Former "Vanderpump Rules" star Stassi Schroeder has been cast in Season 2 of Hulu's "Vanderpump Villa" alongside her former Sur co-star, Lisa Vanderpump. In addition to joining the show's cast, Schroeder has also inked a deal with the streamer, and her first project is developing a comedic half-hour docuseries called "Stassi Says."

Schroeder's return to the "Vanderverse" comes as something of a surprise. She and fellow "Vanderpump Rules" star Kristen Doute were fired from "Vanderpump Rules" in 2020 for racist comments toward their former castmate Faith Stowers. In 2018, after seeing a photo in the Daily Mail of a black woman wanted for a robbery in Los Angeles, Schroeder and Doute reported Stowers to police, but the woman in the article turned out not to be Stowers.

Two years later, Stowers went public with the situation after detailing what happened in an Instagram Live chat. Schroeder and Doute were fired from "Vanderpump Rules" shortly afterward. Schroeder, who had been with the show for eight seasons since its premiere in 2013, was subsequently fired from her agency, UTA, and her PR firm, Metro Public Relations.

In the years since, Schroeder has regained her popular standing. After being fired, she published a second book, Off With My Head, in 2022, in which she attempted to right her past wrongs (there were many) and apologized. “I just completely understood how wrong I was,” Schroeder wrote. “I couldn’t even believe I had questioned Black Lives Matter. Realizing that I was one of those damn Karens who say, ‘What if all lives matter?’ was a bitter pill to swallow.”