Mornings in the Vanderpump Rules era: sleeping in, drinks, and gym time<\/p>\n
On a typical morning in the early days of Vanderpump Rules, Tom said he would \u201cprobably be hungover, because we drank a lot more back in the day,\u201d so he might start his day with a Bloody Mary.<\/p>\n
At the time, he was living with his then-girlfriend, Katie Maloney<\/a>, whom he later married<\/a> and has since divorced<\/a>. \u201cI think me and Katie were living down the hall from Jax and Brittany at that point? Or maybe me and Katie were living in our first apartment. I can’t remember,\u201d Tom said.<\/p>\n After waking up, he\u2019d take their dogs Gordo and Butters out for a walk, \u201cthen hit the gym for a little detox.”<\/p>\n Lala started her days in a similar manner, waking up “anywhere between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.,” at which point she’d typically text Scheana Shay<\/a>. “She lived directly across the street in a different apartment complex, so we would walk to the Grove and go to this place called Mixology and have breakfast and drinks,” Lala recalled. “Then, we’d think it was a good idea to smoke a blunt and go back to my apartment to work out.”<\/p>\n Around that time, Brittany\u2019s mornings were similarly relaxed. As she put it, “My alarm in the SUR era probably didn\u2019t even go off. I probably slept in a little bit because we didn\u2019t really have to work until the night shift.\u201d<\/p>\n Mornings for The Valley cast now: work, wakeup calls from kids, and a new type of gym time<\/p>\n Now, the first half of the day looks entirely different for all of them. \u201cI\u2019m a morning guy. That\u2019s when I\u2019m most ambitious,\u201d Tom told Bravo Insider. \u201cI\u2019m in love, so hopefully I\u2019m waking up next to [my girlfriend] Kiana [Carroll]<\/a>, but she lives in New York and L.A. \u2014 she’s bicoastal \u2014 so I don’t always get to wake up next to her.\u201d Either way, “I work out first thing, because if I don’t work out before noon, I’m not going to work out.\u201d<\/p>\n Then, Tom turns his attention to his career, including growing his \u201cfledgling\u201d podcast, Detox Retox<\/a>. \u201cI like to get all of my work, any sort of clerical stuff, emails, texts, and planning for the future, all that stuff, done before 1:00 p.m.,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Brittany\u2019s current wake-up call comes in the form of a sweet 5-year-old. \u201cCruz wakes me up pretty early,\u201d she shared. \u201cHe\u2019s normally my alarm clock each day.\u201d<\/p>\n Lala, however, makes a point to begin the day solo. “My mornings start around 6, and I do that because it’s really the only time that I have to myself where I can just have my coffee and not hear a lot of chaos happening,” she explained. “My kids wake up at 7.”<\/p>\n From there, it’s breakfast time for both Lala’s daughters and Brittany’s son. Regarding the latter, “Cruz loves bagels and bacon and strawberries and bananas,” Brittany explained. “I make him a smoothie every single day because he\u2019s a very picky eater, so I make sure I get these packs that have the vitamins and the vegetables and all that he needs, every single morning.”<\/p>\n After that, \u201cWe just have fun, laugh, brush our teeth, get him ready, all that stuff,” Brittany said. “It\u2019s either going to class or it\u2019s going to speech therapy\/occupational therapy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Lala’s post-breakfast plans look a little different, as she typically works out with a trainer every morning. Where? “My kids’ playroom, while they are all over the place trying to copy what I’m doing, and I’m making sure that they don’t drop a weight on their foot.”<\/p>\n Afternoons in the Vanderpump Rules days: SUR shifts and auditions<\/p>\n During Vanderpump Rules, Lala and Brittany\u2019s days revolved around shifts at SUR. \u201cMy normal shifts at SUR started around 3:00 or 4:00 p.m.,” Brittany explained. “We would come in, prep our tables, and get everything ready.\u201d<\/p>\n Once the restaurant got busy, there was rarely a moment to slow down. \u201cWhenever you\u2019re at SUR, you can just go out into the back alley and take breaks whenever you have a chance, and just keep running in and checking on your tables. So, it was just constant going around and around and at SUR,\u201d Brittany recalled. \u201cWe all helped each other with each other\u2019s tables and stuff. If somebody needed a break, you could tell someone else, and they would look after your table while you took a break.\u201d<\/p>\n Tom\u2019s afternoons were equally packed during those years. \u201cI was still going on auditions and castings for acting, so I probably had a few castings during the day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In between those, he\u2019d, of course, be filming Vanderpump Rules.<\/p>\n Afternoons in The Valley era: work, fun activities, and relaxation<\/p>\n Afternoons are now the highlight of Brittany\u2019s days, all because of her son. \u201cCruz swims almost every single day at the house,\u201d she shared. \u201cHe loves it so much.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n There\u2019s usually another activity on the schedule, too: \u201cWe go to the park, we go to Sky Zone, we go to the aquarium, or the zoos.”<\/p>\n Lala also finds herself running around, but for a different reason: “I have three podcasts that need to be recorded … Then by the time 4 p.m. hits, I’m freaking exhausted. But I plow through.”<\/p>\n Tom\u2019s current afternoons are decidedly more relaxed, especially following the closure of his establishment with Tom Sandoval<\/a>, Schwartz & Sandy\u2019s<\/a>, and the news that the duo\u2019s venture with Lisa Vanderpump<\/a>, TomTom, is up for sale. “Owning a business forces you to grow up… I wish I could do some things differently, but do I regret it? No. How cool is it to say that you had a bar in Hollywood?” he said of the end of that era. “Even though it was short-lived and it went down in a blaze of not glory, it was cool.”<\/p>\n Now, around 3:00 p.m., Tom will \u201cgo grab a nice little happy hour somewhere,\u201d though he caveated that it involves \u201cone, two drinks tops.\u201d After that, he\u2019ll \u201ccheck in with my family, walk the dogs, and then maybe [have] a nice dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n Nights in the Vanderpump Rules era: late shifts, clubbing, and after parties<\/p>\n In Tom\u2019s \u201cprime WeHo stomping days,\u201d he\u2019d frequent \u201cL.A. staple\u201d Bossa Nova for dinner. \u201cIt\u2019s not the best food, but it\u2019s comforting,\u201d he said. Then every once in a while, he\u2019d splurge on an expensive dinner. \u201cI didn\u2019t have enough money then.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, working at SUR, \u201csometimes we would be there until 2:00 or 3:00 a.m.,\u201d Brittany recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n If they were cut earlier, though, “We would plan our pregame at 9,” Lala added. “And then it was, like, a 10:30 dinner on a rooftop, and then we would go to the club.”\u00a0<\/p>\n “After we went to the club, it was going to someone’s house or an apartment,” Lala continued. “We either got very bougie and got invited to some fabulous hilltop mansion, or it was very gritty and we were going to someone’s apartment because we were just there for a good time. We were on that server budget.”<\/p>\n As for when they’d finally call it a night, “There was no bedtime,” Lala said. “It was like, let’s just see where the night takes us, and if we’re in bed by 3, great. If we don’t get in bed until the sun comes up, who even cares because we work at a restaurant at night, and we have all day that we can sleep.”<\/p>\n Regardless of where the night took them, they almost always wound down with fast food. \u201cWe loved us some Taco Bell. We had it all the time,\u201d Brittany said. \u201cAfter work or after we\u2019d been drinking a little bit, Taco Bell was the top notch.\u201d<\/p>\n Nights for The Valley cast now: Early dinners and cherished bedtime rituals<\/p>\n Today, Brittany\u2019s evenings start much earlier. \u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to go out at 8:00 p.m. I\u2019m like, \u2018Can we have an early dinner starting at 5 or 6?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n