Vanderpump Rules star Kristen Doute is quickly becoming one of the biggest pot-stirrers on all of Bravo, which says an awful lot about Kristen Doute.
With the return of Vanderpump Rules Season 3 Episode 1 this week, it’s clear that the dynamic has changed so much, and yet the more things change …
How does Kristen assess the new season of the hit reality series? Specifically the allegations among viewers that the drama is more scripted than ever?
“You can’t script something like this. This is how we have been for so many years. I understand why fans say ‘there’s no way that this can be real.'”
“But I have known these people for so many years. I dated Tom for six years and the show’s only be on for a couple of years. It just kind of happened.”
Does the think the show was the cause of a rift between herself and Tom?
“You know I’ve thought about that a little. I think everything would have happened anyway. Maybe it wouldn’t have been quite as explosive,” Doute says.
“I definitely think certain people on the cast have developed an ego.”
Who specifically? “The boys. Jax and Tom. But everything that happened, happened anyway. You can’t blame it on a camera or a TV show, or anything else around it.”
“I still made the mistakes I did, as they all did.”
As for how life has changed with fame, considering that – as you know if you watch Vanderpump Rules online – she still waits tables at SUR on the show?
“It can be a little bit tough because as much as I love the fans and it’s so validating to know that they’re coming in just to see us,” she says, but there’s a downside.
“It can be a little bit like being a caged animal in the zoo maybe, especially with not so nice female fans that like to come in and have a few too many drinks.”
“I’ve had my fair share of women coming in and after having a couple of drinks they’re telling Tom, in the past, right in front of my face, not to date me.”
“Stassi went through that in the past year with Jax,” she adds, noting that the fans who come in are “not afraid to give you their opinion, and their two cents.”
As for the big boss lady, she says “it’s no surprise” that she and Lisa Vanderpump “butt heads. I might not be her favorite on the show or in real life.”
“But, I’ll always say I respect Lisa as a businesswoman first and foremost. I’m very, very grateful for everything that she’s done for us and done for me.”
“Lisa and I are a lot alike and we’re extremely stubborn and it’s kind of like this is how I feel and if you don’t like it, too bad, and she’s the exact same way.”