Sorry, I've been busy and meant to piggyback around...but nope. Fired with the rest. It wasn't until the pandemic that I stopped watching VPR so I was still keeping up in real time when Jax was losing his s#$% on Twitter even more than Ex Soap Opera Star on BH and finally Bravo had no choice but to get rid of him. Like Ex Soap Opera Star, Jax spun the story that he was leaving to save face.
She had potential if Jax was still around because they would have totally been feuding after that Season 8 reunion.
From what I remember in real time with Brock, the fact that he and Lala were so publicly feuding online and so much came out during the airing of Season 9 that did not put him in a favorable light, that he is not main by choice now.
But tbf, Season 9 was to have a bunch of newbies from TomTom, Pump, Sur...I even have a video waaaay back on this thread of Sandoval getting one of the new hottie twerking in cowboy gear...but they edited them all out from what I heard.
I've begun my binge of Season 9 and only on Episode 3, but it does feel refreshed given the wasted potential of Season 8.