Something has shifted in the air over the past few days and that is because the Vanderpump Rules Season 11 Reunion was filmed.
There have been hints of something brewing, something between Lala, Scheana and Ariana, since the season began airing as we saw Lala & Scheana seemingly start to turn against ‘their best friend’.
Fans and followers started to question Scheana’s torn allegiance to Ariana and Tom, with Lala trailing behind, playing both sides of the fence. But now, that fence has completely been destroyed with Lala planted firmly on the wrong side of history.
After the reunion filmed on Saturday, March 16th, rumblings of a blowout fight between Lala and Ariana started to swirl. It extended the reunion time, and it was friendship destroying. We don’t know what the fight was about but I have a feeling it had something to do with Tom… it’s always about Tom.
Now, with Ariana back on the Broadway stage, Lala and Scheana have been left to their own devices in California and are making the podcast/talk show rounds again…and are speaking out against Ariana every chance they get; from saying Scheana should’ve known about DWTS and ‘Chicago’, and comparing Something About Her to Schwartz & Sandy’s…even calling Ariana ‘Tom Sandoval’ and Katie ‘Tom Schwartz’. It’s just low blows all around.
When it comes to Dancing With the Stars and Chicago, Lala has suddenly forgotten what an NDA is. She used to love those three letters back in Season 5 & 6 when it suited her and ‘her man’s’ needs, but now? She doesn’t know them. Ariana said she signed an NDA and couldn’t tell anyone… Katie didn’t even know, and that’s her business partner. It’s not malicious, Ariana is just following the rules.
Lala went on a talk show and hinted that she was the one who eviscerated Ariana at the reunion, and I find that hard to believe. Lauren from Utah is truly all talk, and she thinks she’s grown so much but it’s obvious that she hasn’t. Just because Randall was a piece of shit and she’s a mother now, doesn’t mean she is the Dalai Lama.
How can Lala say to Tom Sandoval’s face that he’s a narcissist and a groomer (which simply isn’t true) and then flip it around and say that Ariana needs to let it go because it’s poison to hold onto anger? She’s contradicting herself and it’s very obvious.
What it comes down too, and quite frankly it’s insulting that Lala would think otherwise, but she’s jealous. She thought when it was revealed that Randall cheated and was revealed to be this horrible man, she would get the Ariana treatment. The fact that Ariana is getting all these opportunities and fanfare because she was cheated on is killing her.
The fact is plain and simple: Randall was always known to be bad guy. Lala was a mistress, Lala slept with him to get a role in a movie, everyone warned her for years that this was not good… and then she got slapped in the face with the truth. Lala and Randall were toxic, they couldn’t even follow each other on social media because it would cause fights. It wasn’t a shock that he turned out to be exactly who everyone said he was.
Ariana & Tom Sandoval had a nice relationship for the majority of a decade. Yes, they might’ve kissed when he was in a relationship with Kristen, and there was Miami girl, but it seemed for the most part they were in a good place for most of the time. Sandoval was always horrible, but it looked like he was good for Ariana and she was happy with that. Ariana was cheated on, with her best friend, in her house, and lied to her face continually on television, humiliating her in the process.
Ariana was not crowned queen of the women scorned by herself, she was given this title by the public, and by her friends… and now they want to take it away.
Ariana didn’t ask for these opportunities, she just received them. Brands jumped on the bandwagon; they saw that Scandoval was the biggest pop culture news story at the time and wanted to cement their place in history, so they signed the center of the drama.
BIC won an award for their campaign with Ariana; they boosted their sales and used a relevant moment in time to drive awareness. It’s a classic marketing play, and it happens all the time. That is not Ariana’s fault. She shouldn’t have had to say no to these money making campaigns to make her friends feel better about their own cheating scandals, and with friends like Lala and Scheana, who needs enemies.
For Lala to start trashing Ariana in the press because she hasn’t been acting the way Lala deems necessary is truly insane behavior. It doesn’t make any sense and screams of pure envy.
To put it bluntly, Ariana has actual talent. I saw her on Broadway a few weeks ago and I was blown away. She owned the stage and I felt an immense sense of pride for having watched her on TV for all these years. She can dance, act, sing, amuse… she is the entire package and she does it well!
Ariana is the most talented on that cast; she has a degree in theater and she can have an actual acting & singing career if she wanted it. She has broken through the fourth wall barrier of reality television and I don’t think she should, or will go back.
Ariana is more of a star than Scheana and Lala will ever be, and that terrifies them.
What are your thoughts on Lala and Scheana’s sudden turn of events? Is Lauren from Utah right in what she’s been saying? Is Ariana just as bad as Tom Sandoval?