Jax Taylor is moving out of the Valley. After a tumultuous, to say the least, Season Two of the hit Bravo series The Valley, Taylor announced Wednesday that he will not return for Season Three to focus on his sobriety and mental health. “After an incredibly challenging year and many …
Read More »Jax Taylor Can't Help But Be the Worst — And That's Why 'The Valley' Is So Good
The Valley is a show that boldly asks its viewers two questions. First: Why are you watching this? And second: Why are you enjoying this? The appeal of the Bravo reality show, which follows a group of friends living in “the valley” — a neighborhood in California where people usually …
Read More »'Vanderpump Rules' Stars Jax, Brittany, and Kristen Open Up About Their New Spinoff Series
After spending years in development and being the worst kept secret in the Bravo universe, the long-awaited Vanderpump Rules’ spinoff The Valley finally premiered on Tuesday night in a crossover episode. On the most recent episode of VPR, viewers watch as Jax Taylor makes his grand return to the series …
Read More »2023 Was the Year of the Reality TV Villain
It was the reality TV scandal to end all scandals. So earth-shaking that it got its own hashtag: #Scandoval. In early March, just a few episodes into the tenth season of Vanderpump Rules, it was sensationally revealed that Tom Sandoval — the worm-mustached cover-band lead and minority-stake West Hollywood bar …
Read More »How Tiffany 'New York' Pollard Changed the Game for Black Women on Reality TV
“The original HBIC is here, bitches!,” Tiffany “New York” Pollard proclaims, sauntering into the frame and showing off her fresh pedicure. So begins her introduction on House of Villains, E!‘s latest reality TV series assembling a motley crew of the genre’s classic antagonists, including Vanderpump Rules’ Jax Taylor, The Bachelor‘s …
Read More »'Vanderpump Rules' Villain Jax Taylor Is Ready for His Big Comeback
“I’ve done some fucked-up things,” says Jax Taylor. “But when I did what I did, I went down in a hole and fought to get my wife back.” The man formerly known as Jason Cauchi (though not to his reiki master) is discussing the differences between his past misdeeds and …
Read More »How 'Vanderpump Rules' Star Tom Sandoval Became TV's Biggest Villain
When Vanderpump Rules premiered on Bravo in 2013, it turned the network’s winning reality TV formula on its head. The Real Housewives shows, which followed the lives of wealthy women in America’s elite communities, had already become a cultural phenomenon. Here, it would often feel like the women were playing …
Read More »Kristen Doute's 'Vanderpump Rules' Shock Return Is a Full-Circle Moment
“When I think of your ex-boyfriend, I need a drink,” Kristen Doute says to Ariana Madix in the highly anticipated Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale. Doute hasn’t appeared on the Bravo series in nearly two seasons after getting fired in June 2020, but she made her grand return at a …
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