Kristen Doute May Return To ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Amid Ex Tom Sandoval’s Scandal

There’s a accidental fans volition spot erstwhile Vanderpump Rules prima Kristen Doute backmost connected the amusement to discuss the breakdown of Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix‘s nine-year narration aft the TomTom co-owner, 39, reportedly cheated connected Ariana, 37, with their co-star and Ariana’s friend Raquel Leviss, 28, PEOPLE reports. “Vanderpump Rules producers person approached Kristen to travel backmost connected the amusement to speech astir this,” an insider told the work connected March 6. “She’s had her just stock of ups and downs with Sandoval implicit the years, but close present she’s wholly supporting Ariana.”

And though the root said “Kristen has enactment the amusement down her,” they admitted that she’s toying with the thought of making an appearance. “It’ll beryllium if Ariana wants her to bash it and is comfy arsenic that’s the lone mode she would ever spell backmost connected the show,” they added. “It’s a speech she and Ariana are having close now. The girls person each been spending clip with Ariana.”

Tom Sandoval and Kristen Doute dated for astir six years earlier breaking up successful 2013 (Photo: Broadimage/Shutterstock)

As fans whitethorn recall, Kristen, 40, antecedently dated Tom for six years until they broke up successful 2013 erstwhile Kristen hooked up with their former VPR co-star, Jax Taylor. “Tom and I are some blameworthy of pointing fingers and playing the unfortunate successful our relationship. I tin repetition 10 times implicit that I don’t condone my infidelity and that 2 wrongs don’t marque a right, ever,” Kristen wrote successful a 2014 blog post for Bravo. “To acceptable the grounds straight: I did person an emotional/sexual matter with idiosyncratic years agone and I did slumber with Jax. Tom cheated with 5 girls successful 5 and a fractional years.”

Over the weekend, Kristen showed she was squad Ariana by sharing a video connected Instagram of her kissing Ariana connected the lips and cheek, arsenic seen below. “I stan Ariana. This is successful existent time,” she said successful the clip arsenic she cuddled her friend. “I emotion you truthful much,” she added earlier going successful for a smooch. “I emotion you much than thing successful the full wide world, and I’ll termination radical for you.”

Scheana Shay, 37, besides supported Ariana connected societal media implicit the play by posting a photo of them posing connected the carpet for Andy Cohen‘s Watch What Happens Live. “Always got your back!” she captioned the beauteous photograph on with a “#TeamAriana” hashtag. She took to the remark conception underneath the post, however, to defend herself amidst comparisons to Tom since she, too, slept with a idiosyncratic successful a committed narration successful the past.

Ariana has not spoken retired astir the breakup, but Tom concisely did via a March 5 Instagram post successful which he apologized to his co-owners of his Schwartz & Sandy’s barroom and edifice (which includes co-star Tom Schwartz) and their employees. “Hey, I afloat recognize and merit ur choler and disappointment towards me, but delight permission Schwartz my friends and household retired of this situation…” Tom began. “Schwartz specifically lone recovered retired astir this precise recently, and astir decidedly did not condone my actions. This was a precise idiosyncratic thing.”

Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix were unneurotic for 9 years earlier their divided successful March 2023 (Photo: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection)

He continued, “Also, Schwartz & Sandy’s mightiness person my sanction connected it, but besides determination are 3 different partners and 20 employees, who particularly trust connected the edifice for income for them and their families. … Please nonstop ur choler towards maine and not them. They did thing wrong.” He ended his station by saying he’s taking a measurement backmost from the edifice “out of respect” for his squad and that he “needs clip to code everything.”

Meanwhile, Andy Cohen, 54, confirmed that the cheating ungraded volition play out connected the presently airing 10th play of Vanderpump Rules and conceded that fans are successful for a chaotic thrust present that they cognize what happens with Tom and Raquel’s relationship.  “First of all, erstwhile you ticker the remainder of the play of Vanderpump Rules with the overlay of knowing that Raquel and Sandoval — what’s happened with them, and what was perchance happening past — it’s truly shocking,” helium teased connected the March 6 occurrence of his Sirius XM vigor show. “Even Wednesday night’s episode, you’re not going to judge it. Watching it with this overlay…there’s a infinitesimal betwixt Ariana and Raquel wherever you spot wherever their relationship is, which is good, that you won’t believe.”

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