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In 2021, Issa Rae told EW that Vanderpump Rules was an inspiration for Sweet Life: Los Angeles, a reality TV show she created. (The show was canceled last year.) She watched Season 1 of Pump Rules while on a plane ride. "I was like, 'What the f— is this?' Because I'd never seen Real Housewives. I didn't know who Lisa Vanderpump was, but watching these people working at a restaurant, they just felt like real people who didn't, at the time, want to be famous," she told the publication.