t’s time to raise your glasses high, because Lala Kent and Tom Schwartz are joining The Valley Season 3 as full-time cast members!
It was announced on Friday, November 14 at BravoCon 2025 that the Vanderpump Rules
alums will be joining the cast of the new season. As Lala noted during the “Peaks & The Valley” panel presented by Carnival Cruise Line, she had a “wonderful time” filming the new season.
The two super close friends are no strangers to The Valley. In addition to actually living in the valley, both Lala and Tom made brief appearances on The Valley Season 2 and on
The Valley After Show.Learn more about both Tom and Lala’s connections to the cast of The Valley.
Lala Kent shares a look at her friendships with The Valley
cast members
Lala is very close with the cast members of The Valley, as evidenced by her Instagram profile. She took to Instagram on Nov. 4, where she posted photos taken at a party celebrating engaged couple Jasmine Goode and her fiancé Melissa Marie. In the photos, Lala can be seen hanging out with
The Valley‘s Michelle Saniei, Janet Caperna, and Brittany Cartwright. She also snapped a photo of her hanging out with The Valley‘s Kristen Doute and Zack Wickham.”Le groupe,” she captioned the series of photos.
Throughout September, she continued to show off her friendships with the cast on Instagram, posing alongside Brittany, Melissa, Zack, Jasmine, Michelle, Kristen, and Nia Sanchez Booko at an event. She also took to Instagram on Sept. 23, where she posted a series of photos of her hanging out with Tom, Jesse Lally, and Kristen’s fiancé, Luke Broderick.
How does Lala Kent know the cast of The Valley?
Lala worked with Kristen and Brittany at SUR, where she was a hostess, and has been longtime friends with Tom. She told Andy Cohen during a November 2024 episode of
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen that she has known the rest of The Valley cast for a long time and is cordial with “a lot of them.” “You know, I’ve known a lot of them for many years, so we’re good.”
Although Lala is “good” with The Valley cast, she did have her differences with Brittany, which she explained during The Valley After Show, after she learned about Brittany’s fling with Jax Taylor’s friend Julian. “I still have extreme PTSD of like, being left out of what other people know…So when that happened and it came out, and she wasn’t the one to tell me, but everyone else knew,” she explained as she got choked up. “Sorry, it took me to like, a really funky place.”
Details on Tom Schwartz’s connection to the cast of The Valley
Tom also appeared on The Valley Season 2. In addition to appearing on The Valley After Show, it was revealed during Season 2 that Tom had moved into a townhouse next to Jax Taylor.
Although Tom had never worked at SUR, he has been longtime friends with Kristen, Brittany, and Lala. Tom has also featured many of The Valley cast members on his podcast, as Luke, Jasmine, Brittany, Michelle, Jesse, Zack, and Kristen have all appeared on episodes of
Detox Retox.Learn more about why Tom and Lala sparked dating rumors earlier this year.
