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Lala Kent recently announced that her assistant, Jessica Walter, would be leaving the podcast. Lala shocked fans, not just with the news itself, but with how she announced it. As it turns out, Jessica wasn’t a huge fan of the announcement either. Or at least, that’s how it seemed. Perhaps she misclicked…
On the November 6 episode of her podcast, Lala announced Jessica’s exit. “My ride or die Jessica is no longer going to be working for me and she will no longer be on the podcast. My relief is that she is going to go spread her wings and fly. And we wish her all the best and I love her more than anything, and I’m so excited to see what she’s going to do in her future.”
That was all she had to say on the matter, and at the very end of the episode no less. Now, we know Lala is good at burning bridges. She was happy to put an end to friendships with certain Vanderpump Rules stars. She doubled down and said she doesn’t want to rebuild those relationships. The same might be true for Jessica.
On November 6, Jessica posted a photo of herself on Instagram with the caption: “One foot in front of the other y’all.” Jessica’s comment section posted their messages of support and speculation. As one commenter wrote, “I was very surprised that you left without a nice send off. Mysterious.” Another commenter wrote, “I’m thinking it wasn’t a mutual departure!”
Given the abrupt nature of Jessica’s departure, such inferences made sense. Jessica dropped a like on a comment that read, “This was handled so poorly. Not your fault but we listen to a pod with the three of you on the reg and have no answers. No send off or anything.” But besides the shady like, Jessica didn’t interact much at all with the comment section. It also appears as though Jessica’s like on that comment has now been removed…
For the most part, Jessica’s fans just expressed their sadness and disbelief. One user asked, “We had a whole thing about your breakup but we get a 2 second blurb about you leaving?” Other fans simply begged to know what happened. It’s entirely possible that those fans will never receive an answer. They can only hope that good things are right on Jessica’s doorstep.
Vanderpump Rules is streaming on Peacock.
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