Vanderpump Rules confirms spinoff centered on formerly fired cast members

Taylor and Doute’s removal from the show—reportedly in connection with Doute admitting that she and fellow series star Stassi Schroeder reported Stowers, who’s Black, to the cops for a crime she didn’t commit, and Taylor accused her of being a criminal on social media—came in 2020, amidst heightened focus on American racism in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. At the time, Bravo made at least token efforts to clean house, firing Doute and Schroeder in June of 2020, and Taylor and wife Brittany Cartwright at the end of the year.

But that was four years, and one whole “Scandoval” ago; Taylor and Doute both guested on the show’s most recent season, and have apparently been deemed palatable enough in Bravo’s eye at this point to anchor a whole new series. The Valley will focus on five couples (Taylor and Cartwright, Doute and boyfriend Luke Broderick, Danny and Nia Booko, Jesse and Michelle Lally; and Jason and Janet Caperna) as they try to put aside their days of partying, bottle service, and falsely calling the cops on co-workers, in favor of child-rearing, maturity, and being almost, it sounds, overwhelmingly and deliberately dull. The series will begin running some time this spring.