SUR-ving up the tea. Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval, Ariana Madix and Rachel Lewis‘ drama quickly became one of Bravo’s biggest scandals.
Us Weekly confirmed on March 3, 2023, that Tom and Ariana had broken up after nine years together after he had an affair with Raquel. The news came as a shock Pump Rules fans and stars alike, especially in the wake of Raquel’s brief romance with Tom Schwartz.
A special source us that Sandoval’s infidelity is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Ariana’s relationship problems. “They’ve been having issues for a while,” the insider said, adding that it “just ended” the day before the couple’s split was announced.
Ariana joined the cast Pump Rules in November 2013, and a few months later, she and Sandoval announced that they were dating during the second season reunion of the show in February 2014. Despite their long-standing relationship, the restaurant only revealed. us in December 2018 he and the model will “probably never” get engaged. Ariana echoed her boyfriend’s words during the interview, adding, “It’s not on the agenda for us.”
At that time, Sandoval noted that they were more focused on buying a house together, stating, “For me, we prefer to put money into the investment than, for us, marriage or weddings and so on, expensive rings.”
The couple gave us update another relationship at BravoCon in October 2022. “We’re great. We’re doing well,” said Sandoval, then Ariana denied false rumors that they stopped online.
“I saw all that blind stuff [online] and things like that. I went to it, so I totally get it,” he said Fancy AF cocktails – which she cowrote with her now-ex – the author told us. “If you kept track of all that — I mean, we’ve been together for almost nine years — you’d think we’d broken up 50 times.”
In January 2023, Ariana also addressed rumors that she and frontman Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras had an open relationship, as a costar. Scheana Shay informed Sandoval Pump Rules Season 10 trailer Katie Maloney this makes false claims about them. “We don’t have an open relationship,” she tweeted at the time. “I’m really not cool. I think it’s obvious.”
While Sandoval was previously dating a former costar Christian Doute before the relationship with Ariana, Raquel has been romantically linked to some of her Bravo castmates over the years. They started dating James Kennedy in 2016 and later got engaged in May 2021. However, the two quit in December of that year.
In the summer of 2022, he went on several dates with SUR’s manager Peter Madrigal before hooking up with Schwartz during Scheana and Brock Davies‘ The Mexican wedding weekend in August, a few months after he and Katie announced their separation in March 2022.
“At that moment, there was a momentary excitement in the air,” Schwartz said us in February 2023. “I was lost in that kiss, I’ll be honest. It was kind of a transformative moment. In terms of a long-term romance with me and Raquel, I didn’t know how much chemistry there was.
Later that month, Raquel mirrored her former fling said, told us that they have “more of a friendship” than a romantic relationship.
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