and connected as restaurateurs way before she signed on for the second season of his series Food Stars. “When he first asked me to do it, we had a kind of playful relationship, albeit competitive because we had restaurants opposite each other, restaurants next to each other,” Vanderpump, 63, exclusively told on Monday, May 20, ahead of the season 2 premiere of . “In fact, we’re opening a restaurant each in the Flamingo now, so, you know, off we go again.
” Season 2 sees Vanderpump and Ramsay face off as they build a team of food and beverage entrepreneurs to compete against each other in the pair’s “Business Bootcamp.” Ramsay and Vanderpump, who are both reality TV icons in addition to , serve as mentors to the competitors, where one will walk away with a . But for Vanderpump, working against Ramsay felt “different” in the way she initially expected given their longstanding history in the industry.
“I just also thought it was very interesting on many different levels because it was going to be about the emotional component between the contestants, the business strategy, the challenges, survival of the fittest, the iconic places that we were gonna go,” she explained. “And ultimately how Gordon and I would handle each other ..
. and he is used to kind of being autonomous and being the boss of everything he does, and suddenly there are two bosses in the picture.” Vanderpump admitted she questioned whether or not Ramsay was going to “move over enough�.