Scheana Shay revealed in her memoir that an explosive scene in Vanderpump Rules was staged. During the Season 9 finale, Shay and Brock Davies announced their engagement at an alpaca farm while the cast attended James Kennedy and Raquel Leviss's engagement party. Producers pressured cast members to create drama, leading Shay to devise a plan for Katie Maloney to reveal the engagement. However, Maloney became too intoxicated to execute the plan, and sober Lala Kent ended up delivering the news on camera, resulting in the dramatic outcome the producers wanted.
Lala said to me, 'I've got to tell you something. I'm getting pressure to bring up your engagement at James and Raquel's party tonight. This is being put all on me. You and I have made so much progress in our friendship and we're finally in a good place. I don't want to do it,' Shay wrote.
Shay said the entire cast felt "pressure to produce an explosive finale," even stating "all of our jobs were kind of on the line if we didn't deliver."
However, at the engagement party that night, Maloney apparently "got overserved and couldn't see straight," to the point of not being able to argue with Shay.
In the end, a fully sober Kent told Kennedy and Leviss on camera, causing a huge debacle between everyone involved. But that was exactly what they planned, and it did no.
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