Pumping the breaks. Tom Sandoval claims he and Raquel Leviss have taken a step back in their relationship — and aren’t dating — after their affair made headlines.“We’re really good friends,” Sandoval, 40, said of Leviss, 28, during the Tuesday, April 11, episode of the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast. “Were not putting any label on it.”The TomTom cofounder revealed that the pair are “taking a break” amid all the drama.
When asked by Howie Mandel whether the Vanderpump Rules costars are “friends with benefits,” the Missouri native insisted, “Not right now.”Us Weekly confirmed last month that Sandoval and Ariana Madix called it quits after nine years together.
Their split came in the wake of Madix, 37, learning that her longtime boyfriend had been intimately involved with their Bravo costar for months.“There [are] two things that happened here.
The ending of a relationship and the affair,” Sandoval told Mandel, 67, on Tuesday. “I can tell you right now, by far, the most painful thing for Ariana is the ending of the relationship.”The Schwartz & Sandy’s cofounder explained that the breakup has also been “the most painful thing for our friends.”He recalled the former couple being dubbed the “Mom and Dad” of their group during their romance. “We took care of our friends,” Sandoval said, adding that now people are “grouping the breakup and the affair together and they are taking it out on me.”While the Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras singer told the podcast listeners that he “understands” his friends’ anger, he claimed “the breakup was an inevitable thing.”Elsewhere in the episode, Sandoval alleged that he broke up with Madix on Valentine’s Day, which was nearly one month before their split made headlines.“I made it pretty
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