Pump the brakes: Tom Sandoval just dropped a self-described “really weird” comparison about “Scandoval.”
The “Vanderpump Rules” star, 40, spoke with The New York Times Magazine for a lengthy interview published Tuesday about the infamous scandal, in which he cheated on girlfriend Ariana Madix with her friend Raquel Leviss. The Times asked Sandoval why he felt the affair received as much attention as it did.
“I’m not a pop-culture historian really, but I witnessed the O.J. Simpson thing and George Floyd and all these big things, which is really weird to compare this to that, I think, but do you think in a weird way it’s a little bit the same?” he asked.
As Sandoval made these comments, The Times noted that a 23-year-old member of his new publicity team was “typing furiously on her phone,” although the reporter suggested Sandoval was simply “trying to express the oddity of becoming the symbolic center of a nationwide discussion and a major news story.”
Despite this, the Times reported that after the interview was conducted, a publicist from Bravo, the network that airs “Vanderpump Rules,” reached out with concern about what he had said.
Tom Sandoval apologizes for ‘Vanderpump Rules’ comparison to O.J. Simpson, George Floyd
Quickly following the publication of his NYT Magazine interview, Sandoval took to his Instagram stories Tuesday to apologize for comparing his “Vanderpump Rules” scandal to media coverage of O.J. Simpson and George Floyd.
Sandoval called the comparison…
