Ariana Madix‘s resume just keeps growing. After 11 seasons on Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules — and a very public breakup with her co-star in 2023 — Madix competed on Dancing with the Stars, made her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago, and began hosting Love Island USA. Most recently, Madix appeared on an episode of ABC’s Will Trent as an exaggerated version of herself.

In Season 3, Episode 8 of Will Trent — which aired on Feb. 25 — Detective Michael Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) accepts a job as Madix’s bodyguard for some easy money. But their time together is anything but simple when he shows up to her penthouse and she’s hosting an intervention for her drug addict friend, who dislocates Michael’s shoulder and pepper-sprays him while trying to escape.

When they venture out together to find her missing friend, they end up at a bar where they line dance and bond over bad breakups (cough, cough, Scandoval). Michael even tells Madix that she was “robbed” of a Dancing with the Stars win when she came in third place. However, the best part of Madix’s character is that, like her real-life self, she’s a jack of many trades. In the show, she’s not only the host of Love Island USA and a former Dancing with the Stars contestant, but she’s also a certified EMT who can speak fluent Cantonese and has a black belt in Judo.

When DECIDER caught up with Madix, who was promoting the upcoming seventh season of Love Island USA, she said one of her “longest friends in LA” wrote the Will Trent episode she guest-starred in.

“The fact that we got to work on that together was really cool and really exciting,” she said when she stopped by our studio last week. “He wrote me as this character who does all these different, weird, cool things. I’m me, but I’m this crazy version of me.”

The Something About Her sandwich shop owner gushed over the Will Trent cast.

“Everyone who worked on [the show] was so nice. You never know walking into a situation where everyone already knows each other. But everyone was so cool and so nice,” she said, before adding, “If they ever want to have me back, I am down.”

Madix, who also played a cop in the 2023 Lifetime movie Buying Back My Daughter, teased more plans for scripted work in the future, especially now that her time on Vanderpump Rules has come to an end.

“Oh, yeah, lots of plans for more scripted stuff in the future,” she said. “It was really cool to be able to do that and just kind of get that ball rolling in a sense.”

Will Trent is currently streaming on Hulu. You can watch Madix in Love Island USA Season 7 when it premieres on June 3 on Peacock.