Fans hoping to see Stassi Schroeder continue hashing her issues out on a House of Stassi reunion will have to keep waiting, according to the reality star herself.
“I don’t want a reunion. No reunion,” Stassi, 38, said on the Friday, July 31, episode of the “It Girl” podcast when asked whether Andy Cohen would host a reunion for the new Hulu show. “We will work it out in season 2.”
Stassi previously sat through her fair share of reunion specials while starring on Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules. She became a fan favorite when the show premiered in 2013 but was fired alongside Kristen Doute at the end of season 8 in 2020 following a racism scandal involving their former costar Faith Stowers.
More recently, Stassi got a chance to return to reality TV with an appearance on Vanderpump Villa. She later hosted the reunion for season 4 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. While answering questions for “It Girl,” Stassi got brutally honest about how her hosting skills compared to her predecessor Nick Viall.
“All the girls would agree [that I did a better job]. You couldn’t even hear him. He was so low energy,” Stassi quipped. “My publicists hate me right now. You know [these quotes] are going to get picked up and Nick is going to go on his Substack and write about it — after he puts it into Chat[GPT].”
Stassi is now back in front of the camera as the star of her own Hulu show, House of Stassi, which debuted last month.
“Even when I started Vanderpump Rules, the goal was then to always do something even bigger after that,” Stassi told TV Insider in July. “Granted, Vanderpump Rules was huge. We didn’t even know how big it was. We still, I don’t think, understand how big it was or whatever, but I never thought it would be Vanderpump Rules or nothing. Anyone who goes on Bravo, they’re like, ‘Oh, I want to get a spinoff out of this.’ Everyone will tell you that. And so it was always like, ‘OK, what can I do after this?’”
In the series premiere, Stassi shared her unfiltered thoughts about how Vanderpump Rules protected the men on the show more than the women.
“I loved Vanderpump Rules, but it also is literally what we’re gonna have PTSD about and have to talk to therapists about for the rest of our life,” Stassi told Katie Maloney. “It was always, ‘Make the girls look psychotic, make the girls look like they have issues.’ They covered for the boys, they covered for the men.”
In a confessional, Stassi elaborated on her “mixed feelings” toward the show that started her career.
“I’m so appreciative of it, and it’s given me so many opportunities. But it normalized so much darkness,” she continued. “It rewarded so much darkness until it didn’t. And then coming back to reality TV, I’m like, ‘Are you being a dumb bitch?’”
Stassi added: “I’m scared of reality TV, but it’s all I know. I love it, but I’m also traumatized by it. But I can’t stay away from it. But I was not gonna let Vanderpump Rules be my legacy. I had to make this happen. I had to.”
House of Stassi is streaming now on Hulu.
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