Jax Taylor Thinks It’s ‘Absolutely’ Not Healthy for Raquel Leviss to Return to ‘Vanderpump Rules’

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Jax Taylor is giving his two cents on whether his former Vanderpump Rules costar Raquel Leviss should return for the show’s 11th season following her affair with Tom Sandoval.“No, absolutely not.

No,” Taylor, 44, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, July 11, while promoting his partnership with Xyon Health. “There’s nothing healthy about reality TV for anybody.”Leviss’ future on the Bravo reality series remains up in the air after her affair with castmate Sandoval, 40, left the pair on bad terms with the Pump Rules cast at the end of season 10.

In March, news broke that Sandoval cheated on his girlfriend of nine years, Ariana Madix, with Leviss, 28. Following backlash from fans and castmates, Leviss checked herself into a mental health treatment facility in April.Last month, a source exclusively told Us that Leviss was planning to check out of the facility.

Another source later confirmed to Us that Leviss was currently “in talks about returning for the next season of Vanderpump Rules,” though she had not yet decided “whether or not she wants to come back to the show.”Taylor, meanwhile, knows that reality TV can be “a very toxic place,” having starred on Pump Rules for eight years before he and his wife, Brittany Cartwright, left the series in December 2020. “You need to have thick skin,’” he told Us on Tuesday. “In my opinion, I think [Raquel] dove into something that was a little bit bigger than her.