We’re not sure what’s more surprising from this week’s episode of Vanderpump Rules — that Raquel Leviss and Lala Kent seem to have actually made amends or that Scandoval was right in front of everyone’s faces months before it was actually unearthed.
While our ears have been ultra-peaked since Tom Sandoval‘s revelation that he and Leviss’ affair began prior to Scheana Shay‘s wedding — despite Leviss making out with Tom Schwartz during the wedding week in Mexico — we couldn’t help but notice an odd exchange between the two in tonight’s episode.
When Leviss goes over to take the Toms’ order at Sur, a giddy Sandoval — who, later in the episode talks about making embryos with his then-girlfriend of nine years Ariana Madix — calls her over to sit between them, much to her boss Lisa Vanderpump‘s dismay.
Of course, nothing gets by Vanderpump as she looks at Sandoval and asks, “Why do you like it so much? You’ve got a smile on your face.”
After revealing to Leviss that Katie Maloney labeled her as a “whore” for making out with her ex-husband, he goes on to comfort the waitress — who he referred to as “a really sweet girl” that “doesn’t have a bad bone in her body.”
However, things get even more insane in a later scene when James Kennedy‘s new girlfriend Ally Lewber says she’s “scared” she might’ve “started something” while hanging out with Kent, Maloney and Kristina Kelly.
“Last night at Lala’s apartment, I was grabbing my stuff and we were leaving and we were just chatting,” she said in her confessional. “That’s when I mentioned like, ‘Oh yeah, I saw Sandoval and Raquel dancing together at The Abbey after See You Next Tuesday.’”
She tells Kennedy, “I thought it was kind of weird. It was like 1 a.m. and we were like, ‘Where’s Ariana?’”
Meanwhile, at Kent’s birthday dinner, Maloney — who has never seen eye-to-eye with Sandoval in the past — brings up the tidbit of gossip she heard from Lewber when she speculates that he gets “a lot of joy out of Raquel.”
“Yeah, cool person,” he sketchily responds, while Maloney drops the bomb about his alleged midnight outing with Leviss.
Sandoval naturally rebuts the claim, telling Maloney, “Dude, what the fuck are you even saying, dude? Get the fuck out of here, man.”
Vanderpump Rules airs on Wednesday nights at 9/8c on Bravo. You can stream new episodes the next day on Peacock.