‘Vanderpump Rules’ Alum Vail Bloom Claims She Turned Down Opportunity for Her Own Reality Show
28.07.2023 - 20:15
/ usmagazine.com
Vail Bloom claimed that she had the chance to star in her own reality show after exiting Vanderpump Rules but ultimately turned it down.
“They offered me my own reality show at Bravo, but I said no,” Bloom, 40, said on the Friday, July 28, episode of the “Soap Opera Digest” podcast. “I don’t want to be ‘Vail Bloom.’ I need a script. It’s much more comfortable playing someone else than playing yourself on television. And that didn’t even feel like playing myself.”
Bloom got her start on the soap opera The Young and the Restless where she played Heather Stevens from 2007 to 2010. Her time on the series also scored her a Daytime Emmy nomination. Four years after her departure, Bloom joined Pump Rules for season 3 as one of the hostesses at SUR. However, Bloom revealed she wasn’t hired as part of the restaurant staff.
“I knew what I had to do, I had a function, I had a job, you know? I wasn’t actually a host,” she explained. “I didn’t get a paycheck from SUR, I got a paycheck from the production company, but everyone else genuinely got themselves into that much trouble. That was authentic.”
As for how Bloom got the gig in the first place, she admitted she spent a lot of time at Lisa Vanderpump’s restaurant. She was close friends with some of the staff who weren’t heavily involved on the show. One day, one of the executive producers approached her about the idea.
“So he asked if I wanted to just come, you know, hang out with my friends, but just kind of do stuff to help from a more traditional theatrical point of view, like, move the scene along, give it an arc, catalyze, so there can be a start, finish and an end,” she said. “And then also if things come up to feign innocence and genuinely ask questions because I didn’t know a