Juliette Porter is ready to say goodbye to Siesta Key and hello to a summer house in the Hamptons.
“I tried going on Summer House for a moment,” Porter, 27, revealed on the March 5 episode of her “Don’t Be Ridiculous” podcast when discussing the Bravo show. “Maybe I’ll try again.”
According to the former MTV reality star, she has met cast member Ciara Miller “a couple of times” and loves Paige DeSorbo.
“Speaking of Paige, you know Paige and Hannah [Berner]?” she asked her cohost Sebastian Genta. “I am so incredibly proud of them. They were at the Vanity Fair Oscars red carpet. … They’re the nicest girls. They’re so funny and I’m just really proud of their success. They deserve it. They’re f—ing crushing it right now.”
From 2017 to early 2023, Porter starred on Siesta Key alongside Kelsey Owens, Madisson Hausburg and other cast members.
The MTV reality show followed a group of friends in the Florida city as they navigated friendships, relationships and plenty of surprises.
“The reason I think the show ended is I do think a lot of things had changed,” Porter explained. “These are my friends from high school through early, early 20s. I don’t really talk to them anymore. It’s a different era. Things were dying. I was ready to grow. I knew I was going to stay in Miami. They didn’t necessarily belong in Miami.”
While the show’s fifth and final season was filmed in Miami, Porter claimed that there was a possibility that a new spinoff could be created focused on her life away from the States.
Porter said a film crew based out of London filmed her in Paris for three days, and the initial reaction from producers was positive.
“It was honestly magical. It was such a spinoff moment,” she said. “They tried to pitch it to MTV. They got my friend Serena Kerrigan. Amanda [Marie Miller] was going to come. … At the last minute, they spun and moved to Miami because it was too expensive.”
While Porter joked that she wishes her show was on Bravo, the JMP The Label swimwear designer suggested that networks don’t take big enough risks with their shows.
“I think a lot of networks try to just redo the same thing that they know has worked, which makes sense from a budget standpoint,” she said. “But it’s redundant.”
New episodes of the “Don’t Be Ridiculous” podcast are released every Thursday.
