‘Pump Rules’ Scenes With New Meaning Amid Sandoval, Raquel Affair

In a unique mild. Vanderpump Rules viewers have been thrown for a loop when the present’s give attention to Raquel Leviss‘ potential romance with Tom Schwartz was overshadowed by information of her offscreen affair with Tom Sandoval.

Before the forged began filming season 10 throughout summer time 2022, Katie Maloney and Schwartz introduced their break 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 pal 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 were having problems for a while,” a supply revealed to Us, including that issues “only came to a breaking point” when Ariana discovered that her then-boyfriend was untrue with Raquel.

Shortly after the information made headlines, the Florida native’s brother, Jeremy Madix, slammed the Vanderpump Rules costars.

“It’s funny to watch people social climb and be soooooooo fake that they’re willing to s—t on people that are supposed to be their ‘best friend’ (a term that gets thrown around very often around here) all just to come up or have some sort of story line,” he commented on James Kennedy’s Instagram put up. “This lifestyle and this group is beyond toxic and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. … Toms a try hard having a midlife crisis with his cringy band and Raquel has faked her way to the top trying to make something of her life willing to step on whoever to get there starting with James. Sell out type lame s—t. Let’s all remember that Raquel was a fan of the show before all of this. Does anyone pay attention?”

Sandoval, for his half, took to social media to difficulty an apology to Ariana, writing by way of Instagram, “I want to first and foremost apologize to everyone I’ve hurt through this process. Most of all, I want to apologize to Ariana. I made mistakes, I was selfish and made reckless decisions that hurt somebody I love. No one deserves to feel that pain so traumatically and publicly.”

He added: “I can only imagine how devastating this has been for Ariana and everyone around us. I feel really horrible about that. My biggest regret is that I dishonored Ariana. I never meant to disappoint so many people, including our loving families and friends.”

That similar month, viewers began to investigate scenes from season 10 of Vanderpump Rules 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 is strange to me though because Raquel had zero interest in Oliver [Saunders] until I said [I was interested],” Lala stated in a confessional. “Now she’s treating it like a pageant and she’s in competition mode with me.”

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