By no means on the identical web page? Lala Kent and Raquel Leviss received off to a rocky begin whereas filming Vanderpump Guidelines — and the costars by no means really recovered.
Earlier than Leviss appeared on the present, Kent made her 2015 debut and instantly struck up a connection with James Kennedy. The pair determined to remain pals after a number of failed romantic makes an attempt amid his cut up from Kristen Doute and earlier than her relationship together with her now-ex-fiancé, Randall Emmett.
In the meantime, Leviss began to make visitor look in 2016 after she started courting Kennedy. The mannequin rapidly made it clear that she questioned the friendship between her boyfriend and Kent — however Kennedy continued to disclaim the duo have been something greater than platonic.
Kent and Leviss put their variations apart earlier than the California native received engaged to Kennedy in season 9, which aired from late 2021 to early 2022. Nonetheless, the couple shocked their costars after they introduced their cut up on the Bravo sequence’ reunion.
“We now have determined to interrupt off the engagement. It’s been one thing that I’ve been interested by for some time, and I feel that James has observed that my coronary heart hasn’t been totally in it,” Leviss shared through the January 2022 particular. “I didn’t wish to surrender on him as a result of he actually has proven me how devoted he’s to me and the issues that he’s prepared to do to raised himself. However I really feel like it’s one thing deep inside. I’ve been having nightmares about our wedding ceremony day, and I feel that’s a telltale signal that one thing is flawed.”
After filming started on season 10, Us Weekly confirmed that Tom Schwartz connected with Leviss at Scheana Shay and Brock Davies‘ August 2022 wedding ceremony amid his divorce from Katie Maloney. Viewers noticed stress rise between Leviss and her costars when she revealed that she was curious about Schwartz.
“Do you actually really feel that method? ‘For those who can’t maintain him then right here I’m?’ For those who do really feel that method, I’m not your viewers. I don’t need something to do with it, and I respect folks’s relationships,” Kent informed Leviss in a March 2023 episode. “And fairly truthfully, I feel you do too as a result of six years in the past once I drunkenly connected together with your ex-fiancé, that’s nonetheless one thing I really feel doesn’t really feel nice.”
Because the season continued to air, information broke in March 2023 that Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix known as it quits after almost a decade of courting as a result of he cheated with Leviss. On the time, Kent mentioned she wasn’t shocked by the affair, which prompted Bravo to renew manufacturing on the season.
“Through the 10 weeks that we filmed, there was a scent I used to be selecting up,” Kent mentioned on an episode of the “Give Them Lala” podcast that month. “Katie additionally was like, ‘I agree, I’m sniffing one thing too.’”
She continued: “This isn’t good. Males are a–holes, however you don’t anticipate your greatest good friend who’s a girl to do you want that. And to take a seat there and look you in your eyes and speak in confidence to one another and go get lunch when the entire time that’s what she’s been doing behind your again? That’s completely terrifying. …. This can be a character flaw.”
Leviss, for her half, issued a public apology to Madix amid the drama. “I wish to apologize for my actions and my decisions foremost to Ariana, and to my pals and the followers so invested in {our relationships}. There isn’t a excuse, I’m not a sufferer and I need to personal my actions and I deeply remorse hurting Ariana,” she wrote through Instagram in March 2023.
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