Andy Cohen: ‘Scandoval’ ‘foreshadowing continues’ in next ‘Pump Rules’ episodes
The buildup to Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss’ affair will continue to play out in upcoming episodes of “Vanderpump Rules,” Andy Cohen confirmed Monday.
“Last night I watched Episodes 9 and 10, and I’m hoping to get 11 and 12 today, but again, the foreshadowing continues, and things that read one way when the show was shot read completely differently now,” Cohen said on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live.”
The “Watch What Happens Live” host teased that Leviss has separate “interactions” with Katie Maloney and Lala Kent that viewers “won’t believe.”
“And how it all plays out with Raquel and [Tom] Schwartz, oh boy, I wanna save it because I don’t wanna give it away, but it’s really something,” he added.
Cohen, 54, was referring to Leviss, 28, kissing Schwartz, 40, several times throughout the season amid his divorce from Katie Maloney — at the same time she was secretly having a months-long affair with Sandoval, 40.
The TV producer previously warned “Pump Rules” fans about last Wednesday’s episode, which included Maloney, 36, pointing out “a pattern” that Leviss is “only interested in men that her friends are either married to or interested in.”
Cohen confirmed in Monday’s episode of his radio show that he is flying to Los Angeles on Wednesday to film the show’s highly anticipated Season 10 reunion on Thursday.
“Everyone is very concerned because they love the show. I’m here to tell you you’re gonna get it,” he said of the reunion, which cast member Scheana Shay’s lawyer recently said was “in jeopardy” due to Leviss obtaining a temporary restraining order against Shay.
Sources previously told Page Six that Shay, 37, and Leviss got into a “heated confrontation” on March 1 after the “Good as Gold” singer discovered that the former beauty pageant queen was having an affair with Sandoval, who was in a nearly 10-year relationship with Shay’s longtime best friend, Ariana Madix, at the time.
Less than a week later, Leviss went to court and claimed Shay had punched her and gave her a bruised eye.
Shay’s lawyer, Neama Rahmani, denied his client hit Leviss, claiming in a statement to Page Six, “The supposed dark markings around [Leviss’] left eye have been there for months.”
Rahmani also accused Leviss of “sabotaging” the reunion since it “can’t happen in any meaningful way while this order is in place.”
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“The temporary restraining order, as it stands now, currently prohibits Scheana from being within 100 yards of Rachel, so they can’t both be physically present at the reunion,” he continued, using Leviss’ legal name.
Shay, however, recently said she has not been told that she cannot show up to the reunion taping.
“I mean, as far as I know, I’m fully intending on being there in person,” she said in Friday’s episode of her Dear Media podcast, “Scheananigans.”
Neither Leviss nor Sandoval have addressed their presence at the reunion, but they issued separate apology statements to Madix amid the “Scandoval” backlash.
Sources told Page Six on March 3 that Madix, 37, broke up with Sandoval on March 1 after finding a sexually explicit video of Leviss on her now-ex’s phone. She then learned that the two had been “communicating inappropriately” since about July 2022.
Madix spoke out about the affair for the first time last week and made her first public appearance while performing at a comedy club in Los Angeles on Saturday night.
A spy told Page Six that Madix “looked carefree” as fans gave “thunderous cheers and applause” when she walked onstage.
“She seemed happy to have a fun night where there was absolutely no mention of ‘Scandoval,'” the eyewitness continued.