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Ariana Madix broke her silence on Tom Sandoval‘s problematic commentary in regards to the widespread consideration surrounding his dishonest scandal with Rachel “Raquel” Leviss.
“I used to be simply blown away by how anyone may say one thing so terrible,” Madix, 38, instructed the Los Angeles Instances in a profile printed on Thursday, February 29.
Earlier this month, Sandoval, 41, was requested why he thought his infidelity turned so massive within the media. (Information broke in March 2023 that Sandoval and Madix known as it quits after almost a decade of relationship attributable to his affair with their now-former costar Leviss, 29.)
“I’m not a pop-culture historian actually however I witnessed the O.J. Simpson factor and George Floyd and all these massive issues, which is de facto bizarre to match this to that, I feel, however do you assume in a bizarre method it’s somewhat bit the identical?” Sandoval instructed New York Instances Journal on February 20.
In a separate portion of the interview, Sandoval added: “I really feel like I acquired extra hate than Danny Masterson. And he’s a convicted rapist.”
Masterson, 47, is at present serving out his 30-year sentence for rape whereas Simpson, 76, was famously acquitted on prices of murdering ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her good friend Ron Goldman. Floyd, in the meantime, impressed Black Lives Matter protests all over the world after former police officer Derek Chauvin murdered him throughout an arrest in 2020.
Madix, for her half, questioned Bravo’s response to Sandoval’s controversial habits, telling the L.A. Instances, “It was fascinating how a lot Bravo was attempting to cowl for him.”
Leaving their mark on actuality TV. Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix discovered themselves on the middle of drama after becoming a member of Bravo’s Vanderpump Guidelines. Viewers have been initially launched to Sandoval’s love life by way of his tumultuous relationship with Kristen Doute. Amid their on-and-off relationship, the previous couple’s future was known as into query when Madix got here to work […]
Based on the New York Journal journalist behind the Sandoval profile, Irina Aleksander, a consultant from Bravo was not current throughout her preliminary dialog with Sandoval. Representatives for the community later allegedly tried to forestall Aleksander from talking with Sandoval once more by providing different stars from Vanderpump Guidelines. When Aleksander finally reunited with Sandoval for an additional dialog, a publicist was current.
Sandoval issued an apology hours after his feedback made headlines. “My intentions behind the feedback I made in New York Instances Journal have been to elucidate the extent of nationwide media consideration my affair obtained. The comparability was inappropriate and ignorant. I’m extremely sorry and embarrassed,” he wrote through Instagram Tales.
Forward of Madix’s profile, Sandoval addressed the drama once more, saying in a pre-recorded introduction to his “All people Loves Tom” podcast on Thursday, “Earlier than we get into this podcast I needed to once more apologize for the feedback I made within the New York Instances article. I stupidly was attempting to make a comparability on the absurd quantity of nationwide media that my affair obtained. And the comparability I made was silly and ignorant and I’m actually embarrassed. And I’m actually actually sorry.”
The solid of Vanderpump Guidelines are not any strangers to controversy. The employees of Lisa Vanderpump’s West Hollywood restaurant SUR made their debut on Bravo in 2013 as a part of the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills spinoff. The season 1 solid included Vanderpump, Stassi Schroeder, Jax Taylor, Katie Maloney, Tom Sandoval, Kristen Doute and Scheana Shay. […]
Sandoval went on to slam his separate function in Interview Journal. (He posed for a number of photographs with cake in an article that ran sooner or later after his NYT Journal interview went dwell.)
“They’re like, ‘We need to do a factor the place you will have muffins.’ I’m like, ‘OK, I don’t know,’” Sandoval added on Thursday earlier than joking that he was on an “indefinite” press hiatus. “[The] Interview Journal [piece] wasn’t grilling me in regards to the present, so I accepted it with open arms. I didn’t actually like all of the muffins. All of them tasted like s—tty in their very own method.”
