LVP Kicks Off BravoCon With a Strong Message for Bethenny Frankel

Lisa Vanderpump kicked off BravoCon 2023 early by making it clear she was standing by the community.

Hours earlier than the three-day fan conference formally started in Las Vegas, Us Weekly caught up with Vanderpump at Flamingo Las Vegas, the place she is about to open up her third venue on The Strip, Pinky’s by Vanderpump.

“To have a tremendous tv profession, I’m so grateful to NBC and Bravo. They’ve taken a lot crap currently from so many individuals that you already know used to work for them, [and] I feel it’s a disgrace,” Vanderpump started on Thursday, November 2. “You’ve acquired to additionally have a look at what they’ve given you as effectively.”

Former New York Metropolis Housewife Bethenny Frankel has made a collection of allegations in opposition to Bravo in current months, making waves when she had former Vanderpump Guidelines star Rachel “Raquel” Leviss on her podcast this summer time. The three-part interview was the primary time Leviss spoke since she stop the present within the aftermath of her affair with Tom Sandoval, alleging she was exploited by the collection.

Porsha Williams Kenya Moore

Associated: Largest Actuality TV Feuds

Ever since actuality TV started, one of many greatest attracts has been the drama — particularly, the preventing that breaks out whereas the cameras are rolling. By means of the years — from Laguna Seaside and The Hills to the Actual Housewives and past, the claws come out when motion is known as. Though Lauren Conrad butted heads […]

“I feel she ought to’ve come again and spoken to me,” Vanderpump instructed Us of Leviss’ choice. “And after I say [it would have been] a secure place, I’m not placing it on the market that it will be something ever lower than secure, however it will be no person interrupting [her]. The place she might’ve had a dialog and actually shared her ideas as a result of I’d be prepared to listen to that. And I’d’ve favored to have seen the expansion. You already know, she went off someplace for 3 months, however I don’t just like the lies which are coming about Bravo and NBC and Bethenny saying, ‘Oh, she acquired paid like an intern.’ And me saying, ‘No, she acquired a couple of hundred thousand {dollars}, that’s not true.’ And her turning round saying, ‘Oh, that’s a lie.’ No, it’s not, it’s factual — that’s how a lot you bought paid.”

Lisa Vanderpump Kicks Off BravoCon With a Strong Message for Bethenny Frankel

Lisa Vanderpump and Bethenny Frankel
Getty Photos (2)

Frankel was the one to allege in August that she heard Leviss acquired “paid in a 12 months lower than my interns receives a commission” for season 10 of Vanderpump Guidelines.

Summer House s Carl Radke and Lindsay Hubbard Confirm Their Breakup After One Year of Dating 390

Associated: Messiest Bravo Breakups of All Time

Bravo stars from each franchise have been topic to the messiest of breakups. If there’s one factor followers have realized in terms of love on the community, it’s to count on the surprising … and be careful if a vow renewal comes alongside. Only one month after Erika Jayne revealed in November 2020 that she […]

“I feel when persons are gonna be nice authorities on one thing, they examine their info,” Vanderpump continued. “And in addition I don’t just like the degeneration of any individual like NBC and Bravo which have given a lot to those individuals, so many alternatives. In fact, I’m positive individuals acquired rights, however Rachel [or] Raquel — she stated she was in some unspecified time in the future negotiating for more cash to return again. So these those who at the moment are complaining — like Lisa Rinna [saying], ‘Boycott BravoCon’ and Bethenny saying this — I feel loads of them have been pitching and asking for reveals.”

Vanderpump’s former costar Rinna’s run on RHOBH ended earlier this 12 months, and she or he was fast to assist Frankel’s name for actuality TV residuals, one of many many components of Frankel’s “actuality reckoning.” Frankel has additionally come for producer and host Andy Cohen and his line of questioning (and promotion of ingesting) on Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen. In a current Vainness Honest story, former RHONY star Leah McSweeney said that felt discriminated in opposition to for being an alcoholic.

“I’ve nice respect for NBC,” Vanderpump continued. “You’ve seen me for years on Watch What Occurs Stay, I’m one of many few expertise that really do [WWHL] on their very own. I don’t have to get slaughtered to try this. They’ll all the time say ‘Lisa, what do you wish to drink?’ I say, ‘I’ll have one thing afterward.’ I feel, in the event you wanna drink, then take it on your self. No person is force-feeding you. So loads of that loads of bulls–t, individuals casting blame. Don’t chew the hand that feeds you.”

As BravoCon continues, followers in Vegas can cease by Vanderpump à Paris or Vanderpump Cocktail Backyard and stay up for Pinky’s coming in 2024.

Vanderpump Rules Where Are They Now

Associated: ‘Vanderpump Guidelines’ Solid: Then and Now

Whereas some issues by no means change, the solid of Vanderpump Guidelines is used to a shake-up … and a touch-up. Vanderpump Guidelines was launched to Bravo viewers throughout a particular episode of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills in January 2013. Season 1 starred Lisa Vanderpump, who was a Beverly Hills Housewife on the time, Stassi […]

“Pinky’s was my nickname for a few years,” Vanderpump instructed Us, recalling that she wished to go by “Pinky” on the primary season of RHOBH. “It’s no secret I like pink. And people beautiful birds behind — that’s extraordinary feat of nature to create a chook like that. … [Flamingo’s] is an iconic lodge and we let our imaginations run wild with this.”