ITom Sandoval and Ariana Madix have referred to as it quits after he was caught having an affair with the now-exes’ “Vanderpump Rules” castmate Raquel Leviss.
The information broke on March 1, 2023 as Madix was supporting Sandoval at a live performance for his cowl band, Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras, at TomTom in West Hollywood.
Page Six was on the scene and chatted with the singer earlier than his present, throughout which he gushed over his then-girlfriend of almost 10 years.
“We positively have our ups and downs, for positive, however I feel we’ve been actually good about respecting one another,” he informed us.
Sandoval added that he and Madix have had “one another’s backs in an affordable manner … inside motive,” noting, “I feel it’s simply labored, ya know?”
We’re informed the blond magnificence was “blindsided” and “heartbroken” when she found the musician’s infidelity later within the night time after a sexually specific video despatched by Leviss popped up on his cellphone.
The Bravo fandom, too, continues to be reeling over the “Scandoval.” Here, Page Six takes a more in-depth take a look at how Sandoval, Madix and Leviss acquired right here:
Summer 2013: Kristen Doute accuses boyfriend Tom Sandoval of dishonest with Ariana Madix
Tom Sandoval and Kristen Doute began courting in 2006, however their romance wasn’t documented on tv till “Vanderpump Rules” premiered in 2013.
Soon after the cameras began rolling, Doute turned suspicious of her then-boyfriend’s relationship with fellow SUR worker Madix and accused him of dishonest, which he initially denied.
January 2014: Sandoval and Doute cut up
Sandoval and Doute determined to finish their eight-year relationship in January 2014 after coping with breakup rumors for weeks.
A supply on the time claimed Doute moved her belongings out of their shared West Hollywood condo following many nights of “loud fights.”
February 2014: Sandoval admits to dishonest on Doute with Madix
Sandoval lastly admitted through the “VPR” Season 2 reunion that he did, in actual fact, kiss Madix whereas he was courting Doute.
February 2014: Madix and Sandoval go Instagram-official
Madix and Sandoval went Instagram-official 4 days earlier than Valentine’s Day 2014.
The bar proprietor posted a candy snap from the pair’s getaway to San Francisco earlier that month and wrote, “@ariana252525 and I took a visit up north and stopped by the Clift in SF #whatatrip.”
November 2014: Doute accuses Sandoval of dishonest on Madix with “Miami Girl”
In the “VPR” Season 3 premiere, Doute informed Madix she thought Sandoval connected with a lady — generally known as “Miami Girl” — throughout a visit to Southern Florida.
“If I’m not anxious about it, it’s not one thing to fret about,” Madix informed her boyfriend’s ex following the accusations.
But Doute didn’t let her suspicions go, and followers noticed her convey the thriller lady, later recognized as AnneMarie Kunkel, to SUR in hopes {that a} confrontation would happen. Sandoval, nevertheless, didn’t take the bait.
“There aren’t any texts between me and this Miami lady that show something greater than a social hangout in a gaggle setting went down,” he mentioned. “The apparent motive is as a result of completely nothing occurred! Kristen is mendacity or on the very least reaching for one thing that doesn’t exist.”
November 2016: Raquel Leviss makes first look on “VPR”
“VPR” solid member James Kennedy’s then-girlfriend, Raquel Leviss, made her first look on the present as a visitor in Season 5.
The DJ began courting Leviss after splitting from Doute, whom he dated for a interval after the latter girl’s breakup with Sandoval.
Leviss was promoted to a recurring solid member the next season and ultimately turned an everyday solid member in Season 9.
February 2019: Madix and Sandoval purchase a home collectively
Sandoval and Madix took their relationship to the subsequent degree once they bought a house collectively in February 2019.
The beautiful Valley Village, Calif., home value the pair $2 million and options 5 bedrooms and 5.5 bogs.
May 2021: Leviss and James Kennedy get engaged
Kennedy requested Leviss to marry him in an elaborate, Coachella-themed proposal in May 2021. The engagement, deliberate with loads of assist from Sandoval, was coated on “VPR.”
“James proposed on the iconic Empire Polo Fields of ‘RACHELLA’ Friday night time… and I mentioned YES!” Leviss gushed on Instagram after saying, “Yes.”
It was later revealed that Sandoval truly helped Kennedy entrance the price of the extravagant night.
“James and I cut up the $25K [bill] as a result of nothing brings me extra pleasure than to assist a good friend accomplish a dream that they’ve,” he mentioned on the present.
November 2021: Madix freezes her eggs
Madix deliberate to freeze her eggs with “VPR” co-star Scheana Shay, however when the latter acquired pregnant, Madix determined to undergo with the process alone.
“This doesn’t imply that I’m leaping on the infant prepare,” she defined. “It’s about having company over my very own physique and my very own future.”
She additionally referred to as the expertise “a pleasant enjoyable f–ok you” to individuals who questioned her “values.”
December 2021: Leviss and Kennedy name off their engagement
Leviss and Kennedy’s engagement solely lasted seven months earlier than they determined to name off the marriage and break up.
The pair — who “determined [they] have two totally different targets” — introduced the cut up in a joint Instagram assertion that learn, partially, “We love one another very a lot, however we aren’t in love anymore.”
They continued, “We need nothing however the most effective for one another so please preserve any ideas optimistic. Sending Love.”
Summer 2022: “VPR” Season 10 begins filming
“Vanderpump Rules” Season 10 began filming round July 2022.
The newest installment, at the moment airing on Bravo, options Sandoval, Madix, Leviss, Kennedy, Shay, Lala Kent, Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz as essential solid members.
Summer 2022: Raquel and Tom secretly begin hooking up
As beforehand reported, their affair pre-dated Leviss’ flirtations with Sandoval’s greatest good friend and enterprise accomplice, Schwartz.
An insider informed Page Six that Leviss and Sandoval’s romance “started final summer time” and claimed that she “has slept over at Tom and Ariana’s home when Ariana’s been out of city.”
Castmate Kennedy corroborated the data in an Instagram direct message despatched to Deuxmoi, claiming the affair began “7 months” in the past, which might have been July 2022.
Kennedy even claimed the pair’s escapades at Sandoval and Madix’s shared Los Angeles dwelling generally passed off whereas “Ariana [was] sleeping.”
July 2022: Leviss goes on “a couple of dates” with SUR supervisor Peter Madrigal
“We have gone on a couple of dates,” Leviss informed Us Weekly in July. “He requested me out after my breakup, clearly, and I used to be like, ‘Well why not? Right?’ I’m a yes-man now.”
That similar month, she pulled the plug on her reference to Madrigal and informed him she was not keen on pursuing him. The dialog occurred at Sandoval’s Hollywood bar, Schwartz & Sandy’s — which he co-owns with Schwartz — and aired in a current episode of “VPR.”
August 2022: Tom Schwartz hooks up with Leviss
The “Vanderpump Rules” solid’s internet of relationships acquired slightly extra tangled when Leviss made out with Schwartz at Shay’s wedding ceremony to Brock Davies’ in August 2022.
“Apparently there was some heavy consuming concerned,” a supply claimed on the time.
Schwartz, whose divorce from Katie Maloney wasn’t finalized till October 2022, confirmed the hookup to Daily Mail that very same month however clarified that he and Leviss weren’t a pair.
He joked, “My mother hit me up and she or he’s like, ‘You don’t have to inform me, however I do know you’re courting Raquel.’ And I’m like, ‘Mom, I’m not courting Raquel!’”
October 2022: Sandoval attire up as Raquel for Halloween
The costume — which included a TomTom sweatshirt Leviss famously wore to BravoCon 2022 — was a nod to her ongoing beef with Maloney, who referred to as her a “fangirl” after Leviss connected with Maloney’s ex-husband, Schwartz.
Sandoval’s getup continues to be highlighted on Leviss’ Instagram web page regardless of the backlash she is receiving for the affair.
March 1, 2023: Scheana Shay and Leviss go on a press tour collectively
A supply solely informed Page Six that Leviss and Shay acquired right into a “heated confrontation” after the previous pageant queen got here clear to the “Good as Gold” songstress.
Shay, who’s BFFs with Ariana Madix, discovered in regards to the dishonest scandal after taping “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” with Leviss.
“After taping ‘Watch What Happens Live,’ Scheana and Raquel went out to drinks with associates,” the insider shared.
“At one level within the night time, Scheana misplaced Raquel after which discovered her exterior of the bar on the cellphone with Ariana, who Scheana may hear was bawling.”
The insider famous that Shay requested Leviss for a proof about what was taking place, which lastly prompted her co-star to admit whereas Madix was “nonetheless on the cellphone.”
“A heated confrontation ensued following the revelation,” our supply mentioned. “They went again to the resort individually and haven’t seen one another nor spoken since.”
March 1, 2023: Sandoval performs together with his band at TomTom
Madix and Sandoval’s ex Doute cheered the singer on throughout a efficiency of his new authentic single, “Superstars,” dancing collectively and recording movies on their telephones to recollect the second.
Before Sandoval took the stage, Madix gushed over how “devoted” he’s when the frontman did a Q&A session with the viewers.
One of the questions, which a bandmate learn aloud, was: “Do you assume the present [‘Vanderpump Rules’] precisely portrays you?”
Sandoval started to reply however shortly handed the mic to Madix, who proceeded to reward him.
“In some methods, sure; in some methods, no,” she defined. “I feel the best way that they present how devoted and further [he is] as a result of I’m trying on the phrase ‘additional…’
“But after I say devoted to the whole lot that you simply do and the best way that you simply decide to the whole lot that you simply do — that half is correct,” Madix added, talking on to Sandoval.
“But I feel there are some issues that aren’t correct,” she identified. “Like, for instance, you prepare actually quick. I take endlessly. But I feel that on the present, you’d assume it was the opposite manner round.”
At attendee then shouted, “Give her a kiss!” Madix agreed, repeating, “Yeah, give me a kiss!” to which Sandoval obliged.
Moments later, she uncovered his tryst with Leviss.
March 3, 2023: Scandoval information breaks
Madix discovered Sandoval was having a “full-on affair,” based on insiders, after realizing the 2 had been “speaking inappropriately for months,” her first sign being the X-rated video of Leviss.
Madix swiftly dumped him.
March 3, 2023: Sandoval and Madix focus on the affair on digicam
Insiders near manufacturing mentioned Madix felt “gaslit” by Sandoval, who made a sequence of excuses for not admitting his infidelity sooner.
“Ariana walked away from the dialog feeling like she was gaslit by Tom,” a supply solely informed us of the on-camera dialog that passed off on the exes’ shared dwelling in Los Angeles’ Valley Village enclave. (They are each nonetheless residing there as they navigate the cut up.)
“He gave her a number of excuses as to why he by no means copped to dishonest,” the insider continued.
“Tom mentioned he didn’t inform her in regards to the affair with Raquel as a result of he was anxious about how it could impression her psychological well being, even claiming that he was particularly involved after her grandma died final yr.”
Another supply shared, “The proven fact that they personal a house collectively was additionally introduced up, and the way he thought that will make their breakup much more difficult.”
Madix was “perturbed” by how the scene went, the insider famous, including that almost all of her co-stars are “upset” by how they really feel Sandoval is dealing with the breakup.
March 4, 2023: Sandoval speaks out
Sandoval addressed the dishonest scandal in an announcement shared by way of Instagram Saturday night time.
“Hey, I totally perceive and deserve ur anger & disappointment in direction of me, however please depart [Tom] Schwartz my family and friends out of this example…” he wrote partially.
But Sandoval additionally urged followers to not “direct [their] anger” over his indiscretions at his Schwartz & Sandy’s enterprise companions, seemingly responding to a flood of unfavourable Yelp opinions and requires a “boycott” of the institution.
Sandoval — who described himself as “one of the vital hated folks in America” throughout a subsequent live performance in Anaheim, Calif. — didn’t apologize on to Madix or point out her title in his assertion, a alternative that was met with fierce criticism from his “VPR” castmates.
“Where’s the point out of wounding Ariana?!” Maloney wrote on her Instagram Story. “No apologies to her??”
Kent was equally incensed, including on her personal Story, “the place’s Ariana’s apology on this? It’s referred to as narcissism… & it’s terrifying.”
That similar night time, Sandoval was photographed coming into Leviss’ condo.
“Vanderpump Rules” airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.
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