Tom Sandoval Confirms He’s Filming ‘Pump Rules’ Season 11

Tom Sandoval confirmed that he’s a part of the solid for Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 — however he wouldn’t say whether or not he’s spoken to Raquel Leviss since manufacturing began.

“I’m filming proper now,” the truth star, 41, advised Backgrid cameras in West Hollywood on Thursday, July 6. When requested whether or not he was in contact with Raquel, 28, Sandoval replied, “I can’t touch upon that.”

He did, nonetheless, promise followers that the brand new episodes can be value watching. “It’s gonna be attention-grabbing it doesn’t matter what,” he defined. “It at all times is.”

Sandoval went on to assert that he and BFF Tom Schwartz are “cool” after rumors of stress between the pair within the aftermath of Scandoval. “I simply noticed him as we speak,” Sandoval stated. (The enterprise house owners had been seen filming what seemed to be a tense dialog at TomTom on Thursday.)

Final month, Schwartz, 40, hinted that the duo’s friendship was on the rocks after Sandoval bought caught having an affair with Raquel whereas he was nonetheless relationship longtime girlfriend Ariana Madix. “He made an enormous mess and he left it for us to wash up again at [TomTom and Schwartz & Sandy’s],” Schwartz advised Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright throughout a June 7 episode of the couple’s “When Actuality Hits with Jax and Brittany” podcast. “It’s laborious for me to not be resentful of him, I’m undoubtedly taking a break from Tom proper now. I haven’t seen him shortly.”

When information of Raquel and Sandoval’s affair broke in March, Schwartz initially confirmed assist for his enterprise companion, however he advised Jax, 43, and Brittany, 34, that he felt “used” and “exploited” by Sandoval within the aftermath of the drama.

“I do love Tom. I took to coronary heart every little thing he advised me about Ariana,” Schwartz recalled. “Now that I’ve heard her aspect of the story … she [has] vehemently denied all these things.”

Throughout a now-infamous interview with Howie Mandel, Sandoval claimed that he tried to interrupt up with Ariana, 38, a number of occasions earlier than the affair turned public, however Ariana refused to just accept the cut up. She later denied these claims throughout the Pump Guidelines reunion and in an interview on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen.

Ariana additionally slammed Schwartz for his involvement within the scenario, telling Andy Cohen she thought her good friend was “actively collaborating in” her “downfall.”

Schwartz, for his half, later admitted that he felt “complicit” within the affair as a result of he didn’t inform anybody what he knew about Sandoval and Raquel. “It’s turn out to be an enormous supply of simply angst in my life. I’ve been on this prolonged funk,” he defined throughout a June episode of Stars on Mars. “It’s horrible and I really feel complicit as a result of I didn’t cowl for him, however I had his again. He got here to me and confided in me that he was in love with another person.”

He went on to say that he was “stepping away” from the drama “completely” going ahead. “Any type of model of [Sandoval’s] aspect of the story has turn out to be out of date due to the way in which he dealt with it,” Schwartz continued. “And in the end, that’s his life. I didn’t have an affair. I’m not him. And it’s simply so unusual that I’ve been completely mired on this.”

Vanderpump Guidelines additionally stars Lala Kent, James Kennedy, Scheana Shay, Katie Maloney and Lisa Vanderpump. Final month, an insider solely advised Us Weekly that “nothing has been determined but” concerning Raquel’s potential return to the sequence. “It’s all nonetheless up within the air,” the supply defined. “Each side are hoping they’ll work one thing out in order that Raquel will get the therapy she wants, and she or he’s nonetheless capable of be included within the present.”