Lisa Vanderpump and Teddi Mellencamp. Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock; Andy Kropa/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
Setting the file straight. Lisa Vanderpump clarified that she had no half in Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss’ affair.
“Oh and no I didn’t pay forged members to sleep collectively for rankings #pumprules they do this on their very own … #fake-news,” the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 62, tweeted on Wednesday, March 15. “Have an exquisite day all people.”
Vanderdump’s remarks come after her former RHOBH costar Teddi Mellencamp theorized that the U.Okay. native could have orchestrated the Pump Guidelines drama to extend their rankings.
“[Lisa] in all probability paid Raquel [Leviss] to do that,” Mellencamp, 41, instructed to Melissa Gorga and Tamra Choose throughout a March 9 episode of the Actual Housewives of New Jersey star’s “On Show” podcast.
The previous housewives have a feud-filled historical past of their very own. The 2 began as mates however had a falling out throughout season 9 of the Bravo collection, which aired in 2019. Their friendship hit a snag when Dorit Kemsley adopted a pet from Vanderpump Canines, just for the pooch to finish up at a kill shelter. The drama, also called Puppygate, led Vanderpump to go away the present. Mellencamp, for her half, exited the collection in September 2020.
Vanderpump discovered much more success together with her Bravo spinoff collection, Pump Guidelines, which premiered in 2013. The truth present follows the lives of the employees at her Los Angeles-based eating places.
All through the course of ten seasons, the fact stars have had their fair proportion of drama and hookups. The forged just lately made headlines when Sandoval, 41, and his longtime girlfriend Ariana Madix broke up after 9 years of courting. Us Weekly confirmed earlier this month that the pair cut up after the Florida native, 37, realized that her boyfriend had an affair with Leviss, 28. The drama, also called Scandoval, sparked some pressure amongst the present forged and can play out throughout season 10.
The restaurateur, who has a mentor relationship with Sandoval, was shocked when the information broke and despatched her assist to Madix throughout her March 8 look on Watch What Occurs Reside with Andy Cohen.
“I actually had no phrases. I didn’t see it coming — no one noticed it coming,” she confessed to Cohen. “I’ve seen Ariana and I’ve [filmed] together with her. It’s an integral a part of the story now. I might say the phrase I might use [to describe her] is devastated.”
In the meantime, Vanderpump didn’t appear to have any empathy for Leviss following the scandal. Whereas on WWHL the Bravo persona known as the previous magnificence queen a “wolf in sheep’s clothes.”
