With the season 11 finale of Vanderpump Rules<\/em><\/a> on May 7, 2024, flashing back to old footage, many fans felt like it may have been Bravo\u2019s way of saying goodbye to the beloved series. Is the show over?\n<\/p>\n The show will go on! Despite fan fears that season 11 may have been the series finale of Vanderpump Rules<\/em>, the show is not ending, according to Entertainment Tonight<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s always a possibility of a cast shakeup, or having the legacy cast members move to The Valley<\/em>, but no decisions have been made yet,\u201d a source told the outlet.<\/p>\n Bravo has not commented on the situation. However, Watch What Happens Live!<\/em> host Andy Cohen<\/strong> addressed the finale at an event at Sixth & I in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2024. \u201cPeople say that the VPR<\/em> finale felt like a series finale. It\u2019s not,\u201d he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n While Vanderpump Rules<\/em> generally films during the summer months, reports surfaced in April 2024 that there would be a pause in production before cameras picked back up for season 12. The decision reportedly came in order to give producers and cast members \u201ca moment to decompress after two very rough, intense seasons,\u201d according to Page Six.<\/em><\/p>\n Season 10 of Vanderpump Rules<\/em> concluded with the shocking news that Tom Sandoval<\/strong> had cheated on Ariana Madix<\/strong> with Raquel Leviss<\/strong>. Filming had wrapped months before the March 2023 scandal, but cameras picked back up to film the finale episode in the heat of the moment. After the reunion that spring, the cast began filming<\/a> again during summer 2023, with season 11 heavily focusing on the aftermath of the scandal.<\/p>\n Although Andy is not a producer on Vanderpump Rules<\/em>, he weighed in on the rumors of a production pause. \u201cPeople do forget, especially as it relates to Ariana \u2013 who was the one cheated on \u2013 people forget that we picked up cameras, like, three months after she found out about the affair. So that\u2019s why she\u2019s still in the violently angry stage and you can understand that, so I always think it\u2019s great [to step away].\u201d<\/p>\n He also pointed out that there used to be production breaks in The Real Housewives<\/em> franchise \u201call the time,\u201d adding, \u201cWe would say, \u2018You know what, let\u2019s put cameras down for four or five months and come back to them.\u2019 And they will have lived life and things will be different.\u201d<\/p>\n Cast member Lala Kent<\/strong> addressed the rumors during a May 2024 appearance on Amazon Live. \u201cIs this confirmed?\u201d she asked. \u201cI\u2019m gonna say this, if we don\u2019t film this summer, I\u2019m going to have a peaceful pregnancy<\/a>, because I will not allow it to be any other way. This is my real life.\u201d She also admitted, \u201cIf we don\u2019t film this summer, I will be on cloud 59.\u201d<\/p>\n Sandoval was down for the schedule shift too. \u201cThey just wanna give it some time to breathe, take a break, maybe,\u201d he explained. \u201cI\u2019m really excited about it. Because it\u2019s like, every year, we film my birthday, we film Scheana [Shay]\u2019s<\/strong> birthday at times, or whatever. To kind of have a different time of the year, it might bring a fresh sort of feeling to our show.\u201d<\/p>\n Many fans have also pointed out that Ariana is very busy during summer 2024, as she\u2019s been named the host of Love Island USA<\/em> and will be returning to Broadway to reprise her role as Roxie Hart in Chicago. It\u2019s been speculated that producers did not want to begin a new season without her or were looking to revamp the cast in general amid fears that she wouldn\u2019t return. She has not commented on her plans for her future<\/a> on Bravo.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t or I won\u2019t say [if I\u2019m returning] but I think that, ultimately, it would have to make sense for me,\u201d she said at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 21, 2024. \u201cOur show has always thrived, it\u2019s always at its best when it is at its most authentic and its most real. And I have to be able to show up and be real and be authentic in order for it to make sense for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Season 11 concluded with Ariana walking away from the cameras after being asked to have a conversation with Tom during a group event. Although the Dancing With the Stars<\/em> finalist filmed at the same time as her ex and was even living in the same home<\/a> as him throughout the season, they rarely interacted. She was pushed to her limit as producers and some cast members tried to urge her to speak to him on camera.<\/p>\n During the episode, Ariana broke the fourth wall by addressing a producer in the middle of the cast event after Sandoval tried to apologize to her. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t give a f\u2013k if I died in a ditch, or got a f\u2013king deadly STD, the way he was f\u2013king around behind my back,\u201d she insisted. \u201cThat is non-informed consent. He does not deserve to speak to me. He does not get access to me.\u201d<\/p>\n She also accused Sandoval of putting on a \u201cperformance\u201d for viewers by saying he wanted to apologize. He clapped back by ranting to Scheana, \u201cAriana\u2019s f\u2013king performative. She doesn\u2019t like any of these motherf\u2013kers. So she can f\u2013k off saying I\u2019m performative.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Lala went on a rant about Ariana, slamming her for her decision. \u201cIt\u2019s bulls\u2013t that she can\u2019t film with someone [who] she stays under the same roof [with],\u201d Lala claimed. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot. It\u2019s a lot that she\u2019s saying, \u2018Don\u2019t f\u2013k with Sandoval,\u2019 but I\u2019m gonna sleep down the hall from Sandoval. I get it. He f\u2013king cheated. You did a really f\u2013king s\u2013tty thing. It was weird how you looked us all in the eye and said a lot of s\u2013t. But he did not kill somebody. I never in my life experienced someone who gets cheated on and suddenly she becomes God.\u201d<\/p>\n Scheana agreed with Lala\u2019s take, but Ariana stood her ground, pointing out that Tom never tried to apologize to her when the cameras weren\u2019t rolling. \u201cHe could have written something in a f\u2013king letter and left it on the kitchen counter and I could have read it at my leisure,\u201d she said. \u201cBut if you would only do it on camera, to me, you just showed your true colors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nIs \u2018Vanderpump Rules\u2019 Over After Season 11?<\/h2>\n
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