Ariana Madix Gives Advice to New ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Cast Members

Ariana Madix shared her advice for the new cast of “Vanderpump Rules.” 

During a May 11 appearance on ‘Watch What Happens Live,” the former VPR star addressed the still-unnamed cast for the reboot of the Bravo reality show she appeared on for more than a decade.

In November, Bravo announced that season 12 of “Vanderpump Rules” would feature a new cast of SUR employees, officially confirming the end for Madix, Katie Maloney,  Tom Sandoval, Scheana Shay, Tom Schwartz, James Kennedy, and Lala Kent.

A press release described the new cast as a “close-knit” group of SUR employees who are “complicatedly involved with one another as their iconic predecessors.”

Ariana Madix Had 5 Tips for the ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Newbies

At the end of her sitdown with Andy Cohen, Madix shared a list of tips for the new cast of bar stars who work for Lisa Vanderpump. After Cohen asked for her “top five pieces of advice for the newbies,” Madix started with: “Number 5, Drink on the job. You’ll be fine.”

“Number 4, Lisa is your friend, not your boss,” she said next, with a wink.

Madix continued with, “Number 3, if you need to have a serious convo, do it in the back alley by the dumpster. Number 2, if there is not a camera on you, don’t worry, we can’t hear your mic so just keep talking, it’s totally fine,” she teased.

And finally, “Number one, most importantly. Take sketch comedy very seriously. Please.”

Do All of the New Cast Members Work at SUR? 1 Past Stars Didn’t

Madix’s advice is based on the assumption that the new cast actually works at SUR. When the show first started in 2013, that was the case too. But in later seasons, not everyone really worked for Vanderpump’s famous West Hollywood restaurant.

In an interview on the “Trying to Figure It Out” podcast with Ally Pettit, former “Vanderpump Rules” cast member Charli Burnett admitted she never worked for SUR and was filmed doing “fake” shifts as a server.

“I would literally come in, do a fake shift,” Burnett said of her three seasons as a recurring cast member on the show. “It was just too chaotic, so everything was planned. So, I would come in at like, before the rush essentially, or like before people came, and we would film from  3 to 5, and I would take fake orders and then I would leave. But other people worked there. I didn’t.”