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The moment we’ve all been waiting for—well, before the Scandoval blew up this entire season of Vanderpump Rules and left all prior storylines dead in its wake—has finally arrived. On this week’s episode, Tom Schwartz and Raquel Leviss finally have their sad, yucky makeout session. And it’s hard to tell whether these two are genuinely googly-eyed for one another or a part of a larger scheme.
Since news of the Scandoval broke, Bravo fans have been speculating whether Scwhartz and Leviss’ fling this season is some kind of ruse. Specifically, viewers want to know if Schwartz was used as a pawn by Tom Sandoval to distract from his own affair with Leviss. There’s also the possibility that he volunteered to be a scapegoat. Andy Cohen teased that he would get to the bottom of this while filming the Season 10 reunion two weeks ago. But tonight’s episode gives fans some opportunities to make their own guesses.
We start this episode, titled “Forbidden Fruit,”where we left off last week, after James Kennedy and Ariana Madix went at it over dinner because Kennedy body-checked one of Brock Davies’s drunk friends. This particular fight is boring and seems a bit overblown. But we do get a rather rich piece of advice from Sandoval to Kennedy that makes all their unnecessary shouting worth it: “Sometimes real power is having the power to do something and not doing it.” He’s right. You could also apply this to not sleeping with her partner’s close friend!