‘The Valley’ Ep On Show’s Future Without Jax Taylor, Scheana Shay’s Husband’s Infidelity and the “Gen Z” ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Reboot

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Alex Baskin Knows there are a Lot of quests about the Future of The ValleyEspecially Considering One of Its Founding Cast Members, Jax Taylor, Just AnnounCed His Departure from the Bravo Series Last Wednesday.

“We’re Making Our Plans for Next Season,” The Executive Producer Tells The Hollywood Reporter. “JAX is Obviously A Mainstay. We Did Spend Half the Season Without Him, and that Period of Time Was Really Full and Rich, so i don [searching] For Story To Tell. I Think It’s Going to Be Different, But I DON’T THINK DIFFERENT IS A BAD THING. ”

An Extension of Vanderpump RulesThe Spinoff Was Created AROUND The CRUX OF FOLLOWING The FORMER STARS OF THE LISA VANDERPUMP-PLE Series Into Their Adult Lives, Living in California’s San Fernando Valley. With no shortage of Drama, The Valley HAS WRAPPED ITS SOPHOMORE SEASON MORE BROKEN THAN WHEN FILMING ON Season Two Began.

Plagved by the sepation and, as the Season Played Out, the Beginning of Taylor and Brittany Cartwright’s Divorce, Season Two Was Tainted by a domestic Situ. His wife and flipped a cofee tablee that bruced her knee. The incident Led Him to Reveal A Cocaine Addiction, Go to Rehab and Continue A Series of Questionable Behavioures On- And Off-Camera, Wich Ultimately Sparked a Push.

“I Think in Some Cases the Responsse from the Audience is a good Thing,“ Baskin Admits. “I THINK IT FORCES COMEONE TO ASSESSSESS WEERE ARE AND WHAT they MIGHT NEED TO DO.”

SEASON TWO WAS Full of Dark Subject Matter (Including Danny Booko InApproprital Grabbing Jasmine Goode’s Partner, Allegations that Jason Jason Caperna Takes His Weding Ring, Wedding, Wedding, Wedding, Wedding His, Allegations that Jas -Thorta Jas. Though Valley Star Kristen Doute’s Engagement and the Recent Off-Camera Welcoming of Her First Child, After Bringing Viewers Along Her Fertility Journy, Was an Undubted Shining Light Amid.

In a post-mortem interview with ThrBaskin Discusses What Shifts Will Come in A Potential Next Season of The Valley (Thought the Series Hasn’s Vanderpump Rules Reboot and his reaction to scroana Shay Recently Recentling She Omitted Her Husband’s Infidelity in Season 11.

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Throughout Everything Brittany Has Gone Through Amid Her Separation With Jax, She Kept A Great Positive Attitude Througout Season Two. How did you navigate Supporting Her and ALLOWING HER to Tell Her Side of the Story While Also Still Jugling that of the Other Side of Her Story Story Comes from A Cast Member on the Show?

I’ITK IN MANY WAYS TOSE TWO Things Are In Alignment, Because The Fact That It Involved Another Cast Mamber On the Show Meant that Went of, Bytts View. I Think It Made It Easier to Put It All Out there, and Brittany Was Really Determinated to Tell The Entirety of the Story. She Started the Season A Changed Person Who Sort of Found a Reserve of Strenguth that She Didn’t Previoously Have. She very Much Wanted to Share What She Was Going Through, and In Fact, She, In Some Ways, Couldn’s Help It. This Was The Story of Her Life, and She Was Really Compelled to Share It With Her Friends, and by Extension, The Audence. And so we told the story from Start to Finish, and Obviously It Culminates in the Reunion.

Another Crucial Piece of Brittany’s Story Is Her Son. She Revealed that Dringing Season Two, She Was Going Through Cruz’s Autism Testing, and Ten Right Before Season Two Came Out, She ALSO REVEALED THAT HER SON WAS DIAGNOSM. Her Story is Inspiring, Not Only Going Through Her Separation, But Also Navigating Motherhood. WHAT MOMENTS DO YOU THINK, IF NOT TOSE THAT I MENIFAED, WERE BITTany’s Highlights Througout Season Two?

I THINK THAT SHE HAD A NUMBER OF HIGHLIGHTS, BUT I THINK THAT The composite is the Highlight, whochh is that Audionce have seen Brittany Really Grow. She was Really Young WHEN She CAME INTO this SPACE[ON[onVanderpump Rules]in the first place, and she was a little bit wide-eyed, and by her own account, naive. And to see this self-Posesed Woman Who was Determined to Take Care of Her Son and Herself, I Think, Is Pretty Inspiring, and You Sort of See All Faces of Her Too. You See The Strong Mother, You See Someone Who Is Determinated to Get Out of A Margarige That Doesn’T Work for Her. You ALSO See Someone Navigating Situations with Her Friends. I Think Brittany Really of Puts It All Out there and is willing to show it imperfections and her vulnerabilites, but at the same time, I THINK, sort of set.

One of the Main Highlights of the Entirety of Season Two Was Kristen’s Journy. It’s Really Inspiring Watching Her Get Engaged and Go Through Her Fertility Journy, Watching As the Show Is Airing and She’s Already Pregnant and Having Her Child. You Worked with Her On Vanderpump RulesSO WHAT WAS IT LIKE DEPICTING HER Story This Season on The Valley?

OH, IT WAS SO MUCH FUN TO BE ABLE TO TELL A Story of Growth. We’re all so proud of kristen and so happy for har, and to see wht she’s been through over the years, and to see the struggle for her to beone. Come to Frucy for Her Really Means A Lot to the People Who Know Her and to the Audience Who Also Knows Her and Has Been On that Journy with Her. She have a Really Come a Long Way.

Jasmine Goode and Zack Wickham Were Featured Much More Througout Season Two. They Were Already Embedded Into this Group in Season One, But they Were Much More Embedded Into The Storyline in Season Two. Is that whi they were promotted to full-time status this year?

We have a good problem on the show, which is that we have just just teaming with cas, and they’re all Contribute, they’re all tied together. Jasmine and Zack in Season One WERE ALMOST LIKE 1A STATUS, Because, In Part, They Wren’s. We sort of KNEW GOING INTO the [second] Season that would be as prominant as anyone, and they realy delvered in every Sense. [I] WAS PLEASED TO See That, And We Figured Out How to Service The Stories of Evelyone. I Think that’s Part of What Makes This Show Work, and It Was Part of the Same Formula for Vanderpump Rules Too, whoh is a large, Extensive Cast of An Interconnected Group of Friends.

Speaking of Vanderpump Rules, Scheana, Lala Kent and Tom Schwartz Were All Featured On Season Two. This have drwn some backlash from some fans. Have you seen this backlash, and what do you think about the fans’ Overall Consensus of [not wanting to] have a thase Vanderpump Stars Now Infiltrate The Valley?

WELL, I THINK IS A SUPER PASSIONATION FANBASE, AND IT IS AMAZING TO ME THAT WE’RE EVEN A LITTLE BIT REMOVED FROM SEASON 11 OF Vanderpump Rules and TOSE PASSIONS HAVEN’T COOLED, AND SO [we] Certainly take note of that. I wouldn’t say that’s any consensus, I would say that’s a Lot of heated thoroughts. But I Think Part of What Is Fun About Tese Series’ Is That There’s Something For Everyone, And I I THINK THERE’S A LOT OF DIFFERENT Points of View, And I I THINK OBVIUS Just Naturally, and they’re very comfortable living their lives in Front of the camera. They’re used to it, they’ve been doing it for a long time.

Scheana was the Vanderpump Star That Was MOST SHOWN ON The Valley. By the [end of the season]she was at the Finale Party, and It Kind of Felt Like You’re Setting Us Up For Scheana to Be On The Show Next Season [with her husband] Brock Davies. Is that a conversation that’s going on right now?

Yeah, I Mean, We’re Making Our Plans for Next Season. I Wuldn’t Say We Were Trying to Set The Stage To Anything in Particular, But Again, Scheana Is Really Friends with that Entire Group, and So You Actual Group, or TOSE Vanderpump Folks, Because they are connected to this graup. But we wren’ting to sort of setting up. You KNOW, I SAID After Season One We Weren’r Adding Any More Primary Cast Members, and In Part, We Were Were Really Crowded, and We Wanted to Give Everyone of The Opportunity. And we did the Want To Give Jasmine and Zack the CHANCE TO BE SHORT INVOLVED AND TAKE ON MORE PROMINENCE. Now, We’re Figing Out Where We Go From Here. Obviously, there are already changes: jax isn’t coming back, so season Three will be different just right of that. We’re Sort of Figing Out What Else Is Going To Look Like.

Scheana Recently Announced that Before Season 11 of Vanderpump Started filming that brock cheated on her. HAD YOU KNOWN About this Infidelity? And WHEN [the news of his affair] Came Out, What Was Your Reaction? Do you wish that you could have shown her story on Season 11?

Yeah, i do. We didn’t know about it. She Kept It, Obvioously, Under Very Tight Wraps, SO VERY FEW PEOPLE IN HER LIFE KNEW. And Sure, I Think It’s A Story that We Wuld be and Should have had. THESE Are Series’ About People’s Lives, Andy’re Very Much Predicated On Seeing It All, Knowing What’s Going On With Them. Something that was out of greatment Importance to scroana and probably defined that perioid of her life would have had a behold wewd have a have in the shaw.

This is the Second Time That Jax Has Steped Away from A Show. In his statement, It Kind of Sounded Like the Door Was Open for Him to Potentilly Make a Return if IF Heths The Help That He Needs. How Many More CHANCES DO YOU THINK THAT HE’S GOING TO GET? WHERE DRAW The LINE AND SAY ENOUGH’s ENUGH, AND MAYBE THIS PERSON SHOULDNN’S BE ON REALITY TV AND IT’S NOT HEALTHY FOR THEM?

IT’s A Really Good Question. Our Thought First Are We Think That’s The Right Move for Him to Make, and We’re Not Thinking About What His Future Like Like. We’re a) focused on makeing Our Show, and B) It’s Sort of Up to HIM to HAT HAT HE NEEDS to DO, TO TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF, AND THAT THAT IMPACTS of the Rest of It. SO we’re not having Those Conversations at this Point. We’re focused on making the show we’re makeing with the group that is here, but we those that that is the right decision for him, and hopephully he USES treenf. Life.

DO YOU THAT HIS Decision to Step Away Was Purely Personal, or Do You Think That It Was Influented by The Backlash that Hotten Throughout Season Two?

I Think in Some Cases the Respense from the Audence is a good Thing, and I Think It Forces Someone to Assess Where They and Whaty Might Need to Do. So i’m sure that played a role in it, because the audience was vary Clear, Understandably, How they felt about the situation, and they were very clear too, that wi lara, they un. of the Season, Because We Were Documenting What Happened, But they Sort of Separated that from Their Feelings About the Appropriss of Him Being on The Show Going Four. And Certainly that’s Something that We Take Into Account, and HE DOOK IT INTO AcCOUN T. It’s Hard to Say Whther or Not Hund Have Made that Decision on His Own But For the Influence of the Audence. But the Important Thing Is That HE GOT THERE, AND WE ALL WANT HIM, AND the AUDIENCE INCLUDED, TO TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF.

How do you move forward with Season Three, Lozing One of the Main Anchors of the Show? Obviously,[[The Valley]WAS BIRCHED OUT OF Vanderpumpand out of [those original stars in] Kristen, Jax and Brittany, We’re Lozing Jax. How do you move forward with Season Three? What does that look like?

Well, We Have A Really Large and Robust Group. You Know, Jax Is Obvioously A Mainstay. We DID SPEND HALF THE SEASON WITHOUT HIM, AND THAT Period of Time Was Really Full and Rich, so i don’t think that we’re [searching] For Story To Tell. I Think It’s Going to Be Different, But I DON’T THINK DIFFERENT IS A BAD THING. And I Think The Alternative, On The One One Hand, TheTere’s Sort of Jax Doing The Right Thing and Us Supporting Understanding What Stepping Away Is Right, But Also, I Think Theater A A A A A A A A A A HALING The SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME SAME ORHEEHAIN TELLING The SAME OREHEAIN TELLING OF THE AVERT. that. I Think that’s the place that we would have been to from a show standpoint. I Think It Opens Up More Space for for Story to Unfold. And undeubtedly, with this graup, it will.

You previoously said that if[[The Valley]Gets Picked Up for Season Three, It Will Likely Film in the Summer, But It Doesn’t Seem Like They’ve Been Filming. It Sems Like That’s Like The Typical [filming] scaredule that The Valley Follows, in alignment with VanderpumpSO WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH SEASON THREE?

We’re eyeying just a little bit of a push, which honestly is Related to WHEN WE AIID AND How Long Our Season Was, Because It SomeTimes Can Be a Challeng. I Nothing Beyond that. Yeah, It’s A Little Bit Different, and We Had Sort of Gotten to this As A Summer Show, But It’s Not A Kind of A Radically Different Timeline.

So you’re not dead set on in the Summer filming scredule for The Valley?

No, that can vary a little bit. And the Fun Thing Is, We’ll Catch Different Events. We’ll Catch Different Moments in People’s Lives. There’s [more] Birthadays and WHATEVER ELSE, AND SO I DON’T THINK THAT’S A BAD Thing.

You’re also working on the Vanderpump Rules reboot. There is a Lot of Skepticism about how the New Cast is Going to Live Up to the Original. Arey living up to the oh caste?

WELL, AS I’V SAID, I AM SO EXCITED FOR THE AUDIENCE TO WATCH A SERIES THAT HAS A LOT OF THE HALLMARKS OF The Original But Feels Completely Different. We Are Not Trying to Make the Series That We Did the FIRST TIME AROUND, AND IT’s Sort of Got Back to the Basic Principles of That Show, Which Is Falling AROUNDERNECRESTED. And, this Group Just Happles to be Very Different – they’re the 2025 version. SO YOU SEE IS GEN Z AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO Each Other, to the World, Are Very Different, But It Still Has All of the Really Fun, Juicy Ingredients. I understand the Skepticism. I KNOW that to the Audience, this feels like an exercise in putting forward An Imposter, But I Really Wound Encouroge everyone to Stick with Us and Give Us, Because I Thinka. I THINK they’re going to see that show Naturaly Came Together, Because, Again, We Didn’t Force Together A Group That Didn’t Exist, And It’s A Lot of Fun, And Its Really Cap Early Days of Vanderpump Rules d As Opped to the Later Life Stage [in the later seasons]. I’m Excited to Reverse Everyone’s Skepticism and Convert that Into Enjoment and Passion for the New Series.

Do you know any the Vanderpump Rules Reboot Might Be Coming, and Is There Anything Else That You Can Tease About the Reboot?

IT’s Coming Up, SO IT’S NOT TOO FAR AWAY. And I would say that is a Lot of Dating with the Group, A Lot of Hookups with the Group. The Friendships Are Deep, It’s Messy and Complicated and Really Fun. I can’t wait for it to dorop and i can’t wait for, like i said, the Skepticism to melt away and take the form of enjoment.

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New Episodes of The Valley Air at 9 pm tuesdays on bravo. New Episodes Are Available to Stream on Peacock On Wednesdays. This interview has been Edited and Condensed for Clarity.