The hotly anticipated Vanderpump Rules Season 10 reunion is finally here — the first of three parts, at least, with the others airing weekly through June 7th — and before we dive headfirst into the muck and the mire, one thing bears mention: Rachel “Raquel” Leviss, one of the women …
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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 »'American Idol' Winner Iam Tongi on How He Brought the Judges to Tears
From the moment American Idol winner Iam Tongi wrapped his audition, viewers of the ABC competition show fell in love with the 18-year-old Hawaii native’s emotional story. During his first time in front of the judges, Tongi wiped off tears as he remembered his late father Rodney, who introduced him …
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By the time the ninth Wellington is served, an audible sigh of relief emerges from the six remaining Top Chef: World All-Stars contestants. The chefs, divided into three teams for the purpose of today’s elimination challenge, look exhausted, and deservedly so. Each team has just prepped, cooked, and delivered three …
Read More »'Vanderpump Rules' Finale Reveals Scandoval's Brutal Aftermath
If there is one big takeaway from Vanderpump Rules, other than that you should never allow your fella to go on a guys’ trip to Vegas or give Katie Maloney tequila, it’s this: LA men are the worst. They are by and large an unruly mob of deceitful, lecherous, ignorant, …
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 …
Read More »Martin Scorsese Loves Lala Kent's Work, and You Will Too
Lala Kent is leaning back in a chair in her Beverly Hills office. Sporting a white sweatshirt emblazoned with her catchphrase “Send It to Darrell,” the petite, fiery Vanderpump Rules star is flanked by white shelves lined with Lala Kent merch, #Give Them Lala Beauty products, and copies of her …
Read More »The Story Behind the Iconic 'Vanderpump Rules' Theme Song
“You know that it’s our time, these are the best days of our lives. Let’s raise our glasses high, this one’s for you tonight.” Vanderpump Rules fans know these lyrics well; they comprise the chorus of “Raise Your Glass,” the show’s theme song, appearing in the opening credits since the …
Read More »'Summer House: Martha's Vineyard' Gives Bravo Some Much-Needed Diversity
When Silas Cooper was in college, he and his friends spent their summers vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard by pooling their money together and sharing hotel rooms in a nearby town. They would take the ferry over to the island in the morning, grab a box of pizza in Oak Bluffs, …
Read More »The Ugly Spectacle of Reality TV Tearing Families Apart
The argument is now unironically known as “Pizzagate”: Luis Ruelas, the socially challenged husband of Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice, claims that he lost $250,000 investing in a doomed pizza oven business with his wife’s brother, Joe Gorga. The Bravo fandom (also unironically) ate Pizzagate up and …
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