Reality TV’s favorite married couple Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are supposed to be getting a divorce and are supposedly “separated.” However……the two were briefly detained at an airport TOGETHER in Costa Rica over the weekend (Sat. Sep 11) for illegal possession of firearms after security officers found two unloaded handguns in the couple’s luggage.

Airport police chief Otto Arrietta says the former stars of MTV’s “The Hills” hadn’t declared the weapons and didn’t have necessary legal permits to have them in Costa Rica. The estranged couple, who had been in Costa Rica since August 14th, were detained for questioning but were released and allowed to leave the country the same day.

But forget about the guns …. why the hell was a supposedly “separated” couple spending time together outside of the country for NEARLY A MONTH??? Spencer! Heidi! You got some ’splaining to do!!! (in Ricky Ricardo voice)

Spencer Pratt always has some strange new ploy for attention up his sleeve – but not his split from wife Heidi Montag.

That, he says, despite the fact that nobody has seen divorce papers and family and Hills castmates are skeptical, is the real deal.

"We love each other but I'm a famewhore and I'll never grow out of it," Pratt tells PEOPLE. "[Heidi] knows that and doesn't want that."

"I want every kind of press," he says. "She believes in bad press. There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully. She just wants to hike and hang out and be calmer."

As for their infamous "Speidi," moniker, Pratt says his estranged wife "doesn’t want to be Speidi anymore. She wants to be Heidi Montag: the sex symbol."

"She thought I'd burn out of this, but no, I'm still the same Spencer who went on The Hills to be famous," he says. "I still need to do stunts and take cues from Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise."

Pratt, who mentions he and his ex are "friendly," says Speidi trouble is nothing new. "It's been a constant battle since we got married," he says. "She would be like, 'Are you really Tweeting that? Are you really doing that?'"

So what's next for the limelight-loving reality personality?

When fighting cyber crime fell through, Pratt says he decided to grow a beard and turn to art. "I'm switching it up," he says. "I've already gone for the blonde, spiky-haired look. Now I'm going for the Hollywood producer look."

Continues Pratt: "I'm an artist now. I have an easel and everything. I'm going for an art show and a gallery."