It’s official: Vanderpump Guidelines is getting a refresh.
Bravo introduced on Tuesday that its hit actuality sequence will probably be returning for season 12 — however with an all-new forged. The information comes because the sequence, which was born as a by-product of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills, has been on hiatus following the aftermath of “Scandoval,” the scandal that catapulted the unique forged into the zeitgeist and performed out during the last two seasons to each eye-popping scores and combined viewers outcomes.
Season 12 will function Lisa Vanderpump — Vanderpump Guidelines government producer and the boss of SUR, the Los Angeles restaurant round which the present orbits — with a brand new group of “close-knit SUR-vers who’re as complicatedly concerned with each other as their iconic predecessors,” in response to the announcement. “Below Lisa Vanderpump’s watchful eye, the West Hollywood mainstay SUR — and now TomTom — welcomes the subsequent batch of servers, hosts and bartenders rife with loads of drama, situationships and frenemies.”
The brand new season is about to start manufacturing subsequent 12 months. The premiere date and names of the brand new forged will probably be introduced at a later date.
Authentic castmembers Lala Kent, Scheana Shay, Brock Davies and Tom Schwartz will all make appearances on the subsequent season of Vanderpump Guidelines spinoff The Valley, The Hollywood Reporter has realized. A supply near the present leaves the door open for your entire forged — which additionally consists of Ariana Madix, Tom Sandoval, James Kennedy and Katie Maloney — inside The Valley, Vanderpump Guidelines and the bigger Bravoverse.
There may even be a retrospective particular highlighting the previous 11 seasons that may “rejoice the previous decade of heartbreaks, friendship rifts and scandals.”
“What a thrill it’s to construct on the legacy of this sequence by doing it yet again,” mentioned Alex Baskin, government producer of Vanderpump Guidelines through 32 Flavors. “With profound appreciation for the unique group and their iconic run, we are able to’t look forward to the viewers to see a dynamic new group of affiliates and associates make their method by way of life collectively.”
Vanderpump herself added, “The final 12 years of filming have been a unprecedented run stuffed with laughter, tears and every part in between. I can’t thank sufficient those that have shared their lives. How I really like you all. Within the restaurant enterprise, one shift at all times provides method to one other. Cheers to the subsequent era of Vanderpump Guidelines.”
Vanderpump Guidelines has grow to be certainly one of Bravo’s largest reveals — the season 11 premiere had 3.2 million viewers over three days, and the season 10 reunion had 4.6 million after three days.
The eleventh season of Vanderpump Guidelines, nevertheless, proved to be a divisive one following the aftermath of Scandoval; on the finish of season 9, Sandoval’s secret affair with former castmember Rachel Leviss was uncovered and the betrayal that turned generally known as “Scandoval” catapulted Sandoval’s associate, Madix, into changing into a breakout star, led to Leviss’ exit from the sequence and turned Sandoval right into a group-exiled villain. The tenth season explored the aftermath for the ensemble however, after a fractured finale and divided reunion, some followers have been asking the community for a forged shake-up.
“It was the toughest season that we’ve needed to make,” Baskin informed THR after that Might 2024 reunion, which performed the tip of the finale in actual time for the group, sparking a fair deeper fissure. “The group was actually divided. We went again into manufacturing not too lengthy after the reunion, so that you noticed the place the group actually was. I feel it’s a brilliant highly effective finish of the reunion and there are loads of unanswered questions which might be enjoying out in actual time.”
The present had been placed on pause shortly earlier than the reunion and went on hiatus after, with Baskin on the time weighing in on the uncertainty. “Everybody wants time to reset,” he mentioned. “We can not pressure group concord, and even group interplay.” Nonetheless he remained hopeful that, no matter occurs, the present would proceed. “Individuals have written the present’s ultimate chapter many instances, and the present has continued. … All issues are doable. There’s nonetheless a powerful core there. So I may completely see some model of the majority of the forged returning after which some notable additions. I feel there’s loads of life. What kind that takes, I don’t precisely know.”
Information of the forged reboot follows Sandoval and Schwartz asserting the closure of their Los Angeles bar, Schwartz & Sandy’s, after two years of operation, citing negativity post-Scandoval, in addition to slimmer margins within the aftermath of COVID. Their respective exes, Maloney and Madix, in the meantime, are working their L.A. sandwich store One thing About Her, whereas Madix has pursued different roles exterior of the Bravoverse, together with in Broadway’s Chicago and internet hosting one other actuality hit, Love Island USA.
Former Pump castmember Stassi Schroeder can be becoming a member of Vanderpump on the subsequent season of her Hulu sequence, Vanderpump Villa.
Vanderpump Guidelines is produced by 32 Flavors and Evolution Media. Baskin, Barry Poznick, Jenn Levy, Joe Kingsley, Vanderpump and Ken Todd government produce.