According to Sandoval’s ex-girlfriendKristen Doute, 40, Leviss has always been an outlier among the cast.
“I have always thought that she andJames [Kennedy]are on the same exact level of being an opportunist,” Doute said on Friday’s episode ofDear Media’sScheananigans with Scheana Shaypodcast. “I had to remind myself that she was a fan of the show before she was on the show. And not that that makes everyone that way, but like, she didn’t organically really fit in with the group ever, at all.”
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Doute only recently started being more welcoming towards Leviss, 28. “I chose — what was it, maybe a year ago — to stop hating Raquel or, like, hating on her,” she said.
TheSex, Love, and What Else Matterspodcast host had what she considers her first real conversation with Leviss atLala Kent’s daughterOcean’s first birthday party.
“That day at Ocean’s birthday party was like the most intelligent and well-spoken and put-together I had ever heard her be, without kind of barely blinking her eyes and just opening her mouth,” Doute said. “Just like these weird, dumb stares where I’m like,Why are you just looking at me like that?Like,What? Is your brain catching up? Like, I’m confused.”
Kent, 32, also joined Doute and Shay, 37, for the “emergency"Scheananiganspodcast recording and wondered aloud if Leviss ever “had an actual conversation with anybody without short circuiting?”
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The mess surrounding Sandoval’s split from Madix and affair with Leviss— known among Bravo fans as the “Scandoval” — will bedocumented on the current seasonofVanderpump Rulesand the upcoming finale, which will film later this month.
There’s also the upcoming reunion, whichWatch What Happens Livehost and Bravo bossAndy Cohenrevealed isscheduled to film in two weeks— a bit of awkward timing after Leviss secured anorder of protectionagain Shay, 37, after claiming her costar launched a"physical attack"on the former beauty queen in the early hours of the morning after they appeared onWWHLlast weeek. (Shay hasdeniedthe allegation, calling Leviss’s claims “a fabrication.")
“Security will definitely be amped up at the reunion,” Kent predicted.
“We need to have cages. Everyone needs their own personal bodyguards,” jokedShayon the podcast, which was recorded before Leviss filed for her restraining order.
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After news broke about Sandoval, 40, and Leviss’s alleged months-long affair last week, the Sonoma State University gradaddressed the situation.
“Besides the indefensible circumstances surrounding our relationship, my feelings for Tom have always been sincere and born out of a loving friendship,” she told PEOPLE exclusively on Wednedsay. “Knowing how many people we hurt, I need to understand my choices and learn to make better ones.”
Leviss said the future of her and Sandoval’s relationship remains unclear. “I care for Tom and I don’t want to label anything or predict what lies ahead,” the reality star, who was previously engaged to costarJames Kennedy, continued. “Right now I need to heal.”
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Meanwhile, Leviss has been fighting to keep an intimate video she sent to Sandoval — and whichMadix found, tipping her off to Leviss and Sandoval’s affair— from making the rounds. Leviss sent a legal notice to her castmates, including Madix and Sandoval, warning them not to share the recording of her intimate FaceTime session with the TomTom restaurant co-owner.
Her lawyers demanded that anyone who has access to the recording delete it from any “method in which the recording may exist.”
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Vanderpump Rulesairs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo, and Dear Media’sScheananigans with Scheana Shaydrops Fridays on major podcast platforms.
source: people.com
