In a unique gentle. Vanderpump Guidelines viewers had been thrown for a loop when the present’s deal with Raquel Leviss‘ potential romance with Tom Schwartz was overshadowed by information of her offscreen affair with Tom Sandoval.
Earlier than the solid began filming season 10 throughout summer season 2022, Katie Maloney and Schwartz introduced their cut up after greater than a decade collectively. As cameras began rolling, Us Weekly confirmed that the bar proprietor attached with Raquel at Scheana Shay and Brock Davies‘ wedding ceremony in July 2022, upsetting Katie as she requested her ex-husband to not date inside their good friend group.
Raquel and Schwartz’s potential connection was on everybody’s thoughts as new episodes of the Bravo present dropped. In March 2023, nonetheless, issues took a flip when Sandoval and Ariana Madix parted methods after practically ten years of courting.
“They had been having issues for some time,” a supply revealed to Us, including that issues “solely got here to a breaking level” when Ariana came upon that her then-boyfriend was untrue with Raquel.
Shortly after the information made headlines, the Florida native’s brother, Jeremy Madix, slammed the Vanderpump Guidelines costars.
“It’s humorous to look at folks social climb and be soooooooo pretend that they’re prepared to s—t on folks which can be imagined to be their ‘finest good friend’ (a time period that will get thrown round fairly often round right here) all simply to return up or have some kind of story line,” he commented on James Kennedy’s Instagram publish. “This way of life and this group is past poisonous and I wouldn’t suggest it to anybody. … Toms a strive onerous having a midlife disaster together with his cringy band and Raquel has faked her strategy to the highest attempting to make one thing of her life prepared to step on whoever to get there beginning with James. Promote out sort lame s—t. Let’s all do not forget that Raquel was a fan of the present earlier than all of this. Does anybody listen?”
Sandoval, for his half, took to social media to subject an apology to Ariana, writing through Instagram, “I need to at the beginning apologize to everybody I’ve damage via this course of. Most of all, I need to apologize to Ariana. I made errors, I used to be egocentric and made reckless selections that damage any individual I like. Nobody deserves to really feel that ache so traumatically and publicly.”
He added: “I can solely think about how devastating this has been for Ariana and everybody round us. I really feel actually horrible about that. My largest remorse is that I dishonored Ariana. I by no means meant to disappoint so many individuals, together with our loving households and mates.”
That very same month, viewers began to research scenes from season 10 of Vanderpump Guidelines that appeared to age badly because of the drama. In a scene between Lala Kent and Raquel, which was filmed in July 2022, the sweetness mogul questioned her coworker’s curiosity in unavailable males.
“It’s unusual to me although as a result of Raquel had zero curiosity in Oliver [Saunders] till I stated [I was interested],” Lala stated in a confessional. “Now she’s treating it like a pageant and he or she’s in competitors mode with me.”
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