{"id":26242,"date":"2024-03-19T00:21:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T00:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/andy-cohen-says-the-back-half-of-vandepump-rules-season-11-takes-off\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T00:21:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T00:21:49","slug":"andy-cohen-says-the-back-half-of-vandepump-rules-season-11-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/andy-cohen-says-the-back-half-of-vandepump-rules-season-11-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Cohen Says the Back Half of Vandepump Rules Season 11 ‘Takes Off’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Andy Cohen<\/strong><\/a> swears the last half of Vanderpump Rules<\/em><\/a> season 11 is completely binge-worthy.<\/p>\n

\u201cY\u2019all, I have just landed in Los Angeles,\u201d Cohen said via Instagram Story on Friday, March 15. \u201cI\u2019m here to shoot the Vanderpump Rules<\/em> reunion. I have just binged the last seven episodes of the season. I can\u2019t believe how good it was. And I know that y\u2019all maybe are like, \u2018Oh he\u2019s just hyping his stuff,\u2019 whatever. It\u2019s not my show. I\u2019m not a producer on it. That\u2019s why I didn\u2019t know anything that happened, I just watched it as a viewer. It is so good.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cIt takes off in a significant way. Kudos to the brilliant team, and what a finale. And what a reunion it will be. I\u2019m so excited. Again, not my show, this is not a paid advertisement. Nobody asked me to make this post. It\u2019s real good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally shared by Cohen via his Instagram Story, the video was reposted to X<\/a> (formerly Twitter) on Friday, which prompted a response from Tom Schwartz<\/strong>. \u201c2nd half is so solid,\u201d he replied in a subsequent tweet<\/a>, confirming Cohen\u2019s excitement. \u201cOne of my favorite seasons yet. Aside from cringing at myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cohen went on to discuss the remaining episodes of season 11, as well as the reunion, on the Monday, March 18, episode of SiriusXM\u2019s Andy Cohen Live<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tVanderpump Rules has officially been renewed for season 11 \u2014 and viewers are in for a messy return in the aftermath of Raquel Leviss and Tom Sandoval\u2018s cheating scandal. Us Weekly confirmed in March 2023 that Sandoval and Ariana Madix had called it quits after nearly a decade of dating due to his infidelity. As [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI watched seven episodes of Vanderpump Rules<\/em> in 24 hours. The remaining seven in the season,\u201d Cohen told co-host John Hill<\/strong>. \u201cI think that people felt that it was off. I think that, at the start, people were super interested and then they were like, \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t want to talk about this. I don\u2019t know if I want this redemption thing. I don\u2019t know how I feel about it.\u2019 It\u2019s really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cohen went on to explain that both Lala Kent<\/strong> and Scheana Shay<\/strong>\u2019s husband, Brock Davies<\/strong>, emerge as the \u201cvoice[s] of reason\u201d for this season of Vanderpump Rules<\/em>. \u201cThe 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\u2019s girlfriend,\u201d Cohen added.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing could be as heated as last year, but a lot of the topics were incredibly intense and electric,\u201d he said. \u201cThey 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

It might be hard to beat season 10\u2019s record-breaking ratings in the aftermath of Tom Sandoval<\/strong> and Rachel \u201cRaquel\u201d Leviss<\/strong>\u2019 cheating scandal, which rocked the Bravo landscape at the time the news broke. Us Weekly<\/em> <\/a>confirmed in March 2023 that Sandoval and Ariana Madix<\/strong> had ended their nearly decade-long relationship due to his infidelity.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the viewership generated by \u201cScandoval,\u201d season 10 broke viewership records for Bravo and Peacock, hitting 11.4 million average viewers as of June 2023, Variety<\/em><\/a> reported at the time. The first reunion episode alone reached 4.6 million viewers, making it not only the most-viewed Vanderpump<\/em> episode of all time but the most-watched episode of any Bravo series in the past decade.<\/p>\n

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Comparatively, the season 11 premiere episode, \u201cNotes on a Scandal,\u201d brought in a large audience of 3.2 million viewers, per The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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