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Vanderpump Guidelines star Raquel Leviss has taken loads of warmth for her season 10 hookups with Tom Schwartz. However in response to the 28-year-old mannequin, she did loads of relationship round within the months that adopted her December 2021 break up from James Kennedy, 31.
As Tom, 40, admitted that their rendezvous was “slightly disrespectful” to ex-wife Katie Maloney, 36, and James mentioned Raquel “actually unfold her wings,” Raquel confirmed she’s not trying to cool down — and famous that she’s having fun with her single life.
“I’ve dated round. I’ve had a couple of, like, flings and informal stuff and I’m probably not searching for something critical [right now],” she advised Us Weekly on February 7. “I sort of like being single and doing my very own factor. I really feel like I’m relationship myself. I really feel like I actually solely lately began determining who I’m as an individual and what I actually, actually like and what I don’t like. So I don’t suppose that I’m able to cool down anytime quickly.”
As an alternative, Raquel needs to proceed having enjoyable after taking the title of “makeout sl-t” from Tom.
“Schwartz and I solely made out, so, I’m actually similar to a makeout sl-t,” Raquel admitted. “[We only] made out a couple of instances. It was enjoyable, I loved it. I feel he did too.”
Whereas Raquel and Tom might have loved their time collectively, it didn’t come as excellent news to Katie, who shaded her as a “fan lady.”
“We’re not in one of the best place,” Raquel mentioned of herself and Katie. “I bumped into her on Sunday and I figured I might be like the larger particular person and at the least break the ice and go over there and say hello. And it was like a ‘demise glare’ straight by way of my soul. So I used to be like, ‘OK, I really feel like I simply want to love again off and offer you some house.’ Clearly, I actually harm her and that wasn’t my intention in any respect.”
“I’m simply navigating single life and thought that Schwartz may be somebody cool to pursue one thing with. So it sucks, however it’s what it’s,” she added.
In one other interview with Web page Six eventually week’s Pump Guidelines premiere celebration, after confirming she and Tom are “actually good pals,” Raquel instructed their romance was minimize brief by Katie.
“So far as a romantic factor, it was extra his determination to not pursue that. I feel Katie had an enormous reasoning as to why. However I respect his determination, and I gained a very good friendship out of it,” she shared.
Then, after James mentioned Raquel “actually unfold her wings and flew away” after their breakup, and hinted her hookup with Tom was what led to his trailer-teased drink toss, Tom confirmed he doesn’t remorse his encounters with Raquel.
“It was solely a kiss. I don’t remorse it,” he defined. “Now, if we wish to get into a few of the intricacies, perhaps the timing was slightly disrespectful. Within the second, I used to be so caught up in my very own little world. One thing was within the air. … I regretted it within the sense that it harm some those that I care loads about, like perhaps James and Katie — not a lot James, however Katie.”
When requested for an replace on her and Tom’s relationship, Katie mentioned the 2 of them are “good.”
“It’s simply been a course of to seek out that basis of our friendship that’s wholesome for us each and never crossing any boundaries,” she revealed. “We’re nonetheless in one another’s lives, and we wish to be. He’s nonetheless like my household, and I nonetheless have love for the man.”
And through her personal interview with Us Weekly, Katie mentioned that on the subject of Raquel, she is staying “very distant.”
“Some issues are simply not meant to be, and our friendship might be certainly one of them,” she added.
Vanderpump Guidelines season 10 airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.