Katie Maloney is just not pumped in regards to the Vanderpump Guidelines reboot.
Maloney, who appeared on all 11 seasons of the unique sequence, joined her former costar and ex-husband Tom Schwartz on the Tuesday, April 22 episode of his Detox Retox podcast. Maloney, who is not going to be taking part within the Bravo reboot, had some alternative phrases.
“This isn’t in opposition to any of [the new cast],” Maloney, 38, mentioned. “I don’t know them, but it surely simply feels low-cost to me. It feels low-cost and I don’t like low-cost.”
She elaborated by saying that manufacturing can’t “replicate a recipe.” As an alternative of launching a separate program, the present will proceed with new forged members. “With the identical identify [but] totally different present. There’s not even a season 1. To me, it simply feels prefer it’s going to attempt to have the identical taste and the identical the whole lot,” Maloney mentioned.
Previous to Bravo’s choice to overtake the unique forged, Maloney says she already made the choice to go away. She revealed her plans in a December 2024 episode of her podcast Disrespectfully.
“I had decided months in the past after this previous season. I wanted to maneuver on with my life. I had talked to our producers about it and I instructed them my choice on that. I felt personally prepared to maneuver on from the present. I felt like my life and the place I used to be at was shifting in a special route. Mentally, emotionally, bodily, spiritually, I used to be ready to maneuver on from the present,” Maloney mentioned on the time.
Her choice got here after 2023’s “Scandoval,” a dishonest scandal that concerned Tom Sandoval and Rachel Leviss. On the time, Sandoval, 42, was in a long-term relationship with fellow Vanderpump forged member and live-in girlfriend Ariana Madix.
The fallout from “Scandoval” was documented in season 11, regardless of Madix having a no-contact rule with Sandoval. The final episode of Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 reunion aired in Could 2024.
Lisa Vanderpump first gained reputation for her position on The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills. In 2013, Vanderpump Guidelines premiered as a by-product of RHOBH, and launched a forged composed of staffers at Vanderpump’s West Hollywood restaurant SUR.
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Vanderpump has remained tight-lipped in regards to the new forged, apart from the present going again to its roots at SUR. “The final 12 years of filming have been a rare run stuffed with laughter, tears and the whole lot in between,” she mentioned in Bravo’s press November 2024 launch. “I can’t thank sufficient those that have shared their lives. How I like you all.”
Season 12 of Vanderpump Guidelines, that includes new forged members from SUR, will premiere in 2025, with a precise date to be introduced.
