Andy Cohen is Vander-Pumped.
Previously few weeks, information broke of a scandal amongst the forged of the fact sequence 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.
In response to Cohen, the season had already wrapped capturing 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 have been known as, forged was known as and we now have been capturing in real-time the entire fallout from what occurred,” he informed Adweek’s Jason Lynch.
Although the cameras have been introduced in for added footage, Cohen mentioned what’s “shocking” is that the episodes presently 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 feel have been gorgeous for folks.”
Cohen continued, saying individuals are “going to be held accountable for his or her phrases” on Thursday’s reunion, noting that below the dishonest scandal context, conversations that initially meant one thing completely different are being proven in a complete new mild.
Constructing a Actual franchise
In addition to 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 once we acquired to the purpose the place there have been going to be two completely different Housewives sequence airing on two completely different nights,” Cohen mentioned. “Are viewers going to just accept this? Are they going to be OK with this? Now we’re as much as about three working on the similar time, and now, after all, we now have Peacock. There’s a complete different ecosystem taking place down the way in which.”
