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        <title><![CDATA[Lisa Vanderpump devastated over restaurant closures]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Lisa Vanderpump</strong> is heartbroken over the toll that the coronavirus has taken on her businesses.</p><p>The restauranteur and reality star, 59, owns four establishments in Los Angeles, Villa Blanca, SUR, PUMP and TomTom. She runs TomTom alongside <strong>&#8220;Vanderpump Rules&#8221;</strong> cast members <strong>Tom Schwartz</strong> and <strong>Tom Sandoval</strong>.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been devastating,&#8221; Vanderpump told Andy Cohen on Tuesday night&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not just our business. It&#8217;s our life as well. And so many people have worked for us for years. I mean, now they&#8217;re all on unemployment. But just the whole fact that it&#8217;s just everything gone right now. We can&#8217;t go in there. I can&#8217;t see what&#8217;s going on. It&#8217;s been devastating. It&#8217;s been really sad, I have to say.&#8221;</p><p>While Sandoval, 36, and Schwartz, 37, took some matters into their own hands by <strong>taking to Cameo to raise money</strong> for their staff shortly after the restaurant was forced to shut down, Vanderpump remains optimistic that she will be able to reopen and keep her staff — who she has close relationships with —&nbsp;once it is safe.</p><p>Los Angeles is <strong>expected to face the same devastation</strong> that New York has faced because of the virus. New York City alone <strong>confirmed 77,967 COVID-19 cases and 3,602 deaths</strong> as of Wednesday morning.</p><p>Vanderpump noted, &#8220;Hopefully we&#8217;ll be along with Lance [Bass, the owner of Rocco&#8217;s WeHo], one of the businesses that survives this because a lot of people won&#8217;t and it&#8217;s a real worry.&#8221;</p><p>She did not comment on how her dog rescue, Vanderpump Dogs, is doing amid the shutdown; however, their Twitter account is updating fans on adoptions.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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