Lisa Vanderpump Shades Lisa Rinna After ‘RHOBH’ Exit News

Throwing shade? Lisa Rinna introduced she could be exiting The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills — and former costar Lisa Vanderpump was seemingly fast to share her ideas on the matter. 

“Ding dong,” Vanderpump, 62, tweeted on Thursday, January 5, simply hours after Rinna, 59, revealed she wouldn’t be returning to the Bravo collection. The remark appeared to reference lyrics from the track “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Lifeless,” which was featured within the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz.

The 2 girls have discovered themselves in varied on-air feuds through the years and have been at odds as soon as once more in 2019 when the Veronica Mars alum accused the England native of trying to capitalize on the success of the Actual Housewives by making a brand new present surrounding her canine rescue, Vanderpump Canines. 

The drama initially began throughout season 9 of the truth collection, when the restauranteur discovered herself in the midst of a divide when Vanderpump Canines staffer John Blizzard claimed to costar Kyle Richards and Teddi Mellencamp that Dorit Kemsley’s former adopted pet ended up in a kill shelter. 

In March 2019, a number of sources advised Us Weekly {that a} spinoff revolving across the enterprise was certainly “within the works,” upsetting a number of the RHOBH costars — together with Rinna, who took to social media to share her frustrations in regards to the rumors.

“I’m a hustler. I make no bones about that. I believe you receives a commission for what you do. So my feeling is, if we certainly are servicing a by-product, we needs to be paid for it,” the previous cleaning soap star wrote by way of her Instagram Tales on the time. “I’m so joyful for all of us to make use of this platform for make-up strains, bathing go well with strains, community TV reveals, eating places, [charities], clothes strains, health empires, you identify it. I help these girls, one hundred pc.”

The Days of Our Lives alum added that she anticipated to be paid for her involvement within the venture. 

“But when you will use our providers with out telling us — that we’re enjoying out a storyline to launch a pilot for a brand new present and also you don’t compensate us additional for that — yeah, I’m a hustler. I receives a commission for what I do,” she mentioned. “So, if this certainly turns into one other present, my lawyer shall be calling.”

When Peacock confirmed the brand new actuality present could be picked up in July 2020, Rinna up to date followers together with her ideas.

“I used to be proper all alongside. Everybody lied to my face about this and right here we’re. So, perhaps you’ll imagine me this time round,” she captioned an Instagram Story that very same month. 

Vanderpump, for her half, wound up exiting RHOBH midway by season 9 amid the drama. In March 2021, she opened up solely to Us about why she determined to stroll away after nearly a decade on the present. 

“I left as a result of I used to be very, very, very sad and I didn’t respect being referred to as a liar,” she advised Us throughout an episode of the “Getting Actual with the Housewives” podcast. “To accuse me of promoting a narrative, while you by no means get tales come out of my eating places, you recognize, so it was such an insult to me. It was about my coronary heart, it was in regards to the Vanderpump Canine Basis, which was one thing that was born out of full compassion and my ardour venture. I simply thought, ‘I’m finished with it.’”

On Thursday, Rinna, who joined the RHOBH in season 5, defined why she felt it was now her flip to maneuver on.

“That is the longest job I’ve held in my 35-year profession and I’m grateful to everybody at Bravo and all these concerned within the collection,” she advised Us in a press release. “It has been a enjoyable 8-year run and I’m excited for what’s to return!’”

The previous cleaning soap star’s rep added that as a result of her contract was “up on the finish of final season,” Rinna took the “time to weigh her present choices and enterprise obligations” and in the end “mutually determined” with Bravo that she wouldn’t return to the franchise.