When Vanderpump Rules’ star Ariana Madix discovered that Tom Sandoval, her boyfriend of nine years, was cheating on her with their friend and castmate Rachel Leviss, she was standing inside a bathroom stall looking through Sandoval’s phone. For fans of the show, the Scandoval origin story is well known: On …
Read More »Tom Sandoval Ends Lawsuit Against Ex-Girlfriend Ariana Madix, Fires Lawyer
Tom Sandoval is reversing course on a lawsuit he filed against ex-girlfriend and Vanderpump Rules co-star Ariana Madix this week, claiming in a social media post on Thursday that his legal team didn’t completely convey to him what the filing was, and that he’s since fired his lawyer. “Late Tuesday …
Read More »Tom Sandoval Sues Ex-Girlfriend Ariana Madix Over NSFW Raquel Leviss Video Found on His Phone
The reality TV phenomenon known as Scandoval is taking another wild turn, with Vanderpump Rules villain Tom Sandoval suing his ex-girlfriend Ariana Madix over the “intimate” FaceTime recordings Madix found on his phone last year. For anyone new to the Bravo cinematic universe, the video in question depicted VPR co-star …
Read More »Tom Sandoval Knows It's 'Really Weird' to Compare 'Scandoval' to O.J. Simpson or George Floyd — But Still Does
Well, here’s a post that should come as no surprise to Tom Sandoval’s PR team, or the public relations folks at Bravo, or even Vanderpump Rules executive producer Alex Baskin: The widely reviled reality star went ahead and tossed out a half-baked comparison between the media attention garnered by “Scandoval” …
Read More »'Vanderpump Rules' Star Ally Lewber Explains Why Scandoval Was Written in the Stars
On March 23, 2023, when the cast members of Vanderpump Rules filmed the show’s highly anticipated Season 10 reunion just weeks after learning about Tom Sandoval and Rachel Leviss’ monthslong affair, Pluto moved into Aquarius’ sky for the first time in more than two 200 years. Those familiar with astrology …
Read More »The Beloved 'Vanderpump Rules' Star Who 'Cheated Death'
When Jesse Montana filmed Vanderpump Rules last summer at the height of Scandoval, he didn’t realize Season 11 would be his last time in front of the cameras for the hit Bravo series. For years, Jesse has been in the background of the show as a server at Lisa Vanderpump’s …
Read More »'Vanderpump Rules' Season 11 Premiere: Is This It?
The Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale, aptly titled “#Scandoval,” concluded with a dramatic exchange between Tom Sandoval, two-timing paragon of Angeleno scumbaggery whose five-percent ownership stake in one of West Hollywood’s seediest bars made him think he was the second coming of Steve Rubell, and Scheana Shay, an aspiring pop …
Read More »2023 Was the Year of the Reality TV Villain
It was the reality TV scandal to end all scandals. So earth-shaking that it got its own hashtag: #Scandoval. In early March, just a few episodes into the tenth season of Vanderpump Rules, it was sensationally revealed that Tom Sandoval — the worm-mustached cover-band lead and minority-stake West Hollywood bar …
Read More »Everything We Learned About 'Vanderpump Rules' at BravoCon
W hen the Vanderpump Rules cast and crew gathered this summer to film the most recent season of the hit reality series, they were at the center of the zeitgeist. Coming off a monthslong news cycle revolving around Scandoval, fans, viewers, and newcomers who had taken up an interest in …
Read More »'Summer House's' Carl Radke Insists He's No Tom Sandoval: 'I Didn't Cheat on Lindsay'
Summer House star Carl Radke had a lot on his mind when he was gearing up for BravoCon 2023 in Las Vegas. While he tells Rolling Stone he was “incredibly excited” to attend because he’s proud of his eight-season run on the Bravo reality series, he also had not publicly …
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