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Who Is Nick King From ‘Vanderpump Villa’ Season 3?

Amanda Orlando

He arrived with confidence, a bartender title, and absolutely no idea how to make a whiskey sour. Here’s everything to know about one of Season 3’s most talked-about new cast members.

Nick King: Age, Hometown, & The Basics

Nicholas “Nick” King joined the ‘Vanderpump Villa’ Season 3 cast as a bartender at Rosecroft Park in Buckinghamshire, England. He was 25 years old at the time of filming, born in Dundee, Scotland, raised across Poland and Hungary, and based in Edinburgh. By his own description, he has been “all over the UK — all over the world, for that matter.” His confidence, he said, comes “in heavy doses.”

The Bartending Problem

The first thing viewers learned about Nick is also the most defining thing about him on screen: he is not actually much of a bartender. During the “Made in Chelsea” engagement party in Episode 1, he could not make a whiskey sour, had never heard of a gimlet, and refused to pour a guest a glass of wine — so she went behind the bar and poured it herself. Guest Alice Yaxley brought it to Lisa Vanderpump the next morning. “Your bartender doesn’t know how to bartend,” Alice told her, adding that he was very good with words — “it’s manipulative, almost.”

Nick’s own assessment: “Worst nightmare.”

Lisa demoted him to barback, called him out directly in a staff meeting, but kept him on. She acknowledged what he lacks in bar skills he makes up for in charm and personality. Marciano had a different read: “It seems like Nick doesn’t know how to bartend for shit. It’s weird. It really makes me question his motives here. And it doesn’t seem, to me, it’s for the right reasons.”

The Love Life

If Nick did not come to Rosecroft Park to bartend, what he did seem to come for was quickly apparent. Within 24 hours of arriving, he was in bed with “Made in Chelsea” guest Tina Stinnes — the same guest who had just complained about him to Lisa. When Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu arrived for her birthday celebration, he was flirting with her too, despite Tina making clear that Nick was “hers.” Ekin-Su’s assessment of him: “A really nice bum.”

By Episode 3, Nick had shifted his full attention to server Alyssa Johnston. The two kissed on a punting boat during a staff trip to Oxford, held hands through the streets, and by the end of the night were kissing hard in front of everyone back at the house. Both of them insisted things were casual. Neither of them fully committed to that story. Later in the season, Bachelor Nation guest Jess caught his eye too. His confessional about her: “She’s my little babycakes.” His confessional about kissing Alyssa after kissing Jess: he might still be thinking about Jess.

Alyssa, for her part, said she did not really care. Although, body language seemed to say something different.

What the Cast Thinks

Marciano Brunette‘s skepticism about Nick’s motives was shared by staff member Sam Terry early on. “I gotta be honest, I don’t think Nick is remotely close to where he should be,” Sam said. The general feeling among the returning cast was that Nick was playing a game — just not the one on his job description.

The Bigger Question

Nick kept his position at the villa all season. He skated by on personality, got demoted rather than fired, and spent most of the summer pursuing women while someone else stocked the bar. Whether the reunion addresses his professional credibility problem directly is one of the season’s outstanding questions.

He is charming. He is watchable. He is almost certainly not a bartender.

“Vanderpump Villa” Season 3 is streaming now on Hulu.

The ‘Vanderpump Villa’ Season 3 reunion airs April 30th. See what we know and watch the trailer here.

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