Andy Cohen Says the Back Half of ‘VPR’ Season 11 ‘Takes Off’

Andy Cohen swears the final half of Vanderpump Rules season 11 is totally binge-worthy.

“Y’all, I have just landed in Los Angeles,” Cohen stated by way of Instagram Story on Friday, March 15. “I’m here to shoot the Vanderpump Rules reunion. I have just binged the last seven episodes of the season. I can’t believe how good it was. And I know that y’all maybe are like, ‘Oh he’s just hyping his stuff,’ whatever. It’s not my show. I’m not a producer on it. That’s why I didn’t know anything that happened, I just watched it as a viewer. It is so good.”

He continued, “It takes off in a significant way. Kudos to the brilliant team, and what a finale. And what a reunion it will be. I’m so excited. Again, not my show, this is not a paid advertisement. Nobody asked me to make this post. It’s real good.”

Originally shared by Cohen by way of his Instagram Story, the video was reposted to X (previously Twitter) on Friday, which prompted a response from Tom Schwartz. “2nd half is so solid,” he replied in a subsequent tweet, confirming Cohen’s pleasure. “One of my favorite seasons yet. Aside from cringing at myself.”

2nd half is so strong 🙏 one of my favourite seasons but. Aside from cringing at myself

— tom schwartz (@twschwa) March 15, 2024

Cohen went on to debate the remaining episodes of season 11, in addition to the reunion, on the Monday, March 18, episode of SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live.

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“I watched seven episodes of Vanderpump Rules in 24 hours. The remaining seven in the season,” Cohen advised co-host John Hill. “I think that people felt that it was off. I think that, at the start, people were super interested and then they were like, ‘Oh, I don’t know. I don’t want to talk about this. I don’t know if I want this redemption thing. I don’t know how I feel about it.’ It’s really good.”

Cohen went on to elucidate that each Lala Kent and Scheana Shay’s husband, Brock Davies, emerge as the “voice[s] of reason” for this season of Vanderpump Rules. “The other one who I love to watch and who I think is emerging as a real potential player in this universe, Ally Lewber, James Kennedy’s girlfriend,” Cohen added.

“Nothing could be as heated as last year, but a lot of the topics were incredibly intense and electric,” he stated. “They were all calmly discussed, which I really appreciated it. It was not, of course, there were flare-ups and screaming, but it was not, especially given last year, sitting in that space.”

It may be exhausting to beat season 10’s record-breaking scores in the aftermath of Tom Sandoval and Rachel “Raquel” Leviss’ dishonest scandal, which rocked the Bravo panorama at the time the information broke. Us Weekly confirmed in March 2023 that Sandoval and Ariana Madix had ended their almost decade-long relationship as a result of his infidelity.

Thanks to the viewership generated by “Scandoval,” season 10 broke viewership information for Bravo and Peacock, hitting 11.4 million common viewers as of June 2023, Variety reported at the time. The first reunion episode alone reached 4.6 million viewers, making it not solely the most-viewed Vanderpump episode of all time however the most-watched episode of any Bravo sequence in the previous decade.

Comparatively, the season 11 premiere episode, “Notes on a Scandal,” introduced in a big viewers of 3.2 million viewers, per The Hollywood Reporter.

The total success of season 10 led to substantial paydays for a number of solid members, with some even negotiating with Bravo for increased salaries. Madix, for her half, reportedly earned over $1 million in sponsorship offers following Scandoval. She additionally joined season 32 of Dancing With the Stars and is at the moment starring as Roxie Hart on Broadway’s Chicago.

Sandoval beforehand accused some of his coworkers of benefiting from the scandal. “Fellow cast members are asking me all these questions, but you don’t want to know because you care about Ariana,” Sandoval stated in an April 2023 episode of the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast. (*11*)

Bravo not too long ago confirmed the seating chart for the season 11 reunion, which incorporates Cohen, Shay, Davies, Madix, Sandoval, and Schwartz, in addition to Lisa Vanderpump, Katie Maloney, and James Kennedy. Newcomers Jo Wenberg and Ally Lewber are additionally set to look.