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Katie Maloney wasn’t rushing back to reality television after Vanderpump Rules aired its last season with the original cast in 2024. But then, Stassi Schroeder called.

Longtime friends who starred alongside one another throughout the golden years of the Emmy-nominated Bravo series, Schroeder invited Maloney to appear on her new Hulu series House of Stassi after the core cast had been assembled.

It’s a topic discussed on the new series, which dropped on the streamer on July 29. During their first onscreen sit-down, a first meeting after a fallout a few years back, at the Belmont (an obvious Vanderpump Rules callback), Maloney gives it to Schroeder straight.

“You just make your world smaller and smaller and smaller to the point where it’s like if, I don’t know, they didn’t come out of you or they’re not married to you or they’re not on your fucking payroll, they don’t get to be in your life,” Maloney told her friend, cut to a scene of Schroeder, who is an executive producer, uttering, “Damn, this bitch is good. And that’s the type of truth-telling we need on reality TV. I need her to do this show.”