In tonight's season finale of VanderpumpRules, Ariana Madix describes looking through Tom Sandoval's phone on the night of March 1 — where she found a video of him and Raquel Leviss. Read Variety's interview with EP Alex Baskin.
In a splintered pop culture universe, where one person’s passion is another person’s, the #Scandoval has been galvanizing, almost community-building. As the season has unfolded, witnessing how their affair was hiding in plain sight — the cast finds out that Leviss, when Madix was out of town after her grandmother died, for God’s sake! — has propelled the season upward, toward this impromptu apex.
When the crew went to Madix and Sandoval’s house on March 3, they captured the devastating fight that will be shown in full during the finale, and was. According to Baskin, the former couple were “cohabiting the same space, but not really talking to each other,” and that scene “was one of the first times that they had spoken to each other since she found out about the relationship with Raquel.” They were already filming when the TMZ story published.
That restraining order, of course, would cause headaches for the March 23 reunion date, but Bravo and production were confident they could navigate it. For now, they were riding the wave, which was becoming a tsunami. “We felt like we were in the middle of something that we had to try to control, but probably couldn’t,” Baskin says. “Because it was just a juggernaut.”On March 3, the reality television equivalent of D-Day, “Vanderpump Rules” Nation reacted in shock to the #Scandoval.
“It’s like, try watching ‘The Sixth Sense’ again,” Baskin says. “It seems really obvious after the fact — not because we edited it, but because youThere’s an intricate scene in Episode 13 — a conversation filmed in September between Kent and Kennedy, about Leviss having been caught sleeping over at Sandoval’s house — that featured fast-forwarding and rewinding. It concludes with Kent saying, “I think Sandoval has a thing for Raquel,” to which Kennedy responds, “Damn.
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