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Tom Sandoval is clapping back at Lala Kent.
After Lala spoke of her annoyance with Tom and suggested his longtime girlfriend, Ariana Madix, should leave him on an episode of Watch What Happens Live last week, the Vanderpump Rules cast member called Lala a “bully” and said his castmate “needs a hobby.”
“Lala’s a bully, so she needs something to focus all her anger on, and I guess I’m that person,” Tom suspected on the February 21 episode of E! News. “I mean, she will randomly go after somebody just because she’s bored and probably needs a hobby or something.”
According to Tom, he said something about Lala’s relationship with Randall Emmett on Pump Rules that ultimately sparked his feud with Lala.
“I think it was probably that comment I made on the first episode about choosing Randall, saying ‘knocked up,'” he admitted. “I probably shouldn’t have used that term.”
Tom went on to say that Lala has “been trying to rewrite history and our show is not going to let you do that, they’re gonna flash back and they need somebody to narrate it so they asked me to narrate it, so I did.”
On last Wednesday’s episode of WWHL, Lala revealed what annoyed her about several of her co-stars, including Tom, who she shaded for accusing her of getting “knocked up” by Randall.
“Sandoval, everything annoys me about him, and the fact that he said that I should have known better than to get knocked up—my child—I did not get knocked up.”
She even warned Tom that she was “coming for [him]” at the upcoming Pump Rules reunion. She also suggested she was hoping to see Ariana single, noting that she should follow Katie Maloney, who split from now-ex-husband Tom Schwartz in early 2022, prior to the start of filming on their current season.
“I love Ariana, we just have to get her out next,” she stated.
Vanderpump Rules season 10 airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.