Vanderpump Rules alums Katie Maloney and Dayna Kathan are spilling the tea. Filming on VPR was chaotic and messy. And many of their costars are to blame for this.
Katie and Dayna can freely talk about whatever they want now, as their contracts with Bravo are done. When Season 12 rolls around, a completely new cast will appear, which these women support. They agree that the original cast has outgrown this series. And they also feel like their former boss, Lisa Vanderpump, coddled the men.
Now that they are free birds, Katie and Dayna are co-singing from their drama-free branches. So, without any further adieu, here is everything Katie and Dayna have spilled about their (mostly) well-wasted years spent filming on VPR.
Katie Maloney and Dayna Kathan discuss their love-hate relationships with certain seasons of VPR
Katie and Dayna recently appeared alongside Harry Jowsey on his Boyfriend Material podcast, where talks of VPR reigned supreme. As they noted, not all seasons of this series were created equally. This caused Harry to interject a game of F*ck, Marry, Kill, where their answers were not to include any names from their cast. Instead, Harry wanted them to list three seasons to fit within each of these sloppy categories.
Katie answered first, noting, “I would f*ck Season 1, marry Season 3, and kill Season 11.”
Dayna was up next. Like Katie, Dayna would “f*ck probably Season 1.” However, Dayna chose to “marry Season 2 and kill Season 8.”
Noting their shared love of the inaugural season, Harry asked, “Why do we wanna f*ck Season 1?” Katie responded that their first run was “pretty great.” As for Dayna, she feels like the “first few seasons” of this series “were iconic.”
But after these first few seasons aired, production began adding new cast members. Katie believes Pump Rules remained “interesting,” but there were many new stories to cover, and these extra narratives created a shift within this series.
Filming on VPR is chaotic and inconsistent, Katie Maloney explains
Katie spit straight facts on VPR. Sadly, many of her colleagues failed to listen to her instincts. Why listen to women when you can condemn their reactions to your behaviors instead? Nevertheless, Katie called it as she saw it for 11 seasons straight, but this task looked different with each day that passed.
Many times, the cast of VPR “filmed Tuesday through Saturday,” Katie explained. Their production crews were unionized, so their working hours were firm. However, issues often popped up requiring immediate usage of their cameras. Therefore, this series had “three crews that” cycled through their work weeks.
While production had set hours, the cast members did not. “Sometimes, I would film like all day,” Katie noted. And on those days, Katie would typically start filming at a house. After, she would hit up a happy hour or something similar with her costars.
Other times, Katie might have to attend “one group event that day. So it changed every day. And sometimes if there was drama, someone got to fight the night before, then your entire schedule changed the next day,” she added.
Shocked, Harry asked the ladies how quickly production arrived at their doorsteps whenever unexpected dramas arose. “Oh, lightning speed,” Katie quipped.
Katie Maloney and Dayna Kathan clock their self-producing former VPR costars
Seeking clarification, Harry asked if they could quietly text each other for a heads-up on what these spontaneous filming sessions entailed. Katie answered that they could, but Dayna stressed that they were “not supposed to.” Katie preferred zero heads-ups, however, as she did not “want to hear something twice.” But also, “your first initial reaction to something” will always be “way more fascinating than having to fake it,” she declared.
Unlike Katie, there was “one girl” in this series who “made a habit of” texting scene spoilers to her costars. This unnamed female would text her man specifics on what others were saying, and production loathed this once they caught wind. Hashtag, they made this stop happening.
Katie was not a fan of these self-producing moments, like when another one of her costars changed their approaches to try and score a winning edit on their series. As Katie stressed, “People think that they can sway” the audience, but “You are just so f*cked if you think you can predict what an audience” might “think or feel.”
Likewise, Katie Maloney and Dayna Kathan admit that production sometimes made VPR feel weird
Katie starred in all 11 seasons of VPR. Meanwhile, Dayna only appeared in the later seasons, and her scenes were few and far between. But both girls can agree that one storyline felt weird. And yes, they are talking about how they all had to pretend they still worked at SUR as this series aged.
“When I joined in Season 8, they forced me to work there,” Dayna revealed, adding that she “had never served before” this date. Katie then chimed in, saying, “We worked there for so long,” but in “Season 6 or 7, we stopped working there because it was hard. We were working like modified shifts.”
Most nights, Katie was only given a tiny section to work to help “keep up the appearances of working there and the entire show itself.” Katie does not “think anyone anticipated the show going that long,” so when it did, adaptations had to be made.
And these adaptations made things weird. By Season 8, Dayna felt “it was so clear that” no one worked at SUR anymore, so when production tried to write their old jobs into their current storylines,” these narratives fell flat. Case in point, Dayna recalled a time when Jax Taylor had to “go in and bartend.” On air, Jax said he sometimes likes to pick up extra shifts, but “it was so clear that it was so phony,” Dayna stressed, as Jax had “just bought a house, [so] obviously, he does not need to go bartend a shift.”
Katie Maloney and Dayna Kathan share their thoughts on Lisa Vanderpump, the new cast of VPR, and love
Fake jobs and real haters aside, Katie and Dayna are now free. But before the reboot sounded, Katie had already decided that she was dipping out from this series. “It was a long time to be on a show, and I never thought I would get to the point where I wanted to walk away. But so many relationships were damaged beyond repair,” so Katie felt like leaving was in her best interest.
Sadly (for us), Katie does not know who their replacements will be when VPR returns with a whole new cast. But she did tease that this cast was “doing a little bit of filming or something at SUR Restaurant last year.” So, it sounds like VPR is returning to its glory days, featuring actual staff members who still work at SUR.
The topic then shifted to LVP, whom Harry adores and fears. “She loves a hot young man,” Dayna joked. But then Katie noted that her ex and LVP “had a weird thing,” as “he had a crush on her, and she would baby him in ways,” leaving Katie (sarcastically) feeling “like, alright.”
But this era in her life has passed. Katie has a new man now, who is “supportive in every way imaginable. He supports my opinions, my thoughts, my feelings, my dreams, [and] my moods,” Katie gushed.
Vanderpump Rules is streaming on Peacock.
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This story originally appeared on Realitytea
