Katie Maloney is sharing her thoughts on the Vanderpump Rules reboot that is currently filming.
The Bravo reality series is getting revamped with a whole new cast, and although Maloney was ready to move on from the show, she still has some thoughts she wanted to share about the house she helped build.
“I was ready to walk away but it doesn’t mean [I] don’t care about our show and the legacy that we brought to it,” Maloney said on the Detox Retox podcast hosted by her ex-husband and former Vanderpump Rules co-star Tom Schwartz.
“I feel like this isn’t against any of them,” she added. “I don’t know them but it just feels cheap to me. It feels cheap and I don’t like cheap.”
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Maloney reiterated that her opinion is not mean to bash any of the new cast members and suggested why it wasn’t made into “a whole different show,” instead of continuing on as Vanderpump Rules.
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“To me it just feels like it’s going try to have the same flavor, the same everything…. When you try to replicate the recipe just based off of taste, you can’t do it,” she said.
Vanderpump Rules premiered on Bravo in 2013, following a group of servers working at Lisa Vanderpump’s restaurant in West Hollywood. Maloney was among the original cast members of the reality TV series, which documented the ups and downs of her tumultuous relationship with Schwartz, ultimately culminating in marriage and then divorce.
After 11 seasons of Vanderpump Rules, the friend group was fractured following the aftermath of “Scandoval,” which involved Tom Sandoval cheating on long-time girlfriend Ariana Madix with their co-star Raquel Leviss.
The group was unable to recover from the scandal, and Bravo ultimately opted to reboot the show entirely, starting with a fresh group of servers for Season 12. Lisa Vanderpump, whom the show is named after, would be the only cast member who would survive the reboot.
Some of the Vanderpump Rules alum have graduated to The Valley, a new reality series following a group of friends as they navigate their families and relationships. Scheana Shay, Tom Schwartz, and Lala Kent are confirmed to make appearances in the second season of the reality series.
Maloney’s sentiment about Vanderpump Rules ending is similar to that of The Valley’s Kristen Doute, who recently told Deadline that she “could not be happier not filming” for her former show.
“Vanderpump Rules, for me, was like the most toxic boyfriend, and if they hadn’t broken up with me, I probably would have never left,” she told us.
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