Rachel “Raquel” Leviss might have complained about not making a penny off her highly-talked-about affair with Tom Sandoval, however, in line with government producer Alex Baskin, she made quite a bit for her position on Vanderpump Guidelines season 10, throughout which their sordid romance was confirmed.
Throughout a joint interview with Sandoval, 41, earlier than Raquel filed her bombshell lawsuit towards Tom and Ariana Madix over revenge porn and invasion of privateness claims, Alex revealed Raquel’s precise wage and dished on the way forward for the Bravo actuality sequence as Sandoval threw some shade at his former flame and shared his ideas on Raquel returning, noting that she’ll doubtless be again subsequent season — or the one instantly after.
“What else is she going to do?” Sandoval puzzled throughout a February 20 interview with The New York Instances.
After quitting Pump Guidelines final yr, Raquel appeared on Bethenny Frankel‘s podcast, the place she instructed Sandoval had been rewarded for his or her affair as she gained nothing. Nevertheless, as Alex shared, she was paid a whopping $342,000 for her remaining season.
“Are we supposed to offer her retroactive fee for having a clandestine affair for eight months?” he puzzled.
Following the reveal of their affair, Sandoval and Raquel stored in contact till she out of the blue ceased communication amid her months-long stint in a psychological well being remedy facility.
“She by no means even gave me any closure,” he revealed. “It was actually laborious. It nonetheless messes with me.”
Shortly after Raquel reduce ties with him, Sandoval traveled to New Zealand to movie Particular Forces, the place he believes producers manipulated footage to make it seem as if Jojo Siwa, 20, who voluntarily stop, outlasted him.
“They mentioned she lasted longer than me, however she most positively didn’t,” he clarified.
Additionally throughout the interview, Alex admitted that when it got here to “Scandoval,” the affair between Sandoval and Raquel, in addition to the fallout that ensued, saved the present from cancelation.
“We had been hobbling,” he acknowledged.
As for the longer term, after noting that Ariana Madix, 38, didn’t wish to work together with Sandoval throughout filming on season 11, Alex mentioned that the sequence may even see its struggles.
“We are able to nonetheless squeeze an amazing season out of it, however going ahead, I don’t know,” he confessed.
Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
