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Stassi Schroeder Returns to Reality TV: How to Stream House of Stassi

Stassi Schroeder's eight-season Vanderpump Rules run was supposed to end in cancellation controversy, not a Hulu-era glow-up — and yet here we are, watching a "next chapter" get soft-launched with all the subtlety of a freeway billboard.

Stassi Schroeder Returns to Reality TV: How to Stream House of Stassi

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Schroeder's new unscripted series House of Stassi premieres with a two-part drop on Freeform on July 29 (9–11 p.m. PT/ET), before the full eight-episode first season lands on Disney+/Hulu the next day. Convenient back-to-back availability. Suspiciously convenient — like the booking calendar was reverse-engineered from the streaming dashboard.

The Katie Ghost Protocol

The real headline isn't the airtime. It's the confession Stassi dropped on the Girls Gotta Eat podcast — a tidbit picked up by International Business Times UK. She admitted she deliberately stopped talking to longtime co-star Katie Maloney for years rather than sit through one uncomfortable brunch.

"We did have a bit of a falling out a couple of years ago, and that was a moment where I actually chose to ghost because I didn't want to blow up a friendship," Schroeder said. Translation: she picked the path that guaranteed a three-season redemption arc. By her own account, she "wanted to separate" herself without ever "acknowledging there was a fallout." Glowing endorsement of emotional homework from a woman pitching mom-life wisdom to the masses.

Then the cameras showed up, and — surprise — suddenly the road back was marketable. Maloney is now a featured presence on House of Stassi, and both women are dutifully selling the reconciliation as authentic. "Reality TV forces you to express how you're feeling, so you can't really sweep things under the rug," Schroeder explained. Maloney herself has echoed that line, telling press viewers will see "the road back to friendship." Note the symmetry of the talking points.

The Streaming Math Nobody Asked For

Here is the part the affiliate banners don't say out loud:

  • Premiere night, July 29: Two back-to-back episodes on Freeform, 9 p.m. PT/ET. Catch it live via DirecTV (five-day free trial), Fubo, Sling, or Hulu + Live TV.
  • Full season drop, July 30: All eight episodes hit Disney+/Hulu simultaneously.
  • The "free" angle: Disney+/Hulu don't trial directly, but DirecTV's Signature packages bundle both plus ESPN+ with a five-day trial. Read the fine print before "no cost" quietly becomes $89.99 a month on Hulu + Live TV or the post-promo DirecTV rate.

Fubo is running $10–$30 off month one, with plans starting at $54.99 (jumping to $64.99 after). Sling Orange runs $45.99 monthly. None of these are impulse buys, no matter how cheerfully the promo pages frame them.

Watch For The Next PR Move

A reality star with three NYT bestsellers, a scrubbed-toothed redemption arc, and a co-star who publicly confirms the friendship is "incredibly comforting"? That's a season-two green-light waiting to happen. Expect a holiday reunion special by November and a soft-launch cameo from whichever ex still needs a press cycle by spring. The grid scrub is coming — it always is.