Lala Kent, Katie Maloney, Ariana Madix on ‘Vanderpump Guidelines.’ Nicole Weingart/Bravo
Ariana Madix is setting the report straight — form of — after Vanderpump Rules followers thought she was slicing sure costars out of the photographs in her goodbye publish.
Madix, 39, took to social media on Tuesday, November 26, to reflect on her journey with the hit Bravo sequence after the community confirmed the present would be coming back for season 12 — however with a wholly new solid.
“Vanderpump Guidelines, you’ll perpetually be that woman 💖 I used to be up til 4am on the lookout for all the fitting pics and the fitting phrases, however there’s no publish or caption that would ever encapsulate all the pieces. I’m perpetually grateful to have been part of such an unbelievable cultural phenomenon,” Madix wrote alongside all kinds of photographs from her 11 seasons on the present. “I’m feeling at peace with closing this chapter and im excited for all the pieces that’s to come back.”
A number of followers, nevertheless, couldn’t help but notice that sure costars had been lacking from Madix’s publish. Whereas Tom Sandoval‘s absence made sense after their bitter cut up over his 2023 dishonest scandal with Rachel Leviss, followers identified that Lala Kent was also nowhere to be found.
“I’m simply right here for all of the cropped photographs,” learn one remark whereas one other particular person added, “And thanking everybody however the solid 😳.” Madix was fast to level out that her thanks got here within the type of the photographs, writing, “That’s what the photographs are for pookie.”
In the meantime, one other fan mentioned they had been “Dwelling for this rigorously curated photograph choice 👏🏼🙌🏼.” Madix famous that sure exclusions didn’t seem like on goal, including, “I want i might do extra slides. I had much more issues. perhaps one other publish!”
Madix’s most up-to-date season on Vanderpump Guidelines was not without its obstacles. Filming picked up months after Madix came upon about Sandoval’s affair with Leviss, 29, and the aftermath performed out throughout season 11. Whereas Madix initially obtained assist from most of her costars, some loyalties wavered because the solid continued to film the show.
Kent, 34, notably referred to as Madix out a number of occasions for not filming with Sandoval — but nonetheless residing in the identical residence. (Madix has since moved out of her beforehand shared home with Sandoval and bought her own residence.)
“I’m going to be actual about Ariana. She coasts via each single f—king season. And we’re asking you to have one dialog with Tom Sandoval — the man you shoved down our throats for thus a few years,” Kent mentioned on an episode of the Vanderpump Guidelines After Present in Could. “That man, who you continue to reside with. We’re asking you to have one dialog and you’ll’t do this?”
In accordance with Kent, each Vanderpump Guidelines castmember has had “tough conversations” — besides Madix. Many Bravo viewers, nevertheless, didn’t agree with Kent and referred to as her out on social media for refusing to handle her statements after the reunion particular.
Ariana Madix Jared Siskin/Getty Pictures for DSW
Kent issued a press release apologizing to followers after calling viewers rabid on her “Give Them Lala” podcast earlier than clarifying she had no regrets about what took place on display.
“It was laborious this season. I used to be speaking about issues that we’ve all spoken about. After which when a digital camera comes up, everybody runs scared. I’ve Ariana, who I personally imagine actually forgot why she was catapulted into alternative,” Kent claimed on a June episode of the “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast about Madix’s numerous offers for the reason that scandal. “Once more, [I’m] so glad for you, however let’s not overlook the place we come from. None of us have something with out Vanderpump Guidelines. What we constructed exterior of it, we ought to be very happy with.”
There for her. Ariana Madix has a tight-knit internal circle that has all the time had her again through the years. The Vanderpump Guidelines star beforehand gushed about her family members, writing through Instagram in August 2022: “I by no means posted something for my birthday months in the past and now it’s wild to take a look at these photographs as a result of so […]
Madix, in the meantime, defended her determination to not movie with Sandoval whereas stating how she all the time allowed cameras into her life.
“Right here’s the factor that’s so silly. I gave them the most effective f—king ending to what that season might have had in that second by leaving. It was actual and it was thrilling to look at. Sorry, for those who actually are solely it from a perspective of like good actuality TV, I gave you good actuality TV,” she defined on Katie Maloney and Dayna Kathan‘s “Disrespectfully” podcast in Could. “[A conversation] would have been a boring cap to a boring ass season, to be sincere.”
Madix made it clear that she allowed cameras into her life — whether or not the footage was used or not.
“So far as actual life stuff, that’s all the time been actual and genuine for me. I can’t pretend that. What did I not present you? I confirmed you my storage unit of a f—king bed room,” she concluded. “If you happen to watch the season and also you don’t see how low I’m throughout the entire time, you want glasses. I confirmed all of that stuff. And if there’s stuff that they filmed after which determined to not air, that has nothing to do with me. However I gave all of it.”
Vanderpump Guidelines is presently streaming on Peacock.
