The fences are beginning to mend within the Vanderpump Rules universe!
Following months of controversy after Scandoval, Tom Schwartz has simply efficiently reunited co-stars Tom Sandoval and Jax Taylor, who’ve been going at it amid the previous’s dishonest scandal. The threesome acquired collectively at Schwartz & Sandy’s Lounge on Thanksgiving, with Schwartz posting a photograph of them posing on a sofa, celebrating:
“Got the band back together”
Surprising to see all of them again collectively after this mess! For Schwartz, who’s had his personal rocky historical past with Sandoval since supporting him all through the affair, he hopes it’s the beginning of a recent new chapter for them.
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Speaking to People on Thursday evening, the Bravo character defined how the sudden reunion occurred. While acknowledging the pair “have been on the outs for a long time,” he reminded followers they was once tight:
“But I think people forget that Tom and Jax have been friends longer than I’ve been friends with both of them. I’m talking almost 20 years.”
On their group friendship, he added:
“It’s like sometimes I feel like we’re a trio. We’re like brothers. Those are my Los Angeles brothers. They’re first two people I met along with Kristen Doute. We all lived together and we were slightly dysfunctional, but we loved each other and we came up together and I have a deep bond with both those guys.”
“Dysfunctional” is an efficient phrase for the boys’ bond — and he doubled down on this, explaining:
“Sometimes their dynamic, it’s love-hate — maybe more emphasis on the latter lately, but I feel like they had a little breakthrough recently. They’ve been communicating more often. […] They kind of have John C. Reilly/Will Ferrell in Step Brothers dynamic. But I think deep down they do love each other at the end of the day. I think I can speak on behalf of them.”
That’s progress! While Sandoval and Jax haven’t opened up concerning the get-together, it was clearly very particular for his or her buddy. Because the boys had been feuding for therefore lengthy after Jax took Ariana Madix‘s facet in Le Scandoval, it made the whole lot “touch-and-go” for a bit — placing the Stars on Mars alum in a clumsy spot:
“It was really nice for me because I kind of feel like a child of divorce sometimes with those two because Jax and Tom are two of my best friends on the planet and I love them dearly.”
Katie Maloney‘s ex-husband concluded:
“They’re additionally very totally different individuals. And anyhow, they’re each doing rather well proper now, and it was very nice to see them collectively. … It was only a actually, actually nice evening. It felt cozy and blissful, and the vacation spirit was alive and nicely. “
Aw!
Sounds like issues are wanting up for this pal group! But don’t count on the Special Forces alum to be chummy with everybody on the forged — the women aren’t going to forgive the dishonest fairly so simply. The subsequent season of the present is promising a ton of latest drama for Sandy — and never everyone seems to be so fast to let bygones by bygones! Thoughts? Let us know (under)!
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