Lala Kent ‘Unhappy’ About Finish of Vanderpump Guidelines, Particulars Actuality TV Future

Whereas showing on Not Skinny However Not Fats podcast with Amanda Hirsch, Kent shared her candid emotions concerning the information that Vanderpump Guidelines will likely be returning with an all-new solid.

And whereas she’s not gone from actuality TV fully — with appearances on Season 2 of the VPR spinoff The Valley confirmed — the mother-of-two mentioned she’s mentioned to see this chapter of her life come to a detailed.

“I do not need to say that I am superb with it, as a result of I am not. It was the best time of my entire life,” Kent mentioned. “However in some unspecified time in the future, you need to have a look at the large image and say, ‘Is that this present — are we even in a position to movie it any longer?’ And I simply do not suppose we have been in a position to movie it any longer.”

She continued, “So anybody who’s performing OK with it, I really feel prefer it’s a slap within the face.”

With out the present, Kent mentioned “nobody” would care about her and her castmates. And whereas that is largely the place all of them received their begin, Kent and VPR‘s season 11 solid have all managed to make names of themselves off-camera, whether or not it’s internet hosting gigs, Broadway or enterprise ventures.

“I all the time tried to recollect what received me to this place. As a result of earlier than Vanderpump, I used to be only a bitch making an attempt to beat the streets, a squirrel making an attempt to get a nut. This present modified my entire life,” Kent maintained.

She continued, “There are lots of individuals who we have seen on Bravo who come onto exhibits and so they do not final. So, I am not saying that we owe our whole beings to this present, however Vandeprump Guidelines was the door that opened, after which we took over the entire home. And I am extraordinarily happy with all of us that we took alternative by the balls and did this.”

“It is unhappy,” Kent add. “As a result of it is so iconic. It is a popular culture phenomenon. Who can say that they have been part of one thing like that? Not many individuals.”

The announcement got here final month, with Bravo sharing that VPR will likely be renewed for season 12 however with some main adjustments. The present will now function Lisa Vanderpump “and a brand new group of close-knit SUR-vers.” Sources say Kent, Scheana Shay, Brock Davies and Tom Schwartz will seem on The Valley subsequent season, whereas they may presumably seem on Vanderpump Guidelines and elsewhere within the Bravoverse going ahead.

As for the way forward for the remainder of the solid, together with James Kennedy, Tom Sandoval, and others, that is still unclear.

Kent is evident about her actuality TV future, nonetheless, telling Hirsch, it is like her “heartbeat.”

“I get off on it. I am obsessed,” Kent quipped. “I take pleasure in being part of it. I take pleasure in watching it. It is like such an enormous a part of my life, actuality tv, in order that half is gloomy.”

As for the place she sees herself subsequent, Kent is hopeful she will keep within the sport and proceed to reinvent herself, nonetheless these alternatives come to be.

“I am not able to be finished with actuality TV,” she instructed Hirsch, “Nonetheless at this stage in my life, I’m having fun with the break — type of falling into the background and simply having fun with my youngsters.”