It appears Lisa Vanderpump has subtly shown her support for Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney amid their legal troubles with Chef Penny Davidi.
Vanderpump Rules‘s matron unfollowed the Food Network star on social media. LVP introduced Ariana and Katie to Chef Penny in the first place.
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Something About Lisa:
Katie and Ariana’s sandwich shop, Something About Her, opened in May and it doesn’t appear Lisa has dropped in for a sandwich yet. The restauranteur explained why she skipped the soft opening of SAH.
Lisa credited her busy travel schedule as the reason she didn’t show up for the highly anticipated opening. “I’ve been out of town. I’ve been in Lake Tahoe, and I’ve been in Vegas. I’ve been in New York. I just got back from New York two days ago. I’ve been everywhere.”
Additionally, LVP assured her audience that it is not uncommon for restauranteurs to hold off on going to new restaurants. “I think [Katie and Ariana] need to take their time a bit. We’ll have a soft opening in a restaurant, but we won’t really invite people until you’re two or three weeks in.” That gives the time for the owners to “iron out the things. So, I don’t want to go in and judge that now. Let’s give them a couple weeks, a month, to settle in. That’s what we normally do in the restaurant business.”
Chef Penny VS Ariana and Katie (and LVP?):
In case you missed it, Chef Penny has filed a lawsuit claiming the former Vanderpump Rules stars breached their contract. Katie and Ariana denied all allegations of wrongdoing.
Penny “has email proof and text messages proving she was – and still is – a partner. There’s an intent I sent them [and] they’re like, ‘Okay, just email us everything you want and we’ll run it by our attorneys.’ So I have the email. I sent them everything that I wanted.” She demanded, “a monthly fee, and then the percentage of the entire Something About Her brand, not of one store.”
