Ariana Madix is opening up about leaving Vanderpump Rules and reveals she never returned to the Bravo reality series after walking off in the Season 11 finale.

Ariana Madix reveals she was "never" going to go back to filming Vanderpump Rules and explains why she hates the term "Scandoval."

Ariana Madix recently revealed she was "never" planning to go back to "Vanderpump Rules," but it's not for the reason you'd expect.

News broke in November 2024 that the next season of VPR would feature an all-new class of “close-knit SUR-vers” at Lisa Vanderpump ’s Hollywood eatery. Per a press release from Bravo, the cast is “as complicatedly involved with one another as their iconic predecessors.”

It should come as no SUR-prise that Ariana Madix was less than pumped at the idea of returning to Vanderpump Rules after Scandoval. In fact, the Love Island USA host revealed for the very first time that she decided to leave the hit Bravo reality show after 2024's explosive season 11 finale,

After meeting at a mutual friend’s wedding in Mexico, Ariana Madix and boyfriend Daniel Wai took their budding romance to Coachella where they were seen packing on the PDA in April 2023. By May 2023,

Ariana Madix recently revealed if she ever thought of returning to Vanderpump Rules after Tom Sandoval’s cheating scandal.

Bravo announced 'Vanderpump Rules' would be rebooting its cast with fresh faces after an explosive season 11 finale, a production break and months of speculation. At the time, a source told PEOPLE that the network felt they needed to move on with a new group because there were “so many fractions” among the cast.