In Monday night’s episode of Vanderpump Rules, the cast, immune to growth and self-control, did the very thing that always gets them into trouble: they held a girls’ trip and a guys’ night separate from one another and appeared to be genuinely shocked when both events ended in disaster. For the guys, it was a night at the West Hollywood Mondrian with women they picked up at the hotel bar, most of whom looked directly into the camera and flirted so valiantly that even Jax Taylor thought it would be a good idea to call his fiancé Brittany Cartwright to let her know he was behaving himself. For the girls, it was Kristen Doute.
Lala Kent, appreciative that her party friends are also her real friends who were there for her when her dad passed, decided to reward her pals with a trip to Solvang, California, a Danish Village about three hours Northwest of WeHo. It was mostly fine until it wasn’t, with Doute chugging wine at a tasting and on one occasion, being so drunk she ate decorative flora adorning a highway and reassured her friends that it’s fine, “it is just lavender.” (It is not.) This would have been the point I’d bring my friend back to the hotel room to sleep it off before dinner, but this is Vanderpump Rules, so naturally they continued to drink and shop until Doute learned her enemy and ex James Kennedy got a job at PUMP, causing her to lose her shit. She went for a walk and reappeared hours later at dinner. This was just the tip of the iceberg—soon she was tripping over poorly placed, gold-accented furniture while brandishing her phone and screaming about text messages and boys’ nights and refusing help from her friends. It was incredible television.
Lying to Tom and everyone else about sleeping with Jax
Unlike Jax, whose bad guy energy is reserved for infidelity and petty thievery, or James, whose villainy is just spewing vile after a few too many Pumptinis, Doute is calculated. She is the the stuff of telenovela dreams, something confirmed in Season 2 when she finally revealed to her best friend Stassi Schroeder that yes, she cheated on her longtime boyfriend with her BFF’s longtime boyfriend. Whoops?Trying to break up Tom Sandoval and Ariana Maddix by proving Tom, her ex-boyfriend, cheated on Maddix
Kristen paid for a random woman on Instagram to fly to Los Angeles from Miami and confront Tom Sandoval because she believed they slept together, while Tom’s girlfriend Ariana Maddix was none the wiser. Also, Tom is her ex-boyfriend. It’s a revenge plot that crosses state lines.