Not having it! Ariana Madix shut down claims that Raquel Leviss thought Tom Sandoval was in an open relationship at the beginning of their affair.
10.05.2023 - 22:15 / perezhilton.com
Apparently, Ariana Madix was PISSED when she thought the Vanderpump Rules producers were attempting to meddle with her and Tom Sandoval’s relationship – before his affair with Raquel Leviss was exposed!
For those who haven’t been watching this season of the Bravo reality series, there was a lot of speculation about the 40-year-old’s close relationship with Raquel Leviss. It reached the point where viewers saw Lala Kent speak with the 37-year-old reality star about Sandoval’s actions at a Labor Day Party, which Raquel also attended. She accused him of lying about not being able to leave the bash to comfort Ariana when she learned her grandmother died. While the author first defended Sandoval, she soon found out he lied about what went down that day.
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But before the two women got the truth, it turns out there was a moment fans didn’t get to see on last week’s episode. According to Lala, Ariana completely went OFF at her and the producers for what she thought was them trying to create drama in her relationship yet again! The 32-year-old revealed on her Give Them Lala podcast on Wednesday that things took a turn and her co-star had a “meltdown” when she questioned whether Sandoval lied. It got so bad that the producers had to step in after pausing filming. Lala recalled:
We can imagine Ariana was fed up over her friends questioning her and Sandoval since there were already whispers about them having an open relationship at that point. Lala continued:
Of course, Sandoval admitted to lying to Ariana – and she (understandably) became more upset at him for putting her “in a position with this where people will think that I’m a f**king idiot.”
Not having it! Ariana Madix shut down claims that Raquel Leviss thought Tom Sandoval was in an open relationship at the beginning of their affair.
has since stated that Sandoval and Leviss had a shot at redeeming themselves. “I think any chance that either of them separately had for [redemption] ended when they started giving trash interviews victimizing themselves,” she told the New York Times, referring to Leviss’s TMZ interview and Sandoval’s Howie Mandel interview. In her TMZ interview, Leviss said the whole ordeal has been “a lot” for her.
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The cast of Vanderpump Rules is all together again for the first time since news of Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss‘ affair.
The cast of Vanderpump Rules is all together again for the first time since news of Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss‘ affair.
is taking aim at the show's namesake. On part one of the Bravo series' highly-anticipated reunion special, much of the cast pushed back at Lisa Vanderpump for appearing to side with Tom Sandoval.The first episode of the reunion came amid Scandoval, the fan-made name for the months-long affair Sandoval had with Raquel Leviss during his nine-year-long relationship with Ariana Madix.Vanderpump entered the «much-needed» reunion prepared to «sort it out» and get to the truth, even complimenting Madix's «revenge dress.» Later in the reunion, though, Vanderpump pushed back at a couple of comments Madix made.When host Andy Cohen asked if a lack of intimacy played a role in the deterioration of Madix and Sandoval's relationship, Madix replied, «No, I think he caused the divide in the relationship because he was f**king other people.»Vanderpump noted that «other people» implies more than just Leviss, and Madix insisted, «He's f**ked more than Raquel.»Later, Vanderpump's business relationship with Sandoval came up, and Cohen asked Madix if that continued relationship would cause her to cut off contact with the matriarch.«We just won’t be as close,» Madix said, as a shocked Vanderpump exclaimed, «Hold on a second! What do you expect me to do?»Vanderpump went on to point out her long-term support of Madix, but Madix insisted she'd have a hard time confiding in Vanderpump in the future.
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Ariana Madix is gearing up for the first part of the three-part reunion to debut, and there's a few things she hopes fans will keep in mind when watching the dramatic «Scandoval»-packed special.Madix spoke with ET's Brice Sander after working the Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers counter in El Segundo, California, hours ahead of part one of the reunion set to air Wednesday night.«A lot of people are saying online, 'We're sick of hearing about it,' or, 'Why is this dragging out?' Our show is shot over the course of the summer and week-to-week you see installments of that. So, I mean, I get it, but it's definitely where we were, mentally, on March 23rd [when we shot the reunion].»The reality star explained that the reunion was shot when the wounds of her split from Tom Sandoval amid his cheating scandal with Raquel Leviss were still very fresh.
Lala Kent is not holding back her thoughts about cheater Tom Sandoval – even going as far as to compare the 40-year-old to her ex-fiancé Randall Emmett.
Louis Staples It was an earthquake that broke the pop-cultural Richter scale: the revelation that “Vanderpump Rules”stars Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss were having a secret seven-month affair behind the backs of their closest friends. But there was one of their co-stars who didn’t find the news of the affair quite so shocking: Lala Kent. Kent was the first cast member to suspect that Sandoval was cheating on Ariana Madix, his girlfriend of nine years. Madix found out herself when she discovered an explicit video on Sandoval’s phone, and, as Variety detailed in a May 17 interview with “Vanderpump Rules” executive producer Alex Baskin, by the time TMZ broke the story on March 3, Bravo’s cameras were already at the Valley Village home she and Sandoval share to capture the fallout. Those astonishing scenes aired during last week’s season finale.
The Vanderpump Rules reunion kicks off on Wednesday, May 24, and according to Us Weekly’s exclusive sneak peek, the three-part special wastes no time getting the ball rolling in the aftermath of Scandoval.
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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor About an hour after Bravo released the ratings for the Season 10 finale of “Vanderpump Rules” on Tuesday, producers Lisa Vanderpump and Alex Baskin were in Hollywood campaigning for Emmy consideration at an FYC event. The finale scored big, ending on a series-high with a combined audience of 4.1 million viewers on Bravo, on-demand and the Peacock platform within three days of its May 17 airing. No doubt interest in the show skyrocketed because of #Scandoval, the drama stemming from Tom Sandoval cheating on his girlfriend of a decade, Ariana Madix, with her best friend, Raquel Leviss.
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