Tom Sandoval continues to be late evening’s favourite punching bag.
Throughout HBO’s Final Week Tonight With John Oliver on Sunday, February 26, host Oliver, 46, took intention on the Vanderpump Guidelines star, 41, throughout a dialogue in regards to the idea of “pig butchering,” which is when rip-off victims are fattened up financially by their fraudsters earlier than being drained of their funds.
“Think about being a sufferer of this rip-off,” Oliver stated, “turning on the information and all of the sudden studying that the shorthand for individuals in your state of affairs is ‘the pigs.’”
Oliver continued, “Though, I’ll say, it might have been worse. Pigs are superior. They’re one of the clever animals on the planet. They’re smarter than canines, most 3-year-olds and Tom Sandoval.”
It was the newest late-night ding for the fact star, who was additionally parodied on the Saturday, February 25, version of Saturday Evening Reside.
In the course of the sketch present’s Weekend Replace phase, solid member Marcello Hernández appeared as a frozen embryo, wearing a nude bodysuit with white earmuffs and icicles on his face.
Hernandez’s look was in reference to final week’s Alabama Supreme Court docket ruling, which said frozen embryos saved for in vitro fertilization are legally labeled as youngsters and thus people could be held liable for his or her destruction.
When Weekend Replace cohost Colin Jost requested Hernández whether or not an embryo has a “full, human life,” Hernández responded, “Does this seem like a life to you, Colin? I’m dwelling at detrimental 200 levels in liquid nitrogen, freezing my nonexistent nipples off. I don’t acquired a mind, I don’t acquired a coronary heart, I’m like Tom Sandoval.”
Hernández’s character stated he wasn’t really in a position to watch Sandoval on Vanderpump Guidelines as a result of he doesn’t “have eyes,” however insisted that “even with out eyes, I can see that Tom’s a pure narcissist.”
Sandoval has turn into persona non grata on the Bravo actuality collection within the wake of the implosion of his nine-year-long relationship with associate Ariana Madix, which led to 2023 following his affair with costar Rachel “Raquel” Leviss.
Dubbed “Scandoval,” the dramatic unraveling of Sandoval and Madix’s romance grew to become must-see-TV, driving Vanderpump Guidelines to large scores success.
Extra lately, Sandoval discovered himself in scorching water for evaluating his trials and tribulations to these of O.J. Simpson and the late George Floyd.
“I’m not a pop-culture historian actually however I witnessed the O.J. Simpson factor and George Floyd and all these large issues,” Sandoval stated to The New York Instances Journal for an article that was printed on Tuesday, February 20. “Which is actually bizarre to check this to that, I believe, however do you assume in a bizarre means it’s slightly bit the identical?”
Sandoval was instantly met with intense backlash, which led to him apologizing for his phrases.
“My intentions behind the feedback I made in New York Instances Journal had been to elucidate the extent of nationwide media consideration my affair obtained,” Sandoval stated in an announcement the identical day the story was launched. “The comparability was inappropriate and ignorant. I’m extremely sorry and embarrassed.”
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