Longtime fans of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and its devilishly addictive spin-off,
Vanderpump Rules, will know Ken Todd is more than just another dull Househusband.
Lisa Vanderpump's beloved partner is more of a charming and unique icon - a quiet, diminutive,
and always sharply-dressed man who bears more than a passing resemblance to Rod Stewart.
He's cool about carrying tiny dogs and his wife's tiny purses, but don't think he's a
total softie. Despite his smaller stature, he even once threatened a drunk DJ James Kennedy
when he stepped over the line with Vanderpump.
“I told you not to come here when you're drunk."
"I didn't, I didn't."
"You're drunk now."
"No I'm not."
"The way you're speaking to Lisa?"
"I'll knock your spark out!"
Kennedy's response to the confrontation said it all. Basically, don't mess with Ken.
"Don't you understand, James? "Ken scares the s--- out of me!"
Todd is so iconic, in fact, he's inspired his own T-shirt design from the popular Bravo
recap podcast B---h Sesh, which brilliantly features a spectral drawing of Todd with the
text, "Can everybody see Ken?"
The shirt references actor Jason Mantzoukas' appearance on the podcast, during which he
worried aloud whether Todd was a real person or simply a ghost haunting the halls of Villa
Rosa.
"Can you guys see the specter holding a dog that's just wandering in the background of
all scenes?"
But we all see Todd, and we want to know more about this enigmatic Englishman.
Ken Todd and Lisa Vanderpump's love story is swoon-worthy, as fans of their reality
shows will already know. They've been married for decades and share two children, Pandora
and adopted son Max. As a writeup by Hello! noted, the duo got engaged after just six
weeks of dating. Vanderpump acknowledged,
"It was the strangest thing. He was wrong for me in every sense - 16 years older, playboy,
in the nightclubs. But he asked me for my number and that was that."
However, after being married for so long, Vanderpump has looked back on their life together
and noted,
"Would I recommend that to young people now? Probably not. It was the strangest thing.
He is older, but he has always met me halfway, has never put me down, always asks my opinions
on things."
Her secret to a successful marriage is that support, as the restaurateur and reality star
has shared,
"I have changed throughout the years and have become more confident - but I have always
felt him beside me."
In an episode of the Straight Up with Stassi podcast in 2018, Vanderpump echoed those sentiments
about her husband around the time of their 35th wedding anniversary, explaining what
made their marriage work.
On Bravo's Daily Dish, she said,
"You know the greatest gift Ken Todd ever gave me? He was 16 years older than me and
he met me halfway on everything. He never put me down, he never belittled me, he would
take me to meetings and ask my opinion."
They may make their love known to all, but Todd himself remains something of a question
mark, and his personal life prior to Vanderpump is very well known. As Bravo's Daily Dish
reveals, he was previously briefly married to Pamela Todd, with whom he had a son named
Warren, who was born in 1966.
Vanderpump wrote in a 2011 Bravo blog post,
"Warren is very much his [father's] son - ambitious, incredibly family oriented, and someone to
be proud of."
Of his first marriage, Todd himself has said it simply "didn't last very long," and he
had sole custody of Warren from the age of 2.
On the business side of things, Vanderpump and Todd have had their fair share of success
in the restaurant industry, opening more than 30 establishments over three decades. Included
in those, of course, are PUMP, SUR, and TomTom, which obviously feature heavily on Vanderpump
Rules.
Todd's money didn't come easily, as Lisa Vanderpump discussed in a post she shared on her Bravo
blog. She wrote,
"One of the many reasons that I fell in love with Ken was the kindness he exuded. [...] He
worked many jobs laboring, night jobs, anything to provide for his son, and, with the help
of his mother, he raised an educated, well-mannered young man. Life was hard at the beginning.
But with sheer tenacity and some sort of innovative business sense, he created a life for his
family (including his parents) that otherwise they wouldn't have had."
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