Call Her Daddy - Lisa Vanderpump: The Queen of Bravo

Episode Date: May 29, 2024

Join Alex in the studio for a hilarious interview with Lisa Vanderpump. Lisa discusses her time on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, how she dealt with so much drama, why she loves to flirt with Andy Cohen, and why sometimes you actually should hold a grudge. Then Lisa and Alex play a chaotic game of Never Have I Ever where Lisa reveals her stance on swinging and secret keeping. She even reveals the time she knew a Bravo cast member was getting cheated on and nobody said anything. Lisa also talks about the craziest reasons she’s ever had to fire people, which Vanderpump Rules cast members she’d like to see hook up, and where she sees the show going in the future. Enjoy!

what is up daddy gang it is your founding father alex cooper with call her daddy lisa vanderpump welcome to call her daddy are they ready for this probably not i don't know if they're ready for this i feel like this is like the match-up that everyone wanted but maybe didn't know they needed so people are gonna freak out that you're here okay good i've had ariana on before during the scandal and that's the only person oh wait i've had stassi on oh yes we hit it off but i was like i was saving the best for last okay so i'm excited how are you doing today i'm good but i've been frantically busy doing everything i've been here there i've been in new york doing the up fronts the upfronts Gordon Ramsay's show you know food stars premieres today I've been doing stuff at Vanderpump Villa reunion I've been in Vegas I've

been in Lake Tahoe because I just opened my new restaurant there I've been here there and everywhere I'm exhausted just like thinking about that I do you ever have any downtime I haven't had as much as I would like for sure. And I think that's important to build it into your schedule. But with, you know, the shows and we have the dog foundation, we just had World Dog Day. I have a lot of responsibilities. So I take that really seriously. I'm thinking about your house, Villa Rosa. Yes, it's a sanctuary. It is the most insane, extravagant place.

Like when I see it on the shows to people that haven't seen it there are ponies there are swans like it is over the top and amazing and everything you could dream of for a house if you do have alone time in your house what are you doing by yourself uh well i love cooking okay so i've made sure my kitchen is absolutely heavenly do you remember when i threw kyle out the house and i kind of put the sledgehammer on there i was like fuck it we're done this is time for a new era song kyle um so i kind of made a kitchen that really you know i have the view the doors open up nicely there's a fireplace when it's cold i really, so I'm very homey in terms of I love doing flowers.

I mean, I'm obsessively always kind of, you know, doing flower arranging. There's something about my home that I feel is the essence of who I am and it will always be. I mean, my children grew up saying, you know, they never heard an argument in our house really yeah I mean I might like punch a shit out of him behind the doors but I just always believed in having that very kind of calming you know I mean I was a little crazy I mean if we weren't dancing on the tables and things like that music plays all the time um and I just really just believed

that calm in my life gives me the strength to deal with everything on the outside right it's like when you go home you're in your sanctuary and then you leave and you deal with all the chaos and i would encourage people no matter how hard you work no matter if it's like one room a beautiful place you know create a space where you really feel i think people are so fascinated by you because you have this lavish life but you do work so hard like you said you're not sitting at home yes what would you consider yourself high maintenance or low maintenance well I mean you see I arrive with nobody today except my dog I know I don't have an assistant yet I should have one you don't have

I do my own nails I have my hair on every six weeks I do my makeup pretty much but I travel with somebody if we have to look through the camera so now I'm very low maintenance but when it comes to do I need fresh flowers and music and the good wine and I like cooking good food that I have high standards so you're high standards on the vibe but for yourself I can't believe like I was expecting oh god no I don't believe like I was expecting. Oh God. No, I don't know if I was expecting a big posse with you. I at least thought you would have like maybe three people. Lisa, I've had musicians come in with 20 people.

But how can you know me and you, I have one dog that travels. Let's talk about Bravo. Yes. Okay. Because obviously you're such an iconic part of Bravo and with Bravo comes drama. Yes. When all of this was starting in your life, when you got on Housewives,

like, did you have any hesitations of doing reality TV? Yes, I did. Because in fact, I'm having dinner tomorrow night with my friend Sharon Osbourne. And so I remember really the essence of reality television was the Osbournes, you know, prior to that. And that seemed such a crazy hot mess. I would think, oh my God, as I said,

I lived in a kind of sanctuary, even though we worked hard. We lived in a really beautiful house and I had a restaurant, Villa Blanca. And I was approached a couple of times and I thought, we don't really fight. I see the funny side of it. I mean, I just, I'm not sure that I'm really right for this. And they said the form that I filled out when I went into the audition was,

eh, eh, it's put a line through it. And, you know, I remember they said they have a tape where they say, you know, tell us about your sex life. And I was like, what, with my husband or with everybody else? And they were like, oh, okay. So I saw the funny side, but I wasn't going to go for the interview because they had they they wanted you to be submitted in groups of people you know like you were a group so these women have put me in a group and and they're women that came to the restaurant and

they were they weren't really friendly with me and i thought oh my god no this is not going to work for me at all so then it was jenn Jennifer Stallone, Jennifer, if you're listening, who said to me, oh, come on, you've got to go for it. Like, go for it. And she made me sit down on their bed and watch the New York Housewives. And they were kind of yelling and screaming at each other. And I was like, Jennifer, this is not me at all. Go for it, go for it.

So I went in and I had no kind of preconception of what was about to transpire. And they asked me this. I was like, oh, fuck, come on. Are you serious? Do they really think I'm going to sit down and tell them about my sex life when I don't even know them? What planet are they on? Because if you remember, right, in the first episode, they said, Lisa, you know, something about your sex life. And I said, oh, yeah, twice a year, you know, like birthdays at Christmas.

That's not my birthday. You know, it's another day off. And they took it seriously. So suddenly I was on the news talking about having sex twice a year. And I was like, oh, shit. Now I better behave because, you know, everything they said was being taken literally. But you're so entertaining. And even just that in itself, like, I think people love that.

And you're so good at it. I was going to see the world through my eyes, you know. And it was just, I didn't care if everybody judged me. I mean, I set myself up for people to hate me because I was like, you know, I love pink. I had a little dog that I carried around that had, you know, terrible kind of skin problems. He was always compromised, cheeky, you know,

had alopecia and stuff. I used to feel uh feed him on a silver platter you know i always took the piss out of my husband you know so it was just like i set myself up for people to go she's a fucking lunatic and guess what they're right you think people thought you were a lunatic well i think you know i set it you know i was this wealthy woman they didn't know how hard i've worked in my life they didn't know that I fed the homeless every Monday for 12 years they didn't know I had you know charities you know that I would support I'd worked hard my whole life uh with Ken I'd be married forever in a day and you know I was living in this big house I loved pink I had a little dog

I drove around a fuck off car you know what I mean so yes I mean it was easy to be obnoxious I think there's something about also television that like whether it's real or not like you being yourself or playing it up for the camera like it's great tv it's that's what I want to see right when I see Paris Hilton and everything she is going on I'm like I'm entertained yeah I'm entertained yeah and so like I don't think anyone can look at that and hate it like they're maybe their jaws are dropping when they see you feeding your dog on a silver platter and they're like I can't even like afford kibble for my freaking dog yeah but it's like it's aspirational and it's funny wait do you actually only have sex two times a year no um not anymore I mean I used to have at least twice a year um no no it

was a joke you know I was like yeah he has to beg you know put his knee pads on and crawl to me beg for you I remember there was a quote from you had a very strong physical connection with my husband I met him I was married within three months that's not somebody that has sex twice a year trust me that's the other deal you have such iconic lines i remember one of your lines was like i like my husband calls me the sex object like he asked for sex and i object i know but you know people i thought if they're going to take it seriously then they don't understand me totally you know is it true i remember reading no probably not let's start with that absolutely not oh by the way i also don't have a publicist

just because i don't give a shit what people talk about me is none of my business so i don't have a publicist i mean i have a lot of publicity because especially with three shows on the air right you know i've done oh my god i don't know what i've done press wise but i don't try to control it it is what it is it is and also like i feel like you're seasoned enough we're like you're not gonna say something that's gonna get you cancelled and like also you can't really get cancelled like unless you do something so awful that you go to jail i guess that's considered cancelled yes i guess which isn't you know right you're not going to jail um okay i'm curious This was the rumor was like, Andy Cohen was like,

not completely sold with Bravo that they were going to do Beverly Hills. Oh, the housewives love it. When you say this, go ahead. Say it. Oh, they're all going to saw my tape that they were his words.

And then it was in the Huffington post. I think he said it. Okay. Tell people the story though. No, I can't. Yeah. Okay. So it's twogent they're his words okay so Andy Cohen said that he wasn't sold if they wanted to do the Beverly Hills franchise oh my god I can see the rich it's just a spinning

right now and then he saw your tape and was like oh I immediately had a vision I immediately know we had to make it and it's like I could see that happening but i'm assuming that pisses the other women off oh i think yeah and then i got vanderpump rules the second season but that was you know that wasn't so much about someone's calling you should we answer yes but oh oh it's kyle saying i just heard that oh my god oh i can't imagine it's Kyle Richards oh no it's my daughter but don't worry don't worry yeah that's my grandson oh so sweet oh I try to spend every minute of every minute hi sweetie I'm in the middle of an interview be back soon so you don't know if it's true those are Andy's words but I do know no he has said it it is true but um and I understand maybe I was a slightly different flavor also being English and being like having a ridiculous sense of humor and even now I mean

I did his I did his watch what happens live the other night and he was like oh my god I really fucking love it Andy stop it do you think you're his favorite housewife? I, well, I mean, I think there's a few people that aren't his favorite housewives now after what he's been through. And I really vociferously defended him because all those allegations were absolute bullshit. They did big investigation. No, I think he's got a love for, there's a few of us, but I think he definitely has connected with me on on many levels and socialized with me that's why it's like if if anybody knew what I was up to Lisa Vanderbilt was I was like oh my god don't take me down that road it's true but it's true I I knew that he was innocent of all this bullshit yeah and also there's something very reassuring for women about

a gold star gay a man that is not attracted to women that you can play with you know you can really i play with andy i'd say very very uh you know like kind of strong sexual innuendos but you know it's not going anywhere oh right right it's a joke it's a joke as a straight man you'd have to be careful you know very careful but andy kern as a straight man is never gonna happen no it's definitely not gonna happen when you're at the center of drama because that is what comes with being on these shows how does it impact you uh well I think I you know when people say oh you didn't turn up for the reunion when you left and I was like no I drew a line in the sand thought that's it I am not going and um I'm not

gonna finish this show I said at the beginning of season you know I'm not going to finish this show. I said at the beginning of the season, you know, I've been very honest about this. I was very involved with the Trevor Project and done PSAs for them. My only sibling committed suicide. I was really like not in good shape. I mean, if I, I've talked about this, if I opened the fridge, you know, and there wasn't milk in there, I'd start to cry.

It was like on that edge all the time. And for the first time in my life, I took some medication, some antidepressants, just to try and get over that. And I was really, yeah, I was not in good shape. And I said, okay, I'll do Vanderpump Rules, which I started filming just, I think, three or four days after my brother's funeral. So I started that and I thought, let's just not talk about it.

But I also don't really have that personal connection on Vanderpump Rules as far as my personal life. We've always seen me mentoring them and supporting them. So we kind of got through that. And then they would come back to Housewives. I said, I just can't do it anymore. And I think about four or five out of the nine years they'd come for me, you know, where they all gang up and they do this and that.

And I'd been at those reunions where I'd sat there, you know, with them all kind of coming at me like, that wasn't funny when you said that, or you did this or you did that. And I was just like, I'm going to leave right now when I threw Kyle out the house and I'm never going back. When you look back, like, why do you think so many of the women came for you? I don't know. I suppose they might have thought I was favored in some way.

I don't know. I really don't know. I mean, I think we all know, but I would never say it. I mean, I had Vanderpump Rules given to me, my own show as executive producer with the same company and the same network, like in the second season of Housewives. So that was a huge privilege, and then that's gone on for 12 years. So maybe suddenly I was sitting on the other side as executive producer with maybe that, you know,

stimulated certain things, don't know but they they certainly didn't make my life easy on that show i was gonna say i think like naturally anyone that's a bystander and like is unbiased can just be like oh there's like a lot of jealousy like the fact that you were able to make something so much bigger out of what you were doing it's amazing well i i i just think whenever anybody says that about themselves like oh they're jealous of me it just sounds pathetic of course self-aggrandizing but i just think i was afforded a lot of kind of um and also the audience would nearly always support me yeah so even when they came against me they never had anything so the audience would always kind of rally in my defense and you know i would do these appearances with rosé and

wine and dog appearances and shelter things in fact i'm doing one this afternoon a shelter thing um and people connected to me you know if it was about my love of dogs our furry friends and if it was about marriage you know having a long marriage if it was about suicide prevention if it was about lgbt issues it was about my son who are adopted from foster together we never really talked about but you know all these issues people would always connect connect with me emotionally and you're funny yeah you're great i mean i never think i'm funny i just think i'm telling my side of the story you're just talking and then it goes i'm just talking i have a narrative that runs through my head all time sometimes i actually think i better

not say that but very rarely normally just say lisa when do you decide like when it's time to confront someone for drama versus when you're just like it's not worth my time I'm not going to address it um well if they're just being ridiculous maybe let them have their moment you know let everybody else tell them but if I feel somebody's lying to me that's it if I feel that you know yeah then I'm going to call them out that's my killer's heel can you give any of the girls listening advice like when someone just like doesn't like you and has it out for you like give us advice like how do we handle that i think you should look at statistics in the world as a woman that's grown up you know amongst many many people

i've not been sitting in an office every day i've been like around the restaurant business there's seven and a half or whatever it is, billion of people in this planet. If somebody doesn't like you, then fuck them. You know what I mean? I mean, I do think also, I do think you should look at things and think, okay, why are they behaving like this?

Often it's jealousy. If you can think, okay, they don't have a good reason really look at yourself objectively you know a friend of mine was going through this relationship and kind of split up with their significant other and i i can see this person's very strong person i kept saying maybe you should look at how you know what your part is in the relationship sometimes i think you know try and have a good look at yourself and your own actions and grow from that. But somebody doesn't like you, they don't have to as well.

You know, sometimes you feel this kind of visceral reaction that I don't really like that person. Right. Then piss off, bye. Exactly. There's somebody else around the corner. Okay, we're going to play a game. Yes.

Never have I ever Bravo edition. If you've ever been in one of these scenarios, tell the story. Okay. Okay, never have I ever gotten a drink thrown in my face. No, I've been there when one, oh no, I wasn't there. That was Brandy Glanville chucking one in Eileen's face. No, I haven't had a drink thrown in my face. That's amazing.

Which owning a bar, that's pretty cool. Have you had one? Have you had one thrown in your face? I have never had one thrown in my face that's amazing which owning a bar that's pretty cool so i have you had one have you had one thrown in your face i have never had one thrown in my face have you ever thrown one i think it's okay it's common on bravo i feel like yes darcy's done it a few times right everyone's chucking shit in people's face yeah yeah i'm like what do i normally drink it runs right something's coming for me i think oh i need to drink this i'll swallow it whole. You're like, oh shit, gotta get drunk. What are they coming at me for? Exactly. What is the fastest way to piss you off? A lying to me. Lying. I don't like late either, really. I mean, I know I was 10 minutes late here

because I was like juggling with things. I've got to meet you at 1130 and I was like, yeah, you've got to delay it. But I don't't like people i think it's disrespectful when you're late because i think you're basically telling somebody that you know your time is worth much more than theirs i don't like that i appreciate that i appreciate that okay never have i ever known a castmate's partner was cheating yes you have yeah in what circumstance well there was somebody that's recently had this kind of complicated scenario. Yeah. In one of the shows, I'm not telling you. And I kind of knew.

Yeah. I've known. Yeah. And in that situation, did you say something to the person or you just let it be? No, I didn't say anything. Why didn't you say anything because sometimes people don't want to hear it you know what i find surprising yeah is that they're on a reality show it's like and they're living their lives and i of course all marriages have problems you know anybody that says oh he's perfect

my love and then they're my king my this and my like fuck off it's like your husband get real it's like sometimes you want to strangle them sometimes like yeah there's parts of it you know like i'm like if you snore one more time i'm gonna put the pillow over your head you know i mean like you've got a choice here is this spare him pillow right was divorced but it's like then suddenly they get divorced but they've been saying oh love me not my king and my this or my that that's not like that you've got two imperfect people right living together that it's not you know and that's bullshit and then on the reality show suddenly how many times have you seen this especially on that show that I used to be on.

How many times is everything just going, gosh, just fine, and then, oh, we're getting a divorce. Oh, okay. You know, or, oh, we've just separated. Oh, we've separated. When it's been going on for months and years. Right, and it's not like you're not being authentic on camera because obviously, I also do agree with you, though,

when people are like, my honey bunny, we're perfect. Yeah, like, perfect yeah like yeah what the fuck is wrong really going on like i don't believe this for a fucking second honey bunny get the fuck down here like the camera is so healthy we have so much sex we're so happy yeah exactly yeah exactly let's uh let's hear the truth right you know okay we couldn't have we've been married a long time and we have you know a lot of good moments and he's got sense of humor and he indulges me in so many things like you know luckily he's got the same passions I have the fact we've got seven dogs I mean most men would be like you know he'd never say like you know when you see these guys they go oh does this dog shed it's a dog yes Ken would never say anything like that you know like right i'm actually curious

when you said you didn't tell the person because they don't want to hear it i feel like a lot of times there's also where you're like because they know yeah sometimes i think right also they're not i often think if you say too much unless then I think that you lose both of them. You know what I mean? Right. Like if you get involved, it's not your place. Yeah.

Especially if they get back together. That's when it gets so awkward. No, but you're right, Lisa. It's like, if you told this woman this, one,

sometimes they don't want to believe it. So then it comes back on you and then they both hate you. Yeah. Or if they do break up and get back together, then they're like, it's too awkward. We can't see you ever. Yeah, exactly. This didn't happen. So you got to go away.

Okay. Can I, it's got to either be Kyle or Doreen. No, you're not guessing or doing or saying anything because that is not a headline I'm living with. So no, it's not either of them. It could be, but it's not. Okay, fair. Okay, fair.

Okay, fair. How did it make you feel when people were convinced that you did know about Tom and Raquel's like affair for so long? Oh, I didn't really even know that. Did they think that I knew? Yeah, there was like a conspiracy during all of it. Oh God, no, no, no, no, no, no. I didn't know.

I did say, well, hold on a second. You know, in the kitchen that time, I was like, Miss Malibu's in the jacuzzi? And I said, that's not, you know, that's not okay. I mean, and Ariana was vociferous in saying, no, no, no, she's my friend. I'm fine with that. And I said, well, I wouldn't be fine with that and I said well I wouldn't be fine with that if I was away on the other side of town and Miss Malibu was in in the jacuzzi with with whoever she is whether it's Raquel or any you know beauty queen was in the you know jacuzzi

with my husband when I was away no that's not okay is this what we call Raquel now Miss Malibu well I do I mean I'm just saying or Miss you know whoever Texas or any gorgeous creature and I'm on the other side of the country and she's sitting in the jacuzzi whether she's got malintent or not my husband would definitely be thinking oh I wonder how long my wife's staying away for you know what I mean it's like yeah no so if I'd known I wouldn't have been saying that yeah you know you're right so i i wouldn't have condoned that if my husband was in a hot tub with a woman yes when you're away dead yeah death yeah exactly get out by yeah penis okay yeah exactly snip snip yes exactly oops bring it over the highway exactly right so

yeah okay so and that was and I was calling it I wouldn't have been calling it if I'd known I was saying hold on a second

I said you lied she just came in looking like a bag of shit remember for the food tasting yes I said what are you doing you look like a wreck you're late

what's going on and they were like oh no we're good friends and you know Ariana was saying oh we're good friends should never do that well you know yeah so but that's also when you feel a gut feeling yeah it's oh it's usually right yeah but my job on that show is to sort this hot mess out so that is something if i had known i would have said hey guys you know that is let's

get it together yeah but she was so vocal about defending raquel but i think that's what took it to a whole different level and then raquel asking her about her sex life while she was banging her husband or boyfriend that was one that was it that felt sociopathic to me that felt like i don't give a fuck about any body's thoughts or feelings i it doesn't permeate, you know, right. If anything,

I'm like interested to know what like your experience is. Cause I'm having it at the same time. How often does he? Yeah. Like, can you imagine if a woman came up to you and asked you that question? I would immediately be like, what is wrong with you?

Yeah. That, yeah, that was sadistic. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. That, yeah, that was sadistic. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Yeah. Never have I ever brought the receipts to prove a point in an argument, like showed the text showed the emails oh i think i've done that but i don't know probably on housewives or

uh yeah yeah like i'm not i don't really have a paper trail it kind of like other things go by i remember um you know i remember somebody like lisa renner i said oh god i hardly ever speak to you on the phone i She said, I've got receipts. 10 phone calls. And I'm like, well, that's hard to hear. You're like, 10 phone calls, that's nothing. 10 phone calls this year is nothing. If I liked you, I'd have called you 10 times this morning.

Yeah, exactly. So I don't know, it's such nonsense. Are you good at keeping secrets for people? Very good. Yeah, very good. You're like a vault. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. That's good. But it's not because I'm loyal, it's because I forget. you good at keeping secrets for people very good yeah very good you're like a vault yeah i love

that yeah that's good but it's not because i'm loyal because i forget i'm obsessed with you stop they tell you like this deep dark secret a couple months later so hold on a second was it you that oh yes maybe okay never have i ever participated in swinging no oh but my parents have no way wait how did you know well it was the 60s oh my god my father's still alive i hope this doesn't kill him this doesn't go to england does it this is what ends it all stop how did you know your parents were swinging i remember them talking about. How did you know your parents were swinging? I remember them talking about the 60s. You know,

they were like young, newly married and everybody was kind of doing that a bit, you know. They didn't give me details. I think they gave details to my nephew.

They're one of their grandsons and I was like, oh, I really don't want to even think about that. When I saw, you know, Jon Hamm

and I didn't, yeah, and I heard, I didn't't I didn't know about his nether regions as well somebody told me that afterwards I was saying John Hamm and they went well you know about John Hamm wait I don't know about John Hamm oh does he have a big penis no no but they would talk about it there's many I mean it should have its own Instagram apparently I said that but I mean there were these pictures of saying oh really yeah no but it was covered it was decent but it was but it was big but yeah but we were laughing oh and you're like

oh ken should we swing to the left over here with john o'hare oh no you'd have to wake me up and give me a cup of tea first no no i don't have the energy for swinging has anyone ever approached you to swing um i think i might have had hints oh you know but uh it's kind of insulting i would like people to approach me on a daily basis if you're listening to this you want to swing please ask me um no it's like i think i was so obsessively i'm a little jealous as well i think obsessively in love with my husband, getting married so quick and being so young. You couldn't see him with another woman? No, I don't really want to share him. You'd like be with the...

I could have somebody. I don't think that would be quite what he was envisaging. Like, oh, see that really handsome guy over there? Should we swing with him? That's probably not what he would be up for. Or if you're super jealous you would like be with the other woman's like husband and you'd be like hanging up my shoulder exactly i'll be like oh my god i'll be on all fours like and i'll be like what

what's he doing i'd be way more interested in what he was doing than what i was doing i'm upset no i, I haven't. The answer, never have I ever. Okay, never have ever. I'm probably at this stage not going to. That's kind of sad. It's okay, but you know. Well, mind you, I put it out there now.

Maybe I'll get lots of opportunities. Oh, I bet there's going to be so many people now. Yes. So many people. Oh, I'll pass. I'd rather have a cup of tea. Okay. Okay, never have I ever.

Well, will you be married as long as I have? Like, how many? Let's think. think so 42 years so that's gonna be like 14 000 days roughly do you think there's anything that I haven't done that I need to do probably not I mean there's things I haven't done but there are things I haven't done that I haven't wanted to do have you ever like are you no no I'm like do you want me to ask you a couple sexual questions no not really okay um never have I ever shared a secret with a cast mate and then they went and shared it on camera

gosh I don't remember that I'm sure it's happened no but I do remember now I haven't watched Beverly Hills I don't care what anybody says I haven't watched it I've seen sometimes snippets on Twitter where they'll have like a little screen thing and you click on it I think oh I wonder what's going on it was like Erika Jayne and Kyle and she said something like Erika Jayne said oh you said I'm glad that everybody's gonna see how mean Kathy is or what she's really like you know and Kyle turned around said yeah but that was supposed to be between us no no yes and I thought oh my god yeah no but that feels like a theme in reality tv where wasn't it like Lala and Katie in the reunion it was like Lala was upset with Katie because she's like you literally said that you were like basically hating on Ariana

to me off camera and then you're acting all nice on camera. I don't like that. I think it's just keep it straight. And also, as I say, my mind's so full of other things. I find that it's much easier just to play the one, you know, play it as it is. Because I can't remember what's on camera, what's off camera, what I did yesterday, what I did today. And it's just like when people say, oh, you're lying. My memory's not good enough to lie. I have to speak from experience's off camera what I did yesterday what I did today and it's just like when people say oh you're lying my memory's not good enough to lie I have to speak from

experience you know what I mean yeah I remember things concisely you know absolutely when I experience them if I'm making it up I don't remember what I made up I that's a good point yeah no no do you think though now people with social media are getting like too afraid to act certain ways in front of camera because of what like the public and the comments are gonna say I think the most popular reality stars are people that are truly authentic and don't give a fuck I mean I think one of the best reality stars I've ever worked with is James Kennedy and he's got it wrong on so many levels so good and he's seen so much growth with him.

He's so entertaining. Do you think that I still have the infamous scene back in the day when he was talking to Lala and they're like yelling about pasta and everyone was like, this has to be about drugs. This has to be cocaine. Do you think it's actually about pasta? No, I think it's not about that. Yeah,

it's not. It's not about the pasta. That was one of the funniest scenes. I think. Yeah, that is one. It was kind of the funniest scenes. I think, yeah, that is one. It was kind of iconic that it was on T-shirts after. I don't know, really. I mean, they've both been pretty open.

Yeah. And I think I love the duo together. I can't imagine those two when they say they've had sex a couple of times. It's like, that just doesn't seem to me. How do they ever get there, those two? It doesn't mean. It doesn't make sense to me either. I feel like she's such a woman.

You can't text. I'm not. I'm looking because my meeting's at 1130. No, it's 1050. Yeah. You have time. It's 1051. Oh, my God. I actually can't picture Lala and him having sex either because I feel like.

The cup of tea that they offered me when I first came in was so nice said no one ever get you tea they said would you like anything I said oh cup to be great never happened can someone text Charlie for a cup of tea yeah how much tea do you drink during the day a lot probably too much really yeah but more tea than alcohol which is kind of unique do you ever spike your tea a little bit what with alcohol yeah no that's quite is that a good idea no i don't think i don't drink in the day very rarely you never see me drink i think you can spike your tea a couple times and see where it takes you lisa well yeah yeah i got here without it really i probably don't need it do you think you'll ever be friends with any of the women again from housewives let me think about that for a moment no no um well i think if there's a true apology

and actually somebody says you know what i really regret it and i'm really sorry i said that and i know i tried to uh humiliate you or whatever then yes there would always be room but you'll never get that from them are you someone that holds grudges yeah i do fuck off i'm like yeah i'm gonna hold the grudge i mean i won't hold a grudge till it's like if it's detrimental to me if it's like you know if it's eating away at you and you're angry about it then i think you've got to sort it out but if holding a grudge is mean i'm done and i don't want to yes because i know who you are i see who you are you don't have the best intention for me now that's a grudge but if it's something that's eating away at you that you have that feeling yourself that's not healthy i'd

rather get rid of that like i haven't really been angry about you know housewives i mean i get asked about it a lot i really very rarely ever bring it on myself but if it was eating away at me or something like that then i think okay i need to sort this out so i would always say that as advice if it's eating away you you need to deal with it but if you could actually go oh i'm done and if that's a grudge yeah hold it hold it tightly i completely agree because i feel like a grudge for me i'm like i want to normalize having grudges more if you know what someone is even if they apologize to me sure clear the air but I still don't like you yeah and that's yeah exactly that's okay because if I thought you were a good person

and you weren't and I got it wrong before now you've shown me the old expression you know fool me once fool me twice but or shame on shame on you shame on me you know that's so no that now that's a grudge yeah i'm all about that i'm all about like i'm not gonna be yeah i'm not gonna be stupid you know it's just like if somebody screws you financially in business you're not gonna lend them money again how about that period right okay let's talk about vanderpump rules your mistakes my girls okay the original cast were employed at your restaurant yes and you were their boss yes what is the most insane thing you've had to fire someone for oh all kinds of things over the years

running restaurants i mean of course the shagging in the back and everything i mean god i mean that's stealing and um stealing oh of course not on v Vanderpump Rules. I mean, in the restaurant business, I've seen so many things. Oh, my God. Just even with people coming in. I mean, imagine you have your house open and you have maybe a thousand people come through that door every night. At some point, you're going to go, what the fuck? How often are they having sex?

Not just that, but where's my... Where's the big mirror in my bathroom? How did they get it out there during lunch? You know, stupid shit. Yeah, or not just that, but where's my, where's the big mirror in my bathroom? How did they get it out there during lunch? You know, stupid shit, you know, like you think, oh my God. Yeah, there's been a lot of creative ways of stealing that we've caught, you know, that you think, you know, people bring their own liquor and things like that. Yeah, I mean. Stealing a mirror and winding up.

Yeah, yeah. Many, many things and wine yeah yeah many things yeah many different things okay i didn't realize that sir stands for sexy unique restaurant it doesn't start we just put that up next to it but it was south in spanish because remember i bought into that restaurant when it was about a tenth of the size to get my visa because I was in the restaurant business we wanted to stay here so we thought do what we know best yeah okay what is your most sexy and unique quality Lisa um I'm very tactile I mean you saw the way I make out with my dog imagine that like you know like I am like very yeah listen you see the way I make out with my dog imagine that like you know like I am like very yeah listen you see the way I do flowers you see the way I run a business you see the way I decorate you see the way I'm with my dog you see the way I'm I'm like a perfectionist so of course as a lover and

this isn't to those people that want to swing with me because you'd I'd really be a big disappointment but I'm talking about in the past if there are a couple of people that approach me to swing forget it i'm too lazy for that now but i'm a perfectionist so i think even making love i could be a perfectionist oh lisa right that was a good that's sexy isn't it even you're thinking oh my god who is this woman yeah that's i'm just trying to picture it i'm like oh my god it's so sensual okay that's a good answer okay if you had to pick which vanderpump rules cast member were you most like in your 20s any cast member from all seasons i think i'm quite a lot like starcy in a way I'm not chucking people chucking drinks in people's faces

but I was always kind of out for Stassi sees the funny side Stassi um you know it was such a disappointment to me when she was let go but it was a sign of the times everybody was you know reacting to what was going on in the world and I agree I understood that but I think that if we all look back on what we did when we were younger you know like everybody makes so many mistakes yeah I think that's the whole point of growth you know and as I say in this new show Gordon Ramsay's show seeing people how they developed oh my god how I saw the growth in this show of people like they came in like this and they left like this right so that's to me one of the most exciting things and I think Stassi's taken it and run with it

which I think is great I agree I think she had like one of the most iconic like character arcs in that show of just like how she started with Jack I don't give a fuck and I'm gonna say exactly what I want to say that makes for the the best TV, like you said. James Kennedy. Yeah, no apologies. That group over the years has been like, kind of like a little incestuous. Like everyone's kind of getting it. A little? They've all shagged each other.

Oh my God, a little? What's a lot that according to you, please, define any greater incest than I have shown you in that group please I was trying to be like just like calm about it just tell it how it is what is your stance on like that concept of like homie hopping of like everyone kind of like

getting with each other's friends and getting with each other's boyfriends and girlfriends well I mean there's only a few dynamics left to like it's all gone and done who would we need to hook up? Lala and Schwartz. Do you think it would ever happen? I wouldn't mind that, actually.

I wouldn't mind that. You wouldn't? I mean, Schwartz is very kind. He's kind, but, like, he can't stand up for shit. I know, I know. And Lala needs someone to be like, yeah, I agree with you, I back you. He can't even, like, back himself. Yeah, but maybe you could just carry the baby around

and say yes and cuddle and stuff. I've always found him adorable. I know he got it totally wrong. I'm obsessed. Yes. there's been a lot of drama over the years but obviously the biggest thing was scandal that took the internet ariana got a lot of heat this season because she didn't want to film with tom in specific moments like what is your take on that whole thing well i think it was just because the juxtaposition of her living with him and then saying no i i won't have that conversation with him that was what was frustrating i think maybe if she'd drawn a line in the sand said that's it

i don't want to see him ever again hope he falls off the side of a cliff um but you know it was it was all very you know i i wasn't on tom's side at all, but I was on the side of empathy. And when the whole world was against him, I've talked about this many times, sitting at the White House Correspondents Dinner and they bring it up, sitting in Adele's concert, they bring it up, seeing it on CNN's headline. It was kind of, the punishment didn't befit the crime.

And I mean, of course, I don't condone what he did in any shape or form, but I think when the whole world's against you, sometimes it's a very dangerous thing for, as I saw I saw my brother and you feel there's no way out at that time and the ovary you know so and when he sat and told me I wouldn't use all of it but he sat and told me and I said as an executive producer guys you have to use this you have to be honest and show him you know in in this moment of just like the suicide ideation scared me. Now, whether some people say, you know, oh, he's acting or oh, it's not true, it's not authentic. I don't give a shit.

I have experienced suicide firsthand with my brother. And for me, I'd rather not take that chance. So I felt that he did so many great things as well for people over the years. I mean, you know, I was talking to Israel. Do you remember Israel, who actually now works for me? He was telling me how when he used to sleep on the floor, Sandoval used to pay his rent so he wouldn't, you know. So Sandoval has a lot of good components.

Do you? He has a girlfriend now, right? Yes. How can, do you think he's going to cheat on her? Yes. I don't know. Maybe this is the one. No.

Maybe this is the one. I don't think that Sandoval, from my knowledge, is that sexually motivated. Because I think he said that... I just don't think it's that kind of guy you know where there's a lot of guy that's right like anything right like i don't think he's like that but uh i think this girl apparently is gorgeous oh no i thought the tea was coming is it coming so it's christmas they're working on it i think they probably didn't know like if we they were allowed to interrupt because sometimes i'm like lock the door don't come oh really oh yeah i'm like get out of my studio okay let's talk about you being what kind of boss are you i'm like i'm locking myself in this room don't bother me because i don't want to interrupt that's good

what if you were saying something so brilliant and the door probably not gonna happen i feel like the it kind of ended this season and it was like the friend group is a disaster we've been in that that place before but do you think it's gonna continue like well i think the thing is with this show is i think that people feel very attached to it because they've grown up with it and there's been at some point somebody will identify with one of them in the group and i think that it will be hard for people really to let it go. So do I think it would be back? Yes.

Do I think it needs to breathe? Yes. Am I totally busy? And so, you know, opening another restaurant? Yes. So I think let's just give it a minute. Let everybody live their life. I have a pitch for you.

Go on then. I say no because yeah i think i'm so busy but i think that the next season of vanderpump yes should be you getting everyone in a room yes and firing all swinging oh no swinging you're like lala get over here katie get over here and you fire all of them yeah and you push them to a different show that's more like grown up or whatever and you bring a whole new cast in and you start fresh and everyone works at sir and it's all young talent and these kids like have no instagram following yet and you start fresh like i would die to watch kids back in at sir like trying to make it in the acting or

modeling agency and like get back at it. And I have many of them, but I do have three shows on the air right now. I know, I know. But I live in LA, so I'm like addicted to the LA. But I know, I know. You know what? From your mouth to God's ears, that might be a thought. Can you imagine the season?

Here's your tea. What is this? Oh my God. Do you have options because we don't have any? Do you want black tea with milk, green tea, or herbal tea? Black tea with milk? I like your dungarees. I said that when I came in.

I like your dungarees. Your dungarees? Yeah, what do you call them? Overalls? Overalls. No, they're dungarees. Yeah. Which one?

Black tea and milk? Try them all. I'm worried about it. I'm worried about it too. You know, I never understand why people leave the teabag in it. What do they say? Expect us to chew on it? My assistant's going to fucking start crying. Chew on it?

She's literally like... Okay, let's try it. Black tea and milk. Yeah. You can just throw it on the side table. It doesn't matter. Yeah. I mean, I like the color of the cup.

It's pink. It's cute. Yeah, but the tea's a disaster. Awful. Oh, you wanted it black no i wanted it lighter like the color of the wood it's a disaster pasta it's really nice oh i love this tea said no whatever no my assistant's crying in the corner now. It's better than nothing. I loved her dungarees, I told you. I love her dungarees. Say overalls. Overalls. Overalls.

I love her overalls. Oh, my God. You like it? Wait, say it. Shall I speak with American accent all the time? Yes. You like that? Say cheeseburger.

Cheeseburger. Oh, this really works for me. Say donut. I love call her daddy. Donut, I love Call Her Daddy. Donut, I love Call Her Daddy. Or do you like it like this? Donut, I love Call Her Daddy. What do you think?

So do you like my pitch? I can't say. But. You like it. It's not necessarily your pitch. Somebody might have got there before you okay but like the drama of everyone getting fired oh i'm not gonna start opening i i have a loyalty to these people but you wouldn't actually welcome back i've signed you back just for one episode

bye no there are still stories to tell oh l Lisa yes okay what projects obviously the season is wrapped so talk to me about your other projects Gordon Ramsay that was epic working with him for two months I mean Gordon's like a lot to handle so I thought okay but we knew each other before so I knew that it was going to be backwards and forwards you know but I think for him it was very different because normally he's the authoritarian and everything he does and then he met me so yeah it's definitely a different show did you put him in his place well yeah i kind of enjoyed doing that a little bit oh you got a little excited not a little bit a lot a lot okay last two questions what is the best part and worst part of essentially living your life on TV?

I don't like it when people lie about you. That's the worst part. The best part, there are so many beautiful things that have been forever documented. Good times, bad times. My daughter's wedding. My little grandbaby crawling across you know the carpet like i mean when we filmed him you know just once or twice vanderpump villa seeing the beauty and the experience that we all had there wonderful wonderful moments really yeah really um my my life hasn't changed that much not like some people when they you know on television i mean of course the fame and everything but I spent a lot of time at home I'm still in my restaurants um but you know when you met me

on television I had a beautiful house I'd had 37 restaurants prior to that that we'd sold you know and um I had a you know a nice lifestyle it wasn't like some people they start and then they get this incredible lifestyle and don't know how to handle it my life materially hasn't changed yeah well not always but i mean when you first sent it sorry yeah exactly so that hasn't changed but the incredible experiences that i've had being able to go to congress to change laws about humane treatment of dogs congress watched housewives i mean so having access to so many things being voted you know one of the women of the year by state assembly like just i mean speaking at causes that i'm passionate about being given so many opportunities can't minimize that

ever what do you think is the biggest misconception about you that i'm a homemaker i don't mind people thinking that. I just feel really, sometimes I'm thinking, oh, am I disappointing them when I show up on my own and I'm doing my own makeup? I'm thinking maybe they would like me to be like certain members of Housewives when I had all this shit and people running around after me.

I can't even get a cup of tea in this place. I know. Okay, I feel like I have to ask you go ahead now it's my last question i just need to know now that you've told me all these little things yes um lisa vanderpump yes what is your favorite sex position oh god it's so long ago i don't remember um i think it's on my back asleep. Lisa! And on that note, good night.

Lisa, thank you so much for coming on. This was so fun. Thank you. I thought that would have been your first question. That's what I was prepared for. I actually said, Bob, are they going to be talking about sex all the time? So it's going to be a very short interview. If they do.

I mean, I could ask you if you have any blowjob tips. Oh yeah. All of them. Just all of it. Just do it. Swallow it whole. Bye darling.

Love you. I have to go. Thank you. Of course. Thank you. You're hilarious. Oh my God. No,

thank you so much you finally got your tea yes and it ain't that good it's better than nothing