Vanderpump Rules affair!!

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I can't be the only Bravo fan on here can I? I have no one IRL to talk to about this!!

Oh my god!

That was so full on. I'm stress eating chocolate biscuits.

Yeah I feel like I need a lie down now!

To see Ariana visibly tense up on the trailer for next week when Raquel walks in was heartbreaking. She didn't deserve any of it.

I'm really interested to hear Raquel's side because she's the most duplicitous. I could almost understand Tom's justification for cheating, if he truly thought their relationship was coming to an end. And I can understand how Raquel could have been love bombed/gaslighted into a relationship with Tom, but I cannot understand how Raquel could have done that to Ariana, one of her best frinds

It was lovely watching it with you, @twoandcooplease and @thebellagio

Fully agree @thebellagio . What possessed her to think she would remain friends with anyone, let alone Ariana.

Thank you ladies what a watch that was
I hope there are spoilers and podcasts, a whole week is too long for the next fix

Its nice to be able to do these little watch alongs, I don't feel quite like such a sadsack watching by myself!

I'm nearly 40 FFS! I shouldn't be this emotionally involved in a TV show taking place the other side of the world!

I'll fully adnit to being a sadsack.

I'm on the wrong side of 40 and nearly had a breakdown earlier when we could play this weeks episode.

In my defence, I have 2 broken ribs and I'm stuck resting, in the house. watching with you all is the highlight to my week.

I've also started binge watching Selling Sunset. A weird mix of property porn and bitchy gossiping.
I'm totally hooked 😁

I'm on episode 4 of Selling Sunset. So trashy

My husband walked in and literally said "why can't these women move their faces?" hahahaha

I'm only on season 2 of SS.

They are currently talking about getting a spider bite on thier vagina.

I watch quality TV and I love every minute 😁

The difference in the women between series 1 and series 4 is frankly insane. They are physically unrecognisable

Oooft again. The start up 121 interviews were good - think we’ll see more of that. Ariana is on FIRE - no prisoners. Tom is STILL failing to say I shouldn’t hv done this. I’m wrong. I’m a bad guy. And the Hokey Cokey of the Tom’s timeline was hilarious.

award for ep one goes to James - furious - hilarious- on point for what we’re thinking.

Extended is 56mins

I don’t see how Tom finds it hard to say “I was in the wrong”

ironically I think that’s his downfall. Not the cheating. If he owned it and accepted responsibility he wouldn’t be risking his entire business and career

Tom is brilliant at crying on demand! I loved James' comment!

James and Lala are just so venomous. Ariana was very calm, measured and respectful in contrast. I get they're angry on her behalf but it's almost like it's hit a raw nerve with them. Mmm I wonder why? Scheanna on the other hand has behaved like a lot of us would. Defensive of Ariana but also upset at the loss of her friendship with Sandoval.
Katie I just can't warm to.

Exactly my sentiments. I have no idea why Katie and Tom got married. They hardly seemed happy.
I'm not excusing Sanderval's behaviour, but he's not the first person to have slept with his girl's best friend. He's not killed anyone. He can't be compared to Randall, who has multiple law suits against him, involving sex and drugs. I feel as though James is really angry because he still isn't over Raquel. He seems to be the one who needs to be defined by having a girlfriend, he moves on very quickly and they are always the love of his life. I have no idea what Raquel has got from the whole affair, apart from notoriety.

Lala and James are a pair of immature twats. How Lala can think she has the moral high ground over anyone when she was having an affair with a married man and also having sex with James who was with Raquel is beyond me.
Scheana had an affair with Brandi’s husband who had 2 children and broke up their marriage
Schwartz was unfaithful multiple times and Katie married him.
Ariana was sleeping with Tom when he was with Kristen and knew he’d cheated 2 other times. Surely this can’t be a shock?

they are all a bunch of skanks. But it’s great TV!!

Agreed... I think that's partly because looking back on all his lies and the narrative he was trying to seed on the show behind Ariana's back it feels like he was not only going to gaslight and manipulate Ariana into believing the breakdown of the relationship was her fault, he was planning to gaslight and manipulate the whole viewership into it too. I don't think he was ever planning to come clean about the affair.
All this 'I was trying to break up with her' nah, he was trying to find a way of ending the relationship which would make her seem like the bad guy and him the victim. He's sorry he got caught.

You know what though? I’m not even sure that Sandoval even realised that was consciously what he was doing. I think Lala is right. He has traits of narcissism and genuinely believes he is in the right and Ariana forced him to fuck her best friend

My instagram feed is literally full of things like this

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CspVBN4OBXN/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

I think James still loves Rachel & that's partly why he's so angry but he also thought of Tom as a close friend, he was the only one that stuck by him when everyone else fell out with him at one point

Lala is an absolute hypocrite that needs to get off her high horse

I agree with this. To me James is hurt by both of them and is acting out. Tom was his friend and he would still be with Rachel if she didn't dump him.

I like Lala but she needs to chime down a bit. She was a mistress. She knows how it can happen. And the fact that she slept with James behind Rachel's back doesn't help her case either! Glass houses and all that.

I feel like the whole thing has gone a bit pantomime now.

Tom seems totally off to me still. And Ariana seems a bit too over it - either she is suppressing, the whole thing is staged or it really was over before she found out. Which is still a betrayal, but less so.

The extended version is so much better!

The watch party/ waiting for it all to kick off has been lost on me this week. My cat was killed at the top of our road by an electric van on Monday. I was away cos it was my birthday yesterday. RIP Gingo facey

I’m sorry to hear that @StrawberryFizz27 are you ok? I know how hard it is to lose a pet

@thebellagio

I'm up and down tbh, I've got a dog & 2 other cats who are missing him, his brother has been out crying for him in the early hours, him & the kitten are only eating from his bowl and the dog is really subdued.

He was such a presence, would come strolling in, meowing his head off and give cuddles to every visitor. It's so so so quiet without him.

I want to know the regulations on electric vehicles and have messaged the local Councillor.

It sucks!!! I did plant 5 lovely peach/orange plants for him yesterday.