Tom Sandoval

After spending years in development and being the worst kept secret in the Bravo universe, the long-awaited Vanderpump Rules’ spinoff The Valley finally premiered on Tuesday night in a crossover episode. On the most recent episode of VPR, viewers watch as Jax Taylor makes his grand return to the series that birthed his reality TV career after leaving it all behind in 2020. His surprise appearance at a guys’ night with Tom Schwartz, Tom Sandoval, Brock Davies, and James Kennedy ended in a tumultuous confrontation with…

The notorious “intimate FaceTime” call credited with launching Scandoval into a pop culture phenomenon is now the subject of a new eavesdropping, revenge porn, and invasion of privacy lawsuit filed by Raquel Leviss against her Vanderpump Rules co-stars Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix. In her new 19-page complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday, Leviss, whose real name is Rachel Leviss, alleges Sandoval “surreptitiously recorded” her “in a state of undress and engaged in sex acts” as they…

Well, here’s a post that should come as no surprise to Tom Sandoval’s PR team, or the public relations folks at Bravo, or even Vanderpump Rules executive producer Alex Baskin: The widely reviled reality star went ahead and tossed out a half-baked comparison between the media attention garnered by “Scandoval” with that of the O.J. Simpson trial or the police murder of George Floyd in The New York Times. The quotes appear in an extensive profile of Sandoval that digs into how the villain of the infamous Vanderpump…

When Jesse Montana filmed Vanderpump Rules last summer at the height of Scandoval, he didn’t realize Season 11 would be his last time in front of the cameras for the hit Bravo series. For years, Jesse has been in the background of the show as a server at Lisa Vanderpump’s West Hollywood restaurants SUR and Pump (the latter shuttering recently), as well as a good friend of some of the cast members. He’s spent the last decade in the Vanderpump universe on and off camera. As Jesse puts it, “I’ve just been living my real…

The Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale, aptly titled “#Scandoval,” concluded with a dramatic exchange between Tom Sandoval, two-timing paragon of Angeleno scumbaggery whose five-percent ownership stake in one of West Hollywood’s seediest bars made him think he was the second coming of Steve Rubell, and Scheana Shay, an aspiring pop star/vlogger who will fall head over heels for you if you mount a TV in under seven minutes. During this coda, we saw Scheana — tears streaming down her face, because of course — read…

It was the reality TV scandal to end all scandals. So earth-shaking that it got its own hashtag: #Scandoval.  In early March, just a few episodes into the tenth season of Vanderpump Rules, it was sensationally revealed that Tom Sandoval — the worm-mustached cover-band lead and minority-stake West Hollywood bar owner — and Rachel (formerly Raquel) Leviss had been engaged in a secret months-long affair, all behind the back of Sandoval’s then-girlfriend, Ariana Madix, and their co-stars. Leviss — the retired pageant…