VPR’s Ariana Madix, Lala Kent & More React to Season 12 Cast Shakeup

After Tom Sandoval's melodramatic narration with co-star Kristen Doute came to an end, Ariana Madix joined the formed of Vanderpump Rules successful play two. At the time, Kristen alleged that Tom and Ariana had hooked up portion she and Tom were inactive together. "I'm smarter than you," Ariana infamously responded. "I'm prettier than you. Get the f--k implicit it."

Both Tom and Ariana denied the allegations, though helium aboriginal admitted that the brace had made out in a excavation portion they were some successful Las Vegas. 

Tom and Ariana bought their archetypal location unneurotic successful Valley Village, Calif., yet moving retired of the West Hollywood flat that infamously could not person the aerial conditioner and microwave moving astatine the aforesaid clip without causing a powerfulness outage.

The mates purchased the five-bedroom, five-and-a-half bathroom, 4,500-square-foot farmhouse-style spot for conscionable implicit $2 million, according to Bravo TV.

To popular the question to Raquel, James staged a a Coachella-themed proposal, which was documented by Bravo's cameras and aired successful October.

"James projected astatine the iconic Empire Polo Fields of 'RACHELLA' Friday night...," Raquel wrote connected Instagram. "And I said YES! I'm implicit the Coachella moon." James besides announced the quality connected societal media, writing, "THE LOVE OF MY LIFE, said yes."

It was aboriginal revealed during an occurrence of VPR that Tom Sandoval helped wage for the elaborate engagement. "James and I divided the $25k," helium explained, "because thing brings maine much joyousness than to assistance a person execute a imagination that they have."

After 5 years together, James and Raquel ended their engagement, conscionable 1 week aft filming the play 9 reunion.

"After these 5 fantastic years we had together, we decided we person 2 antithetic goals and made the determination to telephone disconnected the engagement," the erstwhile mates said successful a associated connection connected their abstracted Instagram pages. "We emotion each different precise much, but we aren't successful emotion anymore. We privation thing but the champion for each different truthful delight support immoderate thoughts positive."

Raquel aboriginal revealed wherefore she chose to extremity their relationship. 

"It was getting to the constituent wherever my household and him were not meshing well," she explained during helium Jan. 7 episode of the Scheananigans with Scheana Shay podcast. "The aboriginal of Thanksgivings and Christmases and holidays was looking similar it was going to beryllium either James oregon my family," she said. "Especially similar if we had a baby. Foreseeing this aboriginal and what it was each coming down to and I was like...I don't privation that."

For his part, James went Instagram authoritative with his caller woman Ally Lewber successful March 2022, who is present featured connected the show. 

One period after Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz announced they were breaking up aft 12 years together, it was reported that Schwartz was spotted making retired with Raquel astatine the Coachella.

However, the Schwartz & Sandy's co-owner was speedy to acceptable the grounds straight. "Guys hatred to interruption it to you but I wasn't astatine Coachella," helium tweeted astatine the time.

Raquel did be the euphony festival and posted photos connected Instagram posing with Tom Sandoval and Ariana. "I'm connected an island," she captioned a selfie with Sandoval.

Even though it was Scheana Shay's large day when she joined Brock Davies at a lavish wedding successful Cancun, Mexico, rumors of a makeout session betwixt Schwartz and Raquel astatine the ceremonial dominated headlines. Footage from the trailer for play 10 confirmed the hookup happened and Schwartz admitted that his relationship with Raquel had evolved into much of a "flirtationship" aft the nuptials.

"We have, like, a connection," Schwartz told E! News' Erin Lim Rhodes successful October. "Yes, maine and Raquel person gotten overmuch closer. I person a large appreciation for her. I've gotten to cognize her, and I've gotten to spot each these antithetic facets of her property I didn't cognize existed…I didn't recognize however f--king comic Raquel is—and witty."

Amid her ongoing rift with Katie regarding her narration with Schwartz, Raquel's determination to deterioration a TomTom sweatshirt to BravoCon connected Oct. 17 created questions.

"Just came present to accidental that the fig 1 crushed I wore this TomTom sweatshirt connected Day 3 of BravoCon was for the comfy vibes," Raquel aboriginal explained connected Instagram. "I besides wore it to enactment BOTH of the Toms and encouraged radical to halt by their booth to cheque retired the remainder of the cute merch. I truly bask supporting my friends and being comfy astatine the aforesaid time." She besides added the hashtags "sue me" and "number 1 Tom Stan."

Then, for Halloween, Sandoval dressed up arsenic Raquel astatine BravoCon, wearing the sweatshirt, a blonde wig and sunglasses. In an Instagram Story, helium shared a photograph of himself successful costume with the caption, "Raquel has got to halt showing up to TomTom it's embarrassing."

Ariana addressed the speculation that she and Tom person an "open relationship," which was teased successful the explosive play 10 trailer.

"We dont person an unfastened relationship. i'm truly not that cool. thought that was obvious," she tweeted after the preview dropped, adding that "bisexual ≠ polyamorous."

Raquel's hookup with Tom Schwartz was addressed successful the sneak peek, arsenic well, with Raquel admitting, "I bash similar Schwartz a lot." Raquel's makeout league with The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills prima Garcelle Beauvais' lad Oliver Saunders and dates with recurring formed subordinate Peter Madrigal besides marque it into the preview.

The Bravo satellite was rocked connected March 3 when it was confirmed that Tom Sandoval and Ariana had breached up aft 9 years together, with an insider telling E! News that cameras were rolling connected the formed astatine the aforesaid time, meaning the play volition apt play retired connected the Bravo series' presently airing 10th season.

Their divided came aft Ariana reportedly learned Tom and Raquel had been having an matter for respective months, with Scheana, Katie and Kristen each being photographed going implicit to Ariana's location to console her. In addition, Kristen, who arrived with flowers and a vessel of wine, shared a selfie video of herself with Ariana connected her Instagram Stories. "I stan Ariana," she said. "This is successful existent time."

Tom, meanwhile, played astatine a performance with his set Tom Sandoval & the Most Extras later that evening successful Anaheim, Calif.

At the gig, galore fans successful the assemblage chanted "Cheater, cheater!" arsenic Tom took the stage, arsenic seen successful a TikTok video. He did not respond, but aft 1 impermanent shouted, "Ariana!" helium said into the mic, "We emotion her." As for him, different eyewitness told E! News that concertgoers besides chanted "Douche" successful his wide direction.

Following quality of their split, Ariana deleted her Instagram page, and, contempt speculation, Tom's rep told E! News exclusively that the world prima has not moved retired of his and Ariana's home.

Tom Sandoval took to Instagram March 4 to code the backlash the employees of his edifice Schwartz and Sandy's had been receiving since the quality broke. 

"Hey, I afloat recognize and merit ur choler & disappointment towards me, but delight permission [Tom] Schwartz, my friends and household retired of this situation," helium wrote on Instagram. "This was a precise idiosyncratic thing."

Going connected to accidental "they did thing wrong," Tom added, "I'm truthful atrocious that my partners, Greg, Brett, Schwartz and our employees person to endure for my actions. I volition beryllium taking a measurement backmost & taking a hiatus retired of respect for my employees & partners. I request immoderate clip to code everything else. Sorry for everything." 

On March 7, Tom yet publicly apologized straight to Ariana amid the matter scandal. "Most of all, I privation to apologize to Ariana," the 39-year-old wrote successful a March 7 connection shared to Instagram. "I made mistakes, I was selfish, and made reckless decisions that wounded idiosyncratic I love. No 1 deserves to consciousness that symptom truthful traumatically and publicly."

"I tin lone ideate however devastating this has been for Ariana and everyone astir us," the TomTom co-owner continued. "I consciousness truly horrible astir that. My biggest regret is that I dishonored Ariana. I ne'er meant to disappoint truthful galore people, including our loving families and friends."

"I americium truthful beyond bittersweet that it ended the mode it did," helium concluded. "I acted successful a mode that clashes with who and however I privation to be. I volition proceed to bespeak and enactment connected myself. I person enactment to do. I ever have, and I ever will."

Just a fewer hours aft Tom made his statement, Raquel issued her ain nationalist apology to Ariana. "I privation to apologize for my actions and my choices foremost to Ariana, and to my friends and the fans truthful invested successful our relationships," she wrote successful a March 8 Instagram statement. "There is nary excuse, I americium not a unfortunate and I indispensable ain my actions and I profoundly regret hurting Ariana."

"I americium reflecting connected my choices, speaking to a counsellor and I americium learning things astir myself specified arsenic my patterns of codependency and addiction to being and feeling loved," she continued. "I person sought affectional validation done intimate connections that are not steadfast without respect for my ain well-being, sometimes negatively affecting others and often prioritizing the intimate transportation implicit my friendships. I americium taking steps to recognize my behaviour and marque healthier choices."

Tom and Raquel's brag Lisa Vanderpump sat down for a tell-all interview with Andy Cohen connected March 8's Watch What Happens Live, admitting she was "gobsmacked" and "flabbergasted" by the news. "I mean, literally, nary words," she said. "I didn't spot it coming. Nobody saw it coming."

LVP added the "most shocking" portion of the ungraded is their matter had "been going a agelong time" without anyone knowing.

Sharing an update connected Ariana, Lisa said "Devastated. A batch of tears. Ariana was ever that ride-or-die girlfriend. It seems similar Raquel was the thrust woman and she was the dice girlfriend—not good."

With galore fans inactive wondering erstwhile precisely Tom Schwartz recovered retired astir his BFF's matter with Raquel, the TomTom co-owner broke his soundlessness to TMZ connected March 11.

"Really, I'm conscionable sad, you know, astir the antagonistic interaction it's had connected our business," helium said. "But I deliberation cooler heads volition prevail and I'm conscionable gonna support connected keeping on."

As for however Sandoval is doing amid the backlash, helium added, "He's okay, I think. He has a consciousness of profound sadness, rightfully so. I deliberation helium feels similar a portion of s--t and to immoderate extent, possibly helium is. He knows helium f--ked up and the full happening is conscionable truly sad."

During a March 15 quality connected Watch What Happens Live, Katie Maloney revealed she "wasn't shocked" by the Tom-Raquel cheating ungraded earlier adding, "But the details were shocking."

She besides gave an update connected Ariana post-breakup. "All things considered, she's successful a bully headspace," Katie shared. "She's taking attraction of herself. I saw her yesterday, and we're excited. She's excited."

After astir 2 weeks of staying soundless connected the controversy, Ariana yet spoke out astir the breakup successful a March 15 Instagram post.

"I privation to explicit my astir sincere gratitude for the outpouring of emotion and enactment I person received from friends, family, and radical I've ne'er adjacent met successful the past 2 weeks," the 36-year-old wrote. "When I person felt similar I couldn't adjacent stand, you each person fixed maine the spot to proceed and seen maine done my darkest hours."

"To accidental I person been devastated and breached is an understatement," Ariana continued. "However, I cognize that I americium not successful this alone. So galore of my closest friends are besides grieving this nonaccomplishment close present and reeling from this betrayal connected truthful galore levels. I americium truthful f--king fortunate to person the champion enactment strategy successful the satellite and I anticipation I tin repay each azygous idiosyncratic for the emotion you person shown me."

On March 20, Bravo revealed the archetypal footage of Scandoval successful the play 10 midseason trailer. The cameras caught Tom and Ariana's melodramatic post-affair breakup speech successful which she told him to "die" for cheating with Raquel.

While Tom admitted "I privation we some would person tried harder," Ariana fired backmost with, "You don't merit 1 f--king teardrop of mine."

On March 23, Andy Cohen filmed the explosive VPR play 10 reunion wherever the full formed confronted Tom and Raquel astir their affair. A source told E! News that "tensions were truthful high" during the reunion, "Andy yet had to abstracted 2 formed members earlier a combat could happen."

Andy aboriginal revealed connected his April 3 vigor show, "It was a existent reckoning. If you are looking to perceive their story, you will. If you are looking for them to beryllium confronted to their look astir what they've done successful what I would accidental an assertive manner—a confrontational manner—you volition get it."

Bravo revealed the cast's reunion looks connected April 3, including Ariana's red-hot revenge dress.

During a bombshell April 5 Watch What Happens Live interview, Tom Schwartz revealed he recovered retired Sandoval and Leviss archetypal hooked up past August earlier things got much serious. "From my constituent of view, it became, like, an affectional affair," helium added, "which is inactive inappropriate."

Schwartz claimed his BFF told him successful January he's "in love" with Leviss, contempt inactive being with Madix astatine the time. "He's addicted," helium said of Sandoval's feelings for Leviss "It's an infatuation of each infatuations."

More than a period aft quality broke about their months-long affair, Raquel entered a facility to get intelligence wellness counseling, a root confirms to E! News connected April 14.

"Raquel and her household decided months earlier the narration was discovered, that she needed intelligence wellness attraction and yet decided she would participate a voluntary installation for intelligence wellness counseling," her rep told E! News. "Raquel was scheduled to spell successful pre-reunion but decided she wanted to decorativeness her filming commitment. Bravo and accumulation were alert and successful enactment of her travel towards amended intelligence health."

During VPR's explosive play 10 finale, Tom and Raquel said "I emotion you" for the archetypal clip publically amid the fallout from the matter and adjacent discussed their aboriginal unneurotic aft the scandal.

"I can't foretell the future," helium shared. "Maybe things volition enactment retired with Raquel and I, possibly they won't. But, erstwhile I kissed Raquel I felt hope, I felt like, 'Wait a minute, you're not washed up. Your champion days aren't down you, possibly they're conscionable beginning.'"

In different finale bombshell, Tom admitted to cheating connected Ariana anterior to his matter with Raquel.

During a heart-to-heart with Scheana Shay, she asked, "So different than Miami girl, this is the archetypal clip you've ever cheated connected Ariana?" to which helium replied, "There was 1 different time."

Her reaction? "You're sick," she said. "Just a random person?"

Though Tom primitively stated yes, helium awkwardly followed with, "Well, no," earlier refusing to uncover immoderate much details.

The time aft the finale episode, Ariana opened up astir moving on with caller antheral Daniel Wai during a TODAY amusement appearance.

"I'm enjoying myself and I would accidental I'm precise blessed close now," Ariana shared May 18. "I met him astatine a wedding about 10 days aft each of this. And successful nary way, signifier oregon signifier did I spell into that reasoning anything. I person conscionable been taking things very, precise dilatory and truly enjoying myself. And it's conscionable truly beauteous to interact with idiosyncratic who is conscionable truthful bully and benignant and beauteous and caring."

On May 24, VPR producer Alex Baskin officially changeable down rumors that Tom and Raquel were expecting a kid unneurotic amid the affair.

"The gestation 1 was wild," Baskin told Page Six. "She's not large by the way."

During the June 7 reunion episode, Raquel came face-to-face with Ariana for the archetypal clip since the ungraded and delivered an affectional apology.

"I'm truthful ashamed and embarrassed that I'm adjacent susceptible of keeping this concealed from idiosyncratic who has been successful my country since the beginning," she shared. "Ariana, I americium truthful atrocious for betraying you. I can't adjacent fathom the symptom that I've caused you. And I person been wholly selfish and, you're right, selfish is not the close connection due to the fact that it doesn't adjacent statesman to picture the authorities of caput I person been in. It was a mistake."

Ariana did not accept. "Selfish does not f--king screen it, bitch," she fired back. "Diabolical, demented, disgusting, subhuman—start getting a amended vocabulary to picture your f--king actions due to the fact that selfish does not f--king screen it."