Andy Cohen is Vander-Pumped.
Prior to now few weeks, information broke of a scandal amongst the solid of the fact collection Vanderpump Guidelines, as Tom Sandoval cheated on longtime associate Ariana Madix with castmate Raquel Leviss.
Since then, the dishonest information has taken over social media and on-line discourse to the purpose that explainers are even showing within the likes of The New York Occasions.
At Adweek’s Convergent TV Summit on Tuesday, Cohen, who’s internet hosting the Vanderpump Guidelines reunion present that’s filming on Thursday, addressed the scandal, revealing behind-the-scenes secrets and techniques.
Based on Cohen, the season had already wrapped taking pictures earlier than information of the scandal broke, and although it’s not unusual to renew filming after a season wraps, the magnitude of the subject is unprecedented.
“This information got here out and cameras had been referred to as, solid was referred to as and we’ve been taking pictures in real-time all the fallout from what occurred,” he advised Adweek’s Jason Lynch.
Although the cameras had been introduced in for extra footage, Cohen stated what’s “shocking” is that the episodes at the moment airing haven’t been recut, and any supposed foreshadowing to the dishonest scandal was there all alongside.
“They’re simply that prescient to what’s going on proper now. So the final couple of episodes which have aired, I believe have been beautiful for folks.”
Cohen continued, saying individuals are “going to be held accountable for his or her phrases” on Thursday’s reunion, noting that underneath the dishonest scandal context, conversations that initially meant one thing totally different are being proven in a complete new gentle.
Constructing a Actual franchise
Moreover commenting on the Vanderpump Guidelines drama, Cohen talked about constructing out TV universes.
The previous Bravo exec is an government producer on The Actual Housewives franchise, which began in 2006 with The Actual Housewives of Orange County and has since expanded to incorporate eleven U.S. installments and a dozen worldwide ones.
“It was an enormous deal years in the past after we bought to the purpose the place there have been going to be two totally different Housewives collection airing on two totally different nights,” Cohen stated. “Are viewers going to just accept this? Are they going to be OK with this? Now we’re as much as about three operating on the similar time, and now, in fact, we’ve Peacock. There’s a complete different ecosystem occurring down the way in which.”
