Lisa Vanderpump is setting the record straight before part two of the Vanderpump Rules reunion drops!
10.05.2023 - 18:55 / etonline.com
Lala Kent is pushing back on a Scandoval fan theory. On the latest episode of her podcast, the 32-year-old reality star denied that Tom Sandoval's affair with Raquel Leviss, which he had amid his nine-year relationship with Ariana Madix, was staged for ratings.«This is not a staged thing.
Ariana didn't sit with a producer and go, 'Yeah, I'm OK with my life blowing up for ratings,'» Kent said. «None of it is staged.»Even so, Kent acknowledged that the current season of has evolved in the wake of Scandoval.«You also can't just drop at the very end this bomb, 'Oh, and by the way, Tom and Raquel were f**king.' You have to fit it into the story somehow,» she said.
«There were, like y'all say, Easter eggs the whole time that may have been insignificant at the time that are actually very pertinent to this case.»Kent noted that, in recent episodes of the show, «We're starting to have scenes that may not have made it, that were absolutely filmed pre-Scandoval, that were maybe insignificant at the time, that became very significant.»Kent also said that, if Scandoval hadn't happened, the May 10 episode of would have been the finale. «So, lucky for all of us viewers, you get two finales!» she said.That doesn't mean that the now-penultimate episode is any less dramatic, though.
«I think anyone who says this was all staged for a story line, in this episode, you're gonna see that this is very much real life,» Kent said.When ET spoke to VPR matriarch Lisa Vanderpump, she opened up about the show's success in the wake of Scandoval.«When people talk about their real lives and their feelings, it's what keeps people engaged,» Vanderpump said. «There's a lot of people that have tried to mimic us and tried to create shows but without the
.Lisa Vanderpump is setting the record straight before part two of the Vanderpump Rules reunion drops!
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, in which the is finally exposed to the rest of the cast, reports began flooding in that Sandoval and Leviss had already broken up. However, Sandoval-aligned insiders now insist that there could be no break-up because there was never an official relationship. This seems like a pretty philosophical way of defining “breakup” and “relationship” but sure, Jan. “Tom and Raquel never put a label on their relationship to begin with,” a source told on May 17.
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Vanderpump Rules, Ariana Madix appeared on and opened up about what the world just witnessed.«I thought it was laughable,» Madix said of watching the finale playback. As for what she found most cringe-worthy about the scandal and Tom Sandoval's lies, she said, «the fabrication of the narrative that was being formed like the entire time without my knowledge, behind my back, by not just my ex-boyfriend but his little flying monkeys, as well.»While she didn't have an inkling about the affair, Madix said she did feel that something was off with Sandoval in the months leading to news of the affair becoming public.«It's like I wasn't suspicious about an affair or about Raquel, but I was like something was clearly going on with him mentally, and that is what I was picking up on,» she shared.As for how she's doing now, Madix is getting by with the support of her friends.«I feel good, I definitely feel as though my friends have me in like the best position to be able to heal and grow and I am honestly just looking forward, only forward, and not looking back,» Madix said.And she's doing exactly that, showing up to the with her boyfriend, Daniel Wai, by her side as she made her way into the clubhouse.
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