Before Brittany Cartwright became a household name in the Bravosphere, she had to pinch her pennies!
28.07.2023 - 17:57 / usmagazine.com
Kristen Doute and Jax Taylor have come a long way from their time on Vanderpump Rules — which came with a surprisingly small paycheck.
“We had very little in our bank account,” Kristen, 40, recalled during the Thursday, July 27, episode of her “Sex, Love, and What Else Matters” podcast. “It was $5,000 and if we became a primary, we got an additional $5,000.”
Jax, 44, who was a guest on the podcast, said the money felt life-changing at the time.
“I had nothing at that time so whatever we got … [I felt like] I was rich. $5,000? I was paying $100 a week to live so I [thought] I could retire. When we were filming, I felt like, ‘This is awesome,'” he shared. “I have been hustling my whole life and living paycheck to paycheck to paycheck. I would do a lot of jobs but by the time I got my paycheck I was so behind on my credit card bills.”
Jax and Kristen were original cast members on Vanderpump Rules when it debuted in 2013. According to Kristen, however, there is an unaired pilot that Jax filmed with their former costar Stassi Schroeder shortly before they joined the hit Bravo series.
“You were the hot dude. It was Stassi, a girl she used to be friends with and two other girls. They were all friends who were vacationing in the Bahamas and then they see a hot boy. Who is going to get the hot boy?” Kristen said on Thursday’s episode of her podcast.
Jax, for his part, was confused by the “weird” concept since he was already dating Stassi, 35.
“I didn’t know where they were going to go with that,” noted Jax, who dated Stassi during season 1 of Vanderpump Rules. “It was a pilot and they used us as the guinea pigs to pitch this in Europe. It was a lot of fun. It was like two or three days and I got a free trip to the Bahamas. I don’t even
Before Brittany Cartwright became a household name in the Bravosphere, she had to pinch her pennies!
Tom Schwartz made a big change in his life. The Vanderpump Rules star is ditching his brunette locks for a new platinum blonde 'do.The dramatic hair change was revealed in a photo shared by a fan to Instagram on Saturday.
Rachel Leviss isn’t filming for season 11 of Vanderpump Rules because she’s prioritizing her mental health and enjoying a slower life in Arizona.A source tells ET, «Rachel has been spending time with her family in Arizona since leaving the mental health facility. Rachel has been receiving letters from people opening up about their own mental health journey and applauding her for taking time away from filming to focus on her mental health. Rachel is in a really good place and has been enjoying a slower pace of life.
Ariana Madix and Tom Sandoval have reunited. On Aug. 8, the exes were photographed together for the first time since filming for season 11 of started in late June.
Rachel Leviss was comfortably numb, but she definitely looked comfy while out and about in her home state of Arizona.The star was spotted running errands Tuesday in Tucson while wearing a vintage Pink Floyd shirt, black biker shorts, sandals, gray socks, a backpack and glasses. Her hair was in a ponytail and she opted for the makeup-free look running errands that included hitting up her local Walgreens, where she picked up a few fancy water bottles.That same day, the 28-year-old was spotted at a Massage Envy.
Kristen Doute, Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright are making their highly anticipated return to Bravo on the network’s upcoming Vanderpump Rules spinoff series.
Lala Kent, Scheana Shay and Brittany Cartwright enjoyed their moms’ night out by getting matching tattoos in honor of their kids.
These are the kind of tattoos you’ll never regret!
Jax Taylor‘s therapy sessions will go down in Bravo history — but apparently there was more drama behind the scenes.
Jax Taylor and Kristen Doute are looking back at the early days of Vanderpump Rules.
It’s only a few months before “The Kardashians” will return to our screens. After the famous family’s hit reality TV series streamed its season 3 finale on Thursday, Disney+ announced that season 4 will return on Thursday, Sept. 28.
will return to our screens. After the famous family's hit Hulu reality TV series streamed its season 3 finale on Thursday, the streaming service announced that season 4 will return on Thursday, Sept. 28.
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.
There’s lots more Vanderpump Rules drama coming our way — and we’re not just talking about Season 11!
“The Kelly Clarkson Show,” actress Kristen Bell, 43, revealed that her two daughters with husband Dax Shepard — Lincoln, 10, and Delta, 8 — sometimes enjoy drinking nonalcoholic beer. The children’s enjoyment of the rather adult beverage stems from their earliest days when she and Shepard, 48, would take the babes on a walk in the evening. “He’s a recovering addict, but he likes nonalcoholic beer, so he’d pop one open, he’d have [our oldest daughter] on his chest, and we’d walk and look at the sunset,” Bell explained to Clarkson.“As a baby, she was pawing at it, and sometimes she’d suck on the rim of it.
Ariana Madix isn’t taking it easy on her ex, Tom Sandoval, now that Scandoval has simmered down.
Ariana Madix isn't taking it easy on her ex, Tom Sandoval, now that Scandoval has simmered down. has started filming season 11, and a source tells ET Madix has been laying into Sandoval since the cameras went up.«Filming is underway for 'Vanderpump Rules' and Tom and Ariana have filmed together. She has been laying into him while filming and doesn’t have time for any of his nonsense,» the source says.
Scheana Shay and Brock Davies’ daughter, Summer Moon, is a «legend» after breaking her forearm.The Vanderpump Rulesstar took to her Instagram Stories on Saturday to share that "[Summer] had a fall and now we are at urgent care" in Palm Springs, California. In a follow-up video, Summer is seen with a cast on her arm as she drinks milk from a bottle. «What happened? Did you break your forearm?» Shay asks her daughter, adding, «Glad one of us is smiling.»Davies also posted on his Instagram Stories that this was Summer’s first trip to the emergency room, but she remained in good spirits.
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.