“Vanderpump Rules” is in Ariana Madix’s rearview mirror — however one query lingers … will she ever return to actuality TV?
Madix, 39, spoke to The Put up at TheWrap’s Energy Girls Summit 2024 in Beverly Hills on Tuesday. She mentioned the varieties of tasks she’d be open to sooner or later — and people she wouldn’t contemplate — following the announcement that she and the remainder of the forged of “Vanderpump Rules” is not going to be returning for the present’s subsequent season.
Bravo, the community behind the fact TV juggernaut, introduced that Season 12 of “VPR” will star Lisa Vanderpump and a brand new group of “close-knit SUR-vers who are as complicatedly involved with one another as their iconic predecessors.”
For Madix, the information was not a shock.
“I had been in conversations for quite some time, you know, behind the scenes about what that would potentially be,” the “Chicago” star informed The Put up.
“I’m just, I’m happy that it’s out there. So, yeah, I feel good.”
When requested whether or not she’d ever return to actuality TV or be on a relationship present like “The Bachelorette,” Madix chuckled, replying, “Am I hosting?”
When pressed on if she’d ever conform to be the Bachelorette and never simply MC the present, the “Love Island USA” host mentioned, “Oh, no, absolutely not.”
“I’ll host it,” she defined.
Madix made it clear she doesn’t wish to be a part of any actuality TV storyline.
“It’s not about me,” she shared.
Madix additionally provided recommendation to the reboot forged of “Vanderpump Rules.”
“I would say this sounds cliché, but be yourself. I don’t think it would work to try to be anybody else,” she informed The Put up. “And not only that, if you’re comparing yourself to past cast, and I know people say big shoes to fill, and yes, that’s true; but at the same time, if you’re trying to fill those shoes by being someone else, it’s never gonna work.”
“So, just be yourself,” the star added.
Bravo introduced the choice to carry on a wholly new forged for Season 12 of “Vanderpump Rules” in a press release launched on Nov. 26.
The present debuted in 2013 and adopted former “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Lisa Vanderpump and her then-staff at her West Hollywood, Calif. restaurant SUR. The unique forged included Scheana Shay, Katie Maloney, Tom Sandoval, Kristen Doute, Jax Taylor and Stassi Schroeder.
In March 2023, “Vanderpump Rules” grew to become a subject of nationwide dialog when information broke that Sandoval, 42, and Madix broke up after 9 years as a result of he cheated with Rachel Leviss, the ex-fiancée of forged member James Kennedy, who got here aboard the sequence in Season 3.
Dubbed “Scandoval,” the scandal led to a forged divide as Madix refused to movie with Sandoval, which, in flip, upset different forged members.
Madix had a dramatic exit from the “VPR” Season 11 finale again in Could when Sandoval tried to talk to her whereas the cameras had been rolling.
Bravo has not but introduced the brand new forged. Manufacturing gained’t begin till subsequent 12 months.
