Vanderpump Laws government manufacturer Alex Baskin hinted that Bravo isn’t ready round for Rachel “Raquel” Leviss to go back to the display.
All the way through the Friday, January 26, episode of Scheana Shay‘s “Scheananigans” podcast, Baskin didn’t hesitate when requested whether or not the door was once open for Leviss, 29, to return again after season 11. “I don’t see that happening,” he answered.
Baskin replied extra burning questions about Leviss’ absence from the approaching season. “I didn’t know [whether] Rachel [would come back]. That was a wild card. We talked to her up until a certain point in the season. It really depended on the day,” Baskin defined concerning the behind-the-scenes conversations that befell prior to manufacturing started.
After the fallout of Leviss’ affair with Tom Sandoval, which performed out on the finish of season 10, Vanderpump Laws fanatics weren’t certain whether or not she would go back. Leviss checked herself right into a psychological well being remedy facility in April 2023 in a while after filming the season 10 reunion. Her three-month keep on the middle overlapped with the season 11 manufacturing time table, and she or he later showed she had no plans to go back to the sequence.
In keeping with the manager manufacturer, Leviss wasn’t offered at the concept of reuniting along with her costars when they all became on her.
“She had concerns about reintegrating into the group. We said, ‘We are here to support you and protect you.’ That may or may not make sense. I didn’t know how she would have been received. But I ultimately think the right thing happened,” he famous. “If she didn’t think it was right for her to come back then we didn’t want that on us. We are doing OK over here and hopefully she is doing OK.”
Baskin stood via Bravo’s resolution not to push Leviss when she wasn’t , including, “We talked about anything and everything. We were open to whatever form it would take but it got difficult because we were so deep into the season. I didn’t exactly know how it would work.”
Whilst talking concerning the dishonest scandal and her Bravo long term in August 2023, Leviss cited cash as a part of the rationale she didn’t need to go back.
“I asked for equal pay with Tom and Ariana [Madix] and for them to reimburse me for my treatment expenses. They refused to pay me equally,” Leviss stated on Bethenny Frankel‘s “ReWives” podcast. “I feel like when you pay your employees, it really shows how much you value them.”
Baskin weighed in at the claims on Friday, telling Shay, 38, “She had a very healthy offer in front of her. Our concern was whether it was the right thing for her anyway because at that point we weren’t sure. I thought it would have done well for her. I thought it would have been the right forum for her to tell her story. I felt good about it from that standpoint.”
As an alternative of having again in entrance of the cameras, Leviss has used her “Rachel Goes Rogue” podcast to proportion her point of view post-Scandoval.
Previous this month, Leviss advised listeners that she didn’t assume it might be wholesome for her psychological state to renew filming the truth sequence. She additionally alleged that manufacturing closely influenced her tale traces prior to now, which made her involved about how her scenes would play out if she filmed once more.
“It is very strange how the fans’ comments will influence our story line and how we go about filming. I guess it is part of the producers’ jobs to know what the fans want to see and what they are asking for,” she claimed on her podcast. “A lot of cast members will self-produce and will be thinking about what story line they’re going to be involved in as the season comes up. The comments that the fans will put out there seems to influence [what happens].”
Leviss apart, fanatics will see their favourite Vanderpump Laws stars returning, together with Shay, Madix, 38, Katie Maloney and extra.
Season 11 of Vanderpump Laws premieres on Bravo Tuesday, January 30, at 8 p.m. ET and might be to be had to movement on Peacock the next day to come.