Vanderpump Rules’ Stassi Schroeder Reveals She Had Yearslong Falling Out With Katie Maloney
Skyrocketing to fame alongside your closest friends and coworkers is fun and all, but arguably these are the best days of Stassi Schroeder‘s life.
More than 13 years after the then-waitress was introduced to Vanderpump Rules viewers as SUR’s resident mean girl and Jax Taylor‘s girlfriend, it’s truly her time.
Technically, she made her return to reality TV with a 2025 appearance on former boss Lisa Vanderpump‘s Vanderpump Villa, but now the 38-year-old is introducing viewers to the House of Stassi, her Freeform series focusing on her relationship with casting director Beau Clark and their two kids Hartford, 5, and Messer, 2.
“I was not going to let Vanderpump Rules be my legacy,” the STASSI with Tay podcaster explained in a preview for her new series, premiering July 29. “I know being on a reality show forces hard truths to surface.”
And, yes, that meant addressing the reasons she was fired from VPR after castmate Faith Stowers revealed on Instagram that Schroeder and costar Kristen Doute called the police on her to report a false claim.
Admittedly, “You’ll see in every episode you’re gonna [be] like, ‘This b—h can’t stop bring up, like, the hardest time of her life. What’s wrong with her?'” Schroeder recently acknowledged on SiriusXM’s Page Six Radio. “It just feels cathartic and freeing, and I’m somebody that doesn’t like to have secrets, you know? I really like to live out loud and open. I want everyone to know my s–t you know?”
That includes her nearly six-year marriage to Clark, the man she’s described as her “best friend.”
“I can just be myself,” she once explained to Entertainment Tonight. “I just want to be around him all the time. And I’ve really never had that, which is kinda sad, I guess. But, I have it now.”
And she’s not the only one, uh, SUR-ving up details of her romance on House of Stassi.
Former costar Katie Maloney will also be letting viewers in on her relationship with boyfriend of two years Nick Martin—and her years-long rough patch with onetime BFF Schroeder.
“No one knows that we had a falling out for years,” Schroeder detailed in an April interview with Marie Claire. “Now we’re rebuilding our friendship after growing in two completely different directions.”
Or, as Maloney put it in an April Instagram, “Your girl is officially out of retirement.”
Before their return to the small screen, raise your glasses high. This update on the VPR cast is for you tonight.
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Jax Taylor & Stassi Schroeder
Much of Vanderpump Rules‘ first season, which debuted 2013, focused on the drama surrounding Taylor cheating on Schroeder in Las Vegas. And after he hooked up with co-star Kristen Doute on season two, the couple broke up for good.
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Stassi Schroeder & Beau Clark
The VPR alum began dating the casting executive in 2017 while she was still on the show. After she was fired from the series in 2020, Schroeder and Clark legally tied the knot in September of that year during the COVID-19 pandemic before welcoming daughter Hartford in January 2021.
The two later held a formal wedding in Italy in May 2022 and welcomed their second child, son Messer, in 2023.
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Jax Taylor & Brittany Cartwright
Taylor and Cartwright met in 2015 following his breakup from Stassi. After surviving a cheating scandal involving Taylor and their former co-star Faith Stowers, he and Cartwright got married at a castle in her native Kentucky in 2019. Their wedding special aired on Bravo shortly after.
The pair welcomed their first child—son Cruz—in April 2021 a year after they walked away from the show.
Sadly, they announced their separation in February 2024 and that Cartwight had moved out of their house. She officially filed for divorce in August that same year.
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Tom Sandoval & Ariana Madix
Following his breakup from Doute, Sandoval and Madix began dating when she joined the show during filming season three in 2013. The duo proved to be one of VPR‘s most dependable couples for nine years as they bought a house, adopted dogs and even wrote a cocktail book together.
Because of their stability, fans were shocked when the TomTom co-owner’s seven-month affair with their co-star Rachel “Raquel” Leviss came to light in March 2023, leading to his and Ariana’s breakup.
Since the cheating scandal, Sandoval has credited a lack of intimacy as one of the reasons they drifted away. He also claimed they were separated when news of his cheating went public, though he revealed he and Raquel first kissed in August 2022 long before Ariana found out.
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Ariana Madix & Daniel Wai
One month after Madix broke up with Sandovalfor cheating on her with Raquel, the reality star moved on with fitness trainer Daniel Wai. The two were spotted making out and getting cozy in April 2023 at weekend one of Coachella.
They are still going strong over one year later.
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Scheana Shay & Brock Davies
Following her divorce from ex Mike Shay in 2017, the SURver met Davies two years later with friends in San Diego and it was love at first sight. The couple welcomed their first child together—daughter Summer Moon Honey—in April 2021 before tying the knot.
Their August 2022 Cancún wedding aired during VPR season 10, but Shay actually revealed on the show’s April 2023 episode that they secretly got married (legally) one year prior to the destination ceremony.
However, Shay revealed in her 2025 memoir My Good Side that the Australian athlete cheated on her in 2020 during her pregnancy, but only came clean about the affair during 2023’s Scandoval controversy.
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Katie Maloney & Tom Schwartz
The longtime lovers got married in August 2016 after six years of dating. However, their tumultuous relationship played out on the Bravo series and after years of tension and fighting, Maloney had had enough. The duo was together for 12 years in total before she decided to divorce the TomTom co-owner in March 2022.
While they initially remained friendly exes, Schwartz’s makeout with Leviss in August 2022 ruined any chances of amicability between the two. During season 10 of VPR, Maloney introduced a new love interest, actor Satchel Clendenin, though the two are no longer dating.
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James Kennedy & Raquel Leviss
Kennedy and Leviss dated for five years—and even got engaged—before breaking up in November 2021. The former beauty queen later credited Kennedy’s anger issues as one of the reasons for their split.
During VPR‘s season nine reunion, which aired in January 2022, Kennedy and Leviss revealed they had barely had sex in the two years leading up to their breakup.
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James Kennedy & Ally Lewber
Kennedy briefly date Doute after joining the show during season 3, but the two broke up in 2015.
Just two months after his split from Leviss, Kennedy was spotted with a new lady, Ally Lewber, in January 2022 and they made their first official red carpet appearance together the next month.
Lewber made her Vanderpump Rules debut on the premiere of season 10 and fans later saw the couple move in together.
Their romance hit a speed bump in December 2024 when Kennedy was arrested for domestic vioence after an incident with Leviss. By the next month, the former couple announced they had broken up amid Kennedy’s legal troubles, which did not result in any formal charges against him. They’ve since broken up.
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Lala Kent & Randall Emmett
The Bravo star and movie producer called off their engagement in October 2021 after three years together. Before breaking up, they welcomed daughter Ocean in March 2021. Kent later chalked up their split in part to Emmett’s alleged cheating, though he’s denied having affairs.
During VPR season 10, Kent revealed she hadn’t had sex since their breakup, but dove back into the dating pool by hooking up with a guy during a girls trip to Lake Havasu.
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Kristen Doute & Luke Broderick
After Sandoval—and her fling with Taylor—Droute dated Brian Carter on and off on the Bravo series before moving on with Alex Menache, who she was with for two years before calling it quits in June 2022.
Doute found love again soon after that same month. She met Luke Broderick when they served as a bridesmaid and groomsman in their mutual friend’s nuptials that summer and have been together ever since. In addition to dating, he regularly co-hosts her podcast Love, Sex and What Else Matters.
The pair announced their engagement in September 2024.
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Kristina Kelly & Max Ville
Kelly, who made multiple appearances on the show since season two, welcomed her first child—baby boy River—with partner Max Ville in March 2023. The two have been together for over 12 years.
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Tom Schwartz & Sophia Skoro
Schwartz finally committed to his first serious relationship since his divorce when he started dating Sophia Skoro.
“We love each other,” he admitted in March 2024, adding of the vingtage clothing busniess owner, “One of the coolest human beings on earth. The baddest b—h alive. She’s got this unconventional sense of humor. She’s sharp as hell, super successful.”
However, their romance fizzled out by the following year, with Schwartz sharing on an April 2025 of his Detox Retox podcast, “We’re really good friends.”
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Katie Maloney & Nick Martin
Maloney announced that she’s “in love” and in a serious relationship two years after her divorce with Schwartz.
“He just makes me feel really special, and he’s really special,” she shared of her new man on her Disrespectfully podcast in October 2024. “I’m just really, really happy.”
Two months later, she hard-launched the romance, revealing her boyfriend to be Sleeping With Sirens guitarist Nick Martin.
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Tom Schwartz & Kiana Carroll
Schwartz met the model in 2024 at his now-shuttered Schwartz & Sandy’s bar, but their relationship didn’t turn romantic until October of the following year.
“Probably longer than we’ve been dating, we were just friends,” he told Swoon in April 2026. “It kind of started evolving and becoming something more than just friends.”
And Schwartz believes he’s become a better person because Carroll.
“She’s my karma for some of my douchiness,” he joked in a July 2026 episode of E!’s Hot Goss. “She’s so quick to call me out and I’m so much better at taking constructive criticism and using it, learning from it.”
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James Kennedy & Jordan Meyers
After meeting at one of the DJ’s shows, the couple hard-launched their relationship in June 2026 by announcing Meyers’ pregnancy.
“We have previously kept our relationship out of the public eye, and this is the first time we’re sharing it publiclym” he told People at the time. “We wanted to keep things personal while we were building our relationship together, and we’ve shared this news privately with close friends and family for some time now.”
Three weeks after the baby news, Kennedy and Meyers announced their engagement.
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