Rumors have swirled about Bravo pressing pause on period 12 of Vanderpump Principles — and the solid is already weighing in.
Numerous retailers reported in April 2024 that the community wasn’t in a hurry to commence production following documenting the aftermath of Tom Sandoval and Rachel “Raquel” Leviss‘ cheating scandal. News broke of Sandoval’s infidelity — and his subsequent split from Ariana Madix — in March 2023, and cameras had been immediately picked up yet again to movie a new finale for time 10.
Ariana, Rachel, Sandoval and their costars later hashed out the drama in a dramatic reunion particular, which sent history-breaking ratings for Bravo and Peacock. Generation on year 11 commenced in June 2023, 3 months after Ariana uncovered about the affair.
When the new episodes aired in early 2024, some viewers questioned irrespective of whether the speedy turnaround triggered discussions caught on camera to sense stale and a lot less higher-stakes. (Even some of the solid agreed.)
It’s probable manufacturing is remaining delayed to accommodate Ariana’s fast paced schedule. Subsequent her time on Dancing With the Stars and participating in Roxie Hart on Broadway’s Chicago, she was tapped to host Love Island Usa. The courting collection is set to movie in summer season 2024, which is ordinarily when VPR generation kicks into equipment.
Preserve scrolling to see what the Vanderpump Procedures solid has mentioned about possibly getting a crack from filming:
Lala Kent
Lala Kent. Nicole Weingart/Bravo
In the course of a May perhaps 2024 Amazon Reside, Lala stated she wouldn’t mind hitting pause — or coming again suitable away to film.
“Is this verified? I’m gonna say this. If we film this summer time, I’m going to have a peaceful pregnancy, because I will not allow for it to be any other way,” famous Lala, who is anticipating her 2nd child through IUI. “This is my true existence.”
Lala made it very clear that her precedence was motherhood, adding, “This is gonna be my newborn eternally, and I will be damned if any one tries to make it [difficult] — which, I’m in cost of my very own feelings. So if we do film, I will hold zen to secure the peace of my baby in the womb. And if we really do not film this summer months, I will be on cloud 59.”
Tom Sandoval
Tom Sandoval. Nicole Weingart/Bravo
“I assume a single of the issues is that, coming out of this scandal, it was like we picked up filming suitable when all the things initially occurred,” Sandoval discussed through an appearance on Fox’s New Working day Cleveland in May possibly 2024, days just after the claimed pause made headlines. “And then we variety of had a extremely brief crack and then suitable into filming this year that you are observing now, year 11.”
The Tv set temperament recalled the burnout that came with documenting his scandal, including, “What would stop up taking place, production would just be down, the very last episode of the time, the reunion, then our strategies discovered or whatsoever it is, would air and then it is possibly a pair weeks and we would be again into filming yet again.”
Sandoval seemed on board with the pause. “They just wanna give it some time to breathe, just take a break, possibly, I’m actually fired up about it,” he described. “Because it is like each calendar year we film my birthday. We movie Scheana [Shay]’s birthday at occasions or whatever. To variety of have a different time of the calendar year, it might carry a refreshing kind of sensation to our show.”
Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen. Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Visuals
The Bravo exec — who does not make selections about VPR‘s foreseeable future — also sounded off on quite possibly halting creation to boost the franchise.
“We employed to do this all the time with the Housewives,” he reported on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live in May well 2024. “We would say, ‘You know what? Let us place cameras down for, you know, four or 5 months and occur back to them.’ And they will have lived, you know, daily life.”
Andy famous that he and Ariana talked about how enthusiasts can usually “forget” the timeline of their show when watching the episodes.
“People forget that we picked up cameras a handful of, 3 months just after [Ariana] identified out about [Sandoval’s] affair, so that is why she’s nevertheless in the violently angry stage and you can realize that,” he continued, introducing that when “it’s great” to display her uncooked reaction, the drama has now run its training course. “Sometimes you do want persons to dwell their life and see how points develop … so, I think it’s a very superior plan.”
