As followers have struggled to grapple with the information that their beloved solid of 11 years is not going to be returning for Season 12, Vanderpump is assuring viewers all might be okay.

“I believe the whole lot we do goes to have a special power to it,” the SUR proprietor instructed E! Information on the grand opening of her new restaurant Pinky’s by Vanderpump at Flamingo Las Vegas.

The 64-year-old burdened that she shouldn’t be going to check the 2 casts and might be bringing the present again to the unique premise.

“Not gonna try to compete with the outdated Vanderpump Guidelines. It is simply gonna be completely completely different there. Nonetheless we’ll return to the premise of the problems of operating a restaurant and the employees in it. And that at all times has a narrative to inform,” the restaurant proprietor added.

She referred to as the present’s 11 years of filming with the OG solid — which included Scheana Shay, Lala Kent, Katie Maloney and extra — “an exquisite expertise.”

“It was time to do one thing completely different. Tales have been sort of closing up somewhat bit. I believe folks, they weren’t that shocked that we determined to do that now,” Vanderpump added.

Bravo made the announcement final month, saying that Vanderpump Guidelines had been renewed for Season 12, however could have an entire solid reboot.

Whereas Vanderpump Guidelines was massively widespread on Bravo since its premiere, issues took a flip following Tom Sandoval’s affair with Rachel Leviss whereas he was with Ariana Madix, when the cameras picked up instantly to doc season 11. Whereas the present noticed large scores the season prior, the episodes that adopted have been met with combined reactions and in the end the present was placed on pause amid main solid rigidity.

The community says the present will now nonetheless characteristic Vanderpump nonetheless, “and a brand new group of close-knit SUR-vers.” Sources say Scheana Shay, Lala Kent, Brock Davies and Tom Schwartz will seem on spinoff The Valley subsequent season, whereas they may presumably seem on Vanderpump Guidelines and elsewhere within the Bravoverse going ahead.

Katie Maloney not too long ago opened up concerning the main solid announcement.

Throughout an episode of her Disrespectfully podcast final week, the Vanderpump OG stated that she was planning her exit from the long-running actuality collection lengthy earlier than Bravo introduced its plans for a solid overhaul forward of Season 12.

“I did not plan on returning,” Maloney stated Wednesday. “I had decided months in the past after this previous season. I wanted to maneuver on with my life.”

Maloney stated she made the choice earlier than Vanderpump Guidelines was “placed on pause,” including, “I had talked to our producers about it and I instructed them my resolution on that. I felt personally prepared to maneuver on from the present. I felt like my life and the place I used to be at was transferring in a special route. Mentally, emotionally, bodily, spiritually, I used to be ready to maneuver on from the present.”

Maloney, who has been on the present because it premiered in 2013, instructed her listeners she was prepared for one thing new after greater than a decade on the present.

As for the way forward for the remainder of the solid, together with James Kennedy, Tom Sandoval and others, that is still unclear.