She continued, “If I did go back, I wouldn't have been able to do the job that would make a good show. And so it just wasn't going to make sense, the story didn't make sense.”

Ariana Madix reveals she was "never" going to go back to filming Vanderpump Rules and explains why she hates the term "Scandoval."

Ariana Madix recently revealed if she ever thought of returning to Vanderpump Rules after Tom Sandoval’s cheating scandal.

News broke in November 2024 that the next season of VPR would feature an all-new class of “close-knit SUR-vers” at Lisa Vanderpump ’s Hollywood eatery. Per a press release from Bravo, the cast is “as complicatedly involved with one another as their iconic predecessors.”

Ariana Madix recently revealed she was "never" planning to go back to "Vanderpump Rules," but it's not for the reason you'd expect.

Vanderpump Rules’ alum Ariana Madix reflects on ex-boyfriend Tom Sandoval’s cheating scandal and the moment she decided to leave the Bravo reality series prior to the show’s season 12 recasting.