Lala Kent revealed she received an invite to return for an abbreviated final season of “Vanderpump Rules”—and she got the call not long before the reboot of the Bravo reality show was announced last year.
Speaking on her “Untraditionally Lala” podcast on Dec.10, Kent, 35, told new cast member Natalie Maguire that producers were still feeling out the OGs about a possible final season while simultaneously interviewing the potential newcomers.
“I think we got the call maybe a week before the official announcement was coming out, and it was no surprise to me that they were [rebooting the show],” she said.
Lala Kent Said There was Talk of Filming With the Original ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Cast
BravoThe 11th season of “Vanderpump Rules” played out like a series finale, with Kent very much at the center of it. The season 11 finale episode was filmed at Kyle Chan’s Gold Bar Whiskey collab event in San Francisco in September 2023, and it culminated with Kent calling out co-star Ariana Madix for not pulling her weight.
During a later appearance on the “Scheananigans With Scheana Shay” podcast, Kent claimed she was even instructed by executive producer Jeremiah Smith to “demolish the fourth wall” duing the cast blowout. The Season 11 VPR finale episode ended with a nostalgic montage of throwback cast photos, and it seemed like a goodbye.
But on her podcast, Kent revealed producers weren’t totally ready to let go of the cast.
“There was a conversation of, ‘We’re thinking about bringing you all back for a final season, season 12. None of you guys have to film together if you don’t want to, we’ll just show you guys in your own, you know, where you’re at in life, and it’ll be maybe six to eight episodes,’” Kent claimed producers told her.
“I think that they were feeling it out,” she continued. “I know that I said, ‘I don’t see a point in doing that,’ and I’m sure the rest of the cast when we were reached out to, was like, ‘That sounds great, I don’t have an interest.’”
Bravo Announced the VPR Reboot in Late 2024
On November 26, 2024, Bravo announced that “Vanderpump Rules” would be rebooted for Season 12 with an all-new, young cast of employees from Lisa Vanderpump’s SUR Lounge in West Hollywood. A press release teased that the new cast would be a group of “close-knit SUR-vers who are as complicatedly involved with one another as their iconic predecessors.”
On “Scheananigans,” Kent said that while she was “really excited to see this group of new young [people],” she added that they would have “really big shoes to fill.”
