Jax Taylor and Kristen Doute Will Return to Bravo With ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Spinoff ‘The Valley’

By Emma Chance | TV | January 18, 2024 |

By Emma Chance | TV | January 18, 2024 |

If you have even a pinky toe in the Bravo universe then you know January 2024 has been inundated by a Vanderpump Rules season 11 media blitz ahead of the premiere on the 30th. With all the promos and trailers, I think we already know everything that’s going to happen, and it’ll be a miracle if everyone isn’t tired of the cast when it comes time to watch them whine again. So, yesterday’s announcement of a new spinoff, The Valley, was a welcome surprise.

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Well, okay, it’s not that surprising. If you remember, former #1 Guy of the Group, Jax Taylor, and his wife Brittany Cartwright, live in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles in a home identical to the one owned by their former castmates Ariana Madix and Tom Sandoval (though they’re trying to sell theirs), and the one formerly owned by their other former castmates Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz.

There was a brief moment—it may not have even been an entire season—when all of them were on the show together and lived in the Valley together, and that was when jokes about a spinoff, a la The Hills, began, but then Jax left the show amid fallings-out with both the Toms, and then Scandoval took over everything.

However, it was Scandoval that pushed Jax back into the spotlight, because, you know, he famously hated Tom Sandoval and was the only one who ever saw through his bullshit, so, suddenly everyone was like, maybe Jax knows what he’s talking about after all. Ipso facto, The Valley.

Jax and Brittany will be joined by, you guessed it, Kristen Doute, the other scorned former friend of Vanderpump Rules, and the one who slept with Jax when she was in a relationship with Tom Sandoval, which used to be the worst thing that had ever happened on the show!

I guess she and her boyfriend also live in the Valley, which I didn’t know because I stopped paying attention to Kristen the minute she stomped off the VR set. I love toxic reality TV characters, but Kristen is too much even for me.

There are three other couples in the cast comprised of people I’ve never heard of: Danny and Nia Booko, Jesse and Michelle Lally, and Jason and Janet Caperna. Yay for married 30-somethings (well, Jax is, like, 50 but looks 35 because he sold his soul to the Devil) living in ugly houses!