‘Emotional’ Tom Sandoval ‘wants to make it work’ with Raquel Leviss after affair
Has the Scandoval gotten to Tom Sandoval?
“Tom has been very emotional after the [‘Vanderpump Rules’] reunion,” a source exclusively tells Page Six.
After hashing out his affair with Raquel Leviss in front of their co-stars and host Andy Cohen last week, the insider explains that Sandoval is hopeful about his future with the former pageant queen.
“He wants to make it work with Raquel,” the source shares. “But he knows the odds are stacked against them as a couple.”
A second insider close to the Tom Sandoval & the Most Extras frontman confirms to Page Six that he and Leviss “are friends, but not putting a label on anything at the moment.”
Page Six has reached out to reps for Sandoval and Leviss for comment.
The pair was met with major vitriol during the Season 10 reunion, filmed Thursday in Los Angeles.
“The anger towards them is to be expected,” a source told us last week, confirming reports that the cast blasted Sandoval, 40, and Leviss, 28, for hours.
During the “nuclear” taping, Cohen, 54, asked the two, who were seated next to each other, when their affair started.
They admitted to hooking up during Sandoval’s nine-year relationship with now ex-girlfriend Ariana Madix.
However, the duo — who enjoyed each other’s company outside during breaks, smoking and having what appeared to be a heart-to-heart — insisted that their dalliance didn’t turn into a full-blown relationship until much later.
The affair spanned roughly seven months, with Madix, 37, discovering the betrayal the night of March 1 — after an explicit video sent by Leviss popped up on Sandoval’s phone.
When approached by a paparazzo on Monday, Sandoval confessed that he regrets his infidelity.
“Hindsight’s always 20/20, man. It’s like when you look back at a situation, you think of all the things [you] should’ve, would’ve, could’ve done to make it better,” he said.
“Yes, I could’ve handled things way better. Of course.”
The Schwartz & Sandy’s co-founder surmised that he took so much “heat” for the affair because it was “really unexpected,” in contrast to other cheating scandals that have played out on “Pump Rules.”
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But the ongoing fallout from their secret romance hasn’t stopped Sandoval and Leviss from stepping out together.
The embattled Bravolebrities were spotted on a public dinner date mere hours after the reunion concluded filming. They cozied up to each other in a large booth at The Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood, per photos obtained by TMZ this weekend.
One day prior, Leviss said she and Sandoval were hoping to “make amends” with those they’ve hurt before defining their relationship status.
“I know a lot of people are angry,” she said during a four-minute chat with a paparazzo outside a nail salon.
“So I think [we’re] just getting through these next few steps and seeing where it goes.”
Madix, for her part, seems acutely uninterested in any steps taken by Sandoval and Leviss.
When asked about the state of their current relationship, the “Buying Back My Daughter” actress told a paparazzo earlier this week, “At this point, I don’t care about anything that either of them does.”
“Vanderpump Rules” airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.
