The actuality TV occasion to finish all actuality TV occasions lastly arrived on Wednesday night time: the Vanderpump Rules season 10 finale.
Comprised totally of footage that was shot about six months after filming had wrapped on the remainder of the season, the episode, aptly titled “#Scandoval”, chronicled the fallout from Vanderpump Guidelines star Ariana Madix discovering in March that her boyfriend of 9 years, Tom Sandoval, had been having a seven-month-long affair with considered one of her greatest buddies, Raquel Leviss. All three are sequence regulars on the Bravo actuality TV present.
Information of the dishonest fiasco broke on Friday, March 3, when TMZ reported that Madix and Sandoval had damaged up after she discovered of his infidelity. The report despatched shockwaves via the Vanderpump fandom and past, with #Scandoval (the nickname for the scandal) turning into a trending hashtag as posts concerning the drama got here to dominate social media. By that Monday, amid a cascade of revelations concerning the affair, the story had develop into one of many greatest actuality TV controversies of all time.
On the time, Vanderpump Guidelines was a couple of episodes into airing its tenth season, which was filmed from mid-July via early September of final 12 months. Season 10 was initially set to run for 14 episodes that have been initially anticipated to give attention to the fallout from costars Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz submitting for divorce. However with newly-reinvigorated followers ready with bated breath for extra details about Scandoval, Vanderpump‘s producers seized the chance to as soon as once more get cameras rolling and doc the aftermath of the scenario.
The extra filming resulted in a wholly new season finale. Listed here are a few of the most surprising revelations we discovered about Scandoval from the bonus episode.
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How Ariana and Sandoval’s blowout combat performed out
The finale opened with Madix and Sandoval heatedly discussing the affair on digital camera for the primary time just some days after Madix discovered of his betrayal. Regardless of Sandoval’s makes an attempt to shift the blame to her, Madix delivered blow after blow to the skinny arguments he tried to make in his favor.
Sandoval at one level even tried to insist that Madix ought to’ve adopted him when he claimed he was going to his greatest pal Schwartz’s home to seek out out what he was really as much as.
The dialog seemed to be their final, with Madix telling Sandoval that she by no means needed to speak to him once more. “You’re price nothing and I would like you to really feel that deep in your soul,” she informed him. “Hear my phrases and know that’s how I really feel about you.”
When Raquel and Sandoval first slept collectively
After Maloney and costar Scheana Shay, two of Madix’s greatest buddies, confirmed as much as Madix and Sandoval’s shared dwelling to assist her within the wake of the couple’s breakup, Madix revealed that she had pressed Sandoval into revealing the reality concerning the first night time that he and Leviss had attached.
In response to what Sandoval informed her, the pair slept collectively for the primary time in August of final 12 months after each Madix and Leviss had returned dwelling early from a women’ journey that viewers noticed play out in season 10. The kicker was that Madix had left to be together with her 18-year-old canine Charlotte earlier than she handed, and was at dwelling mourning her demise whereas Sandoval and Leviss have been sneaking round behind her again. The 2 apparently slept collectively in Leviss’s automobile earlier than Sandoval returned dwelling with out his keys and needed to ring the doorbell to get Madix to let him in.
Raquel Leviss, Tom Sandoval, and Ariana Madix — (Picture by: Nicole Weingart/Bravo)
Nicole Weingart—Bravo
What Tom Schwartz knew
Regardless of claiming all through the episode that Sandoval had solely informed him concerning the affair a few month earlier than it turned public data, not one of the different forged members appeared to purchase Schwartz’s story.
Within the episode, Maloney informed Madix that after Leviss had confirmed up in October to BravoCon, an annual Bravo superfan occasion, carrying a TomTom Bar sweatshirt, Schwartz had made a remark that had given her pause, saying that Leviss “wasn’t there for him” (TomTom is called for Sandoval and Schwartz, who’re half house owners of the restaurant).
Schwartz claimed later within the episode that he had by no means made that remark. A significant storyline in season 10 targeted on Leviss, inspired by Shay, making a play for Schwartz, regardless of Schwartz and Maloney’s promising that they wouldn’t hook up with anybody within the pal group following their divorce.
Whilst Schwartz apologized to Madix within the finale, his essential concern seemed to be that he could be painted as a co-conspirator within the affair and that the scandal would negatively affect enterprise for his and Sandoval’s newer bar, Schwartz & Sandy’s.
Schwartz has since mentioned that he knew Sandoval and Leviss had what he claims was a one-night stand in August 2022, whereas nonetheless filming season 10, however that he didn’t know their relationship had developed right into a full-blown love affair till January of this 12 months.
Sandoval and Raquel beloved one another…perhaps?
Throughout a cringey encounter between Sandoval and Leviss on the latter’s house—the one interplay proven between them and the one scene Leviss filmed for the episode—the pair ended up saying they beloved one another after Leviss misheard Sandoval when he informed her that his household beloved her. Sandoval additionally by chance known as Leviss “Ariana” at one level throughout the rendezvous.
Nonetheless, as of Wednesday afternoon, reports have been circulating that the maybe-couple had already damaged up. Throughout her look on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen following the finale, Madix mentioned that she believes the stories are pretend and that Leviss was sending letters to Sandoval on the home he and Madix nonetheless share simply days earlier.
What number of instances Sandoval cheated beforehand
For longtime Vanderpump followers, the most important revelation of the finale could have been that every little thing former Vanderpump star Kristen Doute claimed in season 3 about Sandoval dishonest on Madix early of their relationship with a woman in Miami, extensively known as “Miami Lady,” was true—and that Madix knew about it the entire time!
Madix even confirmed this throughout Watch What Occurs Dwell after the episode, explaining that the hook-up had occurred earlier than she and Sandoval have been unique and that she had defended him so that folks wouldn’t assume the worst of the person she beloved.
In the course of the episode, Sandoval additionally revealed to Shay that he had cheated on Madix one other time with somebody who he at first mentioned was a random lady earlier than strolling that again to say he didn’t wish to get into it. Madix mentioned on Watch What Occurs Dwell that she had robust suspicions about who it was however that it wasn’t somebody within the present’s orbit.
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