Tom Sandoval in contrast the affair scandal to the O.J. Simpson and George Floyd circumstances.
Feb. 20 2024, Revealed 2:29 p.m. ET
UPDATE: 2/20/24 at 2:50 PM: Following the backlash, Sandoval instructed RadarOnline.com, “My intentions behind the feedback I made in New York Instances Journal have been to clarify the extent of nationwide media consideration my affair obtained. The comparability was inappropriate and ignorant. I am extremely sorry and embarrassed.”
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Tom’s stunning affair with Raquel Leviss was uncovered in March 2023.
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Talking candidly — just a little too candidly — with The New York Instances, Sandoval had a delusional reply when he was requested why he thought the dishonest scandal, famously coined “Scandoval,” obtained so large.
“I’m not a pop-culture historian actually,” the Vanderpump Guidelines star mentioned. “However I witnessed the O.J. Simpson factor and George Floyd and all these large issues, which is actually bizarre to match this to that, I feel, however do you assume in a bizarre method it’s just a little bit the identical?”
O.J. Simpson was famously acquitted of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman’s 1994 murders.
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Irina Aleksander, who interviewed Sandoval, added a notice to the article and tried to offer him the advantage of the doubt about his inconceivable response.
“I feel I knew what he meant,” she wrote. “He was making an attempt to specific the oddity of changing into the symbolic middle of a nationwide dialogue and a serious information story; what he communicated as an alternative was one thing extra sincere, which is simply how a lot the expertise had made him lose perspective.”
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Aleksander additionally revealed {that a} consultant from Bravo obtained phrase about Sandoval’s interview and was “involved” earlier than the story even made it to press.
“A Bravo publicist rang me late on a Friday. A few of what Sandoval had mentioned had gotten again to Bravo, and everybody was involved. What was it that he mentioned about O.J. Simpson and George Floyd precisely?”
Understandably, the truth star — who was labeled one of the vital hated males in America after his months-long affair was uncovered final 12 months — is already getting backlash for his feedback.
“Tom Sandoval evaluating himself to OJ Simpson and George Floyd is so on model, it’s exhausting to even make a joke about. Additionally it’s simply so clear that he’s really dumb,” one particular person responded on X, previously referred to as Twitter.
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The aftermath of Scandoval is taking part in out on Season 11 of ‘Vanderpump Guidelines.”
“Why is Tom Sandoval evaluating himself to OJ Simpson and George Floyd?? PLEASEEEEEEEE STFU,” added one other. “Tom Sandoval are you a masochist and if not why did you evaluate your self to OJ Simpson and George Floyd (who you additionally shouldn’t have in contrast to one another) throughout Black Historical past Month????” posted a 3rd.
The fourth episode of Season 11 of Vanderpump Guidelines airs tonight on Bravo.