“Vanderpump Rules” was forever altered after it was revealed in March 2023 that Tom Sandoval had been cheating on his longtime partner Ariana Madix with fellow cast member Rachel “Raquel” Leviss. Since then, the dynamic between the group has considerably shifted, with most of the crew siding with Madix.
Alas, things got particularly heated during the “Battle of the Sexes” panel on November 4 when James Kennedy questioned Lala Kent as to whether or not she had been hanging out in Sandoval’s suite. While Kent vehemently denied that she was “kicking it” at Sandoval’s suite, Madix intimated that it was actually Scheana Shay who was caught in the footage. “It’s weird,” Madix later told Access Hollywood. “Lala was not, but Scheana was. And I was like, ‘That’s weird.”
Meanwhile, Shay was adamant that she was only in Sandoval’s hotel suite to defend Madix. “I don’t like some of the things I heard him saying about Ariana on his podcast and in [the] press and I said that to him last night,” Shay told Page Six. “Let her heal and just stop.”