The show was first conceived as a warts-and-all look at the underbelly of La La Land, with Vanderpump telling The Hollywood Reporter, "Everybody who's waiting tables in Hollywood is a wannabe something or another. That's why it's interesting." On choosing the cast we've now grown to love, a Bravo executive explained, "As poor as they were, they were all attractive."
Indeed, longtime fans will remember Tom Sandoval's old apartment and how the microwave and air conditioner couldn't be used simultaneously, as one example of the kind of squalor these beautiful people once lived in. Nowadays, he and girlfriend Ariana Madix are in a $2 million home (via Reality Blurb), while Tom Schwartz and wife Katie Maloney-Schwartz are just minutes away in their own $1.9 millon pads (via Reality Blurb). Fellow cast members Jax Taylor and wife Brittany Cartwright also recently purchased a home in the neighborhood.
It's worth noting that as their fame has grown, so too have the amounts the Vanderpump Rules cast command for appearances. As Sandoval admitted to THR, "It starts as club appearances, and suddenly you're paid to post on social. A lot changes."
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