This season on Vanderpump Rules, we’ve been introduced to newcomer Billie Lee. We first met Billie during the Pride episode and heard her share the story of her transition. We’ll be seeing more of her this season and she is dishing on the cast members: who has been the most welcoming, who she’s not getting along with (one guess!) and what we can expect in the upcoming episodes.
Billie sat down with Page Six to reveal that she didn’t know any of the cast members before she landed the job at SUR and she was working at the restaurant for a few months before producers approached her about filming. So far, Jax Taylor has been terrific and Ariana Madix, too, but she’s not besties with Stassi Schroeder just yet. Shocker, right?
On Stassi she simply says, “I have drama with the same person throughout the season and that’s Stassi.” We’ll see their issues play out in upcoming episodes.
She had nothing but rave reviews of Jax Taylor, though! She gushed to Page Six, “For me, he has this great magnetic energy and soul and I think that’s what’s relatable and that’s why people are drawn to him. He has a great personality and he’s funny and he’s great and he makes sure you’re taken care of [when you’re out together]. I love hanging out with him.” Billie adds, “He was so nice to me when I started at SUR. He always started conversations. He was very intrigued by my trans experience.”
She says of Ariana, “Everyone was super amazing and accepting. I clicked with Ariana the most.”
Billie says aside from the drama with Stassi, we’ll also see her testing the dating waters on the show and it made her nervous to film the dates. “I love that people are going to see a trans woman dating.” She added, “We go through a lot of rejection. I was a little nervous to date and have cameras follow me on my date because I was fearful of that rejection on television, but you just have to live your life and your truth. I think people are going to see that and understand the trans experience more.”
TELL US – DO YOU THINK BILLIE IS A GREAT ADDITION TO THE CAST? WHY DO YOU THINK STASSI HAS A HARD TIME GETTING ALONG WITH SO MANY CAST MEMBERS? ARE YOU SURPRISED JAX IS BEING SO WELCOMING?
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