Kristen Doute, Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright are making their highly anticipated return to Bravo on the network’s upcoming Vanderpump Rules spinoff series.
12.07.2023 - 14:17 / usmagazine.com
Jax Taylor is giving his two cents on whether his former Vanderpump Rules costar Raquel Leviss should return for the show’s 11th season following her affair with Tom Sandoval.
“No, absolutely not. No,” Taylor, 44, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, July 11, while promoting his partnership with Xyon Health. “There’s nothing healthy about reality TV for anybody.”
Leviss’ future on the Bravo reality series remains up in the air after her affair with castmate Sandoval, 40, left the pair on bad terms with the Pump Rules cast at the end of season 10. In March, news broke that Sandoval cheated on his girlfriend of nine years, Ariana Madix, with Leviss, 28. Following backlash from fans and castmates, Leviss checked herself into a mental health treatment facility in April.
Last month, a source exclusively told Us that Leviss was planning to check out of the facility. Another source later confirmed to Us that Leviss was currently “in talks about returning for the next season of Vanderpump Rules,” though she had not yet decided “whether or not she wants to come back to the show.”
Taylor, meanwhile, knows that reality TV can be “a very toxic place,” having starred on Pump Rules for eight years before he and his wife, Brittany Cartwright, left the series in December 2020. “You need to have thick skin,’” he told Us on Tuesday. “In my opinion, I think [Raquel] dove into something that was a little bit bigger than her. I don’t think she’s mentally tough enough to be in something like this.”
Despite having only talked to Leviss “maybe two times in [his] life,” Taylor insisted that he wants “the best for her.” However, he doesn’t “feel bad” for anyone on the show when it comes to the drama that plays out on the small screen.
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Kristen Doute, Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright are making their highly anticipated return to Bravo on the network’s upcoming Vanderpump Rules spinoff series.
Ariana Madix is leaving her past in the past — despite having to work with him!A source tells ET that the star refuses to film with her ex, Tom Sandoval, whose affair with castmate Raquel Leviss (now Rachel) played out during the show's 10th season. «Tom and Ariana haven’t filmed one-on-one and she’s telling her friends she won’t,» the source says.
Scheana Shay is sharing some details about the upcoming 11th season of “Vanderpump Rules”, which is currently filming.
Bethenny Frankel has some advice for Raquel Leviss.
Ariana Madix and Lala Kent are spending another day filming the new season of Vanderpump Rules.
Puppygate” drama and on the heels of “Scandoval,” trouble magnet “Vanderpump Rules” star Raquel Leviss is caught up in another hairy situation — one we’ll call “Puppygate 2.” The crisis began brewing when Leviss and fiancé James Kennedy called it quits in 2021 — that’s when Leviss got full custody of the couple’s fur baby, an adorable golden doodle puppy named Graham Cracker.Fast forward to now, and Kennedy is heard declaring that Graham had come “back into [his] life,” as Page Six reported. But here’s the latest poop scoop — little Graham turns out to have had quite the ruff journey home to his papa.New intel alleges that Leviss, who recently spent some time at a mental health facility, dropped Graham off at a shelter due to “behavioral issues — mostly a biting problem.”Alleged horrible person Leviss, 28, was already in hot water with her “Vanderpump Rules” co-stars and fans, largely due to the months-long affair with not-so-single Tom Sandoval.
Raquel Leviss’ mother, Laura Leviss, addressed speculation about why she rehomed the Vanderpump Rules star’s beloved pooch, Graham.
Bethenny Frankel's advice to Rachel Leviss -- should Rachel choose to go back to the kind of environment that ultimately landed her in a mental health treatment facility — is don't agree to go back to until she's hammered out a new deal with Bravo.Speaking to ET's Kevin Frazier after questioning why reality TV stars haven't gone on strike, Frankel says Leviss is the one still getting dragged for her role in creating Scandoval, an affair with Tom Sandoval, whose nine-year relationship with Ariana Madix was torpedoed when news of the affair surfaced earlier this year. While the rest of the gang have all returned to production for the highly anticipated season 11, Leviss has bee noticeably absent. And Frankel, host of the podcast, encourages Leviss to keep it that way until both sides can come to an agreement.«She had an affair. She's not the first person in the world that's had an affair and, you know, bullying or beating someone down for a tragic error that, yes, everybody has, like, grabbed and ripped the meat off the carcass.
Rachel Leviss, formerly Raquel, hasn’t signed on for season 11 of Vanderpump Rules, but the rest of the cast is moving forward full steam ahead, with even exes Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix filming together.In early March, Sandoval and Madix announced the end of their relationship after being together since 2013 when she first joined the show.
Scheana Shay and Tom Schwartz have been taking heat from “Vanderpump Rules” fans for seeming to be uncharacteristically friendly toward Tom Sandoval in the wake of his cheating scandal.
Raquel Leviss is making some changes after her cheating scandal with Tom Sandoval played out on season 10 of. First off, she's not going by Raquel anymore. She will now go by her original name, Rachel.
Jax Taylor is looking back on his time on the popular Bravo show.
Vanderpump Rules is full steam ahead with one major star missing: Raquel Leviss.ET has learned the 28-year-old reality TV star hasn’t signed on for the new season and her team is still negotiating her contract with production. The news comes after it was revealed earlier this year that Tom Sandoval was cheating on his longtime girlfriend, Ariana Madix, with Leviss, which played out last season. «Raquel’s mental health is the most important thing to her and her family,» says the source.
Filming for season 11 of Vanderpump Rules kicked off in June, three months after Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss’ cheating scandal sent shockwaves through the cast and fans of the Bravo series.
Jax Taylor still has questions about what went through Tom Sandoval‘s mind when he had an affair with Raquel Leviss — and he thinks there may be more to the story.
McKinley Franklin editor You know that it’s their time: “Vanderpump Rules” has officially been nominated for its first Emmy award. After a shell-shocking 10th season that drew in record-breaking ratings for the series and Bravo at large, the Lisa Vanderpump-led series has been named one of the five nominees for unstructured reality. It’s competing against “Deadliest Catch,” “Life Below Zero,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked,” and “Welcome To Wrexham.” When news broke during the airing of the show’s 10th season that castmates Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix had split amid Sandoval’s ongoing affair with fellow co-star Raquel Leviss, cameras quickly began rolling to capture the fallout. The quarrel shifted the friendships of the Los Angeles-based “Vanderpump Rules” cast so much that Leviss took out a restraining order on her former best friend and co-star Scheana Shay for an alleged punching that took place when the affair was revealed.
Bravo is giving fans a first look at “Vanderpump Rules” season 11.
Ariana Madix is a dancing queen! The 38-year-old danced the night away at a bar co-owned by Tom Sandoval, and cameras were there to capture it for season 11 of .In video shared on TikTok, Madix can be seen holding court in her quasi-dance floor at the West Hollywood joint, TomTom, which is co-owned by Sandoval and co-star Tom Schwartz. She's movin' and groovin' as James Kennedy spins tracks behind the DJ booth.
Raquel Leviss has “begun negotiations” for her return home after staying at a mental health facility amid Scandoval, a source exclusively tells Us Weekly.
Raquel Leviss is reportedly in talks to return to “Vanderpump Rules” following that cheating scandal.