Here’s What Lisa Vanderpump Has Been up To Since Leaving RHOBH

Who needs the Real Housewives when you’ve got your own spinoff series? Lisa has been pretty busy with filming the current eighth season, which has featured plenty of its own drama thanks to new cast members, a wedding, a proposal, and the potential rehiring of one James Kennedy.

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As social media continues to be a thing, people’s lesser woke pasts are always coming back to haunt them. Just ask new Vanderpump employees Max Boyens and Brett Caprioni, who have gone on an apology spree since some of their old racists tweets resurfaced. Lisa had to get involved in that ordeal and called the comments “heinous.” Still, she has gone on record as saying the guys are “appropriately ashamed,” which feels like they get a pass… for now. At least Lisa won’t have to worry about major personnel changes in the near future?

Always the animal lover, Lisa has doubled down on her philanthropic efforts since leaving the series. That includes playing her part in pushing through the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, an act that makes some forms of animal abuse a felony. Congressman Ted Deutch even thanked the reality star and her foundation for all of their help from the House floor.

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Life may be all about diamonds and rosé for the reality star, but Lisa is still in touch with her community — specifically the one around Villa Blanca. Earlier this year we learned that Lisa is still feeding the homeless population there. Each Monday the staff comes in and makes “nourishing dishes that are easy to eat,” and then sends them to a local church for distribution.

When one door closes another one opens, right? That’s the route Lisa seems to be taking in terms of a potential new show, Vanderpump Dogs. Although nothing has been confirmed just yet, Lisa has been pretty clear that she’s doggone excited about the prospect. “I would love to say that it’s true,” she told Page Six during BravoCon. “That’s an excellent idea. And if it’s not going to happen, it should happen. It might happen, but I’m not allowed to say anything at all.”

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Everyone knows the reason Lisa started the Vanderpump Dog Foundation is because she loves dogs. What she probably doesn’t love is the claim from former employee Damiana Guzman, who filed a lawsuit against the foundation in January. According to her she was forced to quit her job as a dog groomer two months into the gig because of “intolerable” working conditions created by manager Martin Duarte “and his superiors.” For her part, Lisa has yet to comment.

Lisa has had other legal troubles to keep her up at night too, notably the class-action lawsuit she’s facing for allegedly failing to pay servers minimum and overtime wages at a bunch of her restaurants, including TomTom, SUR, Pump and Villa Blanca. The suit was filed just before Christmas, and claims that this behaviour has been going on for at least four years. TBD on how Lisa and husband Ken Todd are going to deal with that one.

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In early January Lisa’s stress levels were probably through the roof after a Ferrari slammed through the patio doors at Pump on a random Sunday afternoon. Thankfully no one was seriously injured and only one woman was taken to the hospital for cuts, but everyone inside was definitely shook. “No. We are not a Drive-Thru,” Lisa joked afterwards on Twitter. “Thank God no one was hurt.”

Despite the car crashes and lawsuits, it’s business as usual for Lisa and Ken. The duo opened a new eatery, Vanderpump Cocktail Garden, in Vegas last spring, and that venture was so successful that now she and her husband are eyeing the West Hollywood space next door to TomTom for yet another cocktail garden. #CantStopWontStop.

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Now that Stassi Schroeder’s wedding to Beau Clark is coming up, things could get next-level awkward for Lisa. Stassi reveals she has invited Lisa and RHOBH star Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave to the shindig, because Beau is friends with Teddi’s husband. Well, we all remember Lisa and Teddi’s feud following PuppyGate (no need to rehash that painful period), so no one will be surprised if the drama follows them to the October wedding in Rome. Only time will tell.

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