Ariana Madix may have to film with Tom Schwartz — but that doesn’t mean she has to be his friend.
18.07.2023 - 18:35 / usmagazine.com
Kristen Doute revealed how Jax Taylor and Stassi Schroeder‘s tumultuous relationship nearly caused a continuity error in season 1 of Vanderpump Rules.
“There are a couple of scenes in this [season 1] episode that are from the [backdoor pilot] because truth be told, Stassi and Jax broke up the day before filming,” Kristen, 40, claimed while rewatching the Bravo series in a June episode of her “Sex, Love, and What Else Matters” podcast.
According to the former reality star, Jax, now 44, and Stassi’s “on and off” romance was originally explored in the backdoor pilot for Vanderpump Rules A.K.A. a season 3 episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills that introduce their dynamic to the audience. Jax and Stassi, now 35, meanwhile, had called it quits behind the scenes.
As a result, Bravo allegedly used archive footage from the 2013 episode to reintroduce Jax and Stassi as a couple when Vanderpump Rules was picked up to series.
“Everything that you saw [like] the big breakup at The Grove was also a real breakup. But they were on and off so the very first day of production they were like, ‘What the f—k do you mean you broke up?’ And Jax of course wanted to be with her and Stassi [wasn’t interested],” Kristen continued. “So, in order to do this introduction, they had this footage from months prior so they used that.”
Kristen also pointed out that viewers could see that other scenes were filmed months apart, adding, “You can totally see [in the group scene during the first episode] how Jax has long hair and Tom [Sandoval] has long hair. [And they didn’t in earlier moments].”
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