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Charles Sykes/Bravo
Tom Schwartzis ready forVanderpump Rulesfans to watch what happens in his latest visit to the Bravo clubhouse — he’s just hoping it’s a little less of a free-wheeling, tea-spilling confesh sesh than his last appearance.
The reality star returns toWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenafter Tuesday night’s episode ofWinter House, and he plans to be a little more restrained than when he visitedAndy Cohen’s late-night show on April 6 in the throes of theScandoval.
During that appearance, he delved into the dirty details about his friend and costarTom Sandoval’smonths-longaffair with castmateRachel “Raquel” Leviss.
“It was a bit of a debacle last time,” he tells PEOPLE, adding, “although I don’t think it was as bad as I remember it. There were some funny moments, I think?”
Just to name a few of those moments…
He called Leviss Sandoval’s “heroin” while dropping a bombshell about when Sandoval, 41, firstdisclosed he’d cheatedonthen-girlfriend of nine yearsAriana Madix, 38, with the 29-year-old SUR waitress.
He denounced vandalism at his and Sandoval’s Los Angeles restaurant Schwartz & Sandy’s — but said the gossip sensation had, in some ways,been good for business.
He admitted he thoughtit “would be a miracle” if Sandoval and Leviss’s relationship lasted, noting that it had become “toxic” and not “sustainable.” (Though the pair never really defined their relationship or officially ended things, Leviss gave herself the birthday gift ofblocking Sandoval on Instagramin September — a move the Most Extras singer deemed"petty.")
And looking back on his own fleeting,mid-divorceflirtationwith Leviss, including abrief makeout sessionat costarScheana Shay’s August 2022wedding(a time, viewers now know, that Sandoval and Leviss were actively engaged in their affair), Schwartz admittedhe didn’t think his dalliance with the former pageant queen had been “worth it.”
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Seven months after his last time onWWHL, Schwartz tells PEOPLE he wasn’t ready for the fallout of his candor. “Oh my God, it was not good for my personal life. I got roasted on the internet and off the internet, face to face, in the DMs,” he says.
“I was a rambling fool,” he continues, “and I have vowed to be more composed this time — but not boring, not boring. Just more thoughtful and maybe considerate.”
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And Schwartz isn’t just planning to step up his game through words — he’s leveling up his look too.
After his ex-wifeKatie Maloneycompared his jacket during theVanderpumpRulespanelatBravoCon 2023to “a couch,” theTomTom barco-owner calls the dig “a turning point” for him aesthetically.
He admits, “I’m not known for my style, but I’ve been extra schleppy lately. And I was thinking I could also use a little bit of a symbolic reset. So my friends hooked me up with a stylist and … I kind of feel like I’m getting my groove back a little bit. I’ve kind of been a sad sack, a bit of a basket case for a couple of years.”
After coming out the other side of adivorce,family health crisesanda scandal that shook up his entire friendship circle, Schwartz tells PEOPLE: “I felt like I was kind of falling apart, and now I’m kind of feeling like I’m getting it together again.”
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenairs weeknights after Bravo’s primetime shows (check listings),Winter Houseairs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET andVanderpump Rulescan be streamed in full on Peacock.
source: people.com
