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Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz agreed to not hook up with any of each other’s mutual mates after they parted methods round this time final yr. However months later, as filming started on the tenth season of Vanderpump Guidelines, that settlement went out the window as Tom was caught kissing their co-star, Raquel Leviss.
Earlier than wanting again on her choice to divorce Tom and teasing what’s to return within the new episodes, Katie mirrored on how she felt after studying Tom and Raquel had attached amid manufacturing, slamming Tom for the disrespectful gesture, and saying her opinion of Raquel “couldn’t be decrease.”
“It simply made me notice that this particular person, by no means, won’t ever respect me and can simply proceed to humiliate me,” Katie informed Leisure Tonight of Tom and Raquel’s kiss on February 7. “It’s poisonous. I didn’t need us to be a Vanderpump Guidelines statistic the place it turns into very incestuous.”
In response to Katie, she and Tom promised each other they wouldn’t hook up with anybody of their good friend group in an effort to keep their friendship.
“It felt like simply such a slap within the face,” Katie defined. “We actually had had a number of conversations and have been just about on the identical web page about all of it, and I couldn’t wrap my head round it.”
Katie additionally couldn’t wrap her head round the truth that Raquel took half within the makeout, and she or he admitted to feeling “somewhat bit” like Raquel had plotted the encounter as a result of “lead as much as all of it.”
“My opinion of her couldn’t be decrease,” she said. “I believe proper now folks have lots of preconceived notions about how and why issues went down, and I believe you’re gonna be stunned, perhaps.”
In early 2022, as Pump Guidelines was on hiatus, Katie discovered herself questioning their relationship, confessing to herself that Tom didn’t appear to grasp how one can meet her wants and didn’t appear prepared to place within the work. And whereas the 2 of them did go to remedy, nothing improved.
“You assume [that] perhaps, as someone grows up, they’re gonna develop out of these issues, they’re gonna mature, however that didn’t actually occur, sadly,” she defined. “I felt like I used to be simply type of an choice and [he was] considering I used to be by no means gonna go wherever, so he didn’t must make me a precedence ever.”
Transferring ahead, Katie, who has been linked to Satchel Clendenin and Lukas Gage in current months, says she’s on the lookout for somebody “somewhat extra critical” and “emotionally mature.”
“I similar to someone who has an excellent humorousness, we will chuckle and play collectively and simply help one another in our endeavors… A real partnership. Somebody who’s going to be… emotionally supportive and never deal with me like I’m an choice,” she defined. “[And] I [don’t] wish to throw something in Tom’s face.”
Though Katie is presently single, she’s “not opposed” to getting remarried.
“However it will the entire wedding ceremony factor that’s exhausting to image myself doing [again]… That I don’t assume I might do once more,” she famous.
As for the place she and Tom stand as we speak, Katie mentioned they’re good.
“We’re not speaking each single day. We don’t see one another on a regular basis,” she revealed. “[But] we, for the primary time, type of caught up on my birthday. We had lunch. And that was good. It was pretty. I used to be completely satisfied to simply type of examine in with him.”
Relating to season 10, Katie mentioned she’s excited for viewers to see “a completely totally different aspect” of her.
“You’ve by no means seen me date, you’ve by no means seen me with out Tom… I’m undoubtedly wanting ahead to that,” she mentioned.
Vanderpump Guidelines season 10 premieres tonight, February 8, at 9/8c on Bravo.