City-like scenarios in upcoming new eps of the show. To be honest, I was never a Jay fan and I’m glad to see him go. Real or not, I’m looking forward to seeing Whitney unattached and let loose on the town. Methinks her singlehood will make for much more entertaining TV to come.

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Yesterday we saw a few photos of Whitney Port and her cohorts from The City basking in the Florida sun on the beaches of Miami Beach over the weekend (where MTV was filming scenes for an upcoming episode). It turns out that there were a few NSFW photos of Whitney in the water with her breasts accidentally exposed. Today, Whitney is addressing her embarrassing wardrobe malfunction in a new post on her official blog:

Okay so a couple photos were captured while I was in Miami that weren’t the most discreet and I’m sorry if they offended anyone but I got too caught up in the sunshine and the weather that I guess I wasn’t as cautious as I should have been. Everyone knows the rough and tumble of the ocean mixed with a bathing suit — not the most attractive thing ever! So sorry for the view…very embarrassing to say the least! I guess all I can do now is laugh about it and move on!

OMG, I am SOOOOO glad she cleared that all up for us! Meh. It happens to most ladies at the beach and at least now Whitney can take pride (?) in the fact that she’s crossed over into Hollywood “It” Girldom now that she’s got her nip slip requirement out of the way. How much do you want to bet that Olivia Palmero, Whitney’s frenemy on The City, not only forwarded those photos to all of her friends, the “socials”, but also had enlargement photos printed out of Whitney’s bare boobs. Oh yeah, you know she did :)

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Whitney Port and her on-screen (off-screen?) Aussie love interest Jay Lyon made their way down to Miami Beach, FL this weekend for a little holiday … and they managed to bring the MTV cameras along with them, imagine that! Here are a few pics of Whitney and Jay gettin’ up close and personal on the beach this weekend:

The captions on these photos list the girl that Whitney is talking to as Olivia Palmero but after zooming in for a closer look, I do not believe that this girl is Olivia. We may have to wait until this particular episode airs to find out who Whitney and Jay are hanging out with. Oh and at first, I was gonna comment on how awesome Whitney’s DVF bag looked on the beach until I realized that it’s actually an H&M bag — you gotta love that Whitney is both fashionable AND frugal. Nice to see that Whitney and Jay are still together at least for this upcoming holiday together … I wonder what drama will unfold in this upcoming ep of The City.

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MTV has updated the official website for their new series The City and has released a bunch of new promo pics of the new cast as well as bios on each of the cavalcade of characters. Here is a new promo photo of star Whitney Port and her core group of new NYC BFFs … kinda like her Audrina Patridge and Heidi Montag but are named Erin Lucas (right) and Olivia Palermo (left):

Geeze … Erin and Olivia even kinda look like Audrina and Heidi. As you may recall, when The Hills started out, Lauren LC Conrad was supertight with Heidi and Audrina … and then, well, the drama happened. I suspect that these new ladies will prove the same sort of foils for Whitney in her quest to become a city girl. It’s a proven formula that works … so, why not. After the jump, check out a bunch of individual promo pics of the whole cast of The City, including the dudes who will be helping these ladies will all their dramatic needs …

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Whitney Port, who is currently working on her new MTV reality series The City, was snapped in NYC this week lookin’ about as fashionable as she could as she fought her way thru the treacherous gale winds that hammered the city … behold:

I gotta say, Miss Whitney gets snaps for managing to keep it together stylistically despite having to battle the elements. As a SoCal girl, Whitney prolly isn’t that used to having to contend with the weather very much … but now that she’s relocated to the Big Apple for fashion and fame, she’s gonna have to learn how to deal. She looks great tho, I’m excited to follow her adventures to come in The City — for neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays this reality TV star from the swift completion of her appointed rounds of drama!

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MTV has released a press release that officially confirms that the new reality TV series The City, which is a spin-off of their hugely successful series The Hills, has been picked up and will begin airing on the network in the early part of the new year. As y’all know, Whitney Port will be the central figure on The City (much like Lauren LC Conrad is the central figure on The Hills) and has been filming scenes around NYC of a romantic and friendly nature with her new cast of reality cohorts. At last we have final confirmation that those scenes will finally make it to air:

From the MTV press release:

WHITNEY TRIES NEW YORK CITY ON FOR SIZE AS MTV GREENLIGHTS “THE CITY”

“The City” is created by Adam DiVello. Adam DiVello, Sean Travis and Liz Gateley will serve as executive producers. Colin Nash is co-executive producer. Catherine K. Whyte is MTV’s executive-in-charge of production. Spike Van Briesen and Sophia Rossi serve as supervising producers for the series.

I mean, c’mon, we totally knew that MTV was gonna air this series so this news isn’t really news at all. But the officialness of the announcement has to sting just a little for Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. It was commonly believed that they would be getting their own spin-off TV series once The Hills ran its course … and, indeed, they might still. It just seems very telling that MTV is investing so much on this Whitney-centered TV series — and there is no sign that Speidi are going to be given the same treatment. My guess is that Speidi will eventually get their own TV series but I wouldn’t be surprised if their show was on another network. They seem like the type of folks that would do well at E! Maybe The Hills will get one more season, mebbe not but at least Whitney can breathe easy … she now knows that she’ll be on TV next year. It remains to be seen if any of the other folks on The Hills will be as lucky.

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Whitney Port and a very enthusiastic friend (and possible co-star) were snapped filming very seemingly dramatic scenes for her new MTV reality TV show The City near the Central Park Reservoir yesterday afternoon. It’s impossible to tell what exactly is going on in these photos but it’s clear that in that last pic the girls are very excited about something:

What ever could have made both Whitney and her friend react so giddily in that last pic? Mebbe she learned that her clothing line is selling better than LC’s? Mebbe that hunky guy she was mackin’ on a few weeks ago decided to call her back? Mebbe Speidi died? Any other guesses?

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