Andy Cohen isn't showing favoritism in the situation concerning the “Vanderpump Rules” Season 11 finale. The audience strongly supports Ariana Madix.
After a season where Tom Sandoval seemed to be trying to improve his image , Madix chose to leave the final scene of Tuesday's episode when her cheating ex-boyfriend tried to confront her at a party in San Francisco.The host of “Love Island,” “Dancing With the Stars” and Broadway's “Chicago” refused to give the time of day to Tom Sandoval and the Most Extras frontman when he surprised her at a party while she was talking to her friend Scheana Shay. Madix then told her producer that she was leaving while still being filmed, causing costars Shay, Lala Kent and Tom Schwartz to gather around Sandoval, seemingly turning their backs on Madix in anger and/or envy.
“That’s what makes this so interesting. By the way, the best kind of issues or arguments on these shows are when everybody is a little bit right and this seems to be one where everybody is a little bit right,” Cohen said on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live” on Wednesday. “I thought Scheana and Lala’s reactions were really interesting because Scheana, who’s been supportive of Ariana, she was not supportive there in that last moment. She was making good points.”
“If you’ve seen the ‘Vanderpump Rules’ trailer, none of them saw the ending of that episode,” he continued. “We showed it all to them at the reunion and that inspired a very emotional reaction and debate and I think everyone seeing it together really shifted the dynamics because it was almost like they were seeing … I don’t know if some of those people thought that what aired would air and that we would break the fourth wall in such an intense way.”
Cohen concluded, “I thought it was really interesting. They kind of turned the show inside out.”
The “Watch What Happens Live” host’s comments come after Tuesday night’s episode wrapped up with a montage of the Bravo show’s most memorable moments
since it began in 2013 , and the cast's final interviews.In fact, the second-to-last line of the episode was a producer off-camera reacting to Madix’s departure, saying, “That’s the end,” to which Schwartz added, “Plot twist.” (Of course, the final words were spoken by Sandoval: “I love it. It’s good for me.”)
Whether this marks the end of the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” spin-off or not, Lisa Vanderpump, Katie Maloney, James Kennedy, Ally Lewber, Jo Wenberg, Brock Davies, Shay, Kent, Schwartz, Sandoval and Madix will still come together for a three-part reunion before the end of the month. Watch a teaser for the reunion, above:
“Vanderpump Rules” airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. EST on Bravo followed by “The Valley,” with new episodes then available to stream on Peacock.
“I don’t know if some of those people thought that what aired would air,” the Bravo boss says
