Tom Sandoval details ‘magnetic’ first kiss with ‘amazing’ Raquel Leviss
“Vanderpump Rules” star Tom Sandoval detailed what he claimed was his first kiss with co-star Raquel Leviss in his first interview post-Scandoval.
Appearing on Tuesday’s episode of the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast, the wannabe musician said he and the former beauty pageant queen “had hung out two nights … like, one night, and then a couple nights later, we hung out again.”
“We literally talked ’til the sun came up the first night with my friend Brett,” Sandoval explained, noting that the get-together took place after “guys’ night at the Mondrian” hotel in Los Angeles, which Leviss and then-friend Scheana Shay had crashed in early August 2022.
The bar owner, 40, went on to say that he and the SUR server, 28, hung out again after See You Next Tuesday, an event her ex-fiancé, James Kennedy, typically deejays at the West Hollywood restaurant.
“And then we were back at my house, just talking,” Sandoval continued, claiming they were “in the backyard” because he was “locked out” of the home he shares with Ariana Madix, whom he was still dating at the time.
“We just kissed. It was magnetic,” he said of locking lips with Leviss. “We were talking, moving closer, and as we were talking, as time went on, we would just start talking closer and closer, and then all of a sudden, we’re kissing.”
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“I felt something that I hadn’t felt in so long, like, emotionally,” the Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras frontman shared, going on to describe Leviss as “so awesome,” “so kind,” “smart,” “witty,” “fun,” “beautiful” and “f–king amazing.”
Before the secret lovers’ “really good” friendship turned romantic, Sandoval said Leviss had been “a source of strength” for him as he navigated his allegedly unhappy relationship with Madix.
Early last month, the Something About Her co-owner, 37, found a sexually explicit video of Leviss on Sandoval’s phone, which led to the discovery that the two had been “communicating inappropriately” for months.
Feeling “heartbroken” and “blindsided” by the affair, Madix immediately ended her nearly 10-year relationship with Sandoval.
