Ariana Madix, nevertheless, is not right here for any of that nonsense. Some followers shortly latched onto it, although, after Scheana claimed that she’d heard Tom Sandoval had informed Raquel that after 9 years, he and Ariana weren’t in an unique relationship.

Fan shortly determined that it is not less than potential Tom tricked Raquel into pondering he was having fun with an open relationship with Ariana, which means he was free to interact in a sexual and presumably even an emotional relationship with Raquel with Ariana’s full blessing.

Even when Ariana was unaware of it, she would’ve okayed him having facet relationships in an “open” association. One fan latched onto the main points that Tom was taking Raquel on holidays, and even to fulfill his mother and father in St. Louis, as potential proof of this model of occasions.

“Might or not it’s that he manipulated Raquel the identical manner that Ariana has claimed he manipulated her for years,” the fan wrote in response to a Page Six Instagram put up in regards to the concept, per Us Weekly. “I imply why wouldn’t Raquel consider him if that’s what he informed her?”

Ariana herself shut the speculation down most immediately, commenting to the fan on the put up itself. “Simply to make clear — she did not BELIEVE that,” Ariana wrote. “She informed somebody that he informed her that. There are lacking main chunks right here which is completely comprehensible. They will’t match each piece of context into the present.”

In Peacock’s uncensored and barely prolonged model of the reunion kickoff, Tom himself denied having ever informed Raquel that he and Ariana have been non-exclusive.

“What are you speaking about? That’s bulls—,” Tom shouted at Scheana when she made the remark. “I didn’t say that. She didn’t repeat that.”

Because of her restraining order towards Scheana on the time — Raquel a lot of the episode watching the reunion being filmed from a TV display inside a trailer 100 ft away and didn’t reply. She and Scheana will swap locations for Half 2 this Wednesday.

Andy Cohen floated his personal concept as to why Raquel began hooking up together with her greatest buddy’s boyfriend. “[Raquel] was barely on the present,” Andy stated on the “Chicks within the Workplace” podcast earlier this month.

Possibly two seasons in the past or extra, she was having a pet social gathering,” Andy started, referencing the Season 7 episode. “That was her first form of occasion that she was having on the present. She was very upset ‘trigger not one of the ladies wished to return. They’re like, ‘We’re not coming to your f-ing pet social gathering.'”

Raquel first appeared on the present as James Kennedy’s girlfriend on Season 5 again in 2016. She had a recurring position till Season 8, earlier than changing into a predominant solid member of the Bravo collection in Season 9.

Manufacturing in Season 10 started in July 2022, with Andy declaring to “Chicks within the Workplace” podcast hosts Maria “Ria” Ciuffo and Francesca “Fran” Mariano that final yr Raquel “one way or the other acquired the eye” of two rules of the present, Sandoval and Tom Schwartz.

He added that along with the 2 Toms, she turned entwined within the ladies’ group, together with Scheana, Katie Maloney, Lala Kent, and naturally, Ariana. “She’s within the combine in a really huge manner,” Andy stated.

“So, is there part of you that might contemplate that perhaps she turned intoxicated by now being a principal on this present and being thought-about as such?” he continued. “She acquired a whole lot of consideration. Possibly she turned intoxicated by being such part of the present, and perhaps that made her lose her sense of herself.”

In March 2023, Raquel and Sandoval’s months-long affair — and the latter dishonest on Ariana, his girlfriend of almost 10 years — was uncovered to your complete world, with the scandal changing into referred to as “Scandoval.”

The Season 10 finale — titled “#Scandoval” — chronicled the dramatic fallout after the information broke. Manufacturing of Season 10 had wrapped final fall, however filming began up once more simply two days after Ariana discovered a compromising video of her longtime accomplice and good buddy on his cellphone in early March.

Half 2 of the three-part “Vanderpump Guidelines” reunion guarantees much more fireworks and stunning revelations, hitting Bravo at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday.