Brett Caprioni was fired from Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules on Tuesday and will not be a part of season nine.
The reality TV star shared his regret over his past actions, which included tweets with racial slurs, with UsWeekly the next day.
‘While I’m disappointed to no longer be part of the cast, I respect Bravo’s decision,’ he told the site. ‘I continue to be truly sorry for the insensitive comments I made in the past and have worked within my community to repair the damage I’ve caused.’
Sorry! Brett Caprioni was fired from Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules on Tuesday. The reality TV star shared his regret over his past actions with UsWeekly the next day. Seen in November 2019
A good ole time: On Vanderpump Rules with James Kennedy, Raquel Leviss and Max Boyens
He added, ‘I have learned a lot and grown from the experience but understand that it’s not enough. I will continue to do more regardless of my affiliation with VPR because it’s the right thing to do.’
In January old racist tweets had been dug up. At the time he said: ‘It wasn’t OK then, it’s not OK now. It’s something I regret deeply, and it was just kind of making jokes with each other, like we’d literally be in the same room and just say stupid s*** to each other, and it was a dumb f***ing thing to do. I’m doing my best to move forward and be the best person I can be.’
Along with Brett, Stassie Schroeder, Kristen Doute and Max Boyens were let go for racist remarks that had been previously reported.
Lisa Vanderpump had originally chosen to let them slide after claiming it no longer represented their views, though Bravo wasn’t taking any chances with the renewed scandal.
They are friends: With Kennedy, right, at the Guess Jeans even in LA in August 2019
Growing: ‘I have learned a lot and grown from the experience but understand that it’s not enough. I will continue to do more regardless of my affiliation with VPR because it’s the right thing to do,’ he said; seen during season eight
Schroeder, 31, apparently never realized her conduct could put her job in jeopardy, according to Us Weekly.
Sources close to her said she was ‘surprised and upset’ to have been booted from the Bravo series after her former cast mate Faith Stowers revealed that Stassi and her friend Kristen had lied to police to accuse her of a crime.
‘Stassi was not expecting to be fired. She is surprised and upset,’ a source said.
They added that she had ‘lost a lot of money from losing sponsorships and paid opportunities,’ though it doesn’t appear to be too great a loss, as she and her fiancé Beau Clark had been saving up.
Not paying attention: ‘Stassi was not expecting to be fired. She is surprised and upset,’ a source said; still from Vanderpump Rules
Prescient: She has been axed from Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules. And it turns out that Stassi Schroeder publicly begged the network not to fire her back in February following an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen and Summer House star Kyle Cook
Stassi publicly begged the network not to fire her back in February following an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.
Alongside a selfie taken with Cohen and Summer House star Kyle Cook that she posted to her Instagram, Stassi, 31, wrote: ‘Dear Bravo, please never fire me, because I love this s*** so much.’
It’s not known why she chose those words but in hindsight they seem prescient.
Following stories of Stassi’s treatment of Faith, along with racist comments she made on her podcast, she has been dropped as a spokesperson for the women-focused shaving supplies company Billie, as well as Secret deodorant and the vitamin startup Ritual.
The deciding factor leading up to Stassi’s firing from Vanderpump Rules seems to be an incident in which she and her costar Kristen Doute called the police and accused Stowers of being the woman mentioned in an article about a black woman thief.
Financial hurt: They added that she had ‘lost a lot of money from losing sponsorships and paid opportunities,’ though it doesn’t appear to be too great a loss, as she and her fiancé Beau Clark had been saving up; pictured in January
‘There was this article where there was an African-American lady. It was a weird photo, so she looked very light-skinned and had these different, weird tattoos. I guess this woman was robbing people,’ Faith revealed during an Instagram Live session with Floribama Shore star Candace Rice.
‘And they called the cops and said it was me. This is like, a true story. I heard this from, actually, Stassi during an interview.’
Both Schroeder and Doute have since apologized for falsely accusing their co-worker.
Pointing fingers: Stassi and Kristen were fired from Vanderpump Rules after they called the police and accused former cast mate Faith Stowers of being a thief; pictured in 2016
Trickery: During an Instagram Live conversation with Floribama Shore’s Candace Rice, Faith said Stassi and Kristen told the police she was a black female thief mentioned in an article, despite clearly looking nothing like her
Too late: Both Schroeder and Doute have since apologized for falsely accusing their co-worker
‘Racially insensitive comments from my past have resurfaced,’ Schroeder wrote on Instagram only days after publicly supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.
‘It is important that I continue to take accountability for what I have said and done, while pushing myself to do better,’ the New Orleans-born reality star said.
‘I have grown significantly from the person I was then, and I am still filled with remorse and regret for the hurt I caused.’
Stassi also admitted to calling the police about Faith despite knowing she was not the criminal in question, and blamed it on their personal squabbles.
‘My emotions over something that happened between our friends outweighed my logic, and there is no excuse for that.
‘I did not recognize then the serious ramifications that could have transpired because of my actions. What I did to Faith was wrong. I apologize and I do not expect forgiveness.’
Schroeder’s actions took on chilling weight following an incident last month in which a white woman named Amy Cooper called 911 to report a black man, Christian Cooper (no relation), who was birdwatching and had asked her to leash her dog for the sake of the birds.
She lied on the phone and claimed he had threatened her, despite video he took showing he had done no such thing.
Critics of the encounter pointed out that calling law enforcement on a black person could have led to a deadly encounter.
Stassi’s actions earned her a swift dismissal from Vanderpump Rules, but the choice to fire her wasn’t as easy to make within Bravo.
Tough choice: Bravo reportedly had a tough time firing Schroeder, who ‘has become a major piece of the Bravo puzzle over the years,’ according to a second insider; pictured with Doute in 2018
‘Stassi, in particular, has become a major piece of the Bravo puzzle over the years, and the network truly enjoyed working with her,’ a second insider said.
‘That said, racism and discrimination have no place on Bravo, so Stassi, Kristen, Max and Brett left the powers that be with no other option. The people behind the decision are now discussing ways that Bravo can publicly and more thoroughly address the situation.’
Another Vanderpump star, Jax Taylor, had also accused Stowers of being a criminal responsible for ‘grand theft auto,’ though he doesn’t appear to have reported her to the police as Schroeder and Doute did.
The reality star, who is infamous for his infidelities, has had plenty of his own run-ins with the law and has been arrested multiple times.