Rumors have swirled about Bravo urgent pause on season 12 of Vanderpump Guidelines — and the forged is already weighing in.
A number of retailers reported in April 2024 that the community wasn’t in a rush to start manufacturing after documenting the aftermath of Tom Sandoval and Rachel “Raquel” Leviss‘ dishonest scandal. Information broke of Sandoval’s infidelity — and his subsequent break up from Ariana Madix — in March 2023, and cameras had been shortly picked up once more to movie a brand new finale for season 10.
Ariana, Rachel, Sandoval and their costars later hashed out the drama in a dramatic reunion particular, which delivered record-breaking scores for Bravo and Peacock. Manufacturing on season 11 started in June 2023, three months after Ariana discovered concerning the affair.
When the brand new episodes aired in early 2024, some viewers questioned whether or not the speedy turnaround triggered conversations caught on digicam to really feel stale and fewer high-stakes. (Even among the forged agreed.)
The forged of Vanderpump Guidelines are not any strangers to controversy. The workers of Lisa Vanderpump’s West Hollywood restaurant SUR made their debut on Bravo in 2013 as a part of the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills spinoff. The season 1 forged included Vanderpump, Stassi Schroeder, Jax Taylor, Katie Maloney, Tom Sandoval, Kristen Doute and Scheana Shay. […]
It’s potential manufacturing is being delayed to accommodate Ariana’s busy schedule. Following her time on Dancing With the Stars and taking part in Roxie Hart on Broadway’s Chicago, she was tapped to host Love Island USA. The relationship collection is about to movie in summer season 2024, which is often when VPR manufacturing kicks into gear.
Hold scrolling to see what the Vanderpump Guidelines forged has stated about doubtlessly taking a break from filming:
Lala Kent
Lala Kent. Nicole Weingart/Bravo
Throughout a Could 2024 Amazon Reside, Lala stated she wouldn’t thoughts hitting pause — or coming again immediately to movie.
“Is that this confirmed? I’m gonna say this. If we movie this summer season, I’m going to have a peaceable being pregnant, as a result of I cannot permit it to be some other manner,” famous Lala, who’s anticipating her second child through IUI. “That is my actual life.”
Lala made it clear that her precedence was motherhood, including, “That is gonna be my child ceaselessly, and I will probably be damned if anyone tries to make it [difficult] — which, I’m accountable for my very own feelings. So if we do movie, I’ll preserve zen to guard the peace of my child within the womb. And if we don’t movie this summer season, I will probably be on cloud 59.”
Whereas some issues by no means change, the forged of Vanderpump Guidelines is used to a shake-up … and a touch-up. Vanderpump Guidelines was launched to Bravo viewers throughout a particular episode of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills in January 2013. Season 1 starred Lisa Vanderpump, who was a Beverly Hills Housewife on the time, Stassi […]
Tom Sandoval
Tom Sandoval. Nicole Weingart/Bravo
“I believe one of many issues is that, popping out of this scandal, it was like we picked up filming proper when the whole lot first occurred,” Sandoval defined throughout an look on Fox’s New Day Cleveland in Could 2024, days after the reported pause made headlines. “After which we type of had a really quick break after which proper into filming this season that you just’re watching now, season 11.”
The TV character recalled the burnout that got here with documenting his scandal, including, “What would find yourself taking place, manufacturing would simply be down, the final episode of the season, the reunion, then our secrets and techniques revealed or no matter it’s, would air after which it’s possibly a pair weeks and we’d be again into filming once more.”
Sandoval appeared on board with the pause. “They simply wanna give it a while to breathe, take a break, possibly, I’m actually enthusiastic about it,” he defined. “As a result of it’s like yearly we movie my birthday. We movie Scheana [Shay]’s birthday at occasions or no matter. To type of have a special time of the 12 months, it’d deliver a contemporary kind of feeling to our present.”
Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen. Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Photographs
The Bravo exec — who doesn’t make selections about VPR‘s future — additionally sounded off on presumably halting manufacturing to enhance the franchise.
“We used to do that on a regular basis with the Housewives,” he stated on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Reside in Could 2024. “We’d say, ‘ what? Let’s put cameras down for, you recognize, 4 or 5 months and are available again to them.’ And they’ll have lived, you recognize, life.”
Andy famous that he and Ariana mentioned how followers can typically “neglect” the timeline of their present when watching the episodes.
“Folks neglect that we picked up cameras a number of, three months after [Ariana] came upon about [Sandoval’s] affair, in order that’s why she’s nonetheless within the violently indignant stage and you’ll perceive that,” he continued, including that whereas “it’s nice” to point out her uncooked response, the drama has now run its course. “Typically you do need folks to dwell their lives and see how issues develop … so, I believe it’s an excellent concept.”
