Andy Cohen Calls 'Vanderpump Rules' Reboot Decision 'The Absolute Right Thing To Do'

Andy Cohen has spoken. The Real Housewives executive producer and face of Bravo opened up about the network's recent decision to recast Vanderpump Rules after eleven seasons.

As we reported, Vanderpump Rules will look very different when it returns for Season 12. The upcoming season will feature "a new group of close-knit SUR-vers who are as complicatedly involved with one another as their iconic predecessors," officially moving on from Tom Sandoval, Ariana Madix, Scheana Shay and the rest of the group we have followed since 2013, choosing instead to focus on actual employees of Lisa Vanderpump once again.

On Monday's episode of Andy Cohen Live! on his Radio Andy SiriusXM station, the host gave his thoughts on the decision to 86 the old cast and bring in a new group of servers, saying that it was "the absolute right thing to do."

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"I am so impressed with how production kept the show going over the last ... four years when slowly, but surely, none of them were working at SUR," he explained. "The entire point of the show morphed and changed as it went on."

Cohen also pointed out how several Pump Rules personalities have moved on to The Valley, while others "don't want to be in the same room much less on the same show" as each other.

"What you were left with was really just a few pieces of what the original Vanderpump Rules was," he added, calling the reboot a "very smart programming move" on Bravo's part.

He also likened the decision to the network's recent move to reboot The Real Housewives of New York. Citing the original RHONY's successful 13 seasons before the reboot, Cohen explained that "sometimes for a show it's the end of the road, or it's time to swerve or pivot ... that's where we were with RHONY and that is what is happening with Vanderpump Rules."

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Cohen added that he is "so impressed" with those both in front of and behind the camera who worked on Vanderpump Rules over the years. While Cohen is still an executive producer of The Real Housewives, he is not directly involved creatively with Vanderpump Rules, outside of hosting the reunions.

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