Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss. Gregory Tempo/Shutterstock; Michael Simon/Startraks/Cowl Pictures
Tom Sandoval admitted he confirmed his Particular Forces costars images of Raquel Leviss — but it surely wasn’t for bragging rights.
“I used to be undoubtedly not, like, exhibiting it as a badge of honor,” Sandoval, 41, informed TMZ in a video posted on Friday, August 4 — in the future after fellow Particular Forces contestant Nick Viall claimed the Vanderpump Guidelines star “snuck in” the pictures.
“I feel I used to be extra, simply, like, you understand — you’re very lonely at that place, there’s no telephones or nothing,” Sandoval elaborated, quipping: “However you understand, [Nick’s] obtained a podcast to do.”
Nick made the claims on the Thursday, August 3, episode of his “Viall Recordsdata” podcast.
“He snuck in footage of him and Rachel,” the season 21 Bachelor, 42, alleged, noting that the opponents on the Fox actuality present are usually not allowed to herald sure objects whereas in coaching. (Rachel is Raquel’s start identify.) “And he confirmed them to the solid, for what’s that price.”
Nick additional defined that whereas he “would have liked to sneak in an image of [my fiancée] Natalie [Joy],” Sandoval “went out of his approach to herald, like, endearing images of him and Raquel/Rachel and present them round.”
Information of Sandoval and Raquel’s affair — which led to the tip of his nine-year romance with Ariana Madix — broke in March and the duo confronted fast backlash from Vanderpump Rules castmates and followers alike. Ariana, for her half, didn’t mince phrases when addressing her former good friend in the course of the three-part Vanderpump Guidelines season 10 reunion.
“F—ok your self with a f—king cheese grater. F—ok you. You f—king suck,” Ariana, 38, informed Raquel. “You might be disgusting and I want nothing however the worst s—t that may ever occur to an individual on you.”
Tom Sandoval on ‘Particular Forces.’ Pete Dadds/Fox
Sandoval and Raquel went on to admit their love for one another in the course of the tense solid get-together. These emotions have been one thing that Nick picked up on throughout his time with Sandoval on Particular Forces.
“[Sandoval] got here throughout as a man who cared about her, and I’m simply saying that objectively. Actually, the conversations with the solid have been kinda, like, ‘Effectively, f—ok, you would possibly as nicely go for it,’” Nick recalled on Thursday’s podcast. “There appeared to be some actual reluctance about [whether] the general public would enable them to be collectively, however he got here throughout — to me — as somebody who had emotions and cared about Rachel.”
After the reunion, Raquel sought therapy for psychological well being and has but to signal on for season 11 of Vanderpump Guidelines, which Sandoval is at present filming along with his different costars.
