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Thea de Sousa, the writer of The Unofficial Vanderpump Guidelines Final Trivia E-book, not too long ago opened up about the way forward for Vanderpump Guidelines and its yet-to-be-named spinoff.
After publishing a ebook with behind-the-scenes particulars concerning the solid and the present’s many scandals, Thea shed some mild on the upcoming twelfth season of the Bravo actuality collection, revealing that manufacturing has been delayed amid contract negotiations — and confirming that filming on its spinoff is already underway.
“Bravo’s nonetheless saying that they for certain plan on doing one other season, which is able to almost definitely be the final one,” Thea informed The U.S. Solar on October 16. “And the explanation why is as a result of this present has gotten very costly for Bravo.”
“Each solid member will get a compulsory wage bump every season. So now we’re as much as season 12, so you may think about how fully simply underwater that Bravo is by way of paying this solid and that’s been the difficulty since spring,” she continued. “That’s been the explanation why they didn’t movie over the summer time was they couldn’t deal with the identical contracts. So that they needed to begin negotiating [with] folks and making an attempt to maneuver folks down from possibly predominant solid member to ‘pal of,’ which they’d tried to do a pair seasons earlier than.”
Though the Pump Guidelines solid was supposed to start filming this month, Thea stated its begin date has been postponed.
She additionally famous that Bravo was contemplating a by-product based mostly out of Tom Schwartz, 42, and Tom Sandoval‘s bar, Schwartz and Sandy’s, earlier than “Scandoval” led the vast majority of followers to show in opposition to Sandoval.
“It wasn’t going to be Vanderpump anymore, however then Scandoval occurred, in order that they did one other season of Vanderpump off of Scandoval,” she stated. “They have been imagined to be cameras up already they usually’re nonetheless having [a] drawback, not due to the present however due to simply the panorama of actuality TV and the payoff isn’t as large because it was once for Bravo. Finest case situation can be November, December worst case situation, starting of subsequent yr.”
In line with Thea, following season 12, Bravo might not be capable of afford the collection any longer.
“However they’re nonetheless promising that they’re imagined to do a last season. They’ve simply postponed it,” she defined.
In the meantime, in response to Thea’s claims, a Bravo spokesperson informed The U.S. Solar, “There may be completely no reality to this reporting.”
Nonetheless, Thea insisted that the solid, regardless of their points with each other, hoped to see the collection proceed.
“Nobody has refused to movie with anybody else as a result of all of them need the present to maintain going,” she stated. “All of them need the paychecks, proper? And possibly they love the present. So the wishes are from the solid, the issue once more is Bravo paying them, that’s it … Even Ariana desires one other season of the present.”
As a result of quite a few solid members are pulling in tons of of 1000’s of {dollars} per season, Bravo has allegedly been pressured to contemplate demotions.
“Scheana [Shay] would possibly get demoted, after which they will pay them much less,” Thea shared. “So that is all of the contract stuff they have been coping with all summer time. Who will we get to conform to go down?”
As Pump Guidelines stays in limbo, its spinoff has allegedly begun filming.
“They’re growing spinoffs, they usually nonetheless need to work with the solid loads. They’re positively doing a brand new present set on the brand new workers of SUR,” Thea informed The U.S. Solar in one other interview on October 18. “Folks have been there truly for a few years however they’ve now been solid in a present about SUR that actually will hopefully, if it takes off, turn out to be the brand new Vanderpump Guidelines. And that’s actually the place the main target must be.”
“They’ve been filming scenes. I imply, that is what occurs… So that they clearly get a crew collectively, they go within the restaurant, they solid the present, after which they need to movie just a little bit, after which you must ship that to Bravo decks, they usually have to observe it, see what’s the chemistry, what are the storylines,” she continued. “So we’re solely at that time proper now the place they’ve filmed some scenes. The present isn’t full pressure but.”
As Thea famous, the Pump Guidelines spinoff goes to be a lot “cheaper” than its predominant present.
“These are new contracts, new solid members, so it’s just a little bit much less of a chance. However they nonetheless need to see that they’ve one thing there that may be a complete season,” she said. “And so we’re at that time proper now. Let’s see the place these relationships are going earlier than we decide to a full season of filming.”
“These persons are making just like the minimal which you could pay as a result of they’re all hoping that the present takes off after which every season they’ll get extra,” Thea went on. “It’s actually extra about establishing the present. After which, you understand, once more, with these necessary bumps, ultimately you’ll find yourself making good cash on the present, however no person expects to stroll right into a present like The Valley, which was fully unproven, [and get paid a lot].”
As for when followers may get their first take a look at the spinoff, Thea stated that it may occur as early because the spring of 2025.
“After which after all we’ll see going from there, what are the rankings, how are folks liking it, let’s see if it will get renewed,” she defined, noting that producers haven’t but nailed down a title.
“So they don’t seem to be paid nicely now, however I’m certain they’ve all landed sponsorship offers off of it. And now they’ve season two, and it’ll get higher and higher for them if the present retains going. I’m occupied with it. I’m loving it,” she added.
