Lisa Vanderpump: ‘I’ve been given a platform in life – now I have a duty to help others’

Ed Malyon meets a British success story in America, who has leveraged her reality show success to expand a restaurant empire and activate far-reaching charity work

Lisa Vanderpump has developed an empire of successes (Getty)

Some houses have porches, other houses have basketball hoops in the driveways and others boast a bird bath in the front garden.

Villa Rosa has a moat populated by swans and turtles.

Avoid the sometimes overzealous welcome of those swans, pass through the mottled shade of two willow trees that arch over a wooden bridge and, all rather majestically, it leads you to the front door of Lisa Vanderpump.