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Ariana Madix shared a moment with Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss in her hot tub that didn’t quite make the cut for the latest episode of Vanderpump Rules, despite that it included a joke about a “throuple.”
In a series of just-released deleted scenes, Ariana was seen getting close to Sandoval and Raquel, whose sordid affair was exposed in early March, as Raquel bragged that Sandoval once came to one of her beauty pageants — and gave her some great advice.
During one of the deleted scenes, as Ariana and Scheana Shay discussed Katie Maloney, Scheana prompted Raquel to speak out as she revealed that Sandoval was there for her after her divorce and came to see her Las Vegas show twice.
“You guys are the only ones who came and saw me. James came and saw me, too. Katie didn’t even come to see my f-cking show in Vegas. She was not there for me during that time,” Scheana noted.
“I came twice,” Sandoval interjected.
“You came twice,” Scheana confirmed. “You gave me the best notes and you made my performance better for the rest of my entire run.”
At that point, Raquel exclaimed, “Oh my God! That makes me so happy because he did the exact same thing for me at my pageant,” and a flashback clip showed a recording of Sandoval offering her guidance.
“What I enjoy is the power stance, which is like, ‘I own this motherf-cker,'” he stated in the video.
“It was like the best support system in the world,” Raquel gushed as Ariana said she was “robbed of the crown.”
“It wasn’t meant to be honestly, because I wouldn’t be acting the way that I am if I was Miss California,” Raquel reasoned.
Then, during another Pump Rules deleted scene, a friend was seen taking a photo of Ariana, Sandoval, and Raquel as they posed together in the now-ex-couple‘s hot tub.
“This is actually f-cking sick. I like the white sunglasses and the mustache, floating with the pasties,” the friend said.
“It’s a vibe. It’s a vibe. We got it,” Raquel agreed.
“No actually, look at these. These are f-cking cool,” the friend continued as Ariana said, “Oh sh-t,” and Raquel noted, “These photos better never surface.”
“They go nowhere. They go nowhere. It’s just us,” Ariana promised as Sandoval confirmed the pics were on his phone.
Ariana then admitted that the three of them looked like they were in a “throuple.”
“It looks like we’re in a throuple. We’re on like a romantic vacay,” she suggested.
Vanderpump Rules season 10 airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.