“This present modified my complete life,” Kent mentioned whereas sharing what she hopes is subsequent for her in her actuality TV journey.
Lala Kent is mourning the tip of an period.
Whereas showing on Not Skinny However Not Fats podcast with Amanda Hirsch, Kent shared her candid emotions in regards to the information that Vanderpump Guidelines will likely be returning with an all-new forged.
And whereas she’s not gone from actuality TV utterly — 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 complete life,” Kent mentioned. “However sooner or later, it’s a must to have a look at the massive image and say, ‘Is that this present — are we even in a position to movie it any longer?’ And I simply do not assume we have been in a position to movie it any longer.”
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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 obtained their begin, Kent and VPR‘s season 11 forged have all managed to make names of themselves off-camera, whether or not it’s internet hosting gigs, Broadway or enterprise ventures.
“I at all times tried to recollect what obtained 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 complete life,” Kent maintained.
She continued, “There are a lot of individuals who we have seen on Bravo who come onto reveals and so they do not final. So, I am not saying that we owe our total beings to this present, however Vandeprump Guidelines was the door that opened, after which we took over the entire home. And I am extraordinarily pleased 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.”
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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 probably seem on Vanderpump Guidelines and elsewhere within the Bravoverse going ahead.
As for the way forward for the remainder of the forged, together with James Kennedy, Tom Sandoval, and others, that continues to be unclear.
Kent is obvious 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 unhappy.”
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As for the place she sees herself subsequent, Kent is hopeful she will be able to keep within the recreation and proceed to reinvent herself, nonetheless these alternatives come to be.
“I am not able to be achieved with actuality TV,” she advised Hirsch, “Nevertheless at this stage in my life, I’m having fun with the break — form of falling into the background and simply having fun with my youngsters.”