The Vanderpump Rules Episode Last Night Was Wild
What we learned from from the new episode and Katie Maloney's appearance on WWHL
Ahead of last night’s episode of Vanderpump Rules, Bravo’s overlord Andy Cohen warned us of this episode’s explosive content and assured us that it had not been altered since the news of #Scandoval (aka Tomfoolery) had broken. We’ve been on pins and needles ever since, wondering what it could possibly reveal.
Since the news broke a little over a week ago, Bravo fans have been glued to our phones as information has been revealed in bits and pieces via tweets, Instagram stories, podcast episodes and finally even episodes of the show itself. It’s been fascinating to watch this play out in real time. As my friend Deaven put it, “This is my Pearl Harbor!”
On Wednesday night’s episode of Vanderpump Rules, Katie and the girls travel from Las Vegas to a lake in Arizona on a trip to celebrate Katie’s divorce from Tom Schwartz. Despite Raquel trying to “make out” with Schwartz, Katie invites Raquel, but doesn’t invite Scheana because she encouraged her. Ariana stays behind because her dog had to be put down.
On last week’s episode featuring the Vegas portion of the trip, we saw Raquel kiss Garcelle Beaveau’s son, Oliver Saunders, who was allegedly still married at the time. He told Lala on camera that he was separated after Lala had clearly expressed interest in him. After leaving the club, Raquel and Lala had an argument, in which Lala said to Raquel she wouldn’t trust her around her man in a situation where alcohol was involved. Raquel’s response was a slurred, “Well, it’s a good thing you don’t have a man to, like, have around.”
Lala took offense to this but cut her some slack, considering Raquel was drunk and Lala was sober. They sent her to bed. However, Raquel was shown on camera listening around the corner while Katie, Kristina Kelly, and Lala giggled about how they all needed to watch their men around Raquel.
In a profetic moment, Katie says in her confessional that she's seen a “pattern” in Raquel: that she only wants a man if one of her friends wants or has him first.
This week on the girl’s trip after Charli showed up, Raquel decided she no longer felt welcome and chose to go home after having a panic attack on the drive from Vegas to Arizona. However, after returning to LA, Charli and Raquel decide to crash the boy’s night Scheana and Brock have arranged for Schwartz back home.
The group is entirely displeased to see the pair considering it’s supposed to be “guy’s night” and Scheana’s presence is only allowed because she planned (and probably funded) the event. I noticed that this included Sandoval, but his eyes were wide and he looked guilty, until the group eventually accepts the two of them, and then he he appears happy. Smug, even
During Watch What Happens Live, the question arose whether the affair between Raquel and Sandoval had begun at this point yet and Katie answered that she believes it either just had or did very soon after, but did not provide a comment based on the episode she’d just seen. Andy noted that the episode was shot in August.
In my opinion, I think that something had recently begun with Sandoval and both Raquel and Tom were panicking about how to cover it up while filming.
Regarding Tom Schwartz’s knowledge of the debacle, his ex wife Katie Maloney currently believes that he was duped by the pair and didn’t find out about the affair until recently, but she did not disclose when exactly she believes she found out. She mentioned she hopes to clarify that at the reunion, in addition to when and how the affair between Tom Sandoval and Raquel began.
In addition, today it was revealed that the reunion is scheduled to film on March 23, but the hearing for Raquel’s restraining order on Scheana isn’t until March 29. Fans on Twitter are calling for Scheana to stay home and Zoom in, but unfortunately even that isn’t satisfactory because she cannot have any contact with Raquel even via Zoom. That being said, it’s likely the reunion filming will have to be rescheduled.
This thing is just heating up. Stay tuned for more updates!