Tom Sandoval confirmed that he’s a part of the solid for Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 — however he wouldn’t say whether or not he’s spoken to Raquel Leviss since manufacturing began.
“I’m filming proper now,” the fact star, 41, instructed Backgrid cameras in West Hollywood on Thursday, July 6. When requested whether or not he was in contact with Raquel, 28, Sandoval replied, “I can’t touch upon that.”
He did, nevertheless, promise followers that the brand new episodes could be value watching. “It’s gonna be fascinating it doesn’t matter what,” he defined. “It at all times is.”
Sandoval went on to assert that he and BFF Tom Schwartz are “cool” after rumors of rigidity between the pair within the aftermath of Scandoval. “I simply noticed him right now,” Sandoval mentioned. (The enterprise house owners had been seen filming what seemed to be a tense dialog at TomTom on Thursday.)
Final month, Schwartz, 40, hinted that the duo’s friendship was on the rocks after Sandoval acquired caught having an affair with Raquel whereas he was nonetheless relationship longtime girlfriend Ariana Madix. “He made a giant mess and he left it for us to scrub up again at [TomTom and Schwartz & Sandy’s],” Schwartz instructed Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright throughout a June 7 episode of the couple’s “When Actuality Hits with Jax and Brittany” podcast. “It’s exhausting for me to not be resentful of him, I’m positively taking a break from Tom proper now. I haven’t seen him shortly.”
When information of Raquel and Sandoval’s affair broke in March, Schwartz initially confirmed help for his enterprise accomplice, however he instructed Jax, 43, and Brittany, 34, that he felt “used” and “exploited” by Sandoval within the aftermath of the drama.
“I do love Tom. I took to coronary heart all the things he instructed me about Ariana,” Schwartz recalled. “Now that I’ve heard her facet of the story … she [has] vehemently denied all these items.”
Throughout a now-infamous interview with Howie Mandel, Sandoval claimed that he tried to interrupt up with Ariana, 38, a number of occasions earlier than the affair grew to become public, however Ariana refused to simply accept the break up. She later denied these claims throughout the Pump Guidelines reunion and in an interview on Watch What Occurs Reside With Andy Cohen.
Ariana additionally slammed Schwartz for his involvement within the scenario, telling Andy Cohen she thought her buddy was “actively collaborating in” her “downfall.”
Schwartz, for his half, later admitted that he felt “complicit” within the affair as a result of he didn’t inform anybody what he knew about Sandoval and Raquel. “It’s change into an enormous supply of simply angst in my life. I’ve been on this prolonged funk,” he defined throughout a June episode of Stars on Mars. “It’s horrible and I really feel complicit as a result of I didn’t cowl for him, however I had his again. He got here to me and confided in me that he was in love with another person.”
He went on to say that he was “stepping away” from the drama “completely” going ahead. “Any form of model of [Sandoval’s] facet of the story has change into out of date due to the best way he dealt with it,” Schwartz continued. “And finally, that’s his life. I didn’t have an affair. I’m not him. And it’s simply so unusual that I’ve been completely mired on this.”
Vanderpump Guidelines additionally stars Lala Kent, James Kennedy, Scheana Shay, Katie Maloney and Lisa Vanderpump. Final month, an insider completely instructed Us Weekly that “nothing has been determined but” relating to Raquel’s potential return to the sequence. “It’s all nonetheless up within the air,” the supply defined. “Either side are hoping they will work one thing out in order that Raquel will get the remedy she wants, and she or he’s nonetheless capable of be included within the present.”
