Katie Maloney Says Tom Schwartz’s Kiss With Raquel Leviss Gave ‘Creepy Uncle’ Vibes: There Was ‘Nothing Passionate’

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Nothing to swoon over. Katie Maloney had a hard time watching her ex-husband, Tom Schwartz, kiss Raquel Leviss on season 10 of Vanderpump Rules.The 36-year-old reality star recapped the moment — which aired on the Wednesday, April 5, episode of the Bravo hit — during an interview on the “Everything Iconic With Danny Pellegrino” podcast.

Katie audibly groaned before sharing her candid thoughts on the PDA scene.“I was nervous about the kiss, for obvious reasons,” she explained. “You’ll find out in next week’s episode how I react to it.

But … this was something I was very much not wanting to happen because I was wanting to have a friendship with Tom. And I knew that [the kiss] would kind of jeopardize that.”The Utah native — who announced her split from Tom, 40, in March 2022 after more than 10 years together — called out the lack of chemistry between her former spouse and Raquel, 28. “I was like, ‘This is giving creepy uncle,'” she joked. “There’s nothing passionate, romantic — it just feels like, ‘Alright, well … should we kiss?'”Katie confessed that she couldn’t say whether Tom and the beauty queen would’ve shared the same moment had they not been filming for the reality series. “There was so much peer pressure around them [from the cast],” she added, noting that there was a lot of “forced interaction” between the twosome at Scheana Shay‘s wedding to Brock Davies.Us Weekly confirmed in August 2022 that the TomTom co-owner got cozy with Raquel at their costars’ nuptials in Mexico.

Two months later, Katie and Tom finalized their divorce. (Raquel, meanwhile, has since been embroiled in an affair with Tom Sandoval, which prompted his breakup from Ariana Madix last month.)Katie’s divorce has been a major story line throughout